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NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says

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09/15/2017

... Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says The New York City comptroller’s office said not all middle and ... by law. Stringer’s audit also found that 88 percent of middle schools and high schools...

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43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, ... the state, according to a report released on Thursday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. The findings come ... For those students in the 13...

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Amid Global Crises, UNGA Will Show Development Community Rising To The Challenges

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09/18/2017

... Challenges President Donald Trump's twin appearances in New York this week — chairing a session on U.N. reform ... or to the press — could be the big story coming out of UNGA. But whatever he might say —...

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Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

... Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials When the New York City police officer who tackled the former tennis ... Mr. Blake said he has canceled three plane tickets to New York because of...

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Justice Reform

Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site

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09/19/2017

Opinion: The Risky Consequences Of Inclusionary Housing At Brooklyn’s Pfizer Site The power to zone is a key mechanism New York City has to leverage private financial resources ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Amazon’s real estate and facilities VP, to the New York Times after an announcement this spring that the ... As we’ve seen, permanence and solvability are front- of -mind for some of today’s...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

... Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns Manhattan ... $3.75 billion said it will try to continue a policy for at least a year of not...

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Gender Justice

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

Making Kids Into “Makers” The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop ... classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills or considering .....

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Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

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09/25/2017

... No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap Last week, the New York Times Editorial Board ran an editorial discussing ... in government. In it, they lamented declining numbers of women council members in the New...

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Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

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09/28/2017

... lapsed donor files — are among the most valuable sources of names for their campaigns. Karen Gleason, senior director at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), always banked on ... lapsed donor file, and...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories

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09/28/2017

... Social Media Accounts, Search Histories The Department of Homeland Security intends to monitor the social media ... internet search history of legal immigrants as part of a new...

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Immigration

Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

... to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter Susan Edelman sent an intriguing ...

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Citi Community Development Is Partner in NYC’s First Citywide Community Land Trust

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10/25/2017

A citywide collaborative of nonprofit affordable housing organizations today announced ... Center for NYC Neighborhoods (CNYCN), Habitat for Humanity New York City (Habitat NYC), Mutual Housing Association...

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Community Development

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Watch Another Video From Chasing The Dream, Supported By The JPB and Ford Foundations

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01/22/2018

... station WNYC , correspondent Matt Katz has the story of how new American policies are creating uncertainty for a married Congolese refugee couple separated by thousands of miles. This story...

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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

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04/27/2018

... Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless ... of LGBTQ youth in our country today. They are at...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Jerome Foundation Announces Inaugural Organization Grant Recipients

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06/18/2018

... in grants to 84 arts organizations in Minnesota and New York City. These grants to nonprofit arts organizations comprise inaugural offering of the foundation’s new Organization Grants Program...

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Arts

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5.4 Million to Help Standardize Clinical Data

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09/04/2018

... The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in New York City has announced a $5.4 million grant to the ... Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) in support of the Texas-based consortium's...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

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10/05/2018

... the digital library for research and teaching that is part of the non-profit ITHAKA, are launching, with the support of ... Plants Initiative, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR propose a new model...

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Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Judges Panel to Be Chaired by Clark Foundation President Douglas Bauer

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10/22/2018

... Executive Director Stephan Russo, celebrates the power of the written word to create change in the name of justice ... a distinguished slate of judges including Paul Krugman, New...

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