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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... competing against the top player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s best teams. As his ... Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx, toward the end of the school year last May. Everyone fell...

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Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges

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09/20/2017

... past weekend to remove a young boy who reportedly told school officials on Staten Island that his mother beat him ... agency was called into the controversial dispute involving school officials and parents who...

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The Prudential Foundation Honors Teen for Efforts to End Gun Violence

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05/01/2018

... along with a personal award of $5,000, a trophy for his school and a $5,000 grant from The Prudential Foundation for ... he said by phone Monday evening. The Warren Central High School senior organized We LIVE...

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Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc.

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A Sense of Urgency: Promoting Child and Family Well-being for Homeless Families

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05/30/2018

... jobs and schools; creates stigma; creates barriers to school stability and educational success; impedes access to ... and career preparedness. In fact, 53% of NYC public school students living in shelter...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

... on June 5, 2018, that Heather Gerken, Dean of Yale Law School , has been elected to its Board of Trustees. “Heather ... law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school of federalism,” her work...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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New Grant from Mellon Foundation Launches Boston Classical Music Initiative

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09/27/2018

... fund the musical education of middle- and high- school -age classical musicians from historically ... Bogers , the dean and director of the NEC Preparatory School , serves on the BEAM initiative’s steering ...

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Education

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation is a Proud Supporter of the Special Olympics

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10/29/2018

... by SNF aims to increase the impact of Special Olympics’ school -based inclusive sports and education programming in ...

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Disabilities

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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S.

Release Date:

09/03/2020

... College, Howard University College of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Charles R. Drew University of ... from completing their degrees or by forcing Black medical school graduates to pick...

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Workforce Development

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31 Oct 2019

Not One More: The Fight to Stop Southeast Asian Deportation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, October 31, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Between 1975 to 1990, 1.4 million Southeast Asian refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos were resettled in the United States.

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Governor Cuomo Announces Members of Commission on Youth, Public Safety & Justice

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04/09/2014

... systems by the end of this calendar year. In his 2014 State of the State address, the Governor proposed establishing the ...

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Justice Reform

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Prescription For Making Healthcare Enrollment More Customer-Friendly

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08/01/2014

... Before open enrollment for Obamacare begins this fall, NY State should take steps to make the process for signing up ... writes James R. Knickman President & CEO, New York State Health Foundation, in the...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commonwealth Fund Ranks US Health Care Last Among World's Wealthiest Nations

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10/16/2014

United States falls short on access to health care and cost of coverage.

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Philanthropic Groups Sign on to Raise the Age Campaign

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03/06/2015

... Andrew Cuomo urging them to adopt proposed changes to the state ’s juvenile justice system. At the heart of the ... responsibility to be in line with nearly every other state in the country. Those signing on to...

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Justice Reform

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... and following his three terms as Governor of New York State . He successfully increased the minimum wage twice while ... workers and eliminate sweatshops once and for all in the state . And he established the...

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United Way of New York City

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... even besting the powerful National Rifle Association in state -by- state battles. The newfound momentum reflects a strategy ... Delaware and elsewhere. And they are now looking to state and...

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Public Policy

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NYS Health Launches Challenge Calling for NY Residents to Submit Ideas to Create Healthier Communities

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06/10/2016

... in neighborhoods across New York City and New York State to open their minds and come up with ideas that will ... to their backyards. In partnership with the New York State Health Foundation, the nonprofit In...

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New York Health Foundation

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

Release Date:

08/22/2016

... the conflict can be contained, the meltdown of the Syrian state has sent wave after wave of chaos into the wider world ... like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel and the threat of state meltdown and regional...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital of Montgomery devoted to 4,075 blacks its ... Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state -sanctioned segregation -...

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Arts

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Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

Release Date:

06/05/2017

The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the U.S. House of Representatives’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—would allow states to apply for waivers to reduce existing consumer protections and provide funding for states to set up...

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