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For the Disabled, New York’s Sidewalks Are an Obstacle Course

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... at sidewalk corners where the curb ramp is too broken to roll over or missing altogether. He has to keep going around the block until he finds a usable ramp. The one time he tried to roll off...

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Disabilities

Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

... On Tuesday, the City Council will hold what is expected to be a spirited and well-attended hearing on the latest ... is planning a 1,146-unit building at a site formerly home to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer...

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SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own ... charter schools has revised a hotly contested proposal to let its schools certify their own teachers...

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Education

Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants

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10/13/2017

Bay Area Arts, Education Nonprofits to Receive Hearst Grants The Hearst Foundations this week ... Bay Area initiatives. The largest of the area grants went to UC Berkeley, which received $250,000 for marketing...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless Despite criticism from local elected ... Mayor de Blasio said Thursday the city does not need to provide advance notice when it...

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Housing and Homelessness

More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs It’s widely known ... have a high school diploma. But less attention is paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some ... they are a growing...

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Workforce Development

How this Slogan Has Defined Philanthropy for the Buffets and the NoVo Foundation

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12/12/2017

... and the NoVo Foundation Peter Buffet put the $10M gifted to him in the NoVo Foundation, co-chaired by himself and his wife Jennifer. As of the end of 2015, according to the IRS, the foundation had $528 million...

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Ford Foundation Announces Three New Concentration Areas

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01/18/2018

... an old colleague and companion from his days as minister to France’s court of Louis XVI. This friend, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, had written to Jefferson to share a treatise he had...

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

... Rosedale Development Corporation. Develop Detroit’s work to build housing that is affordable and dynamic is aligned with the city’s goal to build one Detroit for all of us,” says Arthur Jemison, ...

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Bank of America Grants $250,000 to Support Conservation Education Programs

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07/20/2018

Bank of America Grants $250,000 to Support Conservation Education Programs The Bank of ... National Museum and Aquarium a $250,000 grant as part of its broader initiative to aid environmental...

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04 Oct 2018

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network Meeting: Finding Your Decision-Making Power

Thursday, October 4, 2018 -

8:45am to 10:15am

Join us for this professional development program, designed to identify and discuss the decision-making power we, as employees in a support role, have the privilege to exercise in our roles. This is a chance...

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New York Life Foundation Announces New National Initiative to Help Schools Support Students Who Have Lost a Parent or Loved One

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10/11/2018

New York Life Foundation Announces New National Initiative to Help Schools Support Students Who Have Lost a Parent or ... support, today announced the national launch of its Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative (...

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NY State Health Foundation Releases New Resource on Health Behaviors in New York and the United States

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12/05/2018

... Yorkers’ health behaviors, focusing on questions related to obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, smoking, binge ... the New York State Department of Health pegs several of its Prevention Agenda initiatives...

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Euan Robertson Joins Simons Foundation As Chief Operating Officer

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04/01/2019

... Chief Operating Officer The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that in April Euan Robertson joined its leadership team as the foundation’s first chief ... operational and administrative functions. Euan...

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Rockefeller Foundation Partners with African Development Bank to Open Doors for Nigerian Women in ICT

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04/04/2019

... Foundation Partners with African Development Bank to Open Doors for Nigerian Women in ICT The Bank, together with its partners - The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and ... on International Women's Day...

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William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

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06/05/2019

... people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. To that end, the foundation is inviting applications for its Scholars Program. Through the program, teams of four to six scholars in...

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International Grantmakers Unite: Grappling with the State of the World

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11/06/2019

... Program, Carnegie Corporation It is easy today to be distressed, or even overwhelmed, by the state of many ... Grantmakers Network (IGN) provides a unique opportunity to effect positive change by working...

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Brandee McHale Returns to Citi Foundation as President and Managing Director and Head of Community Investing and Development

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03/03/2020

Brandee McHale Returns to Citi Foundation as President and Managing Director and ... and Development Brandee McHale, who left last summer to lead the Wells Fargo Foundation and oversee its $1...

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