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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements

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10/14/2016

... Latino students. The finding not only sheds light on how students support social action – but what higher ...

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Education

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Landlords Are Sitting on Empty Apartments in Affordable Buildings, says Official

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10/21/2016

... Picture the Homeless, held a rally Tuesday to highlight how the abundance of empty lots and vacant apartments are ...

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Housing and Homelessness

New York Foundation Releases New Report Showcasing Strategies and Case Examples by Grantees

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10/31/2016

... supports. At the same time, many of these groups recognize how larger policies and procedures can make their job harder ...

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Mayor De Blasio Says City Has to Grow Taller and Denser Despite Anti-Development Attitudes As Population Rises

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11/02/2016

... — is forcing city leaders and policy experts to confront how to house, transport, and school another half million ...

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Community Development

New York Women's Foundation President Ana Oliveira Encourages Funders to Support Riskier Causes

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11/03/2016

New York Women' s Foundation President Ana Oliveira Encourages Funders to ... Oliveira is the President and CEO of the New York Women’ s Foundation. Since 2006, under Ana Oliveira’ s...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... from across the country were honored with this year' s I Love My Librarian Award. The winning librarians were ... nearly 1,100 nominations submitted by the public detailing how their favorite librarians...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

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12/21/2016

... the partnerships between government and philanthropy, it’ s a suitable template for how government’ s ability to collect data and deliver services at scale can ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

... show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the eye' s retinal cells, causing severe tissue damage and even ... whether ZIKV causes abnormalities in the eye and, if so, how . The answer is published...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Rockefeller, Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit'

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03/20/2017

... comprehensive framework providing guidance to funders on how to implement best practices in risk-management." Report .....

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation Helps Speed Up Development of Minigrids in Africa

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03/28/2017

... in Africa Development partners such as the U.K.’ s Department for International Development and Germany’ s GIZ are committing hundreds of millions of dollars to ... Rwanda and Sierra Leone are beginning to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Launches Smart City Certification

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04/11/2017

... program announced an initiative that will direct cities on how to use data to improve their smart infrastructure. The ... Cities Certification” was introduced at Bloomberg’ s second annual What Works Cities...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

... percent are learning new skills outside of college. It’ s too early to know if skipping college and earning ... colleges supposedly deliver. And they’re often unsure how to evaluate nontraditional...

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Education

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UJA-Federation Has Launched A Grant-Making Contest, Asking New Yorkers to Vote on “Big Ideas”

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06/26/2017

... $250,000 to advance one “big idea” to transform how NYC residents live together as a Jewish community — one that’ s welcoming, inclusive, and brings our city closer together. ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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To Raise Cash on Social Media, Focus on Facebook, Says a Top Fundraiser

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08/30/2017

... are increasingly active on the social-media site. How active? The Chronicle recently spoke with Carie Lewis ... says the other social-media sites barely register. It’ s all about Facebook. What percentage of...

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CEO Pay: Top Earners From Across the Country

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09/05/2017

CEO Pay: Top Earners From Across the Country How much does the boss make? To look at pay for executives of ...

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N.Y. Pol Moves to Ban Pharmacies From Supplying Strong Pain Killers at Drive-Through Windows

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09/27/2017

... ensure that pharmacists are able to discuss with patients how best to use the powerful drugs. . . N.Y. Pol Moves to Ban ...

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Health

73% of Donors Worldwide Are Women, and Most Like to Give Online, Study Says

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09/27/2017

... countries. The findings of the report, which examined how donors worldwide prefer to give and interact with their ...

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The MoMA Goes to Paris

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... FLV opened in 2014—while exposing MoMA’ s collection to a larger audience. The show’ s title, Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, points to the ongoing conundrum of the museum’ s mission: ...

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