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Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

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07/03/2017

Nicky McIntyre joins FJS after ten years as the executive director of Mama Cash in the Netherlands, where she oversaw one of the world’s largest public funds that supports the rights of women, girls, and transgender people around the world and was a...

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Childcare Hasn’t Gained Much Traction with Funders. Who's Trying to Change That?

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09/29/2017

Childcare is out of reach for working families, but few funders have stepped in to fill the gap.

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Children, Youth and Families

Bloomberg Commits $64 Million to Beyond Coal Campaign

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10/12/2017

Bloomberg Commits $64 Million to Beyond Coal Campaign A day after the Trump administration formally announced its plans to rescind the Clean Power Plan, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $64 million commitment to the Sierra...

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JPMorgan Chase Releases New Data Platform, The Good Jobs Index

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11/14/2017

The Good Jobs Index is a new data platform that provides a window into the shifting realities of employment opportunity in the US, including the finding that two-thirds of states have added good jobs for workers without a bachelor’s degree.

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Ford Foundation Launches Effort To Diversify Art Museum Leadership

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11/29/2017

Walton Foundation and Ford Foundation announced today they are each committing $3 million over three years to support creative solutions to diversify curatorial and management staff at art museums across the United States.

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

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11/29/2017

... Become Better Writers Just like the students Quill. org aims to help, the writing assistant’s algorithms get ...

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Open Society Foundations Seek Clarification on Pakistan NGO Ruling

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12/14/2017

The Open Society Foundations' national foundation in Pakistan is seeking clarification from the government, after the Ministry of the Interior informed it and a number of other international non-governmental organizations that they must cease...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

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01/24/2018

Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows. FXS is the most common genetic cause of...

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches #Newmanitarian Campaign Asking People to Commit Acts of Kindness

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01/30/2018

... others. Individuals are asked to visit Newmanitarian. org and take a pledge to give back. Newmanitarians can then ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Top 35 Innovative Urban Ideas as Finalists in 2018 Mayors Challenge

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02/21/2018

As Part of the Bloomberg American Cities Initiative, Challenge Will Invest $17.5 Million in Grants and Technical Assistance to Discover Innovative Solutions to Urgent Local Issues

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2018 Award in Pain Scholars

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03/07/2018

The Rita Allen Foundation has named Helen Lai of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Candice Paulsen of Yale University as 2018 Award in Pain Scholars, recognizing emerging leaders in basic pain research whose work holds high...

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United Hospital Fund and The New York State Health Foundation Release Report on Integrating Behavioral Care Into Primary Care

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05/30/2018

Small primary care practices that offer behavioral health services successfully identifying patients at risk of depression.

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New Report Supported By The New York Community Trust and United Hospital Fund Examines Threat Posed By The Federal Association Health Plan Regulation

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06/11/2018

A proposed federal rule on Association Health Plans (AHPs), expected to be finalized soon, could further destabilize New York’s small and individual health insurance markets by making it easier for sponsors to create healthier groups for coverage...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

The NoVo Foundation today announced $34 million—up from $20 million committed originally—in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among 1,000 applicants doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around...

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United Hospital Fund Releases Report Finding Wide Variation in Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for NYS Medicaid Patients

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06/22/2018

An analysis of potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing patterns among New York State’s Medicaid population, released today by United Hospital Fund’s Medicaid Institute, found wide variations in prescribing rates based on patient age, gender...

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Report Funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Shows Many Aging NYC Parks Have Infrastructure Problems

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06/26/2018

The 53-page report, released by the Center for an Urban Future, found that the average NYC park is 73 years old. (The oldest parks in each borough are Bowling Green in Manhattan, Commodore Bark Park in Brooklyn, Drew Playground in the Bronx, Daniel...

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United Hospital Fund Releases Report With Observations from New York City’s Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Initiative

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07/12/2018

Early childhood initiative screens very young children for psycho-social factors and finds families most need child care and adult education.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Ambitious Five-Year Strategic Plan

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08/07/2018

The nation’s oldest women’s public foundation to grow commitment to organizations advancing gender equity to more than $25 million over five years

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Ambitious Five-Year Strategic Plan

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08/07/2018

The nation’s oldest women’s public foundation to grow commitment to organizations advancing gender equity to more than $25 million over five years

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MTV Plans to Partner With Ford Foundation to Create a Mobile Voting Registration Unit

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08/20/2018

MTV plans to partner with the Ford Foundation to create a mobile unit where people can register to vote and encourage their friends to register to vote if they see they aren’t signed up. The network also plans to host events across the country on...

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