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NY State Health Foundation: Kids Could Start a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars

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08/14/2017

... a Ceasefire in Health Care Wars Following last month’ s contentious congressional debate over repealing the ... is the pending reauthorization of the State Children’ s Health Insurance program (SCHIP), which...

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Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage

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08/29/2017

... 2020. While smoking rates in New York City have declined from 21.5 percent in 2002 to 14.3 percent in 2015, the city ...

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The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists

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08/30/2017

... fortunes of white nationalism and discussed the movement’ s future. Several of those speakers belong to the shadowy ... everything else, recruitment for fringe groups, from Neo-Nazis to ISIS, happens online,...

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In the Eye of the Storm: How Federal Funding Rescues Arts and Culture in Times of Disaster

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09/07/2017

... Western Louisiana, surpassing records for total rainfall from a single hurricane in the continental US, and displacing thousands of families. It’ s too soon to tell exactly how much damage the storm has caused...

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... tradeoffs leaders wrestle with every day. 2016 research from Bridgespan sought to understand: what really are the ... nonprofit organizations as if they are all the same? It’ s time, as a nonprofit sector, to...

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Down to the Wire: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States

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09/08/2017

... Confusion for States Among the Trump administration’ s first promises was to give states more flexibility and ... This projection is consistent with similar estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation and...

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Inside Game: A Foundation Supports LGBTQ Leaders in the Halls of Power

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09/11/2017

... Leaders in the Halls of Power While it was the nation’ s highest court that granted marriage equality to LGBTQ ... funders have been continuing the fight in places away from the capital. In fact, well before...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – ... teaching strategies, and videos -- all powered by...

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

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09/21/2017

... across our fresh food and meat produce. All the evidence from WRAP and our own Tesco research has shown that ... food and it also reduces waste in our own operations. That' s why it' s...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... today on the published release of a tax reform framework from leaders in Congress and the administration: “A ... question is how tax reform will affect our nation’ s unsustainable fiscal outlook, and that...

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Economic Security

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/29/2017

... refugees; approximately 1 in 4 persons of the country’ s 4.4 million is now a refugee. The result is a major ... and are still living on the margins, neither benefiting from nor contributing to the local...

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U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Union Dues Case

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09/29/2017

U. S . Supreme Court Will Hear Union Dues Case ALBANY — Unions ... the AFL-CIO reacted angrily Thursday to news that the U. S . Supreme Court will revisit a case that could decide whether public sector labor groups...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... diversity of experiences and creative voices. Drawn from a wide range of artistic fields, the fellows span ... beautiful," said Elizabeth Alexander, the Ford Foundation' s director of Creativity and...

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

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10/04/2017

... and higher education. Mishory will also join TCF’ s leadership team as a senior policy advisor to support ... the goal of maximizing the impact of the organization’ s policy research. “Jen Mishory’ s...

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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... are some of the top reasons women enter the state' s criminal justice system. And, they're staying longer. ... Stephens County, a mostly rural area where Allen is from , had the third-highest rate of...

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Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

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10/10/2017

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Just prior to that, Vermont S enator Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer “Medicare for all” bill into the S enate with sixteen co-sponsors. Both pieces of legislation .....

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George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations

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10/18/2017

... and efforts to protect people in the United States from what it described as “a national wave of hate ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’ s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have ... in conservation, climate modeling, and economists from a variety of global institutions...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Cities of Service Announces Engaged Cities Award

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11/06/2017

... and plant drought-tolerant lantana. They pick up garbage from a nearby alley. Local Muralist Andy Brown leads a group ... one-day volunteer effort. Working with Phoenix’ s mayor, Greg Stanton, and armed with a...

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