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State’s Delay on Final Sea-Level Rise Projections Chided

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11/11/2016

... are delayed and will likely not be in place until the end of March, despite a January 2016 deadline. After superstorm ... state money and permits properly considered the effect of climate change and extreme...

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Community Garden at Doris Duke’s Former NJ Estate Donates Tons of Organic Produce

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11/21/2016

Community Garden at Doris Duke’s Former NJ Estate Donates Tons of Organic Produce Duke Farms, the 2,700-acre former estate ... is one of the largest preserved properties in the state of...

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Three Red Hook Nonprofits Are Finalists in Inaugural Brooklyn Community Foundation SPARK Prize

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11/28/2016

... Twenty SPARK Prize finalists have been chosen among a pool of 150 applicants. Seventeen ae Brooklyn-based organizations, ... Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC). The SPARK Prize of $100,000 will be...

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Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments

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12/19/2016

... Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments New research shows a certain oxygen breathing limit for ... species don’t survive in low oxygen except some hardiest of organisms. Recently, some MIT...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supports Digital Democracy Platform

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02/07/2017

... for local government hearings, bolstered with a splash of artificial intelligence. Bots create transcripts of lawmakers’ every official utterance at the state house and use face recognition...

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Technology

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Rockefeller Cited As Trendsetter in Focusing on Resilience Over Climate Change

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03/06/2017

... change and other disasters. Sam Carter, a director at the foundation who works on resilience, observed that three successive events in New York—the 9/11 attacks, the housing crisis, and ...

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NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color

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04/13/2017

NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color The New York City-based NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the youngest son of Warren Buffett, says it will let...

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

... 2017 survey by the Rockefeller Foundation noted that half of recent college graduates are not using skills they learned in college at work, and 86 percent are learning new skills outside...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities

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05/19/2017

... Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities Johns Hopkins University and the Community College of Baltimore County have been awarded a combined $1...

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Ford Foundation to Open First Detroit Office In 64 Years

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05/31/2017

... is expected to detail the decision in a speech Thursday at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference, ... Walker said the international foundation has hired a new program officer who will...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Apply Now for WT Grant Foundation's Youth Service Improvement Grant

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07/17/2017

... support nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City. These awards of $25,000 help improve ... All applications must be received by September 7, 2017 at 3:...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arcus Supports First Group for LGBTQ People with Special Needs

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08/24/2017

... for Pride (SNAP), is not just the first organization of its kind in the state of New Jersey – but the first in the entire country. SNAP was ...

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NYC Education Department Failed To Track $84M For Disabled Student Services

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08/28/2017

... vendors for services to students with disabilities, a new audit charges. In the report to be released Monday, ... 2016. As a result, Stringer said, the city made thousands of bad payments for bogus treatments...

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Bronx Charter School Caters to Students on the ‘Margins’

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08/30/2017

... Charter School Caters to Students on the ‘Margins’ At Mott Haven Academy Charter School in New York City, fifth-graders start the fall reading “Locomotion,” the story of a boy in foster care...

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Bargaining With Cancer Patients About Treatment

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09/05/2017

... is it a conversation or a negotiation? Surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York are enlisting techniques taught at Harvard Business ... patients hopeful news: While they...

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CEO Pay at Large Nonprofits Increases 4%

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09/12/2017

CEO Pay at Large Nonprofits Increases 4% Pay increases for nonprofit ... time since before the Great Recession, according to a new compensation report from GuideStar. Still, the raises remain below those ...

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Exhibit Allows Virtual 'Interviews' With Holocaust Survivors

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09/18/2017

... Virtual 'Interviews' With Holocaust Survivors An exhibit at a New York City museum is giving visitors a chance to interact with virtual versions of two Holocaust survivors. The...

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As U.N. Gathers, De Blasio Urges Fellow Mayors to Fight Trump on Climate, Immigration

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09/19/2017

... As the United Nations General Assembly got underway in New York City on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio crisscrossed Manhattan speaking at two events highlighting the issues of climate change...

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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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