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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... home to dinner. This complacency among us white Americans has been a historical constant. Even in the last decade, ... the history of white Americans’ attitudes toward race has always been one of self-...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

... lynching victims. The nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative has announced it is building a memorial in the state capital ... by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

... who ranked seventh in 2015 giving with $427 million, has given a total of $7.46 billion to philanthropic causes ... the bulk of them to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has given $25.54 billion, or 39...

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

... Board Newman's Own today announced that Walter Harrison has been appointed to the Newman's Own Advisory Board. ... of Hartford in West Hartford, CT, where he has served since 1998, marking nearly a...

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PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

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11/17/2016

... Money for College Readiness Program The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a ... program, Learning to Work. Since its inception, LTW has served thousands of high school students in...

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Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

... it. Yes, that Rockefeller family. The company, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the ... campaign to defend its image. But the oil and gas giant has directed some of its fiercest...

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

... Township schools in 1971. Yet the Morris School District has endured, surviving early racial unrest and shifting ... most segregated states. This 5,226-student district has thrived as merger attempts in New...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition

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01/10/2017

... established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a ... $8 billion over 35 years, nearly $1 billion of which has benefitted Cornell University...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... working on those issues. As part of the planning, NoVo has recruited former inmates, like Miller-Hill. She has returned to the prison on a half-dozen occasions for ...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

... Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from Bellerose, New York has taken volunteering to a new level and is being honored for her hard work. Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

... Program The New England Foundation for the Arts has announced a three-year, $3.77 million grant from the ... on the now twenty-year-old National Dance Project , NTP has supported forty-three new theater works...

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the conflict has resulted in over 5 million Syrian refugees, 6.3 million ... far, only around $400 million—or less than 10 percent— has been received. . . Conrad Hilton...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

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06/02/2017

... States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of the board for a three-year term ...

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NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources

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08/29/2017

... cop was charged with using a banned chokehold. The city has withheld the name of the cop, even though the trial was ... findings last month. It was the first time O’Neill has overturned an administrative judge...

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Trump Plans to Phase Out DACA, Administration Officials Say

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09/05/2017

... to Phase Out DACA, Administration Officials Say ABC News has learned that President Donald Trump plans to phase out ... that are pending will continue to be processed. Anyone who has a DACA permit expiring...

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... tech start-ups followed suit. The urban revival has been so thoroughgoing that it has even engendered a new crisis of success, whose symptoms ...

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

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09/06/2017

... bullet of congestion pricing. The transportation community has been salivating over Cuomo’s statement that “congestion pricing is an idea whose time has come,” hoping that the governor will be able to ...

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Raising Money from the Modern Family

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09/06/2017

... mostly to organizations in her native Baltimore, and has written into her will charitable bequests likely to total ... Still, for all the friends and acquaintances Ms. Fleishman has made through her nonprofit...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... Immigration In his seven months in office, President Trump has proved to be the commander in chief of mixed messages. ... positions in just under 140 characters. “Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (...

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