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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

... for five more years. The announcement, coming after months of pressure from children’s advocacy organizations, marked ... in less than two weeks, families nationwide may be at risk of losing health coverage...

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Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan

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09/21/2017

... jobs in the next ten years, discussing the challenges of growing the city’s economy while ensuring that New ... city that is increasingly unaffordable for many. The panel of experts explored those issues, and...

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Workforce Development

Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills or considering ... But a new program is encouraging them to do so outside of school. This spring, more than 10,000...

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Education

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

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09/25/2017

... and tries to stay off social media to avoid “the tsunami of confusion.” All of them are recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women and gender ... identity have been central to the policies coming out of the Trump White House. Whether it...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Gender Justice

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

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09/27/2017

... focused on impact, and too risk averse. Instead of an introspective process, by which we would decide on an ... period, because we believe that there are some categories of problems that can be solved if they...

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s battle with the Brooklyn Museum ... others over the show “Art and China After 1989: Theater...

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Arts

Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... their careers or support their children without the help of others. Meanwhile, a mother becomes tearful as she laments ... school. In another family, a teenage son has now been out of school too long to be...

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

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10/02/2017

... July. His boss and co-workers joined him for an evening of laughter and selfies, lingering over dinner at his ... it you feel good.” Ghana, a coastal African country of more than 28 million still etched with...

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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

... came to James’s hometown this summer for a live taping of his podcast for grown-ups, “How I Built This,” ... to meet outside the venue. James had Mr. Raz sign the back of his NPR T-shirt. As podcast makers...

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Children, Youth and Families

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... impeding that behavior, and then amplifying the benefits of that behavior. "MetLife Foundation believes that ... them to achieve their financial goals," said Evelyn Stark of MetLife Foundation. …...

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Economic Security

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

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10/10/2017

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots Sen. Charles E. Schumer on Monday ... Environmental Protection Agency to resume cleanup efforts of radioactive locations in...

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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

... Robot Will Not Steal Your Job The recovery from the crisis of 2008 has been one of the weakest on record, but never in postwar history has so ... and approaching a 40-year low. This flies in the face ...

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Workforce Development

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a political saga set in Russia that ... the theater, the play opened on schedule at a University of Houston venue. The team...

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

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10/10/2017

... a special 5-year funding authorization to expand the reach of the community health centers program. This special funding authority expired in 2015. As part of the funding extension for the Children’s Health...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

... Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller ... their coastlines more resilient. Here's a look at some of the project proposals: The $1...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase Puts Funding Towards New York Workforce Development

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10/31/2017

... City. JPMorgan Chase Global Philanthropy, the charity arm of the multinational banking and financial services holding ... The organization is giving another $330,000 to a trio of city nonprofits that will work...

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank Philanthropy

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Workforce Development

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Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

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11/17/2017

... populations. To accelerate the development and scale of forward thinking nursing-driven models of care, the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation (RAHF) has added two new grant programs to its portfolio ...

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... response to the Alabama Special Election: “We are proud of the people of Alabama for refusing to be represented by Roy Moore, and congratulate Doug Jones on the results of the special...

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