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Hurricane Irma Linked to Climate Change? For Some, a Very ‘Insensitive’ Question.

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09/11/2017

... administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, says it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the midst of ... raced to evacuate before Hurricane Irma, says if not now, when ? “This is the time to...

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Albany Lawmakers Extend Benefits To Vets Discharged For LGBT Identity

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09/12/2017

... Extend Benefits To Vets Discharged For LGBT Identity When it comes to discharged LGBT veterans in Albany County, they ...

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Gender Justice

Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business

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09/12/2017

... Little did we know then how closely life could imitate art when the likes of Enron, Bernie Madoff and a worldwide ... lambasted the world’s economy a few years ago. But it also vaulted companies like the...

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New York City Education Department to Improve Response to Public Record Requests

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09/14/2017

... requests, New York City’s education department says it will provide more realistic timelines for responding to ... released Wednesday, the education department said it will stop regularly pushing back its own...

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A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs

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09/19/2017

A New Door Into the Kitchen for Aspiring Chefs When Joanairys Merced was living in group foster care, she ... other girls. “On ‘Barefoot Contessa,’ they make it look so perfect,” said Ms. Merced, who is now 19 and...

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Workforce Development

New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

... has been keeping track. But this all-time low is only true when you include people under age 29, many of whom fall in ...

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Housing and Homelessness

De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

... Emily Lloyd resigned last summer after a medical leave. “ When I sign things, I guess it ’s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... risk that schools will try to manipulate that data. But it ’s unclear how effectively states have prepared for that ... in place to accurately monitor absenteeism data at all. “ It ’s human nature, when...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the ...

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Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

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10/06/2017

Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back? When I think about social and racial equity and how it shows up — and how it doesn’t — in philanthropy and the nonprofit ...

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Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... donors had charitable accounts at Fidelity in 2016. When this philanthropy juggernaut takes a moment to offer insights about giving trends in America, it 's worth paying attention. ... Where You Live, How...

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Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he declared in the Rose Garden that “we will not allow ...

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Health

After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim

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10/10/2017

... they were willing to strike any deal. More important, it exposed a largely unspoken truth in the capital: Nearly a ... to push the government toward a shutdown in mid-December, when a stopgap spending bill...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and others Redefine Arts Funding

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05/18/2018

... social change is easy enough. The hard part comes when organizations—particularly established museums or ...

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BNY Mellon Supports Australia’s First Commercial Thermal Waste-To-Energy Plant

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11/14/2018

... Australia. The transaction closed on October 18, 2018. When complete, the facility will process up to 400,000 tonnes ...

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Critic Calls Grants Aligned With Government Programs "Crony Philanthropy"

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07/07/2014

... characterizing its grant as support for President Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative. To Husock, the grant is a ... United States have operated independently of each other. It is not obvious that...

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The Andrus Family Fund Announces New Director, Manuela Arciniegas

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09/26/2019

... equity and empowered leadership. I am happy to bring my long-standing career in youth development, education and ...

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Shamira Lukomwa comes to PNY with rich experiences from the private, public and social impact sectors across North America, East and West Africa. She has managed, developed and led programs for an international experiential...

Scholars Selected for African Diaspora Program

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06/25/2014

A group of 33 African Diaspora scholars have been selected to collaborate with higher education institutions in Africa on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training and mentoring activities, as part of a fellowship funded by...

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