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Capital One Foundation Sees Departure at the Top, Appoints New President

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06/09/2016

... has undergone a change in leadership, with former long -serving President Carolyn Berkowitz stepping down to ... president of community affairs, overseeing Capital One’ s U. S . grant funding,...

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Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children

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09/07/2016

... on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children During their long , languid summers, lots of children forget the lessons ...

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

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09/29/2016

Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South' s Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late ... blacks its research shows were killed by lynching...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

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01/27/2017

... Aleppo in December was a turning point in the country’ s civil war. But rebel Aleppo didn’t just fall—it fell ... siege and surrounded on all sides, to hold out for as long as a year. Instead, faced with an...

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

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03/20/2017

... Fraser P. Seitel, confirmed the death. Chase Manhattan had long been known as the Rockefeller bank, though the family ...

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

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05/08/2017

Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’ s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts On the wall in Mike Basher’ s office at Chester’ s Fare & Square, there’ s...

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Food Systems

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

... in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’ s clear the Trump era will be cruel to women. The President ... and Congress have proposed draconian cuts to the nation’ s most effective health, nutrition...

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Gender Justice

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The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

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08/25/2017

... Future of Philanthropy Hang around the philanthrosphere long enough and you'll realize that it' s something of a matriarchy. Sure, most of the biggest ... half of all foundations are run by women,...

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James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation Donates Art Holdings, Archives to Parrish Art Museum

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08/30/2017

... and Charlotte Park first spent a summer in the Hamptons on Long Island, New York, because “Jackson Pollock and Lee ... by saying, “this is such a great place to work, there’ s a really strong community here,...

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

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08/30/2017

... more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’ s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt; and his family’ s foundation since the think tank’ s founding in 1999. That ... voice in policy...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 49. (You can see the final station maps on the city’ s website.) Citi Bike will also add seven “infill” ... to fill out thin parts of the bike-share network in Long Island City. The expansion in Astoria comes...

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Community Development

Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

Opinion: New York’ s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job On Thursday, a million New ... York City children will return to school. Educators have long been concerned about a “summer slide” — the ... when students are out...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... The official opening is scheduled today for Cornell Tech' s campus on New York City' s Roosevelt Island, marking the start of operations there ... tucked away upstate in snowy Ithaca, N.Y., where it...

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

Here' s What' s In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill The Capitol Hill ... Sanders — his attempt to push single-payer health care, long one of his favorite causes...

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Health

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

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09/27/2017

... even the most basic life skills,” write the report’ s authors, Deon Filmer and Halsey Rogers, both economists at ... the correct change from a transaction, reading a doctor’ s instructions, or interpreting a...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... here. He has an apartment, a car, a smartphone and a long -distance girlfriend he met on a dating website. So he ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Food Systems

Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/02/2017

... and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them Three long -standing presidential commissions designed to expand ...

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Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims

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10/03/2017

... woman, identified only as Jane Doe, reported Dr. Harris’ s behavior to other professors and university officials, the ... into him. The complaint also claims the university had long been aware of Dr. Harris’...

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