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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits Remember how complicated it was to understand your health care benefits when you got ... them — and their employers — a lot of...

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

... of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Established in 2013 with a gift of £4.5 million ($6.6 million) from the ... initially supported five one-year scholarships annually for promising social change leaders in...

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... students who attended a five- to six-week summer program for at least twenty days in 2013 scored modestly higher on state math tests than students ... who did not participate, and that students who attended...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? It ’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the ... spending spree that the United States has engaged in for the past three decades, investing...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women ... After the Obama administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions to...

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines ... the focus of most writing has been on the use of data for competitive advantage, a small set of companies has been ... in...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat ... largest funders of climate and clean energy work. ( It gave out $40 million in 2013...

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Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence

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09/08/2017

... of the Take Back the Tech campaign began meeting in 2013 and launched Ciberseguras as a blog to share resources ... common, many women didn’t know where to turn for help. Even though millions of Mexicans still...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... tanks, Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’s already large racial wealth ... riff on George Orwell’s classic The Road to Wigan Pier. It projects that, if current...

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New York State Health Foundation Releases Snapshot: Success in the Empire State: Health Insurance Coverage Trends

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11/15/2017

... (ACA) effectively and expanding health insurance coverage for nearly 1 million additional residents since the law took ... Within New York, uninsured rates declined more than 40% for most racial groups, age...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013 . Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and scholar, is ...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... the average life expectancy in the United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing ... from access, to the value of care Americans were paying for . According to the results...

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Commonwealth Fund Releases Its 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

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05/29/2018

... more improvement than decline between 2013 and 2016 in the functioning of state health care ...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

... San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP). In 2013 , her proposal for creating the Democracy Index—a national ranking of ...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces More Than $19 Million in Grants

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10/18/2018

... of 2018. The board also approved a new-five year strategy for the Catholic Sisters Strategic Initiative, beginning with grant approvals for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for Change

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01/29/2019

Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for ... chapter of its Chime for Change campaign, through which it hopes to continue to...

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Henry Ford III Elected to Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees

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02/25/2019

... of Edsel Ford, who created the foundation in 1936. It is the first time in more than 40 years that a Ford family ... line" to the family since Walker began in his position in 2013 . "Ever since Darren...

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New York State Health Foundation Publishes Review of NY State Laws Regarding Surprise Bills

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02/26/2019

... Regarding Surprise Bills Bipartisan support is swelling for a federal fix to combat "surprise" bills, which often ... and limitations. Under the law, patients are responsible for their in-network...

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Kristen M. Ruff

... leadership development programming and training programs for foundation program officers. Prior to joining ... Kristen coordinated the public education and humanitarian aid programs at MADRE, an international...

Burman, Viera Named to Board of Funders for LGBTQ Issues

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08/14/2014

Burman, Viera Named to Board of Funders for LGBTQ Issues Rohit Burman, executive director, Europe, ... Philadelphia Foundation, have joined the board of Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Rohit has spent more than decade...

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