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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustained by Prisoners of Time Despite the enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’s prison and ... been criticized by many on both the left and the right. A...

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Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... to explaining why there are so few female CEOs, a lot of theories foist the blame on women: Women are not confident ... or interested females out there. But an intriguing new survey from the Rockefeller...

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Gender Justice

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Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... The Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has announced Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the recipient of the 2017 Macquarie Social Innovation ... Award. The...

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Technology

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Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs

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08/25/2017

... University create StartUP FIU FOOD, an incubator to help new food and beverage entrepreneurs grow their companies with ... and moderate-income communities who are within two years of starting their companies...

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Community Development

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... Simons Foundation Step Up While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy, most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new...

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Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

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08/30/2017

... The “why” and “how” behind a product have become as important as the product itself, according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. ... perceived as bad...

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Food Systems

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School A dispute over who should lead an ... children has been resolved, just in time for the start of classes next week. The dispute centered on who would become...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

... The city is seeking proposals to transform the site of the former Greenpoint Hospital — shuttered since 1982 ... on the site, but expects proposals that could include as many as 600 —...

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Housing and Homelessness

After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

... Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly ... and to lesser extent, Success Academy itself. The Board of...

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Education

Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

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09/12/2017

... that is so darn good you wonder why no one had thought of it before. Such is the case with Peconic Care, a proposed ... else in the country. Its 40-acre campus, pitched for part of the Enterprise Park site in...

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

... using a system erratically or not at all, according to a new survey. While that may seem like common sense, the study found that only 37 percent of charities surveyed follow a major-donor identification system...

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

... Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new , hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... challenge is cost – the massive and ever-rising price of care which drives nearly all...

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Food Systems

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

... in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island is dead. After years of toe-to-toe battling with a small band of critics and a fellow billionaire, Barry Diller said ... fizzling end to a grand scheme that aimed to create...

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

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09/21/2017

... be found in a start-up slump — a decline in the creation of new businesses — and a growing understanding of what’s behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were ...

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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

... or social entrepreneurs should do. But this week a group of foundations turned the lens on themselves to see what they can do to accelerate the scale of solutions to critical problems and make progress on the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) states are asked to use five measures of student success. The first four are...

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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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Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth

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10/03/2017

Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth Upper-income earners have been growing as a share of this region’s population, according to the ... technology companies have moved to the...

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