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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... Authority (NJEDA), announce the closing of a $30 million project to redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’s ... in a...

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... and Employment Guidance Services announced a month ago that it planned to close amid a $20 million revenue shortfall, the nonprofit world was shocked. ... well-regarded social services...

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MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa

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03/17/2015

MasterCard Foundation Initiative to Bring Economic Opportunities to Rural East Africa The ... and TechnoServe are announcing today a five-year, $25.9 million partnership to...

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Wallace Foundation Launches 'Building New Audiences for Sustainability' Initiative

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04/16/2015

... Initiative One of the biggest questions today in the sector commonly and somewhat misleadingly known as ... the lack of arts education in the schools, which implies that if people were only...

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Arts

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New York Life Backs Save the Children's Relief Efforts in Nepal

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05/04/2015

New York Life Backs Save the Children's Relief Efforts in Nepal New York Life announced today it will donate $50,000 to Save the Children. Nearly two million children are believed to...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The ... drain on the global...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Report: More Schools Nationwide are Experimenting with Diversity Programs

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02/09/2016

... has more than doubled since 2007 and represents about 4 million students nationwide, the report says. The report ... more recent controversies over school-zone changes, and in the wake of a...

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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat ... of social movements, these are likely the kinds of images that come to...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive ... Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Others Partner to Launch '50 Reefs' Global Initiative to Protect Critical Ecosystem

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02/28/2017

... to Protect Critical Ecosystem Bloomberg Philanthropies, in partnership with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ... pollution, and overfishing. With a phase-one budget of $2 million , the 50...

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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... billion, is a staff-favorite science philanthropist due to his quirky personality, crazy life story, and his and wife ... with the family’s philanthropic legacy lately, albeit in a different direction. We’ve...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... Museum announced on Monday that the city had contributed $ 4 .5 million towards restoring the Lightship Ambrose, which is ... the Museum’s collection of five historic vessels. Built in...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job On Thursday, a million New York City children will return to school. ... concerned about a “summer slide” — the learning loss that often occurs when...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime The day before students returned ... this month, New York City officials announced that all 1.1 million...

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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... written a letter to state regulators expressing concern that the company purchasing Fidelis Care for $3.75 billion ... Catholic Church and a large Obamacare insurer that has 1.6 ...

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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... U.S.-based foundations on Wednesday pledged an initial $5 million to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, including ... Ford Foundation comes nearly two months after the Category 4...

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Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

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12/15/2017

... Breakthrough Prizes, which recognize top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. ... The award notes their “transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry,...

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