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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.

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Education

Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... All of them are recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that protects ... the program. Hours later, the president showed his support for DACA recipients on Twitter...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

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09/27/2017

The MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition began as an experiment in openness, in response to criticisms that the philanthropic sector is too insular, not sufficiently focused on impact, and too risk averse.

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in ... pressure tactics. . . Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks ...

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Arts

Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... the fact that her children must work and have no time for school. In another family, a teenage son has now been out ...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... birthday in late July. His boss and co-workers joined him for an evening of laughter and selfies, lingering over dinner ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

The New Bedtime Story Is a Podcast

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10/03/2017

... found something even better than TV. Since the NPR podcast for kids “Wow in the World” debuted in May, he’s ... co-host Guy Raz came to James’s hometown this summer for a live taping of his podcast for...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... in various stages of investigation and cleanup efforts for the three properties when the work was halted. "EPA just .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: No, That Robot Will Not Steal Your Job

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10/10/2017

The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so little growth created so many jobs.

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Workforce Development

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a ... political saga set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage was being...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

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10/10/2017

... expired in 2015. As part of the funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that ... Congress also extended the Community Health Center Fund for an additional 2 years, through...

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Health

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

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12/15/2017

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts The Andrew W. Mellon ... social change. MIA will launch the first-ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts within an art...

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Arts

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North Star Fund Announces 9 Catalyst Grants

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01/16/2018

... organizations built by New Yorkers who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city by ... We offer these organizations streamlined renewals for up to six years. If they can demonstrate...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Civic Engagement

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Westchester Community Foundation Names New Board Chair, Members

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01/16/2018

The Westchester Community Foundation has elected Dale Akinla, II, CFP® financial advisor and wealth management professional, as Chair of the Foundation’s Board. Mr. Akinla has been a member of the Board since 2012. Mr. Akinla has held a number of...

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Community Development

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Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW For four days last week, Pfizer and Rise Against Hunger ... of volunteers at the SXSW Trade Show to package meals for vulnerable individuals and families...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series "In Their Own Words"

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03/29/2018

... York Foundation on Vimeo . To better understand what makes for effective community engagement, New York Foundation went ... need in order to succeed? Sure, strategic thinking, an eye for politics, and the...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

... work on a community’s problem and accepting outside help for its decision-making. One instance is when the company ...

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Community Development

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

... American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons ...

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Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss

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06/21/2018

Food that ‘disappears' from the food chain after harvest owing to spoilage could feed an estimated 48 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa. A project by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the African Union and The Rockefeller Foundation...

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