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United Hospital Fund Report on CHIP Finds Sharp Increase in NYS Enrollment

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09/29/2017

... Hospital Fund just issued a HealthWatch brief on CHIP’ s impact on New York State that may be helpful in your ... by 17 percent between July 2016 and July 2017 after four years of declines. to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help

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10/02/2017

More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help The tipster' s account was grim. A woman had suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung at the hands of a man who for nine years...

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Gender Justice

Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts ... giant plans to donate about $80 million a year for 12 years to this new organization with a mission of...

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Health

Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... 4,000 clubhouses around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something to Say, a 2013 study of successful arts-focused...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... that the increase in raids and deportations would lead to a decrease in crimes reported in these communities, and ... dominated by Latinx immigrants, NPR reports that according to Houston Police Department...

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Immigration

Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-year low. This flies in ... the recent hurricanes, but unemployment dropped yet again, to just 4.2 percent from 4...

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Workforce Development

New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today' s Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to...

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New Study Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today's Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors

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11/08/2017

... Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Suggests Today' s Older Workers Will Face More Challenges Than Their Predecessors Ten years from now, Americans born in 1960 will be able to...

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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

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11/28/2017

MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People MetLife ... a nonprofit behavioral design lab, created a partnership to innovate financial services based on the latest...

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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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12/12/2017

... Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks ' to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that ... isn’t the only example of an equity-minded funder that’ s lately swung behind edgier...

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Civic Engagement

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Morgan Stanley Announces Creation of Innovative Play Spaces for Children in 14 Cities With KaBOOM!

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02/02/2018

... for children through a Morgan Stanley Foundation grant to KaBOOM! and the hands-on efforts of hundreds of its employees throughout the U. S . this year. With our partners and volunteers we will be .....

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New York Women's Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement

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05/10/2018

New York Women' s Foundation Launches Fund to Support MeToo Movement Tarana Burke and her MeToo movement ... a fund to support Burke and the movement she founded 12 years...

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Gender Justice

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Chris Ransom Joins Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program as Program Officer

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03/06/2019

... Officer for Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program. Prior to Arcus, Ransom spent 12 years at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) where he led ... on the welfare of gibbons. Ransom earned a Bachelor’ ...

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Animal Welfare

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Ford Foundation Appoints Diane Samuels as Vice President for Talent and Human Resources

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06/13/2019

... previously a director in the department and brings over 20 years of experience in the philanthropic, for-profit, and ... succeeds Samantha Gilbert who served as the foundation’ s first vice president in this...

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Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

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03/22/2010

... a decline in its charitable assets during the past two years . At the same time, the Foundation recognized that many of its grantees had opportunities to support low-income families through the economic...

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The Case for Higher Taxes

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12/13/2012

... not surprisingly, around higher taxes. Both parties seek to evade the impending "fiscal cliff" that would result in ... cuts and the last-resort automatic spending cuts agreed to as part of the...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in Grants to Greek Organizations

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02/05/2013

The organizations are working to ease the effects of the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in ... Greece. In particular, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’ s Board of Directors continues to support...

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Russia's Real Friends in the West

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01/27/2013

... at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For the last nine years , President Vladimir Putin has hosted the Valdai ... International Discussion Club, devoting time and attention to leading Russia experts from...

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The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait

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03/14/2013

... painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges ... portrait of Alexander Hamilton has been given by its owner to two institutions, New York’...

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