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New Study Shows Organic Farming Traps Carbon in Soil to Combat Climate Change

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09/12/2017

... carbon into the soil that grows our food. The scientific community has been actively debating whether organic farming ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

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09/14/2017

The federal government should identify communities most at risk of flooding and launch a major infrastructure initiative that creates good jobs for a pressing purpose.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

Governor Cuomo Announces New Initiatives to Combat Addiction Across New York State

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09/14/2017

Gov. Cuomo announced that a $25 million residential center opened on Wards Island and new recovery centers opened in Queens and the Bronx as well as other steps to treat addictions.

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

... or numbness of neuropathy slow down her fight for Harlem’ s public schools. Armed with a petition to demand that the education department staff her neighborhood’ s school with librarians — as it’ s...

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Education

New Data Shows Retirees Are on the Move, But Young Folks Are a Different Story

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09/20/2017

... according to new estimates from the Census Bureau’ s American Community Survey. And, by a very similar measure, the past ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

... developers looking to cash-in. As a pillar of the city’ s most critical affordable housing stock, Mitchell-Lama is in crisis. We hear it every day in community meetings, on the streets across Brooklyn, and on...

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Housing and Homelessness

City to Overhaul 11 More Parks on Restoration Program As Its Cost Grows to $318 Million

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09/27/2017

... be fixed up under a city program — and the initiative' s cost has jumped by $33 million. It will now cost $318 million to rehab 67 neighborhood parks under the Community Parks Initiative, up from $285...

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Community Development

Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... companies may take the opportunity to support their local community . Colleagues working together to accomplish a shared ...

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’ s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods Mayor de Blasio' s free school lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’ s left many in the city’...

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Education

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care

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10/04/2017

... was attended by more than 500 health care, business, and community leaders, marking the opening of UHF’ s 139th fund-raising campaign in support of its work to build ...

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Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

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10/10/2017

For years, political rivalries, ethnic disputes and litigation have defined the trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and African-American communities.

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Community Development

A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market

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10/10/2017

... they are an example of leadership from the investment community in addressing the threat of climate change. In the ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Winners

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11/17/2017

... Kaplan Fund takes solace in the knowledge that so many community -based change agents are rising up to tackle a ...

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Civic Engagement

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New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"

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11/20/2017

NYSHealth grantees and partners are working together with residents and local organizations in Brownsville to increase access to healthy and affordable foods and empower residents through urban farms and gardens, farmers markets, and other nutrition...

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New York Health Foundation

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New Report Funded by The Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Highlights Challenges of Rural Health Care Delivery and Offers Solutions

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01/17/2018

... and delivery and that will not solve this problem.' BPC' s survey of the seven Upper Midwest states identified four ... recommendations: 1)Rightsizing Health Care Services to Fit Community Needs...

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Pfizer: Joins AMP Health Partnership to Increase Access to Care in Africa

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02/02/2018

... of health (MOH) to scale up national networks of community health workers (CHW) to reach the hundreds of ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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President of Casey Family Programs on Family Access to Prevention Services to Address Opioid Crisis

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02/09/2018

... New York City during the crack epidemic and "foster care' s role continued to go down ... One reason was because of the ... are living in communities where they're apart ... Someone' s got...

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