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SmartCEO Honors Weinberg Foundation President, Rachel Garbow Monroe, as CEO of the Year

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12/16/2016

... Foundation President, Rachel Garbow Monroe, as CEO of the Year Rachel Garbow Monroe, Weinberg Foundation ... magazine and website, as its 2016 Baltimore SmartCEO of the Year. SmartCEO recognized Monroe at its...

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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation

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01/10/2017

COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation Sharon Ullman has been named Acting Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation following the ... will be taking a position...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... project, called “The Women’s Building,” will offer office space for organizations advocating for women and ... a global hub for people working on those issues. As part of the planning, NoVo has recruited...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project

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01/19/2017

... with free co-working space within the Foundation’s office in Crown Heights and a stipend of up to $5,000 for start-up costs. Startup Brooklyn ... nonprofits and community leaders in need of...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... It For decades, New Orleans fought to keep water out of the city. In the city's new resilience district, with ... can reduce flooding. The plan was developed as part of the Rockefeller Foundation's...

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Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System Jesenia Santana is the program officer of the NoVo Foundation, which supports...

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... to “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In fact, the program is budgeted at ... from two private foundations, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ford Foundation...

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

... Inroads in Food Deserts On the wall in Mike Basher’s office at Chester’s Fare & Square, there’s a piece of paper noting the days that Ramadan falls on in 2017; the ... in pink. It jumps out pretty quickly...

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Top Science Foundation, Simons, Latest Endeavor is its Most Ambitious Project Yet

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05/15/2017

... and exciting stuff happens—complex computer simulations of galaxy formation, algorithms churning through terabytes of data collected by telescope arrays. Same thing goes for ... as they work with programmers...

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

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08/01/2017

... the Bullitt Foundation, with its deep-green commercial office building and accompanying green building program. Or ... to impact investing. Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the fossil fuel divestment...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... flock to take their academic programs online, many of them work with outside contractors to handle some or all of the course development, marketing and back- office management of...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s ... for a future career. Carpenter is one in an army of social justice change agents that the...

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Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet

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08/21/2017

... ever, with a net worth estimated at $26 billion. The bulk of that fortune is slated to go one day to OSF, creating a ...

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education On Tuesday nights beginning August 22 ... they need to compete in the global marketplace. Coverage of...

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Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot

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08/31/2017

Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot Elected to lead the ... to Germany in July to speak at a rally during a meeting of world leaders, only to be criticized for leaving New York ... a police...

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Mexican-Born Artist To Build Wall In New York Park

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09/06/2017

... Build Wall In New York Park At 7am on 7 September, a group of Mexican friends led by the artist Bosco Sodi will start to ... be invited to dismantle it brick by brick and take part of the installation home...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... Offers Mixed Message on Immigration In his seven months in office , President Trump has proved to be the commander in chief of mixed messages. But even for him, the nighttime tweet on ...

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Witness Warrants Were Misused in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say

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09/11/2017

... in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say It is one of law enforcement’s most expansive powers: If the authorities believe that someone has knowledge of a crime, they can — under threat of...

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Immigration Agents Target Brooklyn Criminal Court, Lawyers Say

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09/15/2017

... I saw what I thought were officers lurking, and a couple of unmarked cars double parked," Damren said. "I didn't see .....

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