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Commonwealth Fund: The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States

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06/14/2017

... Consequences for States On May 24, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA, ... The U.S. Senate is currently developing its own version of the legislation. A January...

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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

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06/20/2017

... putting together final details, before the official launch of two new businesses. “Exciting because we're going to be ... to run it the way we've decided.” Edith Lopez is one of 6 women who have been...

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Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs

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08/29/2017

... and community programming, is showing encouraging growth. In a subsequent interview with Gotham Gazette, Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, the founding president of the Fund for Public Housing, said the nonprofit has begun...

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States Sue To Block DACA Termination, Citing Trump's 'Racial Animus'

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09/07/2017

... immigrants known as DREAMers. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, was brought by the attorneys general of 15 states and the District of...

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City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

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09/08/2017

... a commercial overhaul. Mayor de Blasio pledged to rezone 15 neighborhoods under his affordable housing plan — but with months left in his first term, the Rockaway plan is only the second one ... are expected...

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What’s The [Data] Point? 77,651, with the City Housing Commissioner

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09/25/2017

... with the City Housing Commissioner For this episode of the podcast, we bring you excerpts of a speech the city's housing commissioner, Maria ... Commission event on Wednesday, September 20, followed by...

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The GOP Tax Plan: Tough Choices With Limited Room to Maneuver

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09/26/2017

... focus: They are trying to fit more than $5 trillion of tax cuts inside a $1.5 trillion box. This week’s planned release of a unified GOP blueprint from the Senate, the House and the Trump administration marks...

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Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... Program Stanford University Press is redefining the world of traditional academic publishing through an innovative ... research that involves digital tools not usually found in online journals. The idea for...

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De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule

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09/28/2017

... two years after Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to create 15 ,000 units of supportive housing to deal with the homelessness crisis, ... had initially said at least 250 units would be operating in...

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside City Hall in the rain on Monday to demand more affordable housing from ... They released a four-point plan that included building 15 ,000 units of...

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Shake Shack Founder on Changing The Way Restaurants Do Business

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10/10/2017

... The Way Restaurants Do Business If you've eaten out in the past couple of decades, chances are a restaurateur named Danny Meyer has ... changed the way America dines out. Danny Meyer now runs 15...

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Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants

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10/13/2017

... Foundations this week announced more than $1.5 million in grants for California nonprofits, including more than $800,000 for Bay Area initiatives. The largest of the area grants went to UC Berkeley, which...

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Commonwealth Fund Analysis Shows how Disastrous the Medicaid Work Requirement Would be, Given the Opioid Crisis

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01/12/2018

... for people facing opioid addiction. The state has one of the highest rates of overdose deaths in the country, and its Medicaid spending on prescriptions ... by the Commonwealth Fund. The...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Rising Rate of Uninsured People

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05/02/2018

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Rising Rate of Uninsured People The Commonwealth Fund on ... a survey of working-age Americans that found that 15 .5 percent were estimated to lack health...

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Jonas Philanthropies Names Wanda Montalvo New Executive Director

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08/23/2018

... at Columbia University has appointed Wanda Montalvo ‘ 15 , PhD , RN, as the new Executive Director, effective ... served as Associate Director at the Weitzman Institute of CHCI in Connecticut...

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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Grants for Arts Writing

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12/03/2018

... the Visual Arts announced today the twenty-one recipients of its 2018 Arts Writers Grants. They will receive a total of ... critical writing about contemporary art and range from $ 15 ,000 to...

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25 Oct 2012

Funder Briefing and Discussion: Five Borough Farm

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9:00am to 12:00pm

... on a new report: Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City . Explore Conversations and discussions on the potential for urban agriculture in addressing...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Awards $5.2 Million for Dementia, Senior Care

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12/11/2018

... Dementia, Senior Care The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling more than $5.2 million in support of evidence-based approaches to better care for older...

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