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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

... That It Can Cut Evictions At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over landlord-tenant disputes, about 30 people stand in line, waiting to speak to a clerk. They’re...

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Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?

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10/04/2017

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved? A land use proposal to ... 138,000-square-foot, publicly-owned Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights to create a mix of different types...

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Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for ... Department, were meant to carry out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he...

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After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim

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10/10/2017

... Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim The list of hard-line immigration demands that President Trump said he needs to back protections for young ... deal. More important, it exposed a largely...

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Capital One Invests $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland

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12/15/2017

... $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland A $3 million gift and partnership with Capitol One is allowing the university to pursue research in data analytics, machine learning and...

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NYCT Announces Retirement of Patricia Jenny VP of Grants

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10/18/2018

NYCT Announces Retirement of Patricia Jenny VP of Grants The New York Community Trust announces the retirement of Patricia Jenny, Vice President for Grants, in...

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NYT Opinion: Rockefeller Family Fund Director, Lee Wasserman asks "Why Are We Still Looking for Oil and Gas?"

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07/25/2019

... and Gas? If an artist were to choose colors for portraits of public officials to represent their records on climate ... Donald Trump: charcoal black. How better to capture the president ’s efforts to increase...

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The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill

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06/01/2013

... Fund’s recent report on health care spending in 13 industrialized nations helps demonstrate that the U.S. ... spends more on health care than any other country. (Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal is also...

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It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma

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06/09/2014

It’s Time to Face the Long-Term-Care Dilemma Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. David Blumenthal, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Fund, says that the United States needs ...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash Dr. Richard Rockefeller, son of philanthropist David Rockefeller, was killed Friday ... trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past ...

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Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

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11/20/2014

Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate President Obama could be announcing some executive orders ... reform on the political agenda. Julia Preston of the New York Times recently published a piece...

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New York Community Trust Launches 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Competition

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03/05/2015

... York area nonprofits have a chance to compete for $60,000 in prize money in a program that recognizes best management ... we need well-run nonprofits,” said Lorie Slutsky, president ...

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WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

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03/04/2015

... mogul David Geffen has won naming rights for one of the premier venues in classical music with a $100 million gift toward the ... donors, said Michael Hamill Remaley, senior vice president...

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... to LaGuardia Community College Gail O. Mellow, the president of LaGuardia Community College, a two-year institution in Queens with 50,000 students, received an unexpected call. ...

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Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment

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05/18/2015

Rockfeller Brothers Fund Weighs in on Motivation for Fossil Fuel Divestment Beyond the ... every grant dollar we made," said Geraldine Watson, vice president of finance for the Rockefeller...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... over the next two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's "New Skills at Work" initiative, which has been implemented in about a dozen cities, including New York City, Chicago and .....

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... Treatments Every organism -- from a seedling to a president -- must protect its DNA at all costs, but precisely ... between damage to its own DNA and the foreign DNA of an invading virus has remained a mystery...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects ... our community," Bill Tommins, Southern Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... money doesn't buy everything when it comes to health care in the United States. When compared to 12 other ... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy,...

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