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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Obamacare Is Helping Millions Get Needed Healthcare

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05/25/2016

More than 60% of working-age Americans who signed up for Medicaid or a private health plan through the Affordable Care Act are getting healthcare they couldn’t previously get, a new nationwide survey indicates.

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Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, Bank of America Are Just a Few of the Donors to New African American Museum

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05/25/2016

Ford, Gates, Rockefeller and Mellon foundations, General Electric and Walmart, Oprah Winfrey and Samuel L. Jackson, the NBA and the NFL donated to the new museum in Washington, D.C.

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches YieldWise, a $130 Million Initiative to Halve Post-Harvest Loss

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05/26/2016

The earth’s global food system is facing a quiet crisis—one-third of all food produced is never consumed while 1.2 billion people go to bed hungry or under-nourished, as global economic losses mount into the trillions.

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Food Systems

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Commonwealth Fund Article Asks: Is Primary Care the Best and Worst Job in Medicine?

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05/26/2016

About one-third of U.S. and U.K. primary care physicians are dissatisfied with their jobs, recent Commonwealth Fund survey findings show.

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Dodge Foundation Provides Travel Stipends to Jersey Water Works Delegation

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05/26/2016

The delegation, representative of many of the sectors that make up the core of Jersey Water Works’ committees, includes four members of the collaborative’s Steering Committee.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Century Foundation Says States Are Wrong to Tie Higher Education Funding to Performance

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05/26/2016

The Century Foundation says the performance-based funding model is reinforcing disparities within public higher education and is doing little to move the needle on completion.

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United Hospital Fund Report Analyzes New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market

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05/26/2016

United Hospital Fund Report Analyzes New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market A new United Hospital Fund report provides an analysis of enrollment and financial data on New York’s individual health insurance...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Discovers Protein That Controls Strength of Body’s Circadian Rhythms

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05/27/2016

At noon every day, levels of genes and proteins throughout your body are drastically different than they are at midnight.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Science

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Schott's Villanueva Comments on Native Leadership in Institutional Philanthropy

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05/27/2016

As one of the few Native Americans working at a foundation, I celebrated Valorie Johnson's many accomplishments in the philanthropic sector.

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Wallace Foundation Continues Investigation on Role of Principals In Improving Schools

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06/06/2016

The Wallace Foundation has poured a lot of resources into the question of the role of principals for more than a decade.

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Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock Announces New Program Officer Faron McLurkin

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06/06/2016

McLurkin brings to the Veatch Program a deep knowledge of domestic and international social movements.

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Scherman, Altman, Lily Auchincloss, NY Community Trust and Supporters Launch QueensWay Design Phase

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06/06/2016

The QueensWay project involves converting the long-abandoned Rockaway Beach Rail Line of the Long Island Rail Road into a $120 million public park.

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

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The Need for Civil Legal Aid

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06/07/2016

Pooja O'Hanlon of the Elmezzi Foundation says civil legal aid is free legal aid to low and middle income individuals that need assistance with legal matters that are not criminal.

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Economic Security

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Century Foundation Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases

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06/07/2016

There are several ways schools could work to lower suspension rates, according to Halley Potter, a fellow at The Century Foundation.

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United Hospital Fund Releases Guide to Help Primary Care Practices Integrate Behavioral Health Services

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06/07/2016

A new guide will help primary care practices increase their ability to serve patients with mental health issues within their primary health care settings.

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Alfred P. Sloan, Time Warner 'Fast Track Grant' Goes To Film That Explores Science and Technology

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06/07/2016

Film Independent Selects 10 Projects And 20 Filmakers For 2016 Fast Track Program And Awards $20K Alfred P. Sloan Fast Track Grant To Mark Levinson For 'The Gold Bug Variations'

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Backed By Long Island Community Foundation, Town Hall Meetings Identify Issues Facing Trans Community

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06/07/2016

Advocates for transgender, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ community stop in Plattsburgh.

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Stavros Niarchos, Charles H. Revson Foundation Initiative Recognizes Queens Branches with 'Oscars of Libraries'

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06/07/2016

The NYC Neighborhood Library Awards are an initiative of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Charles H. Revson Foundation.

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Russell Sage Publishes First Book on Court Fines and Fees Exposes Lifetime of Debt Faced by Poor Americans

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06/08/2016

The culmination of years of original research on court fines and fees, "A Pound of Flesh" uncovers how America’s shadow criminal justice system keeps the poor in “permanent punishment” long after incarceration.

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