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Supported by Ford Foundation, GenForward Poll Shows Clinton’s Edge With Young People Crosses Racial Lines

Release Date:

10/25/2016

... former secretary of state will help people like them, a new GenForward poll shows. Clinton’s largest advantage is ... how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation... Supported by Ford...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season

Release Date:

11/03/2016

... the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2016-2017 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a ...

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

Release Date:

02/16/2017

... George Suttles joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new program office. The foundation is a private, nonpartisan ... health systems. The foundation is also keeping abreast of new innovations in health...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... Women Playwrights Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary ... Fawcett and Michelle Kholos Brooks, and distinctive new plays that will feature...

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Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

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04/14/2017

... to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs America needs new tools for the timely measurement and monitoring of ... mainly of economists and computer scientists said in a new report. The panel’s recommendations...

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IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

Release Date:

06/08/2017

... giant announced the launch of Science for Social Good, a new program that partners IBM researchers with postdoctoral ... to take on societal issues through data. With the new initiative, IBM announced 12...

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Technology

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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... expected to transform treatment in the coming years. The new therapy turns a patient’s cells into a “living ... the disease “devastating and deadly” and said the new treatment fills an “unmet need.” . . F.D.A...

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USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... by the 2014 Farm Bill. “Agricultural science depends on new ideas and new perspectives,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. ...

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Food Systems

City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council ... up from 30 days under current law. Another bill would let New Yorkers up to age 25 stay...

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Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... and so, too, is its economy and real estate market. A new report released by state Controller Thomas DiNapoli ... its long-time residents. While there has been a surge in new businesses and employment growth,...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

... school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. ... the Department of Education’s addition of more seats and new buildings, many families feel...

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Education

Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... droves from the city’s Build It Back recovery program, new data shows. An analysis by City Controller Scott Stringer ... exit the program since 2014. The biggest drop was in New Dorp and Midland Beach on...

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Atlantic Theater Company Names Amy Staats Tow Playwright-in-Residence

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... lineup for its upcoming Amplified Reading Series and two new commissions. Actor and playwright Staats’ plays include ... Off-Broadway theatre. Atlantic has also commissioned two new works via its Launch...

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City Council Members Still Navigating Outside Income Divestment Ahead of Deadline

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... City Council members, two of whom voted against the new restrictions, continue to be involved in their private ... the process of figuring out divestment as mandated by the new law... City Council Members...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... Digital Literacy, Workforce Development Google announced new online tools and more than $1 billion in funding for ... combat that problem, Pichai announced Grow with Google, a new initiative and online...

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Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies Cities of Service Announces 10 Finalists for Inaugural Engaged Cities Award

Release Date:

04/16/2018

... announced 10 finalists for the Engaged Cities Award, a new effort to elevate cities that are working creatively to ... a program designed to empower city leaders to generate new ideas and advance policy that...

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

Release Date:

05/11/2018

... Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and Grandmont-Rosedale ... real estate developer and is the first scaled, for-sale, new construction in the North End in decades...

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Capital One and Others Fund Tech Training for Youth

Release Date:

06/29/2018

... North Carolina medical software developer with offices in New Orleans. “I think we have a unique chance to change the landscape for the people of New Orleans and get them jobs that can more than pay their ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arcus Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

Release Date:

10/15/2021

... grants this funding cycle were: Animal Protection of New Mexico to advocate for the retirement to sanctuary of ... Centre to implement best practice guidelines at a new gibbon rehabilitation center in North...