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Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

Mayor' s Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says With the city’ s homelessness crisis unabated, housing advocates are asking ... housing plan fail to target the city’ s...

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Housing and Homelessness

A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... found in a start-up slump — a decline in the creation of new businesses — and a growing understanding of what’ s behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in ...

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Workforce Development

Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

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09/25/2017

... called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’ s advances was started by a question….Knowing what ... important than the eventual answers.” When it comes to new products and services, this design-based approach...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ... form of chronic student absenteeism. Many of the state' s plans still need to...

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Education

General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... all-electric, zero-emissions future. That starts with two new , fully electric models next year—then at least 18 more ... and Jaguar Land Rover have announced similar moves. GM’ s declaration, though, is...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth

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10/03/2017

... earners have been growing as a share of this region’ s population, according to the Pew Research Center. Tracy Pitcher, executive director of the St. Paul’ s Center for homeless mothers and their children,...

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NYers Face Harsher ATM Fees Than Nearly Anyone in Nation, Study Finds

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10/04/2017

... own money from an ATM not affiliated with your bank, it' s not just your imagination. ATM fees across the nation hit ... charge from the ATM owner and the one from the consumer' s bank for using...

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Economic Security

FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand Treatment

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10/04/2017

FDA' s Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely ... ago, but she doesn't qualify yet for the Medicaid program' s criteria for treatment with a new class of highly...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In ...

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Gender Justice

Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U. S . Donors A new study sponsored by the nation’ s second largest grantmaker, Fidelity Charitable, highlights ...

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De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... city does provide 30 days of notice for the opening of a new shelter, but has not done so when it uses hotels — ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign

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11/17/2017

... Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign Aetna Foundation’ s Cultivating Healthy Communities program has awarded SPOT 127, KJZZ’ s Youth Media Center, a $65,000 grant to implement a ... bullying and cyberbullying...

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Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors

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12/01/2017

... The Rippel Foundation, which seeks to uncover and advance new and fundamentally different and better ways to improve ...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream

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01/05/2018

... only to advocate for the protection of America’ s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term solution to the ... solutions to more people, in more countries, requires new ways of thinking. That’ s...

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Immigration

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’ s Rajiv Shah Rajiv Shah took the helm of the Rockefeller ... the role of philanthropy in times of austerity, and the new initiatives that Rockefeller is undertaking both...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Grantee Releases Medicare Advocacy Toolkit

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01/16/2018

... a John A. Hartford Foundation grantee, has released a new toolkit, "Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Coverage And .....

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Aging

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Pfizer: Joins AMP Health Partnership to Increase Access to Care in Africa

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02/02/2018

... of tens of thousands of CHWs and expand its work to new countries, including Zambia and Ghana.... Pfizer: ...

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Leon Levy Foundation Supports Bird Migration Forecasts

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04/27/2018

... Supports Bird Migration Forecasts For the first time, new maps are using radar to forecast nighttime clouds of ... produce maps that visualize migration on the Cornell Lab’ s BirdCast website. “Knowing when...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Animal Welfare

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports Research to Diagnose Hypoglycemia

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05/25/2018

... University led by scientist Gina Yosten, Ph.D. Yosten’ s team is pursuing solutions for people with diabetes who are ... drops in blood sugar known as hypoglycemia. Yosten’ s lab studies g protein-coupled...

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