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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, ... “Before Farm to Table will use the pervasiveness of food in everyday life as...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... zoning hardly ended racial discrimination in housing, as whites adopted biased policies like economic zoning that ... zoning was in effect exclusionary, accomplishing much of the same results as...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... 13, 2017, at 7:30pm with leading food system thinkers such as Ruth Reichl, Sam Kass, Danielle Nierenberg, Stephanie ... wastED initiative, a pop-up devoted to the theme of re-using foods that would otherwise...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... This Study Finds against the Myth In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit executives are often...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... and math. The gap is largest in Albany, where 42 percent of white students passed the state's 2017 English language arts exam compared to 27 percent of Asian students, 16 percent of...

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

... How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “I am so tired of dealing with ‘grassroots’ organisations here in Haiti. ... don’t care about their children anyway.” “I know of cases where individuals have allegedly...

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... in East Harlem gets a facelift every few months — a new mural painted by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed ... painted “the most political” one yet, says a founder of the collective, O’Sheena Smith, 38...

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Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy

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08/30/2017

Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy For those of us who experienced Superstorm Sandy, watching Texas suffer ... and the acts of everyday heroism are profoundly inspiring. As of...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... Joy. Fear. Anticipation. Those were the emotions I felt as my husband and I welcomed our daughter Norah into the world. I couldn’t have imagined the rush of emotions I would feel or that I could have so many...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... overweight. Although she can’t pinpoint the source of her feelings, she said they go back as far as she can remember. And she is hardly alone. Decades ... yet they can strongly influence...

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Children, Youth and Families

Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... and Harlem up to 130th Street, marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four-...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of hunger nationally. The initiative raises awareness that ... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format...

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Children, Youth and Families

From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

... locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals. Global developmental mandates and economic ... planning models often reduce India’s poor to a set of abstract data. Along with funding flows...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... Boxes Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and ... mother who signs up and comes in for a prenatal checkup. As a result, parents save time and...

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Indian Women Speak Out About A Government Tax that Declares Certain Feminine Hygiene Products 'Nonessential'

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09/08/2017

... Last month, the Indian government rolled out a new tax plan — the Goods and Service Tax — labeling ... eligible for a 12 percent tax. The increase in the cost of sanitary napkins will force many women already...

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A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory

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09/11/2017

A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But ... be something...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... date for next week? You can meet someone from the comfort of your couch. Reading about Hurricane Harvey as you scroll through Facebook and want to help? You don’t even have to open a new tab...

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation Young migrants and refugees ... come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... or two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed vast amounts of energy, cleared countless forests, dammed thousands of...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit think ... It projects that, if current household wealth trends ( as have occurred between 1983 and...

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