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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... transparency into the process. Under the administration' s plan, when a shelter is approved, the Department of Homeless Services will notify the community board and local elected ... or 30 days before the...

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Housing and Homelessness

New Research Links Increased Minimum Wage to Reduced Child Maltreatment

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09/13/2017

... released in the January issue of Children and Youth Services Review, neglect reports involving young children ...

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NYS Health Foundation Finds Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented

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09/15/2017

... uninsured, lacking access to both coverage through the U. S . Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA health ... to repeal the ACA would likely increase the demand for VA services while increasing the...

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Immigration Agents Target Brooklyn Criminal Court, Lawyers Say

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... according to a source and attorneys with Brooklyn Defender Services . About half a dozen agents were posted outside the ...

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‘Medicare for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’s System?

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09/15/2017

... for All’: Is It Popular? And Is It the Same as Britain’ s System? As leading Democrats embrace Senator Bernie Sanders’ s proposal to vastly expand Medicare to cover all Americans, ... idea in a news conference...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

... Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... walls, posters promoted not just reading but citizenship services and business-planning classes...

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Housing and Homelessness

Child-Welfare Agency Gets Props for New Approach to Helping Families Navigate Challenges

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09/20/2017

... Navigate Challenges Happy stories rarely land the city’ s child-welfare system in the headlines, and the last few ... have been no exception. The Administration for Children’ s Services...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... to the New DACA Deadline Since President Donald Trump’ s administration ordered an end to the Deferred Action for ... responded to those directly affected by offering legal services and other help. The move...

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How America Gives Special Report: Breaking the Charity Habit

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... confetti sprays and paeans of praise to this country’ s generosity. Yet fewer Americans appear to be giving to ... analysis of Internal Revenue Service data. That’ s down from 2000 to 2006, years when that...

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Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Here’ s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food ... Safety For a guy who likes eating fast food because it’ s “very clean,” President Trump sure is blasé about making America’ s...

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Food Systems

Nonprofits Initiate Recall as Mayor Cuts Their Funding

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10/05/2017

... raises for city employees and to expand first responder services . The Wisconsin State Journal reports that a group opposing Mayor Jason Gonzalez’ s decision to eliminate funding for nonprofits from his ...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

Traveling south about an hour from downtown Pittsburgh along Pennsylvania Route 43, visitors roll into Coal Center, home to Intermediate Unit 1, a regional education service agency. Intermediate Unit 1 also serves as home to a Fab Lab — a highly...

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Building Bridges between Scared Immigrant Communities and Police

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10/06/2017

Immigrant communities in general have a fear of police interactions, but this fear has been heightened in the current climate of crackdowns on immigration and increased raids from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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JPMorgan Chase Puts Funding Towards New York Workforce Development

Release Date:

10/31/2017

... the charity arm of the multinational banking and financial services holding company, is spending the money on two new ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

Release Date:

11/28/2017

... launched the Minority Empowerment ETF and the Women' s Empowerment ETF. The Impact Shares Minority Empowerment ... pay and promotion practices as well as their products and services . The Impact Shares...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety

Release Date:

01/05/2018

... of cities themselves. Many city governments in the U. S . and elsewhere are torn when it comes to innovation. On the ... governments want to be seen as responsive to new ideas and services . On the other, the “...

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Community Development

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

Release Date:

03/23/2018

... cards backed by Citigroup or borrow money, use banking services or raise capital through the company. The rules, ...

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William Randolph Hearst Foundations Provides Hefty Grant to SOPAC to Partner with School District

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04/26/2018

... focus on the culture, education, health and social services fields. With the grant, SOPAC will work with the ... the 2018-2019 school year and will allow the district’ s middle school students to participate...

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Arts

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The Hearst Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

Release Date:

05/08/2018

... Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’ s Best Health Care After the average life expectancy in the ... state-by-state scorecard on May 3 looking at each state’ s ability to deliver medical care to...