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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

... The tool, which is publicly available online, relies on estimating how much carbon-dioxide pollution is avoided as ... of projects funded by green bonds, such as the impact on air pollution. The services may...

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called “Community Conversations: Criminal ... Foundation (WCF) is funding the series, which will focus on the 200-year history of Sing Sing...

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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

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08/29/2017

... her career as a school safety agent for New York City public schools, and is now living in a shelter. People like ...

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Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools

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08/31/2017

... reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan’s Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote ...

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Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

... went beyond standard practice at the F.B.I. and other public labs, for making identifications from DNA samples that ...

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Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

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09/05/2017

... isn't a scientist. He holds a doctorate, but it's in public administration and not a scientific discipline. If .....

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Food Systems

At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... the city’s interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel records of police ... that 50-a applied to officers’ disciplinary records. On Wednesday, the administration’s application...

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Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

Release Date:

09/21/2017

Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream Public housing was once the egalitarian dream of urban ... is in crisis. We hear it every day in community meetings, on the streets across Brooklyn, and on...

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Seven Elements of A Results-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility Program

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09/21/2017

... thrive as 81% of millennials expect organizations to make public declarations of their corporate citizenship. Beyond ...

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A Baseline for Success: Creating Sustainable PPPs

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09/22/2017

... Sustainable PPPs To develop and sustain successful public -private partnerships, companies must ensure long-term ...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You Was the commute on New York City’s subway this month worse than last month? ... tracking delays on the subway as well as informing the...

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Seven Elements of a Results-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility Program

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09/26/2017

... thrive as 81% of millennials expect organizations to make public declarations of their corporate citizenship. Beyond ...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... course of two years. Now, for the first time, the city's public schools are offering programs targeted at even younger .....

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside City Hall in the rain on Monday to demand more affordable housing from Mayor de ... building 15,000 units of affordable senior housing on vacant land controlled by the New...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Issues Report on State Population Health Strategies

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10/13/2017

Milbank Memorial Fund Issues Report on State Population Health Strategies The report ... and its findings. They describe a common pathway for public and private sector leaders—one that can be applied .....

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Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing Ford Foundation supports an ... aimed to hold large fund managers acuntable for delivering on wide range of impacts. Community Capital ... As large investment...

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners

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11/17/2017

Early this year, The J.M. Kaplan Fund put out a call to anyone in the United States with a promising solution to a social problem. The J.M. Kaplan Fund sought to identify and celebrate innovation in the fields of heritage conservation, social...

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New Video From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative

Release Date:

11/29/2017

... partnership with Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health to strengthen the community-based health ...

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Casey Family Programs Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect

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03/16/2018

... announcing the map. Casey said the indicators available on the map were “carefully selected based on their association with rates of child maltreatment at ... levels of geography and their availability to the...