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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50M to Museum of Science

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10/18/2016

... Everyone around here knows Michael Bloomberg as the kid from Medford who went on to do big things. He built a ... company and served as a three-term mayor of New York. But what people might not know is that...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Self-Driving Cars Initiative Launches in Nashville and Five Other Cities

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10/25/2016

... initiative launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in New York and the Washington, D.C.-based Aspen Institute. The ... year. The cities will have access to data and coaching from urban planners and technologists...

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Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation

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12/21/2016

... What's in a name? Well, the Pinkerton Foundation in New York City draws its name from what was once the nation's oldest and largest security .....

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School

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01/18/2017

... implemented by Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, in New York City. The SNF’s grant towards Columbia ... annually. Coverage includes tuition, travel expenses to/ from NY, accommodation, local transport...

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Sarah Williams and Ella Gudwin Share Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/20/2017

Founder-led organizations go through many stages – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it’s not ... organizational gyrations. After the Philanthropy New York program, " Leadership Transitions and...

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Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

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04/07/2017

... along with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and coders at Cast Iron Coding, have since 2015 ... platform as it enters the third and final year of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon...

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Capital One, Howard Gilman, and Doris Duke Support City Parks SummerStage 2017 Season

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04/11/2017

... is excited to announce the 2017 season of SummerStage, New York City's largest free outdoor performing arts ... will showcase over 150 unique artists performing shows from a plethora of genres and...

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

Release Date:

04/21/2017

... the president,” says Anderson, a 21-year-old student from Coconut Creek, Florida. That Trump is undeniably the ... diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll. A majority of young adults — 57...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... a third of the country—and women also facing repression from other traditionalist forces in Aghan society, the ... disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York.” . . . Novo Foundation,...

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

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06/23/2017

... fall, you will be paying more. The state University of New York this week quietly voted to raise tuition by ... and who attend four-year colleges, their tuition will grow from $6,470 to $6,670 this fall, a 3...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... will issue a request for expressions of interest from development teams for plans to build at least 300 units ... that are currently inside a former hospital buildings into new structures on the same 3.4 acre...

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Landing High-Profile Employers Is Nice, But of Little Help to Those Who Need Opportunity The Most

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09/05/2017

... to head to the polls, voters should also realize that New York is a tale of two cities when it comes to jobs. From a distance, the jobs picture looks great. The local ...

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LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... icon Bayard Rustin. There's his 1987 obituary in The New York Times, which avoids any mention of his sexual orientation. There are copies of FBI documents from the mid-20th century, which, in coded...

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States Sue To Block DACA Termination, Citing Trump's 'Racial Animus'

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09/07/2017

... states are suing the Trump administration to block it from terminating the program protecting young immigrants ... The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, was brought by the attorneys...

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

... Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new , hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to...

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

... a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa will become the new acting president of his global foundation following the ... Mr. Soros, a billionaire investor and Hungarian refugee from the Holocaust, founded the...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... Like These When superstorm Sandy struck my home state of New York in 2012, it dealt a severe blow to communities that ... to storms. We also know what we have to do to protect them from flood damage. Yet the...

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Former Success Academy Lawyer Hoping to Start Own Charter Network Wants to ‘Take It To The Next Level’

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09/20/2017

... Academy, Emily Kim had a hand in almost every aspect of New York City’s largest and most controversial charter-school network — from negotiating lunch times for schools in shared buildings ...

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States Team Up To Fight Climate Change

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... federal government planning to pull out the global pact, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris agreement in its current form...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... policy issues in the food system. The diverse group came from 12 states, one U.S. territory and Washington, D.C., to ... Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. The New York City nonprofit was...

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