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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... than two years and will enroll students this fall for the first time. The new program will go beyond the traditional ... and obesity-related illnesses, many residents say they do not have convenient or...

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Food Systems

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Addresses Road Safety Issues in Mumbai

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02/23/2015

... and other measures. The organisation spent as much in the first phase of the initiative between 2010 and 2014, which ...

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Millions Could Lose Coverage in Latest ACA Challenge

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04/03/2015

... the fate of the Affordable Care Act in its hands. The first challenge to the law involved significant ... ruled constitutional. However, the potential impact could do real damage. Millions of Americans could...

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HSBC Names Kelly W. Fisher Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability

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07/15/2015

... company. In her tenure there she also created Toyota’s first -ever social media giving campaign, called “100 Cars ... Kelly currently sits on the corporate advisory board of Do Something and has served on the...

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Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative

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06/10/2016

... tested by faculty at institutions in 16 states. During the first two phases of the development of the Passport (funded ... (PLOs) – what a student should know and be able to do – and attendant Proficiency...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia When Doris Duke first took up philanthropy as a young heiress and socialite ... a very different set of foreign adversaries than they do today. Now, through its Building...

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Arts

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs

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05/05/2017

... rate in the Bronx is below six percent for the first time, more than four in 10 South Bronx residents do not have a high school diploma and 23 percent of young ...

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Workforce Development

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

... access to employment-based insurance. Since the ACA’s first open enrollment period in the fall of 2013, the number ... to participate in coverage may differ from those who do not. For instance, people in...

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Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy

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08/30/2017

... selective evacuation of those most vulnerable is prudent. First response is something America is getting better at, and ... and bureaucracy; Harvey gives us an opportunity to do better. . . Opinion: Learning...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... these leaders—some with competing agendas—manage to do it? Policy labs are units embedded within the public ... approaches to policymaking. Since the inception of the first labs over a decade ago, many...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the first effort under Mayor Bill de Blasio to tackle segregation ... Appleseed, adding that he expects the city to eventually do even more to promote...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... white supremacists taking the streets in Charlottesville first surfaced, thousands of New Yorkers participated in ...

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President of Markle Foundation, Zoë Baird, on Gender Imbalance at WEF

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01/26/2018

... said there were noticeably fewer women when she first came to Davos 17 years ago. But she said that organizers could do much more to correct the gender imbalance. Baird said ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Finds Gut Bacteria Play Critical Role in Anti-Seizure Effects of Ketogenic Diet

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05/25/2018

... diet. The study, published in the journal Cell, is the first to establish a causal link between seizure ... including fewer seizures for children with epilepsy who do not respond to anti-epileptic medications...

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