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State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage

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02/05/2015

... by actively cracking down on wage theft,” Cuomo said in a statement. “I’m proud to say that investigators recovered more stolen wages in 2014 than ever before – which means more money stays with the hard-...

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NoVo Foundation Celebrates International Women’s Day

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03/09/2015

... injustice and demanding a better future. Whether at home, in school, at work, or on the global stage, these acts of courage are changing the world. But even in the face of this progress, daunting challenges...

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

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04/15/2015

... Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the United States has ... using armed drones to secretly kill suspected terrorists in Yemen. The public knows very little about these...

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The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows

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04/15/2015

... said Daisy M. Soros, who co-founded the Fellowship program in 1997 with her late husband, Paul Soros (1926-2013). "They .....

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Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

... New York City Ballet principal dancer Jacques d'Amboise in the belief that the arts, and dance and music in particular, have a unique power to engage all children and ... to celebrate his legacy and see...

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Citi Foundation and Living Cities Announce Selection of Five Cities to Join City Accelerator Initiative

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05/20/2015

... Seattle will receive support to adopt leading practices in community engagement through the City Accelerator, a $3 million initiative to advance innovation in local government. Over the next 18 months,...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

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05/26/2015

... research efforts focused on overcoming drug resistance in tumor cells. The grant will support a two-pronged approach ... identify the mechanisms that drive cancer drug resistance in tumor cells and, at the...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

The Alfred P. Sloan and James L. Knight Foundations have announced a $3.4 million investment in the initiative.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

... were selected to take advantage of one year of free co- working space in BCF’s new headquarters at 1000 Dean Street, as well as a ...

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

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07/09/2015

... Skills at Work" initiative, which has been implemented in about a dozen cities, including New York City, Chicago and .....

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... test to see which innovative ideas can make a dent in intractable social problems.... What We Learned from ...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... Executive Director Pamela Shifman, who assumed that role in 2014 after six years as NoVo’s Director of Initiatives ... girls. Until recently, that focus was directed toward work in the Global South, which the...

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Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects

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09/21/2015

... Connecticut market president for Bank of America, said in a statement. "We're fortunate enough to work with several .....

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Approves Three Grants Totaling More Than $3.28 Million

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09/29/2015

... of older adults and aging-expert professionals are heard in the continuing debates over health care delivery; to ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace What are the top five challenges you face ... MORI, revealed that there are five major issues for women in the workplace. . . Rockefeller...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

... especially from people already doing the work well. In a wide-ranging interview with WMUK's Earlene McMichael, .....

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools

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11/03/2015

... Foundation Funds Research to Evaluate Public-Private Model in Buffalo Schools In its three years of offering college scholarships and other services to students in the Buffalo Public Schools...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

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11/05/2015

... the majority of whom are children born into poverty. In a recent Conversations in Global Health seminar, Anita Zaidi, MD, an internationally ... issues impacting maternal and child health and her work ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... of California at San Francisco and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland, both longtime Atlantic grantees. . . ...

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Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

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02/17/2016

... the lead researcher on that study—to reflect changes in both the general cost of living nationally and the ...

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