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

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09/12/2017

... Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street? Little did we know then how closely life could imitate art when the ... of discussions involving the corporate ecosystem in the United States and abroad. Today, several...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

... such as popcorn chicken and peanut butter and jelly. Back in April, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña told Kramer she was fast-tracking food safety issues. “ We are working on it in an urgent...

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Food Systems

De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

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09/21/2017

... by 2020. The plan, which aims to have one new charging hub in each borough by 2018, is part of a larger effort to have ... “fast-charging” stations, which can power up vehicles in 30 minutes, instead of the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Nonprofit Linked To NYCHA Creates Crowdfunding Portal For Sustainability Projects

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09/25/2017

... and services, launched an online platform this week in conjunction with ioby, a crowdfunding website, to enable ... the founding president of the Fund for Public Housing, in an interview with Gotham Gazette. “...

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Housing and Homelessness

Cuomo Says Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding

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09/26/2017

... Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding Gov. Cuomo said a special session of ... state Legislature may be needed if more than $2 billion in federal health care cuts to...

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Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum

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09/27/2017

... Gives $25 Million to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from ... Asian Art Museum here. It marks the largest financial gift in the history of the museum,...

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Arts

Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... Queens Detention Center would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site to ...

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Justice Reform

Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth

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10/03/2017

... mothers and their children, says you can see this shift in increasing ticket prices and sponsorship costs for charity ... director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Albany: "How can we get those people into...

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Children’s Health Care Bill Faces New Obstacles

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10/05/2017

... Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) ripped Schumer’s move. “ We should not jeopardize vulnerable children’s health ... like bailing out insurance companies,” Hatch said in a statement... Children’s Health Care Bill...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... populations that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education. The grant will build on the successful programs developed in a prior Mellon Foundation grant, which established the Wabash Liberal...

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Jonas Philanthropies Names Wanda Montalvo New Executive Director

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08/23/2018

... Names Wanda Montalvo New Executive Director We are delighted to announce that Jonas Nursing & Veterans ... as Associate Director at the Weitzman Institute of CHCI in Connecticut where she provided...

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Four Early Career Researchers Selected for 2019 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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05/15/2019

... Selected for 2019 William T. Grant Scholars Program We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in 1982, the Scholars Program supports the professional...

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Health

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Macquarie Group Announces Winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award

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08/27/2019

... Announces Winners of the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award We ’re proud to announce the five winners of the Macquarie ... these five winners will each receive $A10 million in funding to deliver their projects...

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Social Justice

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Names Amy F. Dinofrio as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

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04/11/2022

... named vice president and chief human resources officer. In this role, Dinofrio will be a key member of RWJF’s ... on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces. “ We are excited to welcome Amy Dinofrio...

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Simplifying the Excise Tax on Private Foundations

... neutral, but according to the Joint Committee on Taxation in the 112th Congress would slightly raise tax revenues by ... tax on private foundations because: The current two-tier system serves as a disincentive...

Foundations Invest Nearly $2 Million to Improve New York City Schools

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09/10/2014

... William T. Grant Foundation—has joined forces to invest in the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New ... over the next three years. Since its founding in 2008 at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture...

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Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

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03/03/2015

... Men of Color have collectively awarded millions of dollars in the past year to improve education outcomes, reduce ... These policy and programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for...

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Community Development

Social Justice

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Eighteen Cultural Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

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05/07/2015

... Brooklyn Public Library; Queens Library; and Studio in a School. "New York City, one of the cultural capitals ... of the United States, has the largest public school system in the nation...

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Arts

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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UHF Medicaid Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment

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05/06/2016

... Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment Medicaid in New York: Progressing to Value-Based Payment Thursday, ... which will focus on efforts to move to value-based payment in New York. Jason Helgerson, New...

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