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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... are often fired when they’re not doing the job for which they were hired—in particular, when the budget ... nonprofits in the arts, health, and human services looking for a correlation between executive...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... visibility levels were poor. The lightship remained in service until the 1960s, after which it was donated to the ...

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Arts

Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United States. Establishing a universal 911 service . Securing the right for same-sex couples to...

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Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

... homeless shelters, and maintain six more as cluster sites for at least the next three years. These privately-owned ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Indian Women Speak Out About A Government Tax that Declares Certain Feminine Hygiene Products 'Nonessential'

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09/08/2017

... government rolled out a new tax plan — the Goods and Service Tax — labeling sanitary products "nonessential," making them eligible for a 12 percent tax. The increase in the cost of sanitary .....

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Gender Justice

Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance

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09/11/2017

... determining who will fill the city’s legislative body for the next four years in this very Democratic city. Most ... The dynamics of this year’s elections are not promising for improving the Council gender...

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Gender Justice

NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented

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09/15/2017

... also found that the ACA likely led to a decrease in demand for VA care. Without the ACA coverage expansions, veterans ... to repeal the ACA would likely increase the demand for VA services while increasing the...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Immigration Agents Target Brooklyn Criminal Court, Lawyers Say

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09/15/2017

Plainclothes agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement took four men into custody outside Brooklyn Criminal Court Thursday morning in what appeared to be a coordinated operation, according to a source and attorneys with Brooklyn Defender...

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Immigration

‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s ... of such a single-payer system. Mr. Sanders argued for his “Medicare for all” legislation in an Op-Ed ... Mr. Sanders’s plan...

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How The Rockefeller Foundation Is Bringing Electricity To Hundreds Of Villages Across India

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09/18/2017

... priority with the launch of a program called Smart Power for Rural Development, a $75 million initiative aimed at ... and hamlets that might otherwise have to wait years for power to arrive. . . How The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit

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10/03/2017

... Charity Habit Each year, the charity world waits eagerly for the announcement of how much individual Americans gave to ... according to a Chronicle analysis of Internal Revenue Service data. That’s down from...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... trend. A study of hundreds of victim advocates and legal service providers in 46 states (and D.C.) finds that ...

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Immigration

Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first Wall Street bank to take a stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate.

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Jerome Foundation Announces Inaugural Organization Grant Recipients

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06/18/2018

... application process attracted 254 organizations applying for 1-2 years of support. Jerome Foundation President Ben ... organizations offering important programs and services for early career artists.” The...

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Arts

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Jerome Foundation

Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018

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07/11/2018

... Fund at the End of 2018 Diana Davenport, Vice President for Administration at the Commonwealth Fund, has announced ... of the philanthropic and nonprofit worlds of New York for more than twenty years. In...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces More Than $19 Million in Grants

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10/18/2018

... of 2018. The board also approved a new-five year strategy for the Catholic Sisters Strategic Initiative, beginning with grant approvals for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Human Services

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... and Monroe counties. The fund has preserved 1,731 acres for the Cherry Valley Wildlife Refuge , so far, and it ... eventually be turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public...

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