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United Way of New York City Releases 2014 Self-Sufficiency Standards

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12/02/2014

... Standards United Way of New York City (UWNYC), in partnership with the Women's Center for Education and ... the new template for how we view economic self-sufficiency in New York City. In...

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Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

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12/04/2014

... past two years, everyone’s been focused on resilience in the context of Sandy-like storms, but that’s because we ... that the city be ready for those. For example, the natural event likely to hit New York next...

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

... The Sierra Club and Michael Bloomberg are upping the ante in their effort to close down coal-fired power plants, announcing on Wednesday another $60 million in funding for their anti-coal campaign. If...

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New York Life Sponsors TAPS Good Grief Camps and Provides Scholarships to Attend

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05/22/2015

... are expected to attend this four-day gathering being held in Washington, D.C., over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-25, 2015. They will participate in age-appropriate bereavement activities that help them cope...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative

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09/11/2015

... launches today, September 10, followed by a public launch event at the Museum on Sunday, September 20. The multimedia ... of the Met's collection and galleries-was created in collaboration with...

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New York Botanical Garden Partners with MetLife Foundation for Healthy Families Program

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09/21/2015

... tours, and free weekly cell phone recordings with "What's in Season" at the Greenmarket. On select Wednesdays of each ... offered by staff from local hospitals. Participation in each of these...

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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... This week, the Council on Foundations will participate in a briefing on Capitol Hill—organized in partnership with Independent Sector—that will highlight ... whose work is supported directly by these...

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Century Foundation Pledges Support to Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

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11/18/2015

... The Century Foundation has joined two dozen organizations in pledging resources to the goal of advancing equity through ... announcement came Friday morning at a summit in Washington co-hosted by the White...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

... Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn More than two dozen youth from across Central ... at the Nigerian American Muslim Integrated Community in Prospect Heights. The students, aged...

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

... appearances around the country, including one Thursday in Santa Fe. “We have to provide leadership and strive ... a legislative reception at the Rio Chama Steakhouse. The event was organized by NewMexicoWomen...

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Two Mexico City Landmarks Reopen With Support From The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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06/10/2016

... restored Xochipilli Fountain and Composer’s Passage in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, one of the oldest public parks in the world. In 2014, the Foundation provided a $1 million ... the...

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

... Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last...

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Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and Co-author Talks About “Say Her Name”

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05/10/2016

... need to be front and center along with race and poverty in any discussion of criminal justice and selective ... were evicting her for being a few hundred dollars behind in her rent,” said Ritchie. “If her...

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

Martin is a formerly incarcerated person, in a country where 70 million Americans have a criminal ... the system face when they try to leave it behend. “ In my experience, people go to prison and they learn how to...

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... host their first annual Poverty Solutions Conference . The event is an invitation-only conference focused on developing ... participants. Four of the most highly regarded researchers in the country will...

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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

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04/03/2017

... mission is to advance news literacy, to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the ...

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PhilTV: Century Foundation Hosts Policing Debate at NYU Wagner

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04/06/2017

After additional incidents of police force, some resulting in death, tensions between police and civilians have galvanized media and public attention. Consensus around the most effective way to keep every community safe and ensure accountability...

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NY State Health Foundation CEO: 1M New Yorkers Could Lose Health Coverage Under AHCA

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05/08/2017

... liberal state offers some of the top Medicaid benefits in the country. . . “Today’s vote to approve the American ... and the elimination of the Essential Plan could result in more than 1 million New Yorkers...

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... Italy restaurant that topped the World’s 50 Best List in 2016, was planning to open one of his food waste-fighting soup kitchens, called Refettorios, in the Bronx with support from New York’s Italian .....

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SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"

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06/06/2017

... Inc., declared bankruptcy a year ago, it was the last in a series of tragic events that was seemingly the death ...

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