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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

... crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking why most of the units created or preserved under Mayor Bill de ... housing plan fail to target the city’s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most. The de...

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Housing and Homelessness

Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping and that problems...

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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... Economists say the answer, to some degree, can be found in a start-up slump — a decline in the creation of new businesses — and a growing understanding of...

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Workforce Development

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

... Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals Many discussions about ... or social entrepreneurs should do. But this week a group of foundations turned the lens on...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes ... early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was started by a question…...

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General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... all-electric, zero-emissions future. That starts with two new , fully electric models next year—then at least 18 more ... That product onslaught puts the company at the forefront of an increasingly large crowd...

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Environment and Climate Change

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds If it feels like you're constantly ... study from financial site Bankrate.com. People who use out- of -network ATM fees are often hit with...

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Economic Security

FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand Treatment

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10/04/2017

FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand ... for the Medicaid program's criteria for treatment with a new class of...

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Health

Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

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10/06/2017

... and how it shows up — and how it doesn’t — in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, I wonder what’s holding us back. Improving the capacity of funders to invest more equitably will involve larger, .....

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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a foothold in the bond market. ... a CDFI made a...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women around the world is at...

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Gender Justice

Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors A new study sponsored by the nation’s second largest ... Fidelity Charitable, highlights regional differences of giving in the United...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future

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11/22/2017

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future The nation's ... Walker, the Ford Foundation is taking a different tack. " In philanthropy we must move from a...

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Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors

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12/01/2017

Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is ... The Rippel Foundation, which seeks to...

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Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream

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01/05/2018

... American Dream—not only to advocate for the protection of America’s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term ... to unleash the potential of the brilliant mix of people,...

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Immigration

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

... Foundation’s Rajiv Shah Rajiv Shah took the helm of the Rockefeller Foundation in March 2017. He recently visited the offices of SSIR, where ... the role of philanthropy...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Grantee Releases Medicare Advocacy Toolkit

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01/16/2018

... beneficiaries respond to Medicare denials. The Center for Medicare Advocacy (CMA), a John A. Hartford Foundation grantee, has released a new toolkit, "Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Coverage And .....

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Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

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03/27/2018

... Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching A group of scientists developed a "sun shield" that they hope can ... bleaching, which spread across the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Leon Levy Foundation Supports Bird Migration Forecasts

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04/27/2018

... Supports Bird Migration Forecasts For the first time, new maps are using radar to forecast nighttime clouds of migratory birds and track their flights in near real-time. A...

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