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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

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07/29/2016

... and volunteer service, support LGBTQ causes in New York City. Each year, SQS members award one or more ... programming and services that directly benefit LGBTQ New Yorkers. This fall, a one-year general...

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RFPs Etc

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Gender Justice

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force employers to offer their workers a retirement plan, a move that could provide ... the nation’s...

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Economic Security

No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes

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08/29/2017

... Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes It promised a new way of bike riding in New York City — GPS-tracked smart bikes that would rent for ... the boardwalk. Spin’s unsuccessful effort comes as a ...

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As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored

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08/29/2017

... still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Nearly five years after Sandy made landfall in New York, Staten Island remains vulnerable, Oddo added. The .....

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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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Arts

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 ... big cities, reversing generations of white flight. Unlike their parents and grandparents...

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As Flood Risks Rise, Trump’s Executive Order Jeopardizes Our Infrastructure and Communities

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09/12/2017

... intent of President Donald Trump’s news conference in New York last month— the one in which he made his ... Charlottesville, Va. At that event, Trump also announced a new executive order that will roll back...

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Environment and Climate Change

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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Ford Teams up with Stephen Ross to Invest $27.5M in Platform Projects throughout Detroit

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09/15/2017

... Detroit Billionaire developer Stephen Ross and the New York-based Ford Foundation are teaming up with The ... to Detroit neighborhoods. Ross, a Detroit native and New York real estate developer who also owns...

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Housing and Homelessness

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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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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

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12/11/2017

... Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term A new report revealed that just 30.8 percent of Staten Island ... "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was...

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Education

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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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Gary Stehr Appointed Altman Foundation Chief Financial Officer

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10/31/2018

... accounting and MBA in Finance from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a CPA and a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and is a member of the Audit committee...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... Chief Executive Officer Rob Acker will head up a new nonprofit and educational business vertical at Salesforce ... company’s Customer Success Platform. In addition, the new business unit will also develop...

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