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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has recently ...

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After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... Fariña, said Monday that, in response to last week’ s fatal stabbing at a school in the Bronx, the Education ... training for teachers on how to defuse behavior crises and make sure that bullying was reported...

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... world. We've partnered with Common Cents Lab because they are a leader in this field. For the past two years, we've ... products and services to low-income individuals that are making it easier for...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

... of Latinx-reported robberies and aggravated assaults are each down 12 percent. And Houston is not alone with this ... providers in 46 states (and D.C.) finds that immigrants are afraid to call police, to press...

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New Initiative Aims to Have Every New York City Public School Student See a Broadway Show

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10/10/2017

... Chocolate Factory, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon, The Band’ s Visit, The Lion King, and The Phantom of the Opera. More ...

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NYC Will Miss a Deadline to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools

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10/13/2017

... to Accommodate 5 New Charter Schools New York City’ s Department of Education said on Thursday that it would not ... between the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eva S . Moskowitz, the founder of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation' s Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To ... storm and residents to come up with plans for projects to make their coastlines more resilient. Here' ...

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The Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Reaches 95 Participants With New Additions

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11/01/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities (WWC), a $42 million program to foster data analytics in cities, has added Athens, Georgia; Chula Vista, California; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Gainesville, Florida; and Palmdale, California to its...

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Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... Computer scientists from the University of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’ s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding ... Quebec City at the Association for Computing...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

OSF Denounces Hungarian Government' s Attacks Against Soros Hungarian-American financier and ... The Open Society Foundations, in a note posted on Soros' s personal website, responded to a "national...

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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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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

... of Staten Island residents have at least a bachelor' s degree -- that' s roughly half the rate of Manhattan, where 59.9 percent of ... by The Clark Foundation, urges Mayor Bill de Blasio to ...

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As Youth Giving Since 2001 Totals $19M, Brooklyn Community Foundation CEO Reiterates the Importance of a Youth-Led Strategy

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12/11/2017

... the challenges they face every day growing up in Brooklyn' s neighborhoods as they actively engage in problem-solving around those issues. Young people are honest brokers, with contagious energy and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... which both increases and accelerates the firm’ s current growth, is made possible by the firm’ s strong and sustained business performance, recent changes ... increase wages and benefits for hourly U. ...

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How Salesforce is Innovating Corporate Philanthropy and Workplace Giving

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03/09/2018

... nonprofit arm Salesforce.org, is leading Silicon Valley’ s charge toward more integrated models of corporate ... widely used customer relationship management products to make employee giving more personalized...

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Eight Programs Receive Grants for Equitable Bike Share and Related Research Funded by the JPB Foundation

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03/12/2018

... bike share operators, and community-based partners are eager for best practices and support to make bicycling and bike share more accessible and available ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... to customers who have not passed a background check or who are younger than 21. It also bars the sale of bump stocks and ...

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New York Foundation Releases New Video in the Ongoing Series "In Their Own Words"

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03/29/2018

... eye for politics, and the ability to spot strong leaders are necessary, but these alone are not sufficient. Follow the video series, “In Their Own ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds 20 Years of Sky Observations

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05/11/2018

... the celestial equator and light went through to the survey' s exquisitely sensitive camera. The telescope' s mirror, 2.5 ... of the sky simultaneously. Astronomers have used it to make...

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