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The Commonwealth Fund Recaps Health Care in 2014

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12/23/2014

The Commonwealth Fund Recaps Health Care in 2014 2014 was not just any old year in health care. The problem isn’t finding historic events to note, it’ s pruning the list. Here’ s...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Shows Adults Skip Doctor Visits Due to Cost

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01/01/2015

... middle-class workers are increasingly staying away. It' s a deep and common concern across the USA, where employer .....

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

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01/16/2015

... systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’ s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, free of charge, to select city ... share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Technology

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Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor

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01/23/2015

... Movement to Help Global Poor Mention "slow food" and it' s hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and hipsters who have the luxury to think in highly intentional ways about how...

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Food Systems

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

... launch of the Brooklyn Accelerator, a unique component of its new community impact strategy designed to be a hub of ... more resources, donors, and board members. As Brooklyn’ s community foundation, we are...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare is Expanding Partnership with Hearst Foundation

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02/24/2015

... and Veterans Healthcare today announced an expansion of its partnership with the Hearst Foundations to provide ... these nurses will complete nearly 100,000 patient visits in their careers. This number...

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What's Next for Community Philanthropy

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02/2015

To help funders adapt, the Monitor Institute’ s free, do-it-yourself What’ s Next for Community Philanthropy toolkit includes a series ... life and your organization will be forever changed.’ In a rapidly changing world, it truly equips community ...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation

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03/17/2015

... extract the maximum benefit from evaluation. All of EMCF’ s 19 current grantees are undergoing or have completed ... or program is unique, so every evaluation presents its own challenges and opportunities. One...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Backs Program to Address Patient Safety

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03/23/2015

... from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation aimed at expanding its interprofessional team-based curriculum to all health ... aims to address shortages of health care professionals in rural Maine.... Josiah Macy Jr...

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North Star Fund Launches Campaign for NYPD Reform

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03/24/2015

... to de Blasio, has launched a campaign to push for changes in the NYPD — and will hit up many of the mayor’ s top donors for its efforts. The “Let Us Breathe” push — a nod to ...

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Justice Reform

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New York State Health Foundation Breaks Down Diabetes Prevention

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03/26/2015

... subject headings and keywords related to diabetes and its risk factors.... New York State Health Foundation ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

Ford’ s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has a keen interest ... empowering women by expanding reproductive rights. But it' s...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

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Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project

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04/16/2015

... Foundation on Wednesday pledged $75 million as part of its new initiative to use renewable energy based mini-grids not just to light up 1,000 villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, but also create new jobs by ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science

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04/22/2015

Carnegie Fellowships to Aid Researchers in Humanities and Social Science Scholars studying dying ... Fellowship, a new award intended to support research in the beleaguered humanities and social sciences. The...

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Arts

Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools ... Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

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05/21/2015

... Housing Healthier Co-founded by The New School' s Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green ... focused on reducing the amount of toxic substances found in building materials, while also...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... TheDream.us has announced pledges totaling $30 million in support of its national scholarship fund, which aims to provide ... $25,000 scholarships that can be used to obtain a bachelor' s...

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Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... (PSF) has awarded the institution $10 million to support its leading biology and genetics research and education ... and innovative organizations that are catalyzing change in their respective industries. “...

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Capital One Launches Fund to Assist Nonprofit Developers

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06/08/2015

... Developers Capital One announced the launch of its Blueprints to Buildings Fund (B2B Fund) that will aid nonprofit developers in their predevelopment and project planning efforts to build ... The company has...

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