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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

... with 500. The top three industries that added jobs were: education and health services, with 1,700; health care and ...

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Workforce Development

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says More than 40 percent of the city’s middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s boldest education initiative. His Renewal School program, which pledged hundreds of millions of...

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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

... Read or Add, World Bank Says Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning ... flagship annual economic development report. “Hundreds of...

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After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... last week’s fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education Department would focus its training for teachers on ... Cedeno told them that he had been bullied since the start of school, though not by Mr...

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New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show

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10/10/2017

... League has teamed up with the New York City Department of Education to launch the first year of Broadway Bridges, an initiative that aims to give every ...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... City Hall on Thursday announced plans to expand its pre-K education program for 3-year-olds in six new neighborhoods ... Bronx and District 23 in Brownsville, at an operating cost of $36 million. Once all...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

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11/14/2017

... from The Rockefeller Foundation, unveil results from a set of projects demonstrating innovative strategies aimed at ... waste. Ten hotel properties participated in the 12-weeks of demonstration projects,...

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Atlantic Philanthropies and Ford Foundation Funded Lynching Memorial and Slavery Museum Sets April Opening

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11/14/2017

... have interactive content that confronts visitors with some of the nation's arduous past. The opening of the memorial and museum will be celebrated from April .....

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Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

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11/16/2017

... Rico recover from Hurricane Maria, including the creation of an advisory commission to help guide reconstruction ... two months after the Category 4 storm destroyed tens of thousands of homes...

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

... Second Term A new report revealed that just 30.8 percent of Staten Island residents have at least a bachelor's degree -- that's roughly half the rate of Manhattan, where 59.9 percent of...

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

... to an art museum have a measurable impact on key aspects of student learning. The comprehensive study, conducted over ... six art museums across the United States: Columbus Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Museum...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Visual Culture Program on Caltech Campus

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12/14/2018

... is about to make Caltech a lot more colorful. From tours of neon art around Los Angeles to campus ... for intersecting with science. The program, the first of its kind at Caltech, is being funded by a grant...

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UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish ... and Yeshivot New York, NY (May 20, 2019)…UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge ... was...

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New Staff and Promotions at The New York Community Trust

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12/19/2019

... Ross will manage the girls and young women and arts education portfolios. Marie D’Costa has been promoted to ... Amy Wolf has been promoted to Assistant Director of Digital Media & Marketing, where she...

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United Way of New York City Names Elwanda Young as Interim President & CEO

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09/03/2012

Elwanda Young was named Interim President & CEO of the United Way of New York City in September 2012, having previously served ... In that capacity, she was responsible for management of the...

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Nonprofit Electronic Filing of Tax Returns Proposed

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01/31/2014

... Chairman Max Baucus released a 64-page discussion draft of proposed reforms to the administration of tax laws prepared by committee staff. Included in the ... hardship and other reasons. The discussion draft...

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New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

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06/16/2014

... at human rights and social justice organizations are part of the $2 million New Executives Fund launched last June, ... resources to execute them," said Chris Stone, president of the Open Society...

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Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, Dies

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07/25/2014

... "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, UJA-Federation of New York Supporter, Dies Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former head of Bear Stearns, who raised hundreds of millions for the...

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