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28 May 2013

Community Food Funders Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System: Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a Post-Sandy World

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 -

8:30am to 10:00am

... surpassed 400 parts per million. Our food and agricultural system is already exhibiting impacts from our changing ... on the impact of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on our food system , and strategies to increase...

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Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

... of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System Jesenia Santana is the program officer of the NoVo ... survivors in New York City whose entanglement in the court system stemmed directly from...

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Gender Justice

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Commonwealth Fund Releases Its 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

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05/29/2018

... Fund Releases Its 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont, ... the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance, which assesses all...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $3 Million to Help Cities Build Resilient Infrastructure Systems

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01/22/2013

Nearly three months after Superstorm Sandy, the RE.invest Initiative will provide up to eight cities with seed funding and technical support to create new Community Investment Vehicles (CIVics) that can leverage hundreds of millions of dollars of...

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Disaster Relief

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Listen: Commonwealth Fund President, Dr. David Blumenthal, on COVID-19 and the US Healthcare System

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05/20/2020

... Dr. David Blumenthal, on COVID-19 and the US Healthcare System The following is a conversation between Dr. David ... for this pandemic • The problem of a healthcare system that depends upon the volume of what...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong with our system , but wrong about how to fix it. But what is the ... of...

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Food Systems

The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change

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11/16/2017

Co-Impact will make large multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

... Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest New analysis from The ... Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest ...

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NY State Health Releases Policy Recommendations to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State

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06/12/2017

This NYSHealth-supported white paper, prepared by the New York State Public Health Association, outlines policy recommendations to address the use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, otherwise known as e-cigarettes, vapes, and other similar...

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New York Health Foundation

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08 Oct 2021

Building a More Robust and Equitable Unemployment Insurance System for a 21st Century Economy - A Webinar Hosted by Economic Opportunity Funders

Friday, October 8, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:15pm

... While the need for a better Unemployment Insurance (UI) system was apparent before COVID-19, the economic crisis ... the pandemic has shown that our outdated and underfunded system is broken, with...

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Economic Security

Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One

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10/04/2017

Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System ; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One Over the last ... need before, during, and after a disaster. The directory system I’m proposing is often called a “211...

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Sozosei Foundation Convenes Experts at Inaugural Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System

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01/08/2021

... to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System Princeton, NEW JERSEY (JANUARY 8, 2021) – The ... in the United States from entry into the justice system to incarceration and following release...

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11 Jun 2013

Community Food Funders Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System: Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a Post-Sandy World

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 -

8:15am to 10:00am

... solutions that will result in a less vulnerable food system given the reality of our changing climate. A ... Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System : Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a...

Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids Increasing numbers ... of them in poverty and grappling with a public assistance system not designed to meet their...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Aging

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New Commonwealth Fund Survey Sheds Light on Seniors' Opinions of Their Health Care System

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02/08/2018

... Sheds Light on Seniors' Opinions of Their Health Care System In an international survey of seniors in 11 countries, ... Sheds Light on Seniors' Opinions of Their Health Care System .....

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Mellon Foundation Announces Imagining Freedom, An Arts & Humanities Initiative Supporting Creatives and Thinkers Reenvisioning the Criminal Legal System

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02/15/2023

... Creatives and Thinkers Reenvisioning the Criminal Legal System (NEW YORK, NY — February 15, 2022) —The Mellon ... communities with lived experience of the US criminal legal system and its pervasive forces of...

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/15/2016

... Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America The Ms. Foundation for Women’s latest ... Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America ...

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Gender Justice

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System NYSHealth outlines some ways in ... Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System ...

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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data

Release Date:

06/07/2018

... Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data When news of the ... Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data...

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