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Long Island Community Foundation Provides At-Risk Seniors With Fresh Produce And Nutrition Education

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01/25/2017

... access to fresh food at a reasonable price. EAC Network’ s new Fresh from the Garden Senior Initiative aims to identify seniors 60 ...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Food Systems

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GCIR Seeks Foundation Signatories for Statement on Immigration

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02/03/2017

... than 30 local, state, regional, and national foundations from across the country have signed onto a statement in ... priorities, they are united in the belief that U. S . immigration and refugee policies should...

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RFPs Etc

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Immigration

NYPost Investigates Immigrant Support Projects of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation

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02/21/2017

... of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation New York’ s well-heeled philanthropic groups are doling out big bucks to resist President Trump’ s immigration policies and defend targeted social welfare ... to...

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Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum

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03/02/2017

... the voices and experiences of women of color—distinct from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream feminist ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

Supported by Doris Duke, Conservation Group Maps Land Protection Strategy in Three States

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03/13/2017

... The Nature Conservancy says it received $6 million from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that it’ s now distributing among local land trusts in Idaho, Oregon ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Casey Family Programs Backs Initiative Giving Kids a Camera — and a Voice

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04/03/2017

... Kids a Camera — and a Voice Put a camera in a child’ s hand, Shannen Keene figures, and the young photographer can ... has experienced abuse or neglect at home, the story that’ s told becomes one that might...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Helmsley Trust Helps Retraction Watch Chart Its Future With New $130,000 Grant

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04/06/2017

... Its Future With New $130,000 Grant The generous funding from the Trust’ s Biomedical Research Infrastructure Program will allow ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

... In February 2017, ASAPbio received a $1 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Three MIT Alumni Win 2017 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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04/21/2017

... and children of immigrants in the United States. Selected from 1,775 applicants, the 2017 fellows were chosen for their potential to make significant contributions to U. S . society, culture, or their academic...

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Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans

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Immigration

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MetLife Foundation and Special Olympics Announce International Partnership

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04/28/2017

... It also offers families, teachers, caregivers and people from the community the opportunity to share the joy of sports ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"

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06/05/2017

... metrics. That fuzziness can lead funders to either shrink from such work, or require grantees to run a gauntlet of ...

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Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting

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07/31/2017

... problems, collapse, gluing constructions using methods from algebraic geometry, and connections with physics. They ...

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Bronx Charter School Caters to Students on the ‘Margins’

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08/30/2017

... gets a teddy bear to keep in school for comfort. And from time to time, class parties celebrate a student’ s adoption. The Bronx charter is believed to be the first in the U. S . designed for...

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Education

Employment Is Up in New York State, but Gains Are Uneven

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09/05/2017

... report. All regions saw the unemployment rate drop sharply from 2011 to 2016. But in half of the 10 regions studied in ...

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Economic Security

Shared Parenting Improves Divorce Outcome For Kids

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09/11/2017

... the important exception of children who need protection from an abusive or negligent parent, “shared parenting ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Is One Drink OK For Pregnant Women? Around The Globe, The Answer Is No

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09/12/2017

... use during pregnancy," Garry explains, citing guidance from the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. .....

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Health

CEO Pay at Large Nonprofits Increases 4%

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09/12/2017

... Great Recession, according to a new compensation report from GuideStar. Still, the raises remain below those of the ...

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N.Y., Pa., and Del. Move Toward Delaware River Frack Ban

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09/14/2017

... abstained. The ban was supported by state representatives from New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The commission' s federal representative, the U. S . Army Corps of Engineers, voted...

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