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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... who hold them, yet they can strongly influence someone’ s behavior. A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... 49. (You can see the final station maps on the city’ s website.) Citi Bike will also add...

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Community Development

BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format for charity, EmojiMeals features ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

From the Ground Up

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09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What' s needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and ... mandates and economic planning models often reduce India’ s poor to a...

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A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory

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09/11/2017

... Helpings of Culinary Theory During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But ... Mr. Stedman added that about 6,000 attended this year’ s Taste Talks—around three times...

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Food Systems

A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Facebook and want to help? You don’t even have to open a new tab. Many of you may have seen the prompts from Google ... Philanthropy. The center hopes to satisfy the public’ s need to help in the immediate...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... built vast cities. We appropriate about half the planet’ s accessible fresh water and nearly half the desert-free land ... to hundreds of “dead zones” along coasts. (This year’ s Gulf of Mexico dead zone is...

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Health

High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... ask for grant applications. Instead, it used a hot new format for foundations: a prize competition. The ... there in places like Africa and Latin America, and it’ s really tough to do that," says Rolf...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

Report Finds U. S . Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace According to a new study coauthored by two Washington, D.C. nonprofit think ... CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’ s...

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Economic Security

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

... Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... of computers, indulging in a world of knowledge that many New Yorkers take for granted. It was a...

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Housing and Homelessness

7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... digital payments, just as a minister of health announces new HIV drug procurement plans that could help turn the tide ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm.

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09/26/2017

... an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the city’ s premier showcase for African-American art. And at the ... big sister and art world celebrity — was the museum’ s director and formidable steward,...

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Kathy Halbreich of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation

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09/28/2017

... of MoMA to Lead Rauschenberg Foundation Kathy Halbreich’ s name has often surfaced over the years as a possible ... the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Manhattan as its new executive director, the...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

Here’ s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food ... Safety For a guy who likes eating fast food because it’ s “very clean,” President Trump sure is blasé about ... sense (the Food Safety and...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... activists have launched a recall campaign against the new mayor of Fitchburg, Wisconsin, a suburb of some 25,000 ... that a group opposing Mayor Jason Gonzalez’ s decision to eliminate funding for nonprofits...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something ... larger, generalist organization can use Something to Say’ s principles to establish...

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In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... Hurricane Harvey caused devastating flooding at Houston’ s Alley Theatre, actors and production staff were ... They continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of...

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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University of Notre Dame. "Higher Highs ... Hubbard, assistant professor of management in Notre Dame' s Mendoza College of...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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ArtNet News Details Joan Mitchell Foundation 2017 Grant Recipients

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11/15/2017

... made eligible to apply for the Joan Mitchell residency in New Orleans. This year’ s 25 recipients are a diverse bunch, representing a wide ... as non-white—a substantial increase from last year’ s...

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