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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City About 127,000 New ... school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than...

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Housing and Homelessness

Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes

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08/24/2016

... and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform ... York State Cloud Computing and Analytics Center located at Marist College and with the...

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Suzette Hunte Joins United Way of New York City as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

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09/08/2016

... as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives. Reporting to Sheena Wright, President & Chief Executive Officer, and as ... Team, Hunte will serve as a strategic thought partner to the President and play...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real time based on items they've viewed or bought. ... aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to improve...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities

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10/21/2016

JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities JPMorgan ... for five community development organizations working to create economic opportunity in disadvantaged .....

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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

... Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the enforcement of civil ...

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Justice Reform

An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

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12/22/2016

... Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools Many funders want to ensure college access for disadvantaged and ... prestigious public and private colleges by 50,000 by the ...

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Five More Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Autonomous Vehicles

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01/31/2017

... today that five cities have joined its global initiative to help city leaders plan and prepare for the emergence of ... Vehicles announced last fall. Over the course of the next year , the multi-city cohort...

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Community Development

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Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies

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02/15/2017

Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits ... study, led by University of Michigan researchers, looks at nearly 377,000 eye-related emergency room visits by adults with private...

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Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard

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03/16/2017

... On Healthcare Scorecard The Affordable Care Act has led to better healthcare outcomes nationwide and states like New ... to a national ranking released Thursday. Researchers at the...

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Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge to Benefit 14 Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. and UK

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03/23/2017

Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge to Benefit 14 Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. and UK Morgan ... in New York and London will work with leadership teams at 14 nonprofit organizations to provide...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Explores Burden of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries

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05/12/2017

... of High Out-of-Pocket Costs on Medicare Beneficiaries To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by income and health...

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Bloomberg Launches Worldwide Urban Public Health Initiative

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05/18/2017

... Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $5 million grant to launch the Partnership for Healthy Cities (PHC), an ... of forty cities around the world, the initiative will work to reduce NCDs — including heart...

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

... Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students Having minority ... students would pursue college tracks in school, according to Stanford scholars. The study,...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

... chronic disease, placing pressure on health care systems to respond. Timely and accessible health care could mitigate ... but the U.S. health care system falls short, failing to deliver indicated services...

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

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07/20/2017

... specialist team that works across Citi businesses globally to develop and deliver solutions—in partnership with ... development agencies, investors and service providers— to expand access to...

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Economic Security

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Unemployment’s Steady Fall Could Signal Trouble—or a Broader Structural Shift

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08/28/2017

... Broader Structural Shift The unemployment rate has fallen to a 16- year low of 4.3% and may not be done falling. The question is ... is still operating below capacity and has plenty of room to...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired ... that if expenditures decreased by 20 percent over a three- year period, the organization...

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Family of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department

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08/30/2017

... of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department A 5- year -old named Leo sat surrounded by toys on the floor of his ... pink and Barbies and anything that sparkles. He likes to wear dresses. His parents...

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