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What Business Can Learn From Buddhism

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10/02/2017

... Business Can Learn From Buddhism Millennials, we are told, have a different attitude to work than their elders. They ...

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12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... increases the impact severe storms like Superstorm Sandy have on New York, the city’ s architects are designing buildings that are more resilient than even building codes require. There’ s...

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

... after a medical leave. “When I sign things, I guess it’ s one less word I have to write,” Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city’ s water and...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... Detention Center would be an ideal first step and we have already started to take a hard look at this site to ...

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Justice Reform

General Motors Is Going All Electric

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10/03/2017

... recent months, Volvo, Aston Martin, and Jaguar Land Rover have announced similar moves. GM’ s declaration, though, is particularly noteworthy because it’ s among the very largest automakers...

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Salesforce Launches $50 Million Initiative To Fuel Social Impact Startups

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10/03/2017

... 1999, the cloud computing giant and its CEO, Marc Benioff, have been trailblazers in redefining "corporate social ... responsibility," with philanthropy baked into the company' s DNA. Now it...

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Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves

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10/04/2017

... in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career ... still struggle with both — are a testament to what’ s possible. Here are their stories...

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Gender Justice

Can Redevelopment of the Bedford Union Armory Be Saved?

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10/04/2017

... to make it acceptable, especially to Cumbo, who will have the final say in a few short weeks. . . Can ...

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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of .....

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Myanmar Rohingya Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity, UN Rights Experts Warn

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10/04/2017

... (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately stop ... humanity and we are deeply concerned at the State’ s failure to put an end to these...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Salesforce Launches $50 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Social Change Startup

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10/05/2017

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

... years, political rivalries, ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of ...

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Ford Foundation Supports Progress on Impact Investing

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10/13/2017

... on wide range of impacts. Community Capital Management’ s CRA-Qualified Investment Fund became the first ... rating for impact . Just as third-party ratings have become essential for judging financial risk of...

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Delaware Juvenile Justice Reforms Signed into Law

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10/13/2017

... year. The pieces of legislation aim to ensure juveniles have access counsel, to increase social services for youth ... approved until an attorney has explained the defendant’ s rights... Delaware Juvenile...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Justice Reform

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Recognizes Young Volunteers from Every State

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10/17/2017

... the past 22 years, Prudential Spirit of Community Awards have been given to more than 120,000 middle and high school ...

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Civic Engagement

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

... criticism for erasing two Obama-era regulations that would have added protections for students. Review of tens of ... Student advocates point to the Trump administration' s ties to the for-profit industry...

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Education

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future

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11/22/2017

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future The nation' s major philanthropies have long operated by noblesse oblige, seeking to blunt the .....

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017

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11/28/2017

... announced today that 125 nonprofits in South Florida have collectively been awarded more than $2.5 million in ... and the arts, as well as the recipients of this year’ s Bank of America Neighborhood Builder®...

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Open Society Foundations Launches Initiative to Support A More Inclusive American Democracy

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05/02/2018

... government officials and staff in the United States who have recently left public service. The program is designed ... eligible, all projects must relate to one or more of OSF' s U. S ...

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