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The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

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09/05/2017

"Fractured Lands," a prodigious New York Times Magazine piece last year on the chaos in the Middle East, was an inadvertent window onto a fractured business model. It was thus relevant that Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph...

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Opinion: Congestion Pricing Won't Solve New York's Transportation Woes

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09/06/2017

Opinion: Congestion Pricing Won't Solve New York' s Transportation Woes Governor Andrew Cuomo’ s recent vague interest in congestion pricing as a solution ... give new life to one of former Mayor Michael...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent On Wednesday, the U. S . Education Department confirmed that the education ... would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title...

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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

... Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The Platform LLC to make a $27.5 million investment in bringing housing to ... to areas outside of the significant development that...

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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline

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09/15/2017

... hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. “It would make a lot of sense from various vantage points to extend ...

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New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

New From NY Foundation' s 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together Engage to ... were changing how they saw the people they serve, who are commonly seen as recipients or beneficiaries of the...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... can operate with little transparency. But the young couple are not alone among top donors in choosing this ... and Pierre and Pam Omidyar also have LLCs —and there are good reasons to look beyond the...

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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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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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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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