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Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund Launches $15 Million Healthy Foods Initiative

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02/15/2013

... initiative will work to improve access to healthy foods for people in low-income neighborhoods. The Laurie M. Tisch ... Food & Community Change initiative with a commitment of $15 million over five years...

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Community Development

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To Be a True Practitioner of Democracy

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05/22/2013

Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian delivered this address to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University’s ...

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09 Oct 2012

Engaging Stakeholders for Impact: Involving Grantees and Others in Your Grantmaking

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

All New York State funders are invited to participate in this special event at the Grantmakers Forum of New York's annual meeting. To solve complex community ... Heather Peeler , Vice...

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. Releases Report that Examines the Skills Gap in NYC

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10/30/2014

... JPMorgan Chase & Co. today released the first in a series of reports that lays out a specific roadmap for addressing the mismatch between the needs of employers ... available middle-skill...

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United Hospital Fund Report on CHIP Finds Sharp Increase in NYS Enrollment

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09/29/2017

... Fund just issued a HealthWatch brief on CHIP’s impact on New York State that may be helpful in your coverage of the issue—it reports that enrollment in the state’s ... county. If Congress fails to approve...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App For the last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been ... that strikes their fancy in the institution. A team of art educators sit around a cluster of...

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Arts

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Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

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02/16/2017

... History Will Call Republican Health Reform In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

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Ford, ConEd: Bronx Children’s Museum Construction Begins

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07/24/2017

... its own children’s museum! NYC Parks and NYC Department of Design and Construction joined elected officials and community leaders in breaking ground for the long-awaited Bronx Children’s Museum on Wednesday...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the ... loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising...

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Health Care Reform Flatlined. But Lawmakers Aren’t Giving Up

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... is done with health care. On Wednesday, the Senate Health, Education , Labor and Pensions Committee kicks off the first of four scheduled hearings this month examining the ... unexpected patient costs, and...

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NYC Denies Nearly 9,000 Kids with Disabilities The Services They Need

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... city is illegally denying necessary services to thousands of students with disabilities — and the poorest kids get ... therapy and counseling, according to figures the city Education Department supplied. State...

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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row. Seventeen of these schools — which ... Four did so poorly that the city Department of...

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this ... when the city bused 2,920. The spike comes in the midst of a citywide surge in student...

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Housing and Homelessness

Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids

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09/11/2017

Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids Increased ... worried that those clients may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation raid...

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How a Quirky Art Prize Tied to the DeVos Family Went Political

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... Constantine thought hard about whether to use an image of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, in her entry to this ... depicts Ms. Constantine as a carnival freak suffering for the...

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Arts

School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students School districts from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and ... has experienced before,”...

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that ... rise, to want to game the system,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think tank...

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Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

Release Date:

05/05/2014

... on a global scale. We’re simply not getting what we pay for . Clearly, it’s going to take more than minor tweaks or ... It’s going to take a real breakthrough.... Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health...

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