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2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists Announced

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10/07/2016

Three of these finalists will be selected as winners of the 2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards and will be honored at a special Best Practices Workshop and Awards Presentation on December 2 at the New York Hall of Medicine.

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Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’

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11/29/2016

David Kaiser, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, and Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, wrote an article in the New York Review of Books calling out ExxonMobil for “morally reprehensible conduct.”

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Commonwealth Fund Publishes Report on Making Health Care Better for the High-Need Patient

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12/07/2016

... reported they had social support often relied on family members as their caregivers. But even patients with family caregivers experienced significant gaps in their ... patients also said that issues such as...

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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... such as this. This may be particularly true for younger members of our attentive public, who have not lived through, ...

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

Over the past two years, Silicon Valley unicorns Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations.

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... Rikers Island is actually a microcosm of everything wrong with America’s criminal-justice system, and may also offer ...

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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss Female vampire bats form strong social bonds with their mothers and daughters as they groom and share ... unrelated friends are important backup...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Snapshot of Veterans and Health in New York State

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07/13/2017

... on the State's diverse population of former service members , as well as their health care needs, experiences, and .....

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Cuomo Administration Bullish On State Climate Action After RGGI Agreement

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08/28/2017

... gas emissions in the power sector will expand after the members this week agreed to lower caps in future years. The ... Basil Seggos said the agreement demonstrates that even with the federal inaction on...

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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

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08/29/2017

Not since the Great Depression has New York City faced such a critical shortage in affordable housing. The city’s population of unsheltered homeless people has risen a staggering 40 percent since last year, according to the most recent annual count...

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Housing and Homelessness

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

... school board, which operates the school under a contract with the state, and has no Onondaga representatives, said ...

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New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students

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09/07/2017

... has been long sought by food-policy advocates and many members of the New York City Council, who said that some ...

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Cuomo Warns NY House Republicans

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09/28/2017

... Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized on Wednesday Republican House members from New York who have supported broad changes to the ...

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... Island shuts down. After eleven borough City Council members backed the Queens Detention Complex as a replacement ...

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Learn About The Isivivana Centre, An Atlantic Philanthropies Grantee

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01/22/2018

... activist organizations, including many Atlantic grantees. Members of the local community can also access the library, ...

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Casey Family Programs Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect

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03/16/2018

... prevention. “We hope the tool will be used by community members , policymakers, child welfare leaders, city government ... map were “carefully selected based on their association with rates of child...

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The Mayday Fund Provides Planning Grant to UConn Foundation

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07/06/2018

At a time when the danger of opioids is clear, UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory are collaborating to form the Connecticut Pain Consortium.

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