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Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground

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09/27/2017

Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a Dutch village was established under ... the blacks were left where they were as the...

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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... invest more than $2 million to create new charter schools in New York City. "So what's new about that?" you might ask. ... that charter schools can have. Since 1997, it's invested over $400...

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Trump Plans 45,000 Limit on Refugees Admitted to U.S.

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09/27/2017

... President Trump plans to cap refugee admissions at 45,000 over the next year, according to current and former ... low limit on the number of people who can resettle in the United States after fleeing...

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

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09/28/2017

... Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows Americans who were left ... and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over...

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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...

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds If it feels like you're constantly ... from the consumer's bank for using another outlet's ATM. Over the last decade, those...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes ... nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years...

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

... widely known that college graduates earn far more money over the professional careers than their peers who only have ... school diploma. But less attention is paid to the workers in the middle – those who have...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

Release Date:

10/17/2017

... more than enough to feed our entire global population of over 7 billion people. Yet at the same time, approximately ... next meal will come from. And more than 780 million people in the world are food insecure...

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Study Supported by Doris Duke Foundation Reveals Mumps Resurgence Due to Waning Vaccine Protection in Adults

Release Date:

03/23/2018

... Reveals Mumps Resurgence Due to Waning Vaccine Protection in Adults In the study, which was published in Science Translational ... studies of mumps vaccine effectiveness conducted ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire

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05/12/2019

... 20 years of exceptional service at the Foundation. “ Over the past two decades, Don has developed a magnificent ... to implement it, always working with trusted partners in the field,” remarked Mariët...

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United Way of New York City Names Elwanda Young as Interim President & CEO

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09/03/2012

... Interim President & CEO of the United Way of New York City in September 2012, having previously served the organization ... as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In that capacity, she was...

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Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D. Resigns as President of Foundation for Child Development

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... to her faculty position at Georgetown University. " In partnership with the Board, Deborah has guided FCD through a rigorous year- long strategic planning process that has positioned the Foundation to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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26 Jan 2013

CEO Workshop: Transforming Your Role and Impact in the Foundation and Community

Saturday, January 26, 2013 -

7:30am to 5:00pm

This special one-day preconference session, to be held in conjunction with the Council on Foundation's 2013 Family ... be more effective leaders within their organization and in the community. Who value...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Confidence Index Finds that National Debt is Top Priority for Voters

Release Date:

09/30/2014

... a monthly measure of public attitudes about the nation’s long -term debt and the efforts elected leaders are making to ... Americans want to see more action from their leaders in Washington as they head to the...

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Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion

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07/06/2015

Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion The Studio Museum in Harlem, whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, ...

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Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa

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07/20/2015

... and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa As entrepreneurship takes center stage in Africa this month at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, ... these problems by drawing on the Citi...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... Feminism What does feminism mean to you? For a long time, I did not consider myself a feminist. In fact, for most of my life, I did not consider myself a ...

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NY State Health Foundation Sees Need to Educate Consumers on State Obamacare Offerings

Release Date:

11/02/2015

... Offerings Anne Marie Paniagua is a single mom living in the Bronx. She earns about $400 a week, which she says doesn’t last her very long . There is rent, food, clothing and day-care for her ...