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In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

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09/28/2017

... state law enacted in 2016 that prevented local governments from passing LGBTQ anti-discrimination policies and banned trans people from using the public bathroom that corresponds to their ...

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Gender Justice

Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China in the late 1980s. She sometimes labored until 2 a.m. for such brands as DKNY and saw co-workers faint from the stifling summer heat in a...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... of controlling policy, he’s already gotten angry letters from almost every influential watchdog group — the Center ... plan by Trump’s USDA to shift international food safety from an office where oversight...

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Food Systems

Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many ... to Houston Police Department data, sexual assault reports from the Latinx community dropped...

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Immigration

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... cleanup activities to clean up hot spots that resulted from radioactive waste byproducts from prior industrial uses. The three sites are a parking lot ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on ... but unemployment dropped yet again, to just 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent, both lows rarely seen in...

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Workforce Development

Helmsley Charitable Trust Commits $5 Million to JDRF T1D Fund

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10/27/2017

... 1 diabetes (T1D), has announced a $5 million commitment from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. ... January with $32 million in seed funding from JDRF, the fund manages more than $60 million...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates ... refused home health care services. Their reasons ranged from concerns about finances,...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... The study broke down over 40 areas of health care from access, to the value of care Americans were paying for. According to the results, which studied each state from 2013 to 2016, Hawaii ranked as America’s...

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2018 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists Announced

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07/24/2018

... Awards Finalists Announced Fourteen nonprofit groups from across the city have been chosen as finalists for The ... 31-member selection committee chose the 14 finalists from a pool of 36 qualified applicants,...

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Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania Provide Resources to Support Tree Of Life Synagogue Victims

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10/29/2018

... Memorial Hall and Museum vigil featured a video message from the president of Israel and an in-person message from an Israeli cabinet minister... Grantmakers of Western ...

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

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11/29/2018

... of Arts in English Literature and Secondary Education from CUNY’s Brooklyn College and a Masters in Public Administration from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. He serves on ...

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New Research Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds New Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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01/29/2019

... Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department ... and Visual Sciences , along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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NYT Opinion: Darren Walker Reflects on Why Museums Need to Step Into the Future

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07/26/2019

... demographic order. On Thursday, Warren Kanders resigned from the board of the Whitney Museum of Art, after protests ... On one side of the crossfire are trustees who benefit from a distorted economic system...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces New Chief Operating Officer, Maya Jakubowicz

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07/12/2023

... functions at the organization. Maya comes to the Trust from the Office of the Mayor in New York City where she ... and Montana Artists Agency. Maya holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California,...

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28 Feb 2018

Tackling Implicit Bias and Microbehaviors in Your Philanthropic Practice

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

How well do you know your subconscious? Why does it matter? The mind sciences show us that there are a critical set of unconscious perceptions driving choices and responses in ways that may belie our stated and even consciously believed goals of...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

20 Jul 2021

2021 Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Summer Meeting

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Join your PACNET peers for our July meeting to reflect on upcoming opportunities and challenges as we transtion back to a new hybrid model of working.

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Communications

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10 Nov 2021

Weaving Health and Social Care into a Comprehensive "Safety Net": Technology is Transformative, but not Enough

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Lack of effective coordination between healthcare systems and community-based social service organizations has emerged as an impediment to improving the social determinants of health and, therefore, to improving health outcomes particularly in...

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