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NYS Health Foundation Supporting Model Justice Reform Program

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04/04/2016

... Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, making New York’s capital city the first jurisdiction on the East Coast, and only the third in the nation, to launch LEAD. Albany’s reform approach ... mass...

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New York Health Foundation

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NYS Health Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration

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06/30/2016

... Foundation on the Learning and Listening That Lead to a Multi-Funder Collaboration The Supreme Court’s deadlocked ... leaves many of them shut out of health coverage. For the New York State Health Foundation (...

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

... Health Last week the World Health Organization announced a new partner in its effort to combat noncommunicable diseases such as ...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force employers to offer their workers a retirement plan, a move that could provide...

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Economic Security

Bank of America to Spur Economic Gains For Low-Income Families, Communities

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03/16/2017

... Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) today announced a $3.8 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable ... part of a broad effort to connect low-income residents to new economic...

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... the initiative would spend “more than $1 Million” in “Public and Private investment” to “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In fact, the program is...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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NY State Health Releases Policy Recommendations to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State

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06/12/2017

... to Address Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in NY State This NYSHealth-supported white paper, prepared by the New York State Public Health Association (NYSPHA), outlines ... consumers, especially among...

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

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06/27/2017

... morning to discuss issues related to higher education in New York, especially how to ensure that more New Yorkers are ... was hosted by the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a...

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NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

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06/30/2017

NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast Rikers Island is known as a harsh place, but it can be particularly bad for women. In March,...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

... Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second ... female children differently, according to new analysis of a decades-old study...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... Research via the BAM Online Archive It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for ... Academy of Music Leon Levy Digital Archive, which launched in...

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No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes

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08/29/2017

No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes It promised a new way of bike riding in New York City — GPS-tracked smart bikes...

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As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored

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08/29/2017

... Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored As Texas mobilizes in response to the unprecedented floods of Hurricane Harvey, ... still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York...

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Housing and Homelessness

Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... Museum’s most prized possessions is set to undergo a major restoration. The Museum announced on Monday that the ... the Museum’s collection of five historic vessels. Built in 1907, Lightship LV-87, as the ship...

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... prices and the growing gap between the rich and poor in our leading cities, an even bigger threat lies on the ... two may be in danger. As it turns out, the much-ballyhooed new age of the...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year, the New York Public Library released plans for a total renovation ... And now the library has secured the final...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to make...

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City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

... Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program designed to increase accountability and responsiveness to domestic violence victims ...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors Rhea Wong never felt comfortable using elevator ... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success program...

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