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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

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06/20/2017

... together final details, before the official launch of two new businesses. “Exciting because we're going to be our own .....

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Gender Justice

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

... year to a record $123 billion, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecast... Rockefeller Foundation ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’ s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in ... been criticized by many on both the left and the right. A new report from the Urban...

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Justice Reform

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... or interested females out there. But an intriguing new survey from the Rockefeller Foundation released Tuesday ...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation Awards NABJ Grant Ahead Of Its 42nd Annual Convention And Career Fair

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08/09/2017

... kicking off its 42nd Annual Convention and Career Fair in New Orleans, the National Association of Black Journalists ... NABJ Strategic Plan 2017-2020 and the Ford Foundation’ s generous gift, NABJ will...

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Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... Award. The biennial Award recognises, promotes and rewards new ideas that work to meet pressing community social needs, ...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Disabilities

Technology

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Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs

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08/25/2017

... University create StartUP FIU FOOD, an incubator to help new food and beverage entrepreneurs grow their companies with ...

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Community Development

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a new science building, teacher training, diversifying the ...

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Science

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

... Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’ s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism The ... a Pulitzer Prize that helped spur the British newspaper’ s international expansion, is fully...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

... next week. The dispute centered on who would become the new principal of the Onondaga Nation School, which sits on ...

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Education

Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

... that are currently inside a former hospital buildings into new structures on the same 3.4 acre site. . . Mayor De Blasio ...

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Housing and Homelessness

After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

After Blasting Success’ s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly ... the State Education Department...

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’ s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid ... controlled substances have been dispensed to patients. A new analysis shows that prescription...

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Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

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09/12/2017

... together, researchers and clinicians hope to discover new treatments and better tailor existing treatments to ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

Patrick Gaspard, Former U. S . Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at ... investor George Soros on Monday said a former U. S . ambassador to South Africa will become the new...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

Billionaire Diller’ s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island ... Wednesday that he was pulling the plug on his family’ s commitment to build and operate a $250 million performance ... fizzling...

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Arts

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Obama Foundation to Host Global Summit in Chicago

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09/14/2017

... in Chicago Former President Barack Obama announced in a new video Wednesday that he will gather together civic ... summit will take place in the city that will host Obama' s presidential library and his...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... return for its most recent fiscal year. The endowment’ s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was ... nonprofit organizations. And while many of the nation’ s largest...

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A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

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09/21/2017

... found in a start-up slump — a decline in the creation of new businesses — and a growing understanding of what’ s behind it. A total of 414,000 businesses were formed in ...

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