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Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

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11/11/2015

A new report, “Cities Building Community Wealth," defines and names a movement that has been brewing beneath the radar for at least 40 years: the community wealth-building movement.

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Fund: Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows More Improvement Than Decline Across States

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12/09/2015

Commonwealth Fund : Latest Scorecard on Health System Performance Shows ... to care expanded across the nation, The Commonwealth Fund ’s latest Scorecard on State Health System Performance ... to childhood...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Study Funded by Open Society Foundations Finds Digital Devices Are Key to Success for Black and Latino Males

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05/24/2016

A newly released report reveals that improving life outcomes for boys and men of color will rely heavily on their access to trusted resources, both in face-to-face interactions and online.

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Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford Foundations Combine Forces to Improve Health Care, Reduce Costs

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07/29/2016

Commonwealth Fund , Peterson Center on Healthcare, and John A. Hartford ... England Journal of Medicine, leaders of the Commonwealth Fund , the Peterson Center on Healthcare, and the John A. ... many of them older...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect ... researchers conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in implementing a more .....

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United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices

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03/02/2017

United Hospital Fund , NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental ... The two grants, one for $188,320 from the United Hospital Fund and one for $215,670 from the New York State Health ... access to...

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

The law is widely viewed as targeting groups backed by the Open Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U.S. financier George Soros.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

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05/23/2017

... Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says Today, the Trump administration has said it will ... ask for a 90-day delay in deciding whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’s...

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New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York

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06/08/2017

New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New ... to a new report released today by United Hospital Fund (UHF). Rewind: New York State Faces Familiar Issues and ... tax credits,...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for the enthusiastic digger of sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a new source of information (and distraction) thanks to the...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket ... Care Spending for Low-Income Families The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal .....

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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

A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.

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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

A new study shows that today's preretirement generation already has more health issues and health-related limits on their lives than prior generations did when they were in their late 50s.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

The report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was funded by The Clark Foundation, urges Mayor Bill de Blasio to make boosting community college graduation rates a key part of his second term agenda.

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare ... over 65 Have A survey, produced by the Commonwealth Fund , included more than 23,000 people from 11 developed ... age of eligibility to...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

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12/15/2017

... Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect ...

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William Bell of Casey Family Programs on Funding Early Intervention Services to Keep Families Together

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02/23/2018

At a Senate committee hearing William Bell, president of Casey Family Programs, said that for every $7 spent on foster care there is only $1 spent on prevention. He said states need the ability to target their existing resources into early...

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