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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

That Trump is undeniably the nation’s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans like Anderson who are the nation’s increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll.

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Civic Engagement

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NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park

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04/21/2017

... has been awarded a 175,000 dollar grant from the New York State Health Foundation to provide funding for free health ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

The demonization of the American-Hungarian billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread from Hungary and Moscow across Europe and into the United States, with the 86-year-old increasingly accused by nationalists of using his money to force his...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

Bloomberg, NYS Fund a 9/11 Rescue, Recovery Workers Memorial

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05/31/2017

... 11, 2001. While a design has not been completed, New York state and Bloomberg Philanthropies will underwrite the ...

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Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

Is the renewed focus on the manufacturing sector sound economic policy, or as pundits from across the political spectrum have complained, is it just a nostalgic bid for middle-class jobs that are gone for good?

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Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

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07/28/2017

Three years ago, just four cities affiliated with 100 Resilient Cities employed a "chief resilience officer." As of late July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’s namesake cohort.

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... the water during her swim lesson at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx one recent Tuesday morning, Kiara ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened

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08/28/2017

Key players in the Trump administration have advised Mr. Trump to wind down the DACA program, and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has informed him he considers it unconstitutional and cannot defend it in court.

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

The British media company, The Guardian, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy.

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New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump's DACA Decision

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08/31/2017

Thousands are marching in New York City Wednesday to defend DACA following reports that President Donald Trump may soon announce the end to protections for 800,000 young immigrants in the United States.

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The Next Houston

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08/31/2017

Disaster planners have long feared that a direct hurricane hit on Miami or New York could be even more catastrophic than Harvey.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... Business Model Innovation It’s not provocative to state the importance of innovation in creating business value ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Trump's DACA Decision Could Strip Thousands In New York Of Medicaid Coverage

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09/06/2017

The Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could strip thousands of New Yorkers of their health insurance, a consequence unique to New York that could focus the debate in Albany when the...

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Health

Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced that his office is changing its plea guidelines for marijuana arrests to lighten penalties for first- and second-time offenders, effective Tuesday.

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Justice Reform

Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

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09/06/2017

... be taken down. Majorities of voters in every region of the state support maintaining such statues, with 70 percent of ...

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Community Development

The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

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09/07/2017

When news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States...

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