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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... morning to discuss issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are college-ready and successful once they enter ... two-year associate’s programs at the City...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

... Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second ... study on the model. At age 2, both boys and girls involved with NFP were found to have better...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... Online Archive It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for ... sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a new source of information (and...

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Arts

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No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes

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08/29/2017

... Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes It promised a new way of bike riding in New York City — GPS-tracked smart ... a rally to bring them to the beachside community complete with...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... from the Atlantic Ocean “into the broad mouth of lower New York Bay between Coney Island, New York, and Sandy Hook, New Jersey.” This could often be ... in the area. Ambrose was the first...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects ... Detroit Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to...

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Housing and Homelessness

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City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

... Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program ... by combining the different courts one might interact with in a domestic violence dispute...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success program she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The intimate...

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

... West Side of Manhattan and create more than 2,000 jobs in New York City. The retail giant signed a 15-year lease to ... that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P. 039 ;s new eight-...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow. Even as New York City’s schools opened their doors for the new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of ... schools that had performed poorly,...

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Westchester Community Foundation Announces Institute for Strong Nonprofits

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09/26/2017

... one of the largest funders of nonprofits in Westchester, New York, has announced the formation of the Institute for ... www.wcf-ny.org . The Foundation is a division of The New York Community Trust, which has...

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Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

... Populations Latinos, who make up nearly a third of the New York City population, tend to have better health outcomes compared with other city residents, according to a new report released...

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Nonprofits Help Shift Mayor De Blasio's Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say

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10/05/2017

... Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s opinion about whether ... of nonprofits serving on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and...

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... harvesters might be tending fresh veggies soon thanks to a new crowdfunding effort by the New York City Housing Authority. Most of the Rockaways was a food desert before Superstorm Sandy hit New...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

... Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term A new report revealed that just 30.8 percent of Staten Island ... "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was...

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

... actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital Fund ... 15-month study looked at 70 publicly available websites, with 32...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... advocacy effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so ... to spread OpenNotes adoption at hospitals throughout New York State, giving patients...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... regulatory and business environment. Through this new investment, the firm will develop hundreds of new branches in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. ...

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With Support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, Boston University Releases “Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise”

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04/23/2018

With Support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, Boston ... Today the Boston University Initiative on Cities, with support from Citi Community Development and The ... Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on...

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