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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

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08/29/2017

... year, according to the most recent annual count. New York is now home to one out of every seven homeless people in the ... school safety agent for New York City public schools, and is...

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Housing and Homelessness

Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

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08/31/2017

... the average age of fathers of newborns in the U.S. was 27. Now , it's closer to 31 years old (30.9 years to be specific), ... late, consider this: Twice as many dads of newborns are now in the 40-plus age...

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Education & Youth

Teaching Sept. 11 To Students Who Were Born After The Attacks

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09/11/2017

... 2001. Yet America's schools — where collective memory is shaped — are now full of students who never knew because they weren't alive then. Many teachers now struggle with whether...

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

... Marcia Kramer reported exclusively Tuesday, questions are now being raised about servings of kid favorites such as ... are working on it in an urgent way,” Fariña said. But now , there is word...

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Food Systems

SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

... proposal remains in tact, prospective teachers will now be required to sit for significantly more hours of ... must spend practice teaching has been reduced), and they now must pass one of the exams used in...

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Appointments & Transitions

Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

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10/29/2015

... with more closely. Finally, and more personally, this is a kind of homecoming for me. 85 years ago, my grandfather ... the opportunity to work with many members of the Family. Now , to have the privilege of...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Design and Health: Back Together Again?

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06/21/2017

... Dr. Mary Bassett, often talks about how your ZIP code is more telling than your genetic code when predicting ... of transport: feet and bikes are a good place to start. Now is the time for...

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Health & Human Services

The Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York Elects New Officers and Welcomes Seven New Board Members

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07/01/2019

... President. Madelyn Bucksbaum Adamson and Shelly Mitchell now serve as Vice Presidents, Aela Boyum Morgan as Secretary, ... of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Stephanie is a former member of The...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors COVID-19 Responders Among 38 Distinguished Immigrants

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07/01/2020

... Great Americans .” This year, the Corporation is highlighting the work of millions of immigrants who are ... vaccine; and David Ho, a renowned AIDS researcher who is now working to limit the...

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

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Disaster Relief

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Five New Board Members

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07/01/2021

... advisory board for Women In Technology International, and is recognized by Ford Motor Company Fund and Smithsonian ... for continuing the legacy of African American women. She is often described as smart,...

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Building Our Equity Muscles

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12/08/2021

... this clean, controlled, predictable approach — one that is characteristic, in many ways, of white supremacy culture . ... as the only way to build a stronger muscle in your body is to start by tearing apart...

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... states in his book Grassroots Philanthropy , “It is one of the ironies of organized philanthropy that for all ... risks? One of the simplest changes philanthropy can make is in looking closely at the way we...

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Humanizing Immigration: The Role of COVID-19

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06/17/2020

... filing jointly with an ITIN filer, even if that person is a U.S. citizen or green-card holder with an SSN. Thus, in ... even one member files using an ITIN, the entire family is ineligible. MPI estimates that...

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Immigration & Immigrant Communities

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Disaster Relief

Walter Panzirer, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Trustee Shares Rural Healthcare Program's Telehealth Support During COVID-19

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11/17/2020

... population density provides us access to beautiful, wide- open spaces and a remarkable quality of life, but it creates ... Helmsley Charitable Trust, for which I serve as trustee, is committed to harnessing...

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Health & Human Services

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Mellon Announces Funding for Higher Education in Prisons

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06/06/2023

... of what makes us human—an understanding that is especially needed in the often dehumanizing constraints of ... are reinstated next month for incarcerated learners—it is crucial to adopt new grantmaking...

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Justice Reform

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A Unique Nonprofit Lender

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08/19/2009

... Funds “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is a well-known early seventeenth century sound bite (from ... as any successful for-profit enterprise. How a nonprofit is financially structured—in terms of access...

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Standby Letters of Credit: The Underdog of Charitable Financing

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06/25/2009

... has a top ten list that quotes Tom Peters . One item is , “Try easier, not harder.” As a foundation that invests in the next generation and is not afraid to take risks, we (with our partners) take ... surpassed...

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation Mourns the Loss of CEO Susan L. Solomon

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09/09/2022

... Therapeutics, has been named Interim CEO of NYSCF. NYSCF is a New York-based non-profit organization that supports ... serve on the NYSCF Board of Directors and I am honored to now serve as Interim CEO,” said...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Awards $5.2 Million for Dementia, Senior Care

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12/11/2018

The John A. Hartford Foundation in New York City has announced grants totaling more than $5.2 million in support of evidence-based approaches to better care for older adults who have dementia, need hospital care, experience elder mistreatment, or...

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