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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are still in .” These corporate titans and at least 22 others were ... those who sought to preserve the United States’ role in the landmark Paris agreement...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and ... But the young couple are not alone among top donors in choosing this model—Laurene Powell Jobs...

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Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

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09/20/2017

... women, as depicted, were rather unattractive. Wages and a group of women had been pushing members of Congress to move ... been donated to the country by the National Women's Party in February 1921, a year...

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Gender Justice

With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife

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09/21/2017

... night, at the nightclub and circus-arts space House of Yes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de ... hope to have." The Office of Nightlife and its advisory group will act as liaisons...

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Community Development

In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor ... are very upset about its demise, angry at an opposition group that hit the project with costly litigation. But ... on and driven by one man's vision...

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Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

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09/22/2017

... says many of the organizations that help people enroll in health plans on the federal insurance marketplaces don't ... say the government doesn't understand the time involved in the effort or the...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

... be banned from entering the United States, Mr. Trump said in a proclamation released Sunday night. Citizens of Iraq and some groups of people in Venezuela who seek to visit the United States will face ...

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Immigration

After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’

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09/25/2017

... Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’ In the past month, hurricanes have hit the Gulf Coast and the ... an earthquake has shocked Mexico and wildfires raged in California. Early in...

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Disaster Relief

A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids In 2013, the New York city council approved a plan for a gleaming new development in the Willets Point section of Queens—a mall, a hotel, and ... new...

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Community Development

Trump’s Stake in Housing Complex Spurs Lawsuit Over Sale

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09/29/2017

Trump’s Stake in Housing Complex Spurs Lawsuit Over Sale Owners of Starrett ... complex – which President Trump has a small stake in – for less than fair-market value in a deal “riven .....

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Housing and Homelessness

Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... Shows The prospect of Social Security running out of money in their lifetimes haunts the vast majority of Americans over ... More than three-quarters (78 percent) of future retirees in that age group...

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Economic Security

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... angry letters from almost every influential watchdog group — the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for Food Safety, the ...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... nonprofits that serve the less affluent sections of town in order to provide raises for city employees and to expand ... services. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that a group opposing Mayor Jason Gonzalez...

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ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

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11/15/2017

... annual Painters & Sculptors Grants on Tuesday. Founded in 1993, the grants are awarded yearly to under-recognized ... and made eligible to apply for the Joan Mitchell residency in New Orleans. This year’s...

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Arts

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

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12/11/2017

... that American seniors were sicker than their counterparts in other countries and are more likely to go without needed ... Americans are more likely to enter the 65-and-up age group with chronic diseases —...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

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03/09/2018

... Move Families to Food Security A recent study published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences looks at how much additional income in SNAP benefits would be needed in order...

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Food Systems

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With Support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, Boston University Releases “Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise”

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04/23/2018

... part of more networks: 44 of the 50 largest US cities are in two or more of the 15 networks and the largest population ... and Philadelphia—participate in seven or more networks. The most highly networked...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... Best Health Care After the average life expectancy in the United States declined for the first time in decades, a new report is out detailing which states have ... health care systems. The non-profit health...

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

... significant dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., over 15 ... Cohen, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Joe Goode Performance Group , Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Glen...

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