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Revson Foundation President Makes the Case for NYC Libraries in HuffPost Editorial

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05/22/2015

... Foundation President Makes the Case for NYC Libraries in HuffPost Editorial On Wednesday evening, May 20, New ... crucial role that New York City's branch libraries play in serving the city's diverse...

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Niarchos and Revson Foundations announce five winners of 2nd annual NYC Neighborhood Library Awards

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05/26/2015

... which celebrate the crucial role of local libraries in serving New York City’s diverse communities. The winners ... by New Yorkers, who nominated every single branch in New York City’s three library systems:...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Ten New York Nonprofits Selected as Semifinalists of 2015 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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08/04/2015

... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Ten nonprofit groups in three New York City boroughs and Westchester have been ... Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The groups are in the running to win $60,000 in...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

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08/27/2015

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice- In -Education Initiative The seminar in 401 Hamilton Hall focused on classic literary texts, ... around the wooden table with their professor ranged...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New ... children, he said he hoped the pilot could take root in Rhode Island and spread across the...

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

... Across the City and Nation Forty-five nonprofits in New York City and beyond just got great news: The New York ... city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising...

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Bessemer Trust Among Experts Tapped by NYTimes for Piece on Social Change Major Gifts

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05/16/2016

... their biggest bets. Those may be worthy recipients but, in the eyes of some in the philanthropic community, they are not at the forefront ... why someone like Paul Salem, a private equity investor in...

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Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction

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09/20/2016

... Vera’s work on bail reform and pretrial justice in New York City, with a focus on reducing the number of people held in pretrial detention at Rikers Island and other City ... to afford bail. She has led...

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NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

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06/30/2017

NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast Rikers Island is known as a harsh place, but it can be particularly bad for women. In March, the New York Women’s...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... the Museum’s collection of five historic vessels. Built in 1907, Lightship LV-87, as the ship is officially known, ... a treacherous stretch because of the sand bars and shoals in the area. Ambrose was the...

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De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces

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08/30/2017

While Mayor Bill de Blasio fends off criticism over his timeline to close Rikers Island, his administration appears no closer to finding a new corrections chief, with some critics worrying he will push the decision until after the November election.

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum In 1947, the Abstract Expressionists James Brooks and Charlotte Park first spent a summer in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, because “Jackson .....

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

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09/06/2017

Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week ... will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Harlem up to ... stations...

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Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal

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09/07/2017

... May Be The New Normal One week after the record deluge in Texas, the biggest hurricane ever measured in the mid-Atlantic is tearing through the Caribbean. ... storm, is destroying homes and threatening lives...

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Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges

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09/20/2017

... stories rarely land the city’s child-welfare system in the headlines, and the last few weeks have been no ... The Administration for Children’s Services stepped in just this past weekend to remove a young boy...

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Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation

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09/28/2017

... Glenn D. Lowry. But Ms. Halbreich points out that she is, in fact, older than Mr. Lowry, that MoMA has a mandatory ... current job at MoMA — associate director — the best in the business. Instead, she has...

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Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator

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09/29/2017

... as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top official in a region that reaches from the Adirondacks to the ... issues as ongoing issues related to PFOA contamination in the Rensselaer County...

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Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation

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10/04/2017

... Renovation One of the biggest cultural building projects in the country was sent back to the drawing board on Tuesday, ... nearly 20 years. The latest plan, which was jump-started in 2015 with a $100 million...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... to expand its pre-K education program for 3-year-olds in six new neighborhoods over the next three years. The free, full-day 3-K expansion comes in three phases, beginning with District 4, in...

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