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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

Rockefeller Foundation’ s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue ... WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership with The Fink Family Foundation and Blue Hill Restaurant, .....

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Food Systems

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De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces

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08/30/2017

... Mayor Bill de Blasio fends off criticism over his timeline to close Rikers Island, his administration appears no closer to finding a new corrections chief, with some critics worrying he will...

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Justice Reform

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... joint efforts among public sector leaders, those working with or in government know too well that such collaborations are rare. The motivation and ability to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... schools. It is the first effort under Mayor Bill de Blasio to tackle segregation on a district-wide basis, and follows ... 1, which also includes the East Village. The plan’ s goal is for each school’ ...

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Education

The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

... first streetcars started rumbling along New York City’ s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to make it easier, more efficient, and safer to get around the five boroughs...

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Community Development

These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It? The international climate-fighting pact would create ... Coca-Cola argued. When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-...

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board Andrus Family Fund appoints Edgar Villanueva, ... community board members, including Schott Foundation’ s Edgar Villanueva. Edgar is a nationally-...

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Disparities in Health of NYC Latino Populations

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09/28/2017

... up nearly a third of the New York City population, tend to have better health outcomes compared with other city residents, according to a new report released ... and health-care opportunities...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests

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10/03/2017

... essay for the first installment of the Mellon Foundation’ s Our Compelling Interests book series, demographer and ... “these demographic changes will allow the country to face the future with...

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David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall

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10/05/2017

... The media mogul David Geffen, one of the cultural world’ s leading philanthropists, attacked wealthy New Yorkers on ... for what he called a “shameful” record of failing to donate to the city...

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

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10/06/2017

Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India Johnson & Johnson' s CaringCrowd' s platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration? In addition to supporting artists in the many fields in which Rauschenberg worked, the foundation has taken the lead in the evolving and red-hot field of "...

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The Heavier Baggage of Immigrating while Black

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10/06/2017

... that, in 2016, 32 percent of all refugees that came to the United States were from Africa. Three ... countries of origin. This number is even higher in 2017, with the New York Times reporting that 36 percent...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... worried that the increase in raids and deportations would lead to a decrease in crimes reported in these communities, and ... are each down 12 percent. And Houston is not alone with this...

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

... jobs. The unemployment rate in the developed world is down to 5.5 percent and approaching a 40-year low. This flies in ... the recent hurricanes, but unemployment dropped yet again, to just 4.2 percent from 4...

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Workforce Development

Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

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10/10/2017

... whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of ... in Nature Communications, the study is the first to quantify the connection between...

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... The Equal Justice Initiative will open the nation’ s first memorial dedicated to lynching victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on ... will have interactive content that confronts...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to establish the National Park Service Mellon Humanities ... research related to each subject, fellows...

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