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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’ s Green City Force Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Edna ... called Green City Force, which empowers young adults from New York City’ s...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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

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09/15/2017

... Uninsured Rate Fell by 36 Percent After ACA Implemented New York State Health Foundation, RAND Corporation and the ... uninsured, lacking access to both coverage through the U. S . Department...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... less attention. That may be changing, however. The New York State attorney general’ s office sent letters last week to the three largest pharmacy ...

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

Williamson Foundation’ s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership This ... Linda Lausell Bryant, created a variety of programs at New York University’ s (NYU)...

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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

... to be tricky for a reporter, but in some contexts it’ s easier than others — say, at a program for overweight ... clinic, two places that Andrew Jacobs, a reporter with The New York Times’...

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At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff

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09/20/2017

... Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff The New York City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes only ... when the next Council is seated in January, if this year’ s...

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Gender Justice

Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island

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09/26/2017

... Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island New York City was in the throes of an alarming increase in opioid-related overdoses last summer when the city’ s special narcotics...

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Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing

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10/02/2017

... history class in a Bronx school. A school social worker in New York City for 25 years, Harding formed a theory about what ... “I looked at the kid and my gut sense was, ‘Oh, he’ s not a...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... Thaler said of the basic premise of his work. When the New York Times asked him how he would spend the 9-million-kronor ...

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Economic Security

As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’ s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling ... headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “ New York City...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Encourages Donors to Give Where They Live with $100,000 Match

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11/20/2017

... $100,000 Match Brooklyn is setting out to prove that it’ s New York City’ s most generous borough this holiday season with ...

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Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Announces 31 Winners of Fellowships for Important Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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04/25/2018

... in creative scholarly research, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie ...

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The United Hospital Fund Releases Report on Positive Impact of Home Health Care

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04/30/2018

... by Kathyrn Bowles, PhD, of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and the University of Pennsylvania, found that 28 ...

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

... Yuri Tschinkel, director of the Simons Foundation’ s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division, has been ... of Göttingen, and chair of the mathematics department at New York University’...

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The Public Theater Celebrates Leonard Tow, Founder and Chairman of The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala

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06/12/2018

... The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala The Public Theater’ s annual gala featured a performance of Elizabeth Swados’ ... collaborated on the 2016 Encores! revival of Runaways at New York City...

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Arts

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Carnegie Corporation's July Fourth Tribute Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants

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06/28/2018

Carnegie Corporation' s July Fourth Tribute Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants on June 28 .....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Michael Bloomberg Announces 2nd Annual Global Business Forum and One Planet Summit

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07/11/2018

... Bloomberg Global Business Forum will be held in New York City on September 26 th at the Plaza Hotel during ... issues by reaching a better understanding of one another' s challenges and...

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Economic Security

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

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09/13/2018

... in grades 6 to 12. Eleven of the programs are in Western New York , and six are in Southeast Michigan. The grants are up to ...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Grants $1 Million for Anchorage Public Art Project

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11/09/2018

... Challenge. Environmentalist, philanthropist, and former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined Anchorage Mayor ... Museum to turn a neglected downtown building in the city' s...

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