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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

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02/13/2017

... when more Americans are choosing urban life. Funders have come in from different angles. Bloomberg Philanthropies ...

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Community Development

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

... two years ago, more than 1,300 companies in 38 countries have joined... Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer ...

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De Blasio Derided by Sergeants Union for Deportation Stance

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02/28/2017

... Mayor Bill de Blasio for not requiring the city’ s police force to act as immigration enforcers as the Trump ... Roundtable” radio program on 970 AM, said the city’ s top brass have a “moral...

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Immigration

Weinberg Foundation Launches Annual Community-Wide Book Drive Benefiting Baltimore Library Project

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03/01/2017

... To date, the Foundation and its more than 40 partners have completed 13 of these new spaces serving more than 6,000 ...

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Education

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

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03/16/2017

... was discovered in 2014 by a team of scientists from the U. S ., the Netherlands and Italy. It is 11 times the mass of ... than 13 million years old, compared with our solar system' s 4.6 billion years...

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Rajiv Shah on Rockefeller Foundation Priorities, Multilateralism and Philanthropy

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04/20/2017

... Foundation about six weeks ago. Philanthropists have a key role in addressing some of the root causes of the ...

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Nonprofits Likely to Receive $700 Million From Rockefeller Estate

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04/24/2017

... Bank and renowned philanthropist, once his assets have been liquidated, Forbes reports. A signatory to ...

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

... and served under President Obama as director of the U. S . Agency for International Development, which distributes ...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’ s Freedom in California As the NoVo Foundation gets into its ... in the juvenile justice system. The Young Women’ s Freedom Center , which has been organizing around juvenile .....

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... including support for refugees, on their societies. And it' s not just those on the fringes, but elected officials who ... that Soros has supported in Central and Eastern Europe' s transition to...

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Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results

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06/12/2017

Edna McConnell Clark’ s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results An initial ... trajectory of development. In most instances, PropelNext’ s emphasis on creating a data-driven learning culture has ... outlines...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban Design Team Proposes Outer Borough Light Rail

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06/30/2017

... the Regional Plan Association and Rockefeller Foundation have come up with some long range solutions. Four teams ... protection in four different tri-state areas. RPA' s rail line proposal was brought to...

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Community Development

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

... groups has pumped some $85,000 into the school’ s Medical Scholars Pipeline Program, which sows the seeds of ... Beginning with a June 30 opening ceremony at Hempstead’ s School of Medicine, the students...

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Education

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Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas

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08/28/2017

... allow young people from foreign countries to work in the U. S ., people familiar with the administration’ s planning said. President Donald Trump’ s “Buy American ... interests of domestic...

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Workforce Development

Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

Front-crawling through the water during her swim lesson at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx one recent Tuesday morning, Kiara García, now 8, hardly seemed to think she was doing anything unusual.

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Soviet-Era Program Gives Even Unoppressed Immigrants an Edge

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08/29/2017

... was jailed for his beliefs. Today, she said, “there’ s not a lot of persecution, but it’ s difficult to find work.” Normally, someone seeking better ... applying. They joined a growing number of Ukrainians who...

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Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

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08/30/2017

... are excited that the students at Farmingdale are going to have a head start learning about this tech and be ramped and ... at an afternoon announcement inside the company’ s Energy Operations Center in...

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Workforce Development

Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

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08/30/2017

... laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U. S ., despite research showing that the practice puts young ... children under 18 were married from 2000 to 2015 in the U. S ., according to a report...

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Gender Justice

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

... and has no Onondaga representatives, said that she did not have the proper certification and experience to be principal. ...

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