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Citi Foundation and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to Increase Summer Job Opportunities in 2017

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03/07/2017

The Citi Foundation has invested over $13 million to provide nearly 6,200 summer jobs to young people since 2014.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan

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03/20/2017

... the GOP Health Plan Foundations that were instrumental in building the case for the Affordable Care Act seven years ago ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Health

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Open Society Foundations Announces 2017 Soros Equality Fellows

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03/21/2017

The Open Society Foundations is pleased to announce the recipients of the Soros Equality Fellowship, a new initiative to help emerging mid-career professionals become long-term innovative leaders in the field of racial justice.

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Social Justice

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Surdna, JPB Foundations Provide Grants to Help Low-Income Communities Access Solar+Storage Solutions

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03/29/2017

Seven community-based nonprofits and affordable housing developers have been selected to receive grants from Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Leadership Initiative , as part of the Resilient Power Project, to build their organizational capacity...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

United Hospital Fund announced today that it is launching Stage II of its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven hospitals and health systems...

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Health

Rockefeller Foundation Backs Nonprofit ETF Startup

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08/01/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation is helping to finance a startup hoping to build exchange-traded funds for nonprofit organizations and direct the profits back to their causes.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... to use the powerhouse, built in 1936, as the main museum building and connect it to a cellblock built in 1825. ...

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Justice Reform

Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation has been implementing The Whitman Institute’s Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and receiving great reviews.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building , teacher training, diversifying the ranks of science ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Science

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How To Balance Policies And Guidelines To Prompt Different Levels Of Employee Engagement

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08/30/2017

Most see policies and guidelines as bureaucratic inhibitors and constraints. However, used the right way, those same policies and guidelines free people to do their jobs by directing focus. They key is applying the right degrees of freedom to prompt...

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

Mayor de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment Wednesday.

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Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: How A Pied-À-Terre Tax Could Help Solve New York City's Housing Crisis

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08/31/2017

Rent burdens, overcrowding, homelessness and essentially every other indicator of housing stress are at the highest level in modern history and continue to climb. To change these trends, we primarily need to build more homes not just in New York...

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Housing and Homelessness

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

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09/08/2017

... city is set to spend $288 million in the neighborhood — building a new park, a library branch, and running a shuttle ...

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

William came to the United States as a child more than a decade ago, and still remembers his first impressions of New York City: towering buildings, modern cars, a jumble of cultures on the crowded sidewalks.

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Immigration

How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

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09/11/2017

A new study connects climate change impacts to the emissions from Exxon, Chevron and other large oil, gas and cement companies and their products.

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Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money

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09/14/2017

... will be able to use the money to pay for anything from building space to teachers to technology. The effort reflects ...

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

After years of toe-to-toe battling with a small band of critics and a fellow billionaire, Barry Diller said Wednesday that he was pulling the plug on his family’s commitment to build and operate a $250 million performance center on an undulating...

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

... Authority signed a lease for the 41,814-square-foot brick building , which currently houses a parking garage and Hertz ...

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Former Success Academy Lawyer Hoping to Start Own Charter Network Wants to ‘Take It To The Next Level’

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09/20/2017

As the former top lawyer for Success Academy, Emily Kim had a hand in almost every aspect of New York City’s largest and most controversial charter-school network — from negotiating lunch times for schools in shared buildings to defending Success in...

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