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Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director Robert Garris Heads to Schwarzman Scholars

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08/27/2014

... in 2009, Garris spent eight years at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), most ... Admissions and Student Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies...

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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

... be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than to go to a highly selective ... automatic admission of top-ranking students from all high schools across the state with the...

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A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect

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02/07/2018

... A new study led by vision researchers at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the VA Western ... vision loss. In severe cases, it can be fatal. “ Using our combination therapy approach,...

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Philanthropy New York urges state and local government to ensure full, on-time payment and contracting with the nonprofit sector to ensure the health and safety of New York’s most vulnerable residents

... on-time payment and contracting with the nonprofit sector, without significant cuts to an already lean budget, to ensure ... related to health, food assistance, daycare and after school programming. In...

13 Sep 2016

Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Center for Law and Justice The Honorable Michael McMahon , District Attorney, Richmond County, Staten Island gabriel ...

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The Visionary Freedom Fund, Launched by the Andrus Family Fund, Announces Inaugural Cohort of Grant Recipients in Grantmaking Led by Youth Organizers to Transform Youth Justice System

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09/28/2021

... to set the grantmaking strategy and determine how VFF’s resources are deployed. Power Table members know firsthand ... calls for funding and support will reach the right ears without a chance to have a voice...

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Six Subway Stops, Worlds Apart

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05/15/2015

... to have good health outcomes. Residents of neighborhoods without these essentials are more likely to be burdened with ... those who are planning parks and sidewalks, running local schools and hospitals,...

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New York Health Foundation

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With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers

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09/06/2017

... already in the program. But Mayor Bill de Blasio and schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña reassured parents and students that schools are open to all regardless of immigration status — a particularly timely...

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Black And Hispanic Students In New York City Most Likely To Be Arrested And Handcuffed, Data Shows

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09/27/2017

... Data Shows More than 92 percent of students arrested in schools last year were black or Hispanic, according to a new ... that has persisted even as the city has reduced in- school arrests and summonses. While...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Transformation of the U.S. Food System to Address the Hunger and Nutrition Crisis

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07/28/2020

... for by The Rockefeller Foundation are: ensuring that school meal programs have the ability to feed all children whether their schools are open or closed, and including regional and local food...

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Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

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05/05/2020

... Rauch Foundation. In 2016 the Rauch Foundation, a regional foundation on Long Island, NY, led a campaign to ... role. The self-funded project would require major resources including new staff; we would need to...

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Urban Land Institute to Partner with 100 Resilient Cities, Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation to Help Improve Resilience of Urban Areas Globally

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06/15/2017

... Assistance panels (TAPs) led by ULI’s locally based District Council networks. ULI has 51 District Councils across the United States. Through the 100 ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Meet EMpower's New President and CEO, Cynthia Steele

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06/26/2019

... focus on global women’s health, a logical path as, since school days, she loved foreign languages and chances to ... Executive Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and holds a Masters...

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Pinkerton Honors a ‘New York Treasure,' Sister Paulette LoMonaco

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12/17/2019

... capital grant for Good Shepherd’s South Brooklyn High School –an innovative transfer high school in Red Hook for young people who are over-aged and ... Good Shepherd includes grants for its wide array of after...

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Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023

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02/16/2023

... health (Zimmerman 2020). There is an urgent need for resources and funding. Nowhere is that truer than in rural ... kids stay connected to the parts of their lives, such as school , that ground them as they...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Long Island Community Foundation Issues RFP for the Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund

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12/04/2019

... proposals to restore and protect the health and living resources of the Long Island Sound. We are interested in ... on restoration and protection of the health and living resources of Long Island Sound...

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