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‘Brooklyn Prime’ Campaign Aims To Bring Amazon Headquarters To NYC

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09/13/2017

‘Brooklyn Prime’ Campaign Aims To Bring Amazon Headquarters To NYC Amazon's announcement last week that is seeking ... trying to woo the Seattle-based company. In an open...

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Workforce Development

Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation

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09/13/2017

Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation ... highest court has opened the door for state officials to demand that the oil giant's outside auditor immediately ... change. In...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

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09/13/2017

Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N. Gary D. Cohn, the chief ... Paris agreement while also telling nations it remains open to continued discussions. . . Top White House...

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Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State

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09/14/2017

Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced several new initiatives to deliver new addiction treatment, recovery and support services...

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Health

Feds Overrule New York's Natural Gas Pipeline Permit Denial

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09/18/2017

... Department of Environmental Conservation took too long to decide on the water quality permit needed to expand the Millennium natural gas pipeline in southeastern ... Ventures hailed the FERC decision and said...

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Whitney Museum Wants To Bring A Permanent Art Installation To The Hudson River

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09/21/2017

Whitney Museum Wants To Bring A Permanent Art Installation To The Hudson River Less than a week after billionaire Barry ... a tribute to the original Pier 52 and its history, with an open...

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Arts

Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... community bellyaching about a program they want their kids to receive. De Blasio rolled out the federally funded program ...

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Education

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care

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10/04/2017

... Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October ... Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless Despite criticism from local elected ... Mayor de Blasio said Thursday the city does not need to provide advance notice when it...

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Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

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10/27/2017

Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings ... challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the ... with an eye toward...

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Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream

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01/05/2018

... is joining the Coalition for the American Dream—not only to advocate for the protection of America’s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term solution to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), but...

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Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms

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12/01/2016

... Weekly December 1, 2016 edition. Philanthropy New York’s Education Working Group has frequently examined how schools ... – and the expectations of how girls are “supposed to act” – effects who is disciplined...

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Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/15/2014

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is pleased to announce the appointment of Keesha Gaskins as Director of ... Fellow with the Center on Women and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of...

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Gilbert To Join Ford Foundation as Vice President, Talent and Human Resources

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07/15/2014

Gilbert To Join Ford Foundation as Vice President, Talent and Human ... her bachelor’s degree in social work from Adelphi University and a master’s degree in public administration (nonprofit management) from New...

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Nupur Chaudhury Joins NYSHealth Foundation as Program Officer

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01/12/2017

... health, urban planning, and community organizing. Prior to joining NYSHealth, Ms. Chaudhury was the director of ... College, a Master of Urban Planning degree from New York University , and a Master of Public...

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New York Health Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Digitization Of 19th Century Navy Deck Logs

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01/29/2018

... even in the technological era. A grant recently awarded to the University of Washington will allow the digitization of ... from 1861 to 1879. Project funding was awarded to...

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Arts

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James Rothkopf Elected to Board of Directors of FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds

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03/12/2018

James Rothkopf Elected to Board of Directors of FJC – A Foundation of ... — including CFO at the American Friends of Hebrew University , CFO of Hadassah, CFO of UJA Federation of New ... Rothkopf received his M.B.A...

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Marcella Tillett of the Brooklyn Community Foundation Named Among 50 Women in City & State's 2022 Above & Beyond List

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03/21/2022

... York’s 57th governor, making history as the first woman to hold the state’s highest office. In November, 31 women ... Tillett set out to study business at Clark Atlanta University . But she...

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