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The Wallace Foundation

Mayor De Blasio Says City Has to Grow Taller and Denser Despite Anti-Development Attitudes As Population Rises

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11/02/2016

... policy experts to confront how to house, transport, and school another half million people... Mayor De Blasio Says ...

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... My Librarian Award. The winning librarians were recognized for their exceptional contributions to transforming lives and ... detailing how their favorite librarians working in public, school , college,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens

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01/09/2017

... the horse stables near Forest Park, Queens, operated for many years as Lynne's Riding School , in Forest Hills, N.Y. The stable will be known as ... Hills). GallopNYC plans to use the stable primarily...

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Rita Allen Supports Research That Identifies Source of Opioids’ Side Effects

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02/02/2017

... to reduce pain, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. These two side effects often mean ...

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

... Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness Scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology at the Kresge ... today in JCI Insight, a journal of the...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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New App Connects Hungry Children With Restaurants

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03/21/2017

... An app that helps fellow students in need get an after- school meal is among the finalists in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow Contest. App co-creator Kiara Stewart and .....

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Education & Youth

City Launches Coordinated Effort to Serve LGBTQ Youth

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09/20/2017

... coordinating — and expanding — existing services for LGBTQ youth. The effort includes a focus on health ...

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Education & Youth

Did You Get Free SUNY Tuition? NY Reveals Figures

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10/02/2017

... John Taylor was miffed when his daughter Alyssa signed up for New York's free college tuition program, but found out she was ineligible. School counselors encouraged the 22-year-old student to take .....

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How The New York Community Trust Is Shaping K-12 Education in New York

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02/13/2018

... compromise, and some foundations are clearly more skilled at it than others. Community foundations stand out in this ... assume on their own." The oldest collaborative fund housed at NYCT is a fund called...

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The New York Community Trust

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Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses - New Report by The Century Foundation

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09/12/2019

... has developed to help them with that task. These private, for -profit developers—including divisions of big ... basis, and on terms that endow them with enormous, and, at times, comprehensive control over the...

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The Century Foundation

22 Sep 2022

How Funders Can Best Support "Non-Traditional" College Students

Thursday, September 22, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... – those who do not matriculate immediately after high school , attend full-time, or participate in the residential ... of three organizations dedicated to college completion for such students, sharing their...

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16 Moments of Pride for LGBTQ Philanthropy

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06/30/2014

... Kan, Director of Communications and Education, Funders for LGBTQ Issues This post originally appeared on the ... individuals and organizations that have quietly worked to change hearts and minds in the most...

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Excellence is the Best Strategy

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12/10/2013

... Trust-New York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards for creative management strategies. All three have figured ... and Westchester, has run the largest residential program for vulnerable kids in New York State...

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The New York Community Trust

18 Nov 2015

Policing Reform: Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement

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1:45pm to 3:30pm

... here. In the past two years, Communities United for Policing Reform (CPR) has played a critical role in ... Opportunities and challenges for winning long-term change to end discriminatory and...

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John A. Hartford Foundation and Commonwealth Fund Support Journalism Fellowships That Recognize Top 'Age Beat' Reporters

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10/20/2015

... Media (NAM) have selected 18 distinguished reporters for the next cohort of the Journalists in Aging Fellows ... during GSA's Annual Scientific Meeting -- scheduled for November 18 to 22 in Orlando,...

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Communications/Media

The John A. Hartford Foundation

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The Commonwealth Fund

#FOTH2016, From a First-Timer’s Perspective

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04/20/2016

... New York’s voice can be on the Hill. I woke up at 4 a.m. to catch a train with Philanthropy New York’s Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Communications Michael Remaley and ... the concerns of...

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Top 8 Ways Philanthropy Can Make Space at the Table for Immigrant Women Leaders

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05/19/2016

Top 8 Ways Philanthropy Can Make Space at the Table for Immigrant Women Leaders By Taryn Higashi, Executive ... ; Zeinab Eyega, M. Sc, Executive Director, Sauti Yetu Center for...

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