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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Director Examines Link Between Art and Economic Development

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08/18/2015

... climate is today more imperiled than it ever has been in the modern era, a situation that has affected nearly every aspect of life in the country. This has included, of course, cultural ... restaurants, and so...

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Bank of America and Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Global Build

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10/06/2015

... and Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Global Build In recognition of the United Nations’ World Habitat Day, Bank of America, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, is ... to financial well-...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Newman's Own Foundation Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Military Service Organizations

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11/20/2015

Newman's Own Foundation Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Military Service Organizations In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Newman's Own ... rehabilitation, career development, entrepreneurship,...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... and lift the performance of struggling pupils. But in doing so, many schools may have overlooked a proven ... Foundation, a progressive think tank, shows an increase in the number of schools that have...

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... the I Love My Librarian Award ceremony and reception in New York City on Nov. 30, 2016, hosted by the ...

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

... WAGE stagnation. Income inequality. A lack of quality education . Insufficient training and skills development. ...

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Economic Security

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ), ... filing Thursday. He's now made a huge donation 11 years in a row. This year, Buffett is...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... the brief, How High-Need Patients Experience Health Care in the Unites States (20 pages, PDF), found that while 95 ... care, 44 percent reported that they had experienced delays in care in...

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... than thirty-five million freely licensed media files in Wikimedia Commons , making it easier for people and ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence. In 1965, Douglas Turner Ward, a Southern-born, ... wakes up to learn its black residents have disappeared. In “Day of...

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

... for folks refusing home care. According to the study, in most cases, people resist home care to their own ...

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... Integration Plan for Lower East Side The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the...

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

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09/15/2017

Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York, metro area added 400 private-sector jobs in August, up 0.1 percent from August 2016. In the Glens...

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

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09/18/2017

... middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report ... among city teenagers is slightly rising, especially in the city's poorest neighborhoods...

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

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09/27/2017

... world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many ... to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic...

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After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... The schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said Monday that, in response to last week’s fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education Department would focus its training for teachers on...

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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

... victims and a new museum dedicated to slavery on April 26 in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice recognizing 4,000 blacks lynched and tortured in America is under construction between...

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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

... including energy, economic development, infrastructure, education and migration... Open Society Foundations, Ford and ...

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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

... to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term A new report revealed that just 30.8 percent ... report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City,"...

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