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The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

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11/17/2014

... paid less than $15.00 an hour. In contrast, the average cost of compensation for a NYC employee, including generous ... research has shown that a $15 per hour wage minimum could cost somewhere between $250...

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WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

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03/04/2015

... Philharmonic, is slated for a major overhaul expected to cost about $500 million. Construction is set to begin in ...

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Red States Have the Most to Lose from Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling

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03/12/2015

Citing Commonwealth Fund research DailyKos says people living in Republican-led states will suffer the most if the Supreme Court strikes down subsidies to people buying insurance on the federal exchange.

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Sloan Foundation Awards $3 Million for Minority PhDs in STEM Fields

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03/27/2015

The main goal of the initiative is to increase the diversity of graduate education in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

... over 100 low and middle income countries at little or no cost . Incidentally, after receiving a fast-track designation, ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... about the industry’s excessive capital spending on high- cost , carbon intensive projects such as Arctic drilling, ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New Prudential Foundation Initiative Will Assist Job Seekers with Disabilities

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04/27/2015

The foundation awards $1 million to the National Organization on Disability to start Bridges to a Better Workforce.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

Three nonprofit organizations were selected to take advantage of one year of free co-working space and a $5,000 stipend for start-up costs.

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Community Development

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

Researchers show how DNA repair proteins sound the alarm to threats, pointing to a novel cancer therapy.

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Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.

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Rockefeller Brothers Supported Report: Wind Energy Could Get Cheaper

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03/18/2016

The University of Delaware released a report showing offshore wind energy in New England would be far less costly under projects that are newer and bigger than Cape Wind.

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Rockefeller Assists Global Resilience Partnership With New Ideas In Flood Risk Management

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05/24/2016

To encourage new ideas and actions in flood risk management, Zurich Insurance Group has teamed up with the Global Resilience Partnership, a public-private initiative spearheaded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Agency for...

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Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge

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09/22/2016

... with race and ethnicity, income level, and gender. And cost and debt remain concerns. The commission, comprising ...

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at forty-three institutions who have great potential to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Gives $150K to Leading Disaster Relief Organization

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11/23/2016

All Hands Volunteers, the leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, has been awarded a grant of $150,000 by the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation to establish a Global Rapid Response Fund.

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Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’

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11/29/2016

... realities of climate change, protecting its profits at the cost of immense damage to life on this planet,” Kaiser and ...

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Commonwealth Fund Explains Why the House Repeal Bill Is Unlikely to Stabilize Insurance Markets

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03/13/2017

... measures —a generous reinsurance program to cover high- cost cases, a risk corridor program to share risks with ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

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04/06/2017

... p.m. A fast-paced dramatic comedy about the secrets and cost of happiness, "Shame" by Sholeh Wolpe will open the .....

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

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06/23/2017

If you're not getting free SUNY tuition this fall, you will be paying more.

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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08/28/2017

One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed on...

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