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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... became law. Twenty million fewer Americans were uninsured in the first nine months of 2015 than in 2010. The proportion of Americans with private coverage ...

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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat ... Montgomery bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in...

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NY Women's Foundation and NoVo Foundation Noted for Investments Supporting Women

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03/29/2016

... vote to protections against sex discrimination, including in employment; from equal and fair pay legislation to the Roe ... decision and the prohibition against sex discrimination in federally funded education...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at ... by the international community signifies a noteworthy step in its efforts to mount a unified stance against global ... at the...

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... for City Limits' extensive coverage of housing issues in 2015 , a year that saw crucial decisions by NYCHA, developments in homelessness, the roll-out of the mayor's affordable .....

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The New York Community Trust

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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

... of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute in JAMA Ophthalmology found that the U.S. prevalence in visual impairment (VI) and blindness is expected to double ... to uncorrected refractive error compared...

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Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling

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12/09/2016

... Time magazine declared a “transgender tipping point” in 2014 when it featured actress Laverne Cox on its cover. In the two years following that proclamation, mainstream ... Eddie Redmayne was cast as a trans...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the city. In the city's new resilience district, with projects that will break ground later in 2017, the goal is to let water in —which...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... almost impossible to distinguish the mixed-gender squads in the steamy woods from those of earlier generations. ... it. After the Obama administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions...

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

... fascinating occurred, a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding backward, we’re lurching ... diseases were responsible for 67 percent of deaths in low- and middle-income countries...

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

... good friends on the job can make work feel less taxing. In 2015 , RAND researchers, along with Harvard Medical School and ... all income and education levels who work or have worked in all...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification? A fence in East Harlem gets a facelift every few months — a new ... painted by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed in ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline American household income is rising, but it may ... to $51,640 last year, or about 0.4 percent below their 2015 earnings...

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The World's Soaring CO2 Levels Visualized as Skyscrapers

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09/22/2017

... effort to limit warming that 200 countries signed onto in 2015 . (President Donald Trump still wants to renege on it.) ... At this point, the CO2-plagued atmosphere could see jumps in average...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... and stroke are the number one cause of death worldwide. In 2015 alone, nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which ... worldwide, with 80 percent of those deaths occurring in low- and...

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Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation

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10/04/2017

... Renovation One of the biggest cultural building projects in the country was sent back to the drawing board on Tuesday, ... nearly 20 years. The latest plan, which was jump-started in 2015...

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The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions

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11/01/2017

... (WWC), a $42 million program to foster data analytics in cities, has added Athens, Georgia; Chula Vista, ... The cities' entry into the program, which began in 2015 , will supply digital...

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Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards

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11/17/2017

... Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded program begun in April 2015 , was named a 2017 Navigator Award recipient for demonstrable results in performance management, transparency, access to...

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