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Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge

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07/22/2014

The "community quarterback" model can be an effective approach to revitalizing troubled neighborhoods, write Nancy O. Andrews, president and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation, in a post on the SSIR...

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Private-Public Partnership Commits $350 Million For Affordable NYC Housing

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07/30/2014

... Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are joining with the city and other banks to provide longtime affordable-housing ...

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Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as the Head of the Office of International Affairs

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09/16/2014

... be in charge of dealing with the diplomatic community for City Hall. During her time at CGI, she led the growth of ... lens in their work. She is a member of the World Bank’ s Advisory Council on Gender and...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Donates $1.6 Million to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia

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10/21/2014

... Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia SOS Children' s Villages, the world' s largest organization dedicated to orphaned and abandoned ... services to increase grade-level completion rates in the...

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Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces $1 Million in Grants to Local Food Banks Across the United States

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05/28/2015

The grants will be distributed in 24 cities across 17 states.

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Six International Parks Selected as Finalists in 2015 Urban Land Institute Urban Open Space Award Competition

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06/08/2015

... economy of their surrounding communities. This year’ s finalists are Marina Bay in Singapore; Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois; Myriad Gardens in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma; Thousand Lantern Lake Park System...

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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

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07/10/2015

The foundation looks to address the silence surrounding at-risk girls.

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... are also, increasingly, the focus of some of the nation’ s largest philanthropies. The Ford Foundation, with its ...

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Con Edison Among Backers of 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge in Brooklyn

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12/16/2015

... Lefferts Gardens), and Latrice Walker (Brownsville), and City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo (Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, ...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

The Rockefeller Foundation plans to announce at Davos that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food waste around the world. The wide-ranging plan will stretch from thrown-out crops to excess food at the dinner table.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More

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01/25/2016

... million in the next fiscal year to help beef up budgets at city schools that are currently well below what they should ...

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers The labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home-care workers. ... and referrals through two staffers. The division' s coordinator would conduct research on...

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

F.B. Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the ... fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the U. S . economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term .....

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

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09/29/2016

Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South' s Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long ... Jr. and others who opposed segregation. Now the Alabama city that was the first capital of the...

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"

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12/12/2016

... cities and states (where its banks have a presence). It’ s an extensive list that currently covers 34 states plus ...

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JPMorgan Chase’s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million

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05/11/2017

JPMorgan Chase’ s Investment in Detroit to Reach $150 Million JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced that it will expand the firm' s commitment to Detroit’ s economic recovery, expecting...

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Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

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06/01/2017

... in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty" America’ s suburbs are enduring a crisis of poverty. Nearly 17 million ... funding—that it desperately needs. That’ s the provocative argument of Brookings...

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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city ’ s best teams. As his team’ s No. 1 man, Juan had to tee off in the first group, in front ...

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