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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... is not equipped to fill them. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million new computer science jobs, but only 400,000 computer science ...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s ... these twin...

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Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Carnegie Corporation of New York salutes the legacy of Andrew Carnegie and other ...

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NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal A New York City program designed to reduce recidivism rates ...

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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... at more than twice the rate that younger adults do, a new study finds. The worry of previous decades—that America’s seniors weren’t ... medications,” says Maust, an assistant professor of...

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North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

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08/14/2015

... reliable shorthand, a way to show they grasp the concerns of everyday people, and to signal they understand what moves voters to act. Here in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has regularly spoken ... 100...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

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08/21/2015

... five American children and adolescents -- or 17.1 million of the 74.5 million children under the age of 18, according to the U.S. census -- are affected by ... treatment. The Healthy Brain Network (HBN) is a...

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David Berg Foundation Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum

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09/02/2015

... Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum New York’s Jewish Museum has received a one-year grant of $275,000 from The David Berg Foundation to underwrite Free ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Receive National Medal of Arts

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09/08/2015

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Receive National Medal of Arts President Barack Obama will present the 2014 National Medals of Arts in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals on ... talents, enriching...

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... make more money and learn to speak better English. But a new report found their well-being declines in the areas of health, crime and family patterns. Co-sponsored by the ... Services, the Sept. 21 report from...

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

... Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of Jamaica's thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to ... including 50 units set aside for artists, according to...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse A new global report shows that money doesn't buy everything ... on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... the same question and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina...

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How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation

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11/23/2015

... The world cheered as Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola earlier this month. An army of courageous physicians, nurses, technicians, and lay care ... organizations, families, and individuals was still...

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Deutsche Bank Supports Transgender Economic Empowerment Forum

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12/10/2015

... Empowerment Forum Transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs ...

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

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01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive ... to help us deliver maximum impact.” Its support of iFoster, for example, a web platform that helps foster ... organized, shows how the...

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Open Society Foundations Supports International Online Journalism Event

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02/24/2016

... executive vice president for product and technology at The New York Times; Yoani Sánchez, founder and director for the ... and Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor of the technology news site Re/code...

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College Most students attend ... never completing their degree at all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in...

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Specialty Food Foundation Addresses Hunger With Social Entrepreneurship

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03/02/2016

... Entrepreneurship Specialty Food Foundation, a community of social entrepreneurs working to break the hunger cycle, is starting the search for the third annual class of grant recipients. Eligible organizations...

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