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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... is not the name of the latest social-media fitness app. It' s a grant proposed in President Obama' s new budget, reviving ... gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity in public...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... cohost Feeding the 5000 NYC, an event designed to raise public awareness about food waste by serving 5,000 free meals made from fresh, top-quality ingredients that would otherwise have ... and will provide an...

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Food Systems

Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction

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09/20/2016

... Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’ s Opioid Epidemic ." Rahman leads Vera’ s work on bail ... with New York City criminal justice stakeholders ranging from ...

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Mellon Backs Creation of Newly Created Role at GWU Musuem and Textile Museum

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09/28/2016

... the appointment of Camille Ann Brewer as the museum’ s first full-time curator of contemporary textile art. This ... is supported by a $500,000 five-and-a-half year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds. According to the report, "School Integration in Practice: Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF), the...

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United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices

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03/02/2017

... anxiety and depression. The two grants, one for $188,320 from the United Hospital Fund and one for $215,670 from the New York State Health Foundation, will allow ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Supported by JPB Foundation, Harvard Study Finds Illinois Soda Tax Could Cut Health Costs, Raise $561 Million in Revenue Annually

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04/26/2017

... study released Tuesday by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Such a tax would likely would face tremendous opposition from Big Soda, particularly given the recently passed ... County that goes into...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey also found that African- ... and other minority groups extends beyond pensions, 401(k) s or other retirement accounts. The...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Backed “Global Street Design Guide” Now Available Free Online

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05/22/2017

... to design safe, sustainable streets, is available to the public as for free online. The guide was first released last ... Chinese. The document is a compendium of best practices from cities around the world...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from tense to violent. The goal is to improve relations with the public and reduce use of jails and emergency rooms for people ... intervention training,...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

... Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame...

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In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

... of the faces working behind the scenes of this community’ s struggle for acceptance and inclusion. Philbrick, 19, who ... state law enacted in 2016 that prevented local governments from passing LGBTQ anti-...

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Gender Justice

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... Niagara Falls, warning they still pose a serious threat to public health. The EPA recently abandoned cleanup activities to clean up hot spots that resulted from radioactive waste byproducts from...

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

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10/10/2017

... is so narrow that you could easily hurl a polished rock from one bank to the other. But ever since a century-old ... voters from Rochester to Ronkonkoma deciding the project’ s fate. In...

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The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

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01/16/2018

... students, teachers, and parents advocate for their needs from City Hall to the State Capitol. The $740,000 in new ... that schools have the funding they need. "New York City' s public...

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The New York Community Trust

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Anisa Kamadoli Costa, Chief Sustainability Officer at Tiffany & Co. Is A Vogue "2018 Game Changer"

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03/15/2018

... As the woman driving and directing Tiffany & Co.’ s global sustainability agenda, Anisa Kamadoli Costa works ... support responsible mining and coral conservation. Aside from being a key player in Tiffany...

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Open Society Foundations Commits $5 Million for Accountable Governance

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06/02/2019

... and an additional $4 million if OGP can raise $5 million from other partners over the next three years. OGP works to ... government more transparent and effective. The funding from OSF will advance shared...

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