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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... from the Atlantic Ocean “into the broad mouth of lower New York Bay between Coney Island, New York, and Sandy Hook, New Jersey.” This could often be a treacherous stretch ...

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Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

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09/05/2017

... two may be in danger. As it turns out, the much-ballyhooed new age of the city might be giving way to a great urban ... white flight. Unlike their parents and grandparents, these new urbanites embraced the...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year, the New York Public Library released plans for a total renovation ... to pay for that makeover, which will also come with a new name. The donation, which the...

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City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

... Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program ... as well as their families. IDVs were introduced into the New York criminal justice...

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

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09/21/2017

... pitches and slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college-success program she leads. Instead she has turned to Jeffersonian dinners as a way to engage new supporters. The intimate...

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

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09/22/2017

... West Side of Manhattan and create more than 2,000 jobs in New York City. The retail giant signed a 15-year lease to ... that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.'s new eight-acre development,...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

... for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow. Even as New York City’s schools opened their doors for the new year this month, the clock was ticking on the future of ... schools that had performed poorly,...

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Westchester Community Foundation Announces Institute for Strong Nonprofits

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09/26/2017

... one of the largest funders of nonprofits in Westchester, New York, has announced the formation of the Institute for ... www.wcf-ny.org . The Foundation is a division of The New York Community Trust, which has...

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Nonprofits Help Shift Mayor De Blasio's Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say

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10/05/2017

... Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s opinion about whether ... of nonprofits serving on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and...

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... harvesters might be tending fresh veggies soon thanks to a new crowdfunding effort by the New York City Housing Authority. Most of the Rockaways was a food desert before Superstorm Sandy hit New...

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United Hospital Fund Study Doubts Utility of Quality Performance Websites

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01/03/2018

... actually want and can readily assimilate, according to a new report from the New York City-based United Hospital Fund (UHF). The 15-month ... CAHPS Consortium for pioneering work, including a new...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... advocacy effort to make the Certificate of Need process in New York State more consumer-friendly and transparent, so ... to spread OpenNotes adoption at hospitals throughout New York State, giving patients...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... regulatory and business environment. Through this new investment, the firm will develop hundreds of new branches in several new U.S. markets, increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. ...

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Immigrant Kids in School: Challenges, Progress and Potential

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New York City has always prided itself on being a city of ... are evident in and around our public schools. Philanthropy New York’s Education Working Group- in collaboration with ... Collaborative, the NYC Youth...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Community Art to Keep NYC on the Cultural Edge

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03/27/2018

... on the Cultural Edge Scheduled to open at Hudson Yards in New York City in the spring of 2019, the Shed received a $75 ... last year. Earlier this month, came word of a new $45 million infusion to the center...

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... Stack, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, has led the New Jersey Council of Grant Makers as its president for the ... remarks: “We are thrilled to have Nina joining us as our new executive director. … Her...

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With Support from Citi and The Rockefeller Foundation, Boston University Releases “Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise”

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04/23/2018

... Cities Joining Ranks—Policy Networks on the Rise, a new report which details the activities, visibility, value, ... networks and the largest population centers—including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,...

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Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact

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06/20/2018

... them – are playing an important role in catalyzing the new , innovative and inclusive approaches needed to solve ... the theme yesterday at the 2018 Forbes Women’s Summit in New York City, where Caroline Roan,...

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Laurie M. Tisch: Perfecting the Art of Philanthropy

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12/13/2018

... While her family is known as long-standing patrons of New York City, the dynamic 67-year-old philanthropic leader ... Island, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and neighborhoods throughout New York, each with a diverse...

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