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City Launches Coordinated Effort to Serve LGBTQ Youth

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09/20/2017

City Launches Coordinated Effort to Serve LGBTQ Youth New York City is creating a multi-agency project in hopes of better coordinating — and expanding — existing ... NYC Unity, by calling awareness to the specific...

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DOE Expands Comfort Dog Program In NYC Schools

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10/02/2017

... In NYC Schools After a successful year, the Department of Education (DOE) will be expanding its Comfort Dog Program by adding 30 new schools across the city — nine of them in Brooklyn. The...

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Education

Did You Get Free SUNY Tuition? NY Reveals Figures

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10/02/2017

... Taylor was miffed when his daughter Alyssa signed up for New York's free college tuition program, but found out she ... who is trying to strive to do better," said Taylor, of Pleasant Valley. . . Did...

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Schneiderman Vows To Sue Over Clean Power Plan Repeal

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10/10/2017

... to replacing it – the Trump Administration’s campaign of climate change denial continues, once again putting industry special interests ahead of New Yorkers’ and all Americans’ safety, health...

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OSF Explores Using Blockchain Technology to Help Migrants

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01/26/2018

... a $100,000 grant to the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University, which is exploring using blockchain and other new technologies to record rights violations and atrocities. ... cash into...

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Immigration

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Michael Bloomberg Takes on the Coal Industry

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04/12/2018

... the billionaire businessman and former three-term mayor of New York City, escaped to a deserted ballroom at the Grand Hyatt, in midtown Manhattan, to talk about ...

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Bank of America : Expands Neighborhood Builders Nonprofit Leadership Development Program in 74 Cities

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11/09/2018

Bank of America : Expands Neighborhood Builders Nonprofit Leadership Development Program in 74 Cities Bank of America announced it is expanding its Neighborhood ... a complementary program, Neighborhood Champions...

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Community Development

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Robert Smith III Joins the Surdna Foundation as Program Officer, Thriving Cultures

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02/06/2019

... The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce its hire of Robert Smith III as Program Officer of the Thriving Cultures program. Robert will help guide the ... Radical Imagination for Racial Justice . In his...

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Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation Honored at Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary

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06/10/2019

Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation Honored at Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary NEW YORK - At Sesame Workshop's 17th annual benefit dinner on ... the evening celebrated Sesame...

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Children, Youth and Families

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25 Jan 2024

Brooklyn’s Baddest: The Lasting Impact of Police Misconduct & Wrongful Convictions

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... documentary in development that explores the consequences of the “war on drugs” and mass criminalization in New York City during the 1990s through present day, telling ... the same detective. Brooklyn’s...

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Arabella Advisors Produces Issue Brief On How Donors Can Support Women’s Mental Health

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10/11/2017

... a diagnosable mental health condition, and more than half of adults with a mental health disorder do not receive treatment. What’s more, a study from the Journal of Psychiatry found that mental illness costs...

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Rockefeller Foundation Appears Set to End 100 Resilient Cities Program

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04/01/2019

... plans to close the 100RC offices and dismiss its staff of nearly a hundred people as early as this summer. A ... According to the report, the initiative has enabled at least half the cities to institutionalize...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Awards Grants to Fuel Plans for Equitable Investment in Opportunity Zones in Washington, DC, Oakland, Dallas, and St. Louis

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09/05/2019

... 2019 . The initiative will help cities build a pipeline of projects and small business investments that move beyond ... services, including a $400,000 grant to establish and fund a Chief Opportunity Zone...

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Ira R. Halperin Named Vice Chair to Long Island Community Foundation Board

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02/01/2012

... Community Foundation has announced the recent appointment of Ira R. Halperin to Vice Chair of its Board of Advisors. Halperin is a Partner at the law firm of...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation names Paul Hyman Executive Director

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02/01/2012

... his successful seven-year tenure as the Executive Director of Pride Center at Equality Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Hyman ... He expanded program offerings, relocated the Center into a new...

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Sister Paulette LoMonaco Becomes Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Board Member

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10/18/2013

... Guttman Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Sister Paulette LoMonaco as a member of the Board of ... has made an impact on the lives of countless vulnerable...

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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation Reported first yesterday by ... the Foundation has been doing and to help lead in some new directions. Most significantly, Simon oversaw a...

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Former Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation VP to Lead LISC NYC

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09/18/2014

... has invested more than $2 billion to help revitalize some of New York City's most distressed neighborhoods. Marks comes ... New Yorker and former educator, Marks has long worked ...

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