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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

... 2,000 jobs in New York City. The retail giant signed a 15- year lease to take about 360,000 square feet at Five ...

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Community Development

LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

The Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN Fund) was launched on 12 September 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

It’s worth wondering what else seeps into public space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order.

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Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy

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09/25/2017

... plans for the three-for-one stock split he announced last year that would have reclassified some stock as nonvoting ...

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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

Officials tried to relocate auto mechanics from Queens to the Bronx to make way for a splashy new Willets Point real-estate project. What went wrong?

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NY State Health: Medicare Snapshot - Stories from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs

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09/26/2017

... save thousands of dollars in health care costs each year , covering services that include outpatient care, ...

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... today announced that, since its launch earlier this year , 125 health professions schools and programs around the ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

... almost every health bill that Republicans proposed this year called for subjecting the program to caps, so that idea ...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... experimentation has picked up sharply of late. Early this year , Finland began a trial program directed toward the ...

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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

The Trump Administration's decision to end DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of...

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The Fatal Stabbing In A Bronx Classroom Was Horrific — But Also Extremely Rare

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09/28/2017

The fatal stabbing at a Bronx school comes amid continuing debate over school safety and the use of metal detectors in schools — but also as serious crimes in schools are at near-record lows.

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

Delivering humanitarian aid can be enormously complex. It requires far-flung logistical efforts that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places where infrastructure may be...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... of its programs, Groundswell is awarding $7.4 million this year . In addition to its growth as a funder, Groundswell ...

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

The recent announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies offered to individuals through the Affordable Care Act will not affect New York, the head of the state’s online...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

Home care workers do not get paid for every hour of their 24-hour shifts. Recent court rulings could change that fact, and upend an industry

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