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Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

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07/19/2017

The Funders' Network is offering PLACES Fellowships, which are transformational leadership development experiences that gives professionals in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work.

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

The general public's help is being enlisted in what's thought to be the biggest study of the human microbiome—the bacteria that live in and on the human body –and are believed to affect health.

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Health

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IBM Corporation

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists

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08/25/2017

... mid-career, or emerging—and a focus on creative processes that utilize current digital technologies ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

Over the years, the original Fair Share Criteria have been found to be non-transparent and filled with loopholes that city officials and agencies continue to exploit to this day, particularly when it comes to homeless shelter siting.

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Housing and Homelessness

No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes

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08/29/2017

It promised a new way of bike riding in New York City — GPS-tracked smart bikes that would rent for as little as $1 and did not have to be picked up or returned to fixed locations.

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Community Development

Trump Plans to Phase Out DACA, Administration Officials Say

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09/05/2017

President Donald Trump plans to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration (DACA) policy, according to two administration officials.

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Immigration

A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement."

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Education

Gender Justice

Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go

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09/08/2017

At an announcement and ceremony in New York, stakeholders from the the NHL, NHL Players Association, and International Ice Hockey Federation, along with 14 major organizations across all levels of hockey signed on to a Declaration of Principles that...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Can Pope Francis Get Colombia to Reconcile After Decades of War?

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09/08/2017

Cheering crowds greeted the 80-year-old Argentine pontiff as he prayed for the country to heal the wounds of war — though some warned that forgiveness was hard after so much violence.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

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09/11/2017

In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.

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Housing and Homelessness

As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

President Trump’s new executive order will roll back efforts to ensure our infrastructure and communities are resilient to flooding and climate change/

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, the journey is marked by high levels of abuse, trafficking and exploitation.

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Children, Youth and Families

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International/Foreign Affairs

Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

The process, long and byzantine as it is, is the easiest path to holding an officer accountable for many victims of police misconduct.

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Justice Reform

New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

This conversation features Cynthia Agyeman , Community Organizer & Amy Blumsack , Community Action Program Director at Neighbors Together

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Video

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Community Development

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In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

Just like that, Pier 55, a $250 million floating park (cultural island? entertainment center? performing arts pier?) to be built over a dilapidated pier on the Hudson River, is no more.

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Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

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09/25/2017

A tool to help predict whether someone who’s been arrested will reoffend does not factor in race. But it could consider convictions.

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Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Attacks on women and gender identity have been central to the policies coming out of the Trump White House. To respond effectively, the philanthropic sector, too, must make gender justice, in addition to economic and racial justice, a core principle.

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Gender Justice

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

A new nonprofit organization called The Greenfield Project will conduct research, do regulatory and legal analysis and education, and connect farmers to consumers, all with the goal of cultivating “a more joyful and resilient food system.”

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