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Growing Leaders: Nature vs. Nurture
Hartford Foundation 2008 Annual Report There are those who view leadership as an innate set of qualities that catapult individuals into positions of influence; they hold a belief that leaders are born...
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This past year has been challenging for everyone. In response to the plummeting financial market, we have had to ask Hartford grantees to scale back programs and strategically redefine their core...
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Nursing Workforce Solutions for the 21st Century
© iStockphoto.com/Annett Vauteck On June 12, 2009, I–along with over 200 others–attended a forum hosted by the Health Affairs journal and the AARP/Robert Wood Johnson Center to Champion Nursing in...
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Nursing and Health Care Reform: Inconvenient Truths
In the beginning of November, I spoke about nurse-led change at the American Academy of Nursing’s annual meeting. If we are going to reform the health care system, I said, nurses must be at the...
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Our Fearless BAGNC Leaders
Hartford Foundation 2008 Annual Report Leadership, as featured in our 2008 Hartford Annual Report, is defined by four key elements: Formal Training, Mentoring, Peer Networking, and Answering the Call....
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Help Us Spend $100,000,000! (Really Well)
Since the downturn in 2008, we at the Hartford Foundation have had the incredibly frustrating experience of not having money for new grant programs amid what seems like a smorgasbord of opportunities...
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Taylored to the Needs of Older Americans
On January 9, 2012, J Taylor Harden PhD, RN, FAAN, former Assistant to the Director for Special Populations at the National Institute on Aging, assumed the position of the Building Academic Geriatric...
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In Honor of Nurses: Saving Lives, Caring for All
© iStockphoto.com/monkeybusinessimages Year after year nurses rank as the most trusted profession. That is only one of the reasons why the John A. Hartford Foundation has given so much support to...
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‘Living Legend’ Claire Fagin Earns Guggenheim Honor Cup
Anyone who knows Claire Fagin knows that she is a force of nature. While serving as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1992, she recruited and developed a...
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New Nurse Fellowship Will Help Prepare Gero-Focused Policy Leaders
Elena O. Siegel, an assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California-Davis and a 2011 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, is a fine example...
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