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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

... Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees Elmo and Big Bird have lots of experience teaching children everything from the ... education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Open Society Foundations

Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... the Sing Sing Prison Museum, which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called ... 1825. Visitors will be invited to experience what it must have been like to be imprisoned there...

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Justice Reform

More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer

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08/30/2017

... in South Asia Floods This Summer More than 1,000 people have died in floods across South Asia this summer, and as ... at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal have been directly affected by...

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After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will Try Again to Legalize ‘Dreamers’

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09/06/2017

... for legalizing young immigrants brought here illegally by their parents have tried to pass legislation to shield them from ... starts would already be daunting, but President Trump may have...

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Immigration

Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

... anxious insurers, tamp down rate increases and insulate their markets from the ceaseless chaos in Washington. The ... describe. Every enrollee in the nation is poised to have at least one coverage option this...

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Health

A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... many opioid medications and other controlled substances have been dispensed to patients. A new analysis shows that ... reduce the overuse of narcotics — but that many states have adopted relatively weak...

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Health

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 ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

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09/13/2017

... from two monster hurricanes that scientists say may have been made more ferocious by warming trends. It also ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Report: Toward a More Secure Retirement for Domestic Workers

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09/14/2017

... even more so for workers in the gig economy, who often have far fewer benefits through their work. Yet domestic workers face particularly tough ... them even less likely than others in the gig economy to...

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Economic Security

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The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... 29. The report examined whether alternate strategies could have lessened the bloodshed, now in its sixth year. Museum ... they also concluded that no single American action would have guaranteed a significant...

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Arts

De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

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09/21/2017

... throughout the city by 2020. The plan, which aims to have one new charging hub in each borough by 2018, is part of a larger effort to have one-fifth of all city vehicles be electric by 2035. Each ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC

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09/26/2017

More Than 1 Million People Uprooted From Their Homes By Lingering Violence In Kasai, DRC Lying on a ... conflict-hit Kasai region. More than 1 million people have been uprooted from their homes...

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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

... Brooklyn Defender Services. “All of the landlords have attorneys,” he said, flipping through a list of the ... percent of landlords in New York City eviction cases have lawyers. Just 27 percent of tenants do...

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Housing and Homelessness

Albany Charities Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth

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10/03/2017

... Find It Hard to Tap Influx of Wealth Upper-income earners have been growing as a share of this region’s population, ... of the St. Paul’s Center for homeless mothers and their children, says you can see this...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a foothold in the bond market. There are $92 trillion in bond markets around the world. Corporations have ready access to those dollars. For...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

President of Casey Family Programs on Family Access to Prevention Services to Address Opioid Crisis

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02/09/2018

... parents, shares how important is to make sure families have access to prevention services and are not isolated. He ... available in the city. Unfortunately, too many families have moved away from their...

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Health

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

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11/08/2018

... website. The Award “highlights those who not only have accomplished a great deal in the field of philanthropy, but have done so while exemplifying the intellect, integrity, and ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Supported By the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Barcelona FC Offers Free Football Training to Child Refugees in Lesvos

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04/02/2019

... involving adult refugees as coaches. Hundreds of children have become members of the Barca Soccer FutbolNet programme ... and held three times a week. Coaches are refugees who have been granted asylum.....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Latinx Artist Fellowship

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07/22/2021

... or Caribbean descent who live and work in the US— have made significant and vital contributions to American culture. Yet these artists have lacked visibility and received little of the ... philanthropic or...

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