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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... ago, the Hudson River Park Trust floated an idea for a new island . Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre ...

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Community Development

Assemblyman Peter Lopez Picked as New EPA Regional Administrator

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09/29/2017

State Assemblyman Peter Lopez will take over this weekend as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top official in a region that reaches from the Adirondacks to the storm-wracked Caribbean.

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Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/02/2017

Three long-standing presidential commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them worried they’re about to be dissolved.

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Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation

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10/04/2017

... to build a $250 million performance center on a man-made island in the Hudson River. . . Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 ...

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... to have an even greater impact in strengthening Rhode Island communities and vital institutions across our ...

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Study Shows Museum Field Trips Impact Learning

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09/28/2018

... Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Orlando Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum; and, close to Central Penn., ...

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Tow Foundation and Chronicle of Social Change Announce 2019 Raise the Age Reporting Fellowships Recipients

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02/26/2019

... to move all detained 16- and 17-year-olds off the Riker's Island jail complex this past October. The law requires every .....

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Justice Reform

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UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

... in New York. Twenty-two schools from New York City, Long Island , and Westchester participated in the DSCF, raising $53 ...

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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

... care and community-based service providers; a skilled paid workforce ; and a well-supported, family-based “care ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... are giving money for STEM diversity, with an eye on future workforce needs. Now comes news that Morehouse College in ...

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Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice

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09/08/2017

... And although women comprise 75% of the nonprofit workforce , they make up only 21% of leadership positions. ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know

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09/10/2014

... questions, and ones that Ford and our grantees are working to understand and address. But there’s another set ... broadly but unevenly. Student debt is not just about young people. A new nationally...

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