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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

... additional targeted studies over the next year. Mellon' s grantmaking tends to focus on the young and mid-career individuals, many of whom hail from underrepresented communities, within these .....

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... it possible to change the narrative about nuclear waste from a burden to a possibly profitable commercial enterprise? ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Sloan Foundation Noted in Article on What Could Help Americans Work More Years

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06/13/2017

... or full-time. But after attending Columbia University’ s 2017 Age Boom Academy program for journalists, Exploring ... that can be for many of them. But I also learned from the international Age Boom Academy...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance Award $750K in Grants to Middle School Out-of-School Time

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06/21/2017

... The grants mark the first awards made under the Foundation' s new $1.95M "Aim High" initiative. The Aim High grant ... and the District of Columbia, including awards ranging from $15,000 to $100...

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... the key challenges and obstacles that prevent students from graduating college in a timely manner or cause them to ... a quarter of the students that are in two-year associate’ s programs at the City...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... way scientists study urban environments - with an assist from Google. In joint work with Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

... expands his sweeping probe into whether Tillerson' s former employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman' s office considers the nation' s...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... local ordinances that unnecessarily exclude people from entire neighborhoods and their schools... Check out the ...

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’ s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics ... Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’ s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’ s small bakery, where he teaches them how to make buttery ... the last 20 years. He says when he returned home in 1994 from two decades in prison, he...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

... credit-card company is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality ... As Ms. Singh details, the center is deploying MasterCard’ s technology, data, and networking...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion' s Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for ... The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure...

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Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U.S. Forests as Temperatures Rise

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08/29/2017

Tree-Killing Beetles Spread into Northern U. S . Forests as Temperatures Rise Southern pine beetles are ... among the most destructive insects invading North America' s pine forests today, and they're...

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Holistic Therapy Programs May Help Pain Sufferers Ditch Opioids

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08/29/2017

... Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Their complaints range widely, from specific problems such as intractable lower-back pain to ... the entire program, says Wesley Gilliam, the center' s clinical director. And...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... one night, not too long ago, one of us got a phone call from a desperate executive director. The nonprofit he led was ... more on top of things. In particular, he felt the board’ s treasurer, a well-known CFO...

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De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces

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08/30/2017

... privileges. Now, a fresh round of attacks over the mayor’ s management of Rikers — from Democratic challenger Sal Albanese to Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...

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Justice Reform

Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

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08/30/2017

Sixty Days Into MTA' s 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To ... review within 60 days, examining the beleaguered authority' s physical infrastructure from...

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Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

... them as family shelters (a tactic referenced in the mayor' s February homelessness game plan). Advocates say this will reward negligent landlords who already benefit from the cluster program'...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... by saying, “this is such a great place to work, there’ s a really strong community here, but no one really gets in ... to the Parrish, in Water Mill (another Hamptons hamlet), from the James and Charlotte...

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