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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... Turbulent Times At times of dramatic change in a nation’ s history, fear and anxiety can become pervasive and ... who have not lived through, and emerged safely from, some of the dark periods we have...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... Use Affects At-Risk Youth More use of technology is linked to later increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation ... more conduct problems and higher ADHD symptoms compared to days they use technology...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... in the 1990s, Afghan women saw fairly steady progress. Some of that progress resumed after the U. S . ousted the Taliban in 2001, ending a harsh period of ... as a “grassroots, civil society organization...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement

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05/04/2017

... Movement Climate change and pollution affects us all, but some more than others. The poor, the infirm, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to temperature extremes and violent storms. Low-income ... of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The New York Community Trust

NYS Health Foundation Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients

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05/18/2017

... Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients Some 30,000 patients enrolled in NewYork Quality Care, the ... Medicine, will now be able to view their physician...

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New York Health Foundation

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With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates

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06/02/2017

... neutralizing antibodies are immune molecules that bind to viruses and can block them from spreading in the body. To get at the question of how broadly neutralizing antibodies ... that had been discovered in...

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Science

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban Design Team Proposes Outer Borough Light Rail

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06/30/2017

... Association and Rockefeller Foundation have come up with some long range solutions. Four teams consisting of ... were awarded $45,000 from the RPA and Rockefeller to address community development and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health

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07/28/2017

... on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’ s Health The Century Foundation has estimated that 13 ... have been lengthy overdue. Yet even because the ACA sought to increase women’ s...

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Gender Justice

The Next Houston

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... the Atlantic hurricane season continues, and threatens to bring more nasty storms in short order. In the central Atlantic, Irma is some 3,000 miles southwest of Miami Wednesday afternoon, and is expected...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

... is changing its plea guidelines for marijuana arrests to lighten penalties for first- and second-time offenders, ... effective Tuesday. The new approach is expected to help some immigrants...

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Justice Reform

Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

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09/06/2017

... Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War ... Jefferson and Columbus, they are part of our country' s history and for ...

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Community Development

Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

Bloomberg’ s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal ... and moderate donors and foundations alike have scrambled to respond to the Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

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09/08/2017

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs The City Council signed off on a zoning plan to revamp Far Rockaway with more housing and a commercial ... term, the...

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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

... a New Jersey-based software company went hunting for a U. S . city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in ... rate, the company had no trouble filling 70 jobs there, some at 20% below what it paid in New...

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Workforce Development

NYS Health’s Event Recap: Reporting in the ‘Fake News’ Era: A Conversation With Health Reporter Charles Ornstein

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09/13/2017

NYS Health’ s Event Recap: Reporting in the ‘Fake News’ Era: A ... and want from health care experts and other sources; and some of the consequences of growing distrust of the media. ... such as FactCheck.org and...

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New York Health Foundation

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Refugees Rent Trump’s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders

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09/19/2017

Refugees Rent Trump’ s Childhood Home To Send Message To UN Leaders President Donald Trump’ s childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the...

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Immigration

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals Many ... week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see what they can do...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Republicans Present Conservative Vision for ‘Dreamer’ Protection

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09/26/2017

... that would offer young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, signaling a possible bipartisan consensus on legislation to protect immigrants brought to the United States as ... Both...

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Immigration

Salesforce Launches $50 Million Initiative To Fuel Social Impact Startups

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10/03/2017

Salesforce Launches $50 Million Initiative To Fuel Social Impact Startups Salesforce continues to build ... responsibility," with philanthropy baked into the company' s DNA. Now it...

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