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NYSHealth Supports Survey That Unveils Strong Appetite For Health Insurance Info—As Early As High School

Release Date:

10/13/2016

In a nationwide consumer survey conducted this year for FAIR Health by ORC International, 76 percent of respondents felt people should begin understanding health insurance plans before or during high school or college.

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Health

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Women in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Economic Development Program Secure Marriott Deal

Release Date:

10/13/2016

The graduates of the training program through the non-profit, Bloomberg Philanthropies supported Relationship Coffee Institute are providing the Marriott with locally grown coffee from their own coffee cooperatives.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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NYC Cultural Agenda Fund Places Marker on Racial Justice Initiative Ahead of City’s Cultural Plan Release

Release Date:

10/12/2016

As New York City prepares its first comprehensive cultural plan, the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust is making more than half a million dollars in grants to support efforts to increase cultural and racial equity in...

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Arts

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study on Common Core

Release Date:

10/12/2016

The Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation have awarded a team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Brown University and Stanford University nearly $5 million for the first phase of a five-year analysis of the Common Core...

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Education

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Jessie Smith Noyes Announces Open Call for Investment Advisors to Lead Next Evolution of Social Justice Investing

Release Date:

10/12/2016

LOIs are due by November 1st. Noyes will review the LOI and then select up to five firms to receive a more detailed request for proposal.

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RFPs Etc

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Social Justice

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Announces Five Projects for 2016 Green Neighborhoods Program

Release Date:

10/12/2016

The U.S. Green Building Council and Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced the five projects selected for the 2016 Affordable Green Neighborhoods grant program.

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Housing and Homelessness

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Eighth Graders Win $25K In Citi Foundation Entrepreneur Contest

Release Date:

10/12/2016

Baltimore eight graders Anna Doherty and Hope Sacco won the 2016 NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge this week, presented by the Citi Foundation.

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Economic Security

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

Release Date:

10/12/2016

Laverne Evans Srinivasan and Saskia Levy Thompson of Carnegie Corporation of New York say it is increasingly apparent that the factory-style high school of the 20th century is not meeting the needs of young people.