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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

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01/27/2017

... and their backers have been left to piece together just what happened. What they take away from the loss of Aleppo will likely ... flag or run up the black flag of jihadism, and what kind of...

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New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series "In Their Own Words"

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03/29/2018

... from New York Foundation on Vimeo . To better understand what makes for effective community engagement, New York Foundation went right to the source. What draws someone to this work? What...

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26 Apr 2016

Learning from LA - Is Our Sister City Supporting Nonprofits Better?

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1:30pm to 3:30pm

... nonprofits are facing and taking action. One of most innovative philanthropic leaders is the Weingart Foundation ... be signed by all five supervisors to urge California’s state leaders to fully embrace and...

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Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest Nations

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10/16/2014

United States falls short on access to health care and cost of coverage.

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Boosting Adult Education in New York

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07/16/2015

... in New York In recent years, New York City and State policymakers have made k-12 education reform a top ... development in New York. As just one indication of the state ’s neglect, the main funding source for...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... and following his three terms as Governor of New York State . He successfully increased the minimum wage twice while ... workers and eliminate sweatshops once and for all in the state . And he established the...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... need to grow and compete. With the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, we ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

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06/17/2016

... skirmish centers on a dozen community schools that used state grants to finance after-school programs, tutoring, and ... $6 million expires at the end of June — even though state officials said Monday that the...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital of Montgomery devoted to 4,075 blacks its ... Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state -sanctioned segregation -...

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Arts

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Trump to Discuss Hudson Tunnel Project With New York and New Jersey Leaders

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09/07/2017

President Trump has invited top officials from New York and New Jersey to the White House on Thursday, including Senators Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and Govs. Andrew M. Cuomo and Chris Christie, to discuss the future of a...

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Community Development

The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... with a free daily lunch. The move came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to ... — and, more specifically, lunch shaming — across the ...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...

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Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap

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09/25/2017

... Council and the underrepresentation of women in local and state governments nationwide. They are correct in their ... large city governments are comprised of women; at the state level, women also make up about...

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Gender Justice

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Cuomo Says Special Session Might Be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding

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10/04/2017

... Public Hospital Funding Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset ... funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature might be...

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William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

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10/26/2017

... “There may be different approaches taken within the same state , within the same school district and even within the ...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that ... residents are in the room and able to comment when the state authorizing body is considering...

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NYS Health Foundation and The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Release New Reports on Strengthening Nutrition Education for New Yorkers

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01/17/2018

... very little research has been done on how New York State and New York City currently support, implement, and ... that currently support nutrition education at the City and State levels. Both the City report...

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

... 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest multi- state health care union local in the United States, where she ... She served on the faculty of the University at Albany ( State University of New...

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