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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

... goal: to halve death and disability from all types of pollution by 2030. Together, the group set out to define the necessary steps to reduce the largest environmental cause of death and...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Telehealth Private Payer Laws

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08/23/2017

... policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from that of the provider—as a way of expanding patient access to...

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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... he was, a freshman from the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, competing against the top player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s best teams. As his team’s No. 1...

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Children, Youth and Families

CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market CareConnect, the health ... state permission to withdraw from the individual and small group market, the latest evidence of how hard it can be...

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Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship

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08/29/2017

Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship Around the time of World War I, two organizations set out to mold young ... future leaders, instilling in them the admirable traits...

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

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08/30/2017

... debates on the American left. But not long after one of New America’s scholars posted a statement on the think ... communicated his displeasure with the statement to the group ’s president, Anne-Marie Slaughter...

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Can Business Save The World from Climate Change?

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09/06/2017

... "We are still in." On June 5, with these four words a group of U.S. businesses and investors with a combined annual revenue of $1.4 trillion sent a powerful message to the world: U...

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

... 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity The 2017 version of Leading with Intent from BoardSource is a treasure trove of information about nonprofit board...

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Can Pope Francis Get Colombia to Reconcile After Decades of War?

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09/08/2017

Can Pope Francis Get Colombia to Reconcile After Decades of War? Pope Francis urged Colombians Wednesday to reject "vengeance" for the sufferings of their civil conflict and promote forgiveness to...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

... vote on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure through ... proposal is opposed in its...

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Community Development

High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... Award, first given in 2012, announced its second round of prizes last year. The top winner, a group from India that developed a wristband for detecting ... tough to do that," says Rolf Huber, managing...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... accord would be bad for business, top executives from Bank of America and Coca-Cola argued. When President Donald Trump ... would these 27 business powerhouses also support a GOP group that’s fought to undo a...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... structure. The LLC is a much better vehicle for the kind of multi-faceted approach to big problems that Chan and ... the start, CZI has sought to pull several major levers of change: It makes grants to 501(c)3...

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Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

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09/20/2017

... The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum Of all the excuses given for why a statue of three suffragettes could not be moved into the Capitol ... women, as depicted, were rather...

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With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife

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09/21/2017

... Last night, at the nightclub and circus-arts space House of Yes in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law legislation ... hope to have." The Office of...

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Community Development

In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence Just like that, Pier 55, a $250 million ... dilapidated pier on the Hudson River, is no more. A lot of people are very upset about its demise, angry...

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Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

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09/22/2017

... Say Feds Don't Get It The Trump administration says many of the organizations that help people enroll in health plans ... enough bang for the buck, sometimes costing thousands of dollars to sign up each...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

... to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing ... office. But officials said his new action was the result of a deliberative, rigorous...

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After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’

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09/25/2017

... California. Early in Mother Nature’s most recent season of discontent, donations from everyday folks and Fortune 500 ... contributions continue? Bob Ottenhoff is president and CEO of the Center for Disaster...

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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

... gleaming new development in the Willets Point section of Queens—a mall, a hotel, and hundreds of new apartments near Citi Field—and soon began helping a group of auto-repair...

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