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Manhattan DA Lightens Marijuana Penalties in New Policy

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09/06/2017

... arrests to lighten penalties for first- and second- time offenders, effective Tuesday. The new approach is ...

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Justice Reform

The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy

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09/12/2017

... playbook that takes weeks to write. You don’t have time for that, and you have to work with a lot of moving pieces that are going to change as ...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...

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Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report. At the same time , employers continue to search for ways to engage ...

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

... where senior editor David Johnson asked him about his work leading the more than 100-year-old foundation with more ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Habitat for Humanity Worcester County Build

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10/26/2018

... foundations in the United States. This is the first time Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County has been ... in need of decent, affordable housing. Habitat families work in partnership with Habitat Worcester...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Brooklyn Community Foundation to Award $600,000 to Outstanding Local Organizations

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03/31/2017

... communities as well as strong organizational values, and a dynamic vision for the future of their work in Brooklyn and beyond. The Prize also supports Brooklyn ... we get to bring even greater attention to the...

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12 Sep 2018

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and Presentation of the Analysis and Recommendations from the Workforce Agenda Report

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9:00am to 11:00am

... ten recommendations including adopting a Career Pathways framework , committing $100 million for training and $60 million in bridge programs . This quarterly meeting will present the analysis ... Invincibles to...

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UJA-Federation Report Explores Ways to Cut NYC Poverty Rate

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03/11/2015

The study was completed in partnership with Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers Find Alzheimer's One Day May Be Predicted During Eye Exam

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08/23/2018

... eye doctors' offices, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have detected evidence .....

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Stephanie Bencivenga Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/01/2013

Stephanie Bencivenga is the Program Assistant for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Sustainable Development program. Prior to joining the RBF, Bencivenga worked in sustainability communications, where she helped develop environmental messaging...

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Bloomberg Spins Off Group That Spurs Volunteerism in Cities

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01/30/2014

... Bloomberg is spinning off one of his foundation’s programs into a stand-alone nonprofit that will expand its ... efforts to help mayors across the nation put volunteers to work on specific challenges, such as...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. ...

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Mastercard Foundation Announces New University Partnerships in Africa

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12/08/2014

... next year. The Foundation is committing $86.6 million to work in collaboration with four new African university ...

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Education

What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... the troubled Rikers Island prison didn’t work , despite being hailed as a success by some. The ... investors to lend money to governments for the funding of programs that, if successfully delivered, will...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

... the needs of people with disabilities in revamping its programs to focus on inequality, the Ford Foundation pledge ... attempt to include a discussion of disabilities across its work ... Ford Joins Growing List...

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Social Justice

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Shares New Report on Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Outcomes For Youth

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12/16/2016

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Lessons From the Field is a compilation of initial research into the foundation’s Propel Next initiative along with the observations of staff and consultants who worked with the grantees.

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