The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion
Release Date:
07/28/2017
... rooms for people who would be better served in treatment. New city police recruits have for years undergone some crisis ...
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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/01/2017
... in 1948 by Helen Altschul and Frank Altschul, who was a New York investment banker, and now led by a board of of ...
At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... giant gives about $100 million to charity each year ; in 2016, $50 million went to organizations and programs ... commitments. In February, it announced $11.5 million in new grants focused on racial equity and...
Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable crises are always being ...
Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... the Affordable Care Act. The group will soon launch a new website that will be highly critical of Tom Price, the ...
Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... marking the final phase of planned expansion for the four- year -old bike-share system...
Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... Leagues Ought To Go At an announcement and ceremony in New York, stakeholders from the the NHL, NHL Players ...
US States Embrace Baby Boxes
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... smothered by a sleeping parent or heavy blanket. This year , similar boxes are debuting on a large scale in the ... under the US health care system, so the states of Alabama, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and...
Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... over their personal information online. In July, The New York Times reported that the Mexican government uses ...
Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... – and face staggering risks in the process. For 17- year old Mohammad, who traveled through Libya to seek asylum ... come from sub-Saharan Africa. These findings come from a new UNICEF and International...
Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... less attention. That may be changing, however. The New York State attorney general’s office sent letters last ...
Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year , rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human ... they cost. The draft report, which was obtained by The New York Times, contradicts a...
Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New Yorkers take for granted. It was a hive of activity, one ...
The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... The day before students returned to class this month, New York City officials announced that all 1.1 million public ... their parents have not paid. (In one notable example last year , an Alabama student was...
Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab
Release Date:
09/19/2017
... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ...
At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes ... to 12 when the next Council is seated in January, if this year ’s elections continue as...
Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... a sweatshop just the same. Chan is part of a cohort of New York home care workers that has filed more than a dozen ...
MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial ...
No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... in its school accountability system. That raises some new questions: Did backers of social-emotional learning miss ...
Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... across the nation, thanks in part to a $10 million, three- year push by Chevron to locate 10 labs where they can serve a ... hands-on STEM-styled experiments, encouraging them to try new things — and try them...