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Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... Responsibility To Drive Business Remember Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street? Little did we know then how ... compiled a list of World’s Most Ethical Companies, into the foreground of discussions...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago

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09/14/2017

... video Wednesday that he will gather together civic leaders from around the world next month to take part in the ... will allow young leaders to exchange ideas and learn from one another, Obama said in a video...

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Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... As addiction has grown, so have for-profit rehab centers, from those sponsored by massive corporations to little ... compared to the thousands of dollars that a 30-day stay from an insured patient can bring to...

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Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

... urban planners in post-war New York City, uniting people from all walks of life in a social experiment that prospered. Today, these developments are under attack from systematic neglect and deliberate sabotage...

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Housing and Homelessness

Whitney Museum Wants To Bring A Permanent Art Installation To The Hudson River

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... for its own permanent Hudson River installation, not far from where Pier 55 would’ve taken shape, reports The New ... would sit at the edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, not far from the museum’s location...

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The GOP Tax Plan: Tough Choices With Limited Room to Maneuver

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... face a daunting challenge as their tax plan comes into sharper focus: They are trying to fit more than $5 ... This week’s planned release of a unified GOP blueprint from the Senate, the House and the Trump...

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Economic Security

NYCHA Plans Market-Rate Brooklyn Units

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... be built by a private developer who would lease the land from the authority. The proceeds from the lease would go to a capital program at the housing ...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... city began implementing 18 such programs around the city from the global nonprofit Cure Violence in 2010, drawing funds from the U.S. Department of Justice. East New York and the ...

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Justice Reform

City Council Members Still Navigating Outside Income Divestment Ahead of Deadline

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Ahead of Deadline Legislation barring City Council members from making outside income will go into effect on January 1, forcing several sitting and ... for all city elected officials, including a salary bump...

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... in the rain on Monday to demand more affordable housing from Mayor de Blasio. The rally — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by ...

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After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... immigrants triggered a furious response on Monday from Democrats and immigration activists, who gave no ... agreement that would shield about 800,000 young immigrants from deportation will depend on how far...

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Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment

Release Date:

02/16/2018

... Stamford High School students is getting ready to launch into space. Traveling on a SpaceX Dragon rocket, their ... finalists for the spaceflight program chosen last summer from a pool of about 11,000. The...

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Science

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Toshiba America

Open Society Foundations Launches Initiative to Support A More Inclusive American Democracy

Release Date:

05/02/2018

... Foundations has announced that is accepting applications from senior-level government officials and staff in the ... and inserts their unique perspectives about driving change from within government ...

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Civic Engagement

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Open Society Foundations

The Philanthropic Closet: LGBTQ People in Philanthropy

... the findings on sexual orientation and gender identity from the inaugural Diversity Among Philanthropic ... with SMU DataArts and made possible by funding from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund . Thirty-four ...

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Report

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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LGBTQ

Materials for Philanthropy New York's 42nd Annual Meeting Business Meeting

Publication date:

05/2021

... York's 42nd Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, June 2nd from 3:30PM - 4:30PM ET . The documents below include the ... New York's Annual Meeting Packet 2021 Draft Minutes from the 41st Annual Meeting 2021 Report of the Governance & .....

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... Director, Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Funders , large and small, often seek ways to stretch grant ... to saying no, particularly when saying yes might mean working outside of our comfort zones...

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Disabilities

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

12 Jan 2012

Family Philanthropy: Finding Common Ground, Valuing Different Views

Thursday, January 12, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

... While always a concern, divergent opinions come into sharper focus as the nation heads into the 2012 election year. In this candid, ... Christopher Renner, Founder and CEO, The Prentice Group...