January 25, 2013
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Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
July 30, 2012
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Researchers at the University of Southern Maine analyzed the impact of new health plans in Maine and Massachusetts that were designed to cover uninsured residents, as part of State Health Access Reform Evaluation, an RWJF national program.
July 11, 2012
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Program Result
Health Care for All, a Boston-based consumer advocacy organization, worked to give consumers a voice in implementing state health reform legislation that expanded insurance coverage in Massachusetts, and in reforming its payment systems.
March 19, 2012
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Program Result
Center for Studying Health System Change researchers tracked changes in the nation's health care system and developed policy analyses describing how those changes affect patients, providers, and others in their communities.
May 18, 2011
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Program Result
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
January 27, 2011
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Program Result
From 1996 to 2008 the Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention developed a project to help colleges and universities promote evidence-based "environmental management" policies designed to prevent alcohol and drug abuse.
October 15, 2009
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The State Forums Partnership Program provided timely, nonpartisan information and analysis to help state policy-makers make informed decisions about complex health care issues affecting their states.
May 31, 2009
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Program Result
One of the first Faith in Action projects, located in Boston, has survived, struggled and sometimes thrived since its initial funding in 1983.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
Starting in August 1999, the Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center in Worcester distributed culturally sensitive health information to Native American women of the Nipmuc Nation in central Massachusetts.
July 1, 2002
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Program Result
Starting in October 1995, The Caleb Foundation provided transportation, home visiting, and other services to isolated elderly living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
