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Nursing Home Evacuations Should Not Be “All or Nothing,” Says GSA Member in Senate Testimony

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09/21/2017

Speaking before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging today, University of South Florida professor Kathryn Hyer, PhD, MPP, FGSA, urged lawmakers to support actions that enable nursing homes and assisted living communities to better serve their...

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Aging

With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife

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09/21/2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law legislation that establishes an Office of Nightlife and a Nightlife Advisory Board. Joined on stage by punk icon Marky Ramone and the prolific jazz artist Ron Carter, and surrounded by a packed crowd of club...

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Community Development

7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... These speak to deeper shifts within the global development community , and point to the direction progress — or failure ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

Some recent op-eds and statements have claimed that the only opponents of Intro 1447-C are developers or “real estate industry forces.” I am against Intro 1447-C because I know that it could take away job opportunities from black and brown...

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Workforce Development

Bloomberg-supported Cities Work on Assembling the Open Government Puzzle

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09/27/2017

... weather data in the 1970s, government and its surrounding community of technologists have increasingly demonstrated ...

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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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Environment and Climate Change

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

The recent announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies offered to individuals through the Affordable Care Act will not affect New York, the head of the state’s online...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

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09/29/2017

Since President Donald Trump’s administration ordered an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sept. 5, nonprofit providers across New York City have responded to those directly affected by offering legal services and other...

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Immigration

Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

... figuratively and literally. The 63-year-old chaplain and community organizer was chronically homeless for several ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... Cuts Their Funding A coalition of nonprofit leaders and community activists have launched a recall campaign against ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...

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Education

P2CP Program Is Expanding with Support from The David Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, JM Kaplan Fund, Teagle Foundation and Pinkerton Foundation

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10/20/2017

... Jay College and by the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) as an opportunity for various ...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Justice Reform

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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

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10/27/2017

... Foundation envision U.S. public libraries as open community spaces fostering inclusivity and collaboration, ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

The “Resilient Puerto Rico Advisory Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017—will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and federal...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so that community residents are in the room and able to comment when ...

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NYS Health Foundation and The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, Release New Reports on Strengthening Nutrition Education for New Yorkers

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01/17/2018

The reports provide a roadmap to improve the systems that help New Yorkers eat well throughout their lives.

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New York Health Foundation

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Philanthropy New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Its Two-Year Public Policy Fellowship

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01/25/2018

... diversity, equity and inclusion in the philanthropic community . Diversity comes in countless dimensions: race, ...

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RFPs Etc

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Public Policy

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William T. Grant Foundation Supported Study Finds Trump Immigration Policies Take Mental Toll on Latino Parents

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03/22/2018

A study by two professors found that Latino-American families’ mental health is suffering because of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies.

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Immigration

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Susan G. Komen Greater NYC Announces Letter Of Intent For New Funding Opportunity

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04/09/2018

... Patient Navigation Initiative Executive Summary, and Community Profile. Susan G. Komen Greater NYC Announces ...

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