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JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs

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05/05/2017

... education schools in the South Bronx to key employers in New York City. The investment will help drive change and is ... of young people graduating from South Bronx high schools with opportunities to secure...

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Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala

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05/12/2017

... also honored the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) with the Lilo Leeds Legacy Award. For the more than a decade, CFE rallied for equitable funding for New York City schools, and its work led to a landmark ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

... to say they 039 ;ve saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public ... of whites. On top of that, blacks earn less than whites with similar...

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

... cocktail bar Coup–short for coup d’etat–opened in New York’s East Village in mid-April, promising to donate ... it joined the rank of a growing number of companies with a fairly nontraditional business plan:...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?

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05/31/2017

... federal law offers only a handful of exemptions for people with disabilities, new mothers, and parents of very young children. . . ...

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Aging

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

... he and those in his inner circle are growing richer, often with European Union funds. Soros praised the Hungarians who ... of law across the region. Orban’s Fidesz party passed new legislation in April that...

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Education

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Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

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06/13/2017

... to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, they have ... that is drying. The research, carried out in collaboration with scientists at Lehigh...

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... organizations, are paramount, according to the Princeton, New Jersey-based Rita Allen Foundation. The 40-year old ...

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Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices

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07/10/2017

... administration official David Hansell took the helm of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services ...

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Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights the Art of Wallpaper

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07/11/2017

Collaboration with Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Highlights ... inspired by Andy Warhol. The Brooklyn-based atelier works with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which ... inspiration...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

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07/12/2017

... Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children Infants born with a high birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia Children 039 ;s...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... life- and cost-saving interventions, according to the new WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2017. ...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, ... and the socially cohesive rituals of eating together. With fresh understandings of a pre-...

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Food Systems

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... funds $150,000 pilot to pair Baltimore police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the ... from tense to violent. The goal is to improve relations with the public and reduce use of...

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... on the most audacious goals. Like the Bullitt Foundation, with its deep-green commercial office building and ... in 1948 by Helen Altschul and Frank Altschul, who was a New York investment banker, and now led...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... notwithstanding the disparate racial impact, we need a new “economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership with The Fink Family Foundation and Blue Hill Restaurant, ... dinner discussion on September 13, 2017, at 7:30pm with leading food system thinkers...

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Food Systems

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new , IBM-facilitated (NYSE: IBM) citizen science project by ... of their associated proteins. The project will begin with the analysis of the microbiome...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often fired when ... the organization was 50 percent more likely to part ways with the executive than others...

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