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Albany Lawmakers Extend Benefits To Vets Discharged For LGBT Identity

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09/12/2017

... LGBT Identity When it comes to discharged LGBT veterans in Albany County, they don’t have to worry about being ... civil service points and the opportunity to participate in the county’s Return the Favor...

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Gender Justice

DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible

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09/21/2017

... Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible At a meeting in Jackson Heights, under the rumble of the 7 train, about 40 DACA recipients learned that their ... expire before March 5th can reapply for two more...

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Immigration

JCOPE Commissioners Again Rule Civil Liberties Group Must Disclose Donors

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09/21/2017

... Must Disclose Donors After a lengthy debate, a majority of the commissioners of the state’s lobbying and ethics watchdog panel again ... donors whose names are disclosed on the agency’s website in...

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program ... in yeshivas aren’t getting the free meals because none of the food is certified...

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With Federal Cuts to Hospitals, Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up

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10/03/2017

... Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up After weeks of warning about its possible consequences, a federal cut to ... public health care system. The cut came as a result of a lack of action by...

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Health

In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ... filed by The Century Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two higher education accrediting...

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Partnership with MasterCard Foundation Working to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa

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11/13/2014

... Foundation Working to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion today announced a $6.1 million partnership with The MasterCard Foundation to launch ... recognized as...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

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01/06/2015

... their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles. The repository, launched as an ‘electronic bulletin board’ in August 1991, just before the dawn of the...

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Median Pay For CEOs In Health Care Companies Higher Than Any Other Industry

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05/27/2015

Commonwealth Fund research cited in analysis of America's rising healthcare costs... In 2014, ... UnitedHealth Group, reportedly took home more than $66 million in...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models The White House ... announced Tuesday that it has gathered more than $375 million in public and...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... Ford Foundation Workspace Going to see the president of the Ford Foundation was once the philanthropic equivalent ... president’s suite will be among the amenities sacrificed in a $190 million...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... success. That’s why we’re announcing a new $75 million investment to expand high-quality career-focused ... talent they need to grow and compete. With the Council of Chief State School Officers and the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

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02/09/2016

UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS The biggest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity ... UJA-Federation claims that FEGS owes more...

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Jewish Interests

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Sage Foundation Research Indicates Americans May Not Be Ready for Tax Increase on Wealthy

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05/11/2016

... the charge and would create a new top income tax rate of 54.2 percent, up from the current 39.6 percent. Hillary ... individuals with adjusted gross incomes of over US$1 million to pay an...

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the ... New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

... the World Health Organization announced a new partner in its effort to combat noncommunicable diseases such as ... together with injuries — account for roughly 80 percent of deaths worldwide. Michael Bloomberg...

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... more on this front than George Soros. Toward the end of last year, Soros declared that the world's “collective ... instability.” The hedge fund billionaire committed $500 million in...

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Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment to 500,000 Young People

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02/23/2017

... Young People Citi today announced a global expansion of the Pathways to Progress initiative led by a Citi Foundation investment of $100 million to connect 500,000 young people, ages 16-24, to...

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Workforce Development

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... press release, the initiative would spend “more than $1 Million ” in “Public and Private investment” to “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In...

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