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After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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07/12/2017

... generations of health professionals to meet society’ s health needs.” Under Dr. Thibault’ s leadership, the ... the Macy Foundation also has supported the introduction of new content (such as...

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Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

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07/27/2017

... Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. The new Mellon initiative will be based in the Folger Institute, ...

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Food Systems

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... notwithstanding the disparate racial impact, we need a new “economic fair housing act” to prohibit or discourage ...

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Economic Security

Housing and Homelessness

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

Rockefeller Foundation’ s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’ s WastED Initiative Food Tank (foodtank.com), in partnership ... delicious out of...

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Food Systems

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... stays true to its roots as its popularity grows. The U. S . Impact Investing Alliance recently announced the creation of two new advisory councils stocked with heavy hitters from the ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

Simons Foundation' s Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including ... the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public' s help is being enlisted in what' s thought to be the...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’ s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy operations. ... to organizations and programs in the Bay Area. (Google’ s parent company had revenue...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... Persist At Capital Region Schools In the Capital Region' s three major cities, school districts continue to see ... where 42 percent of white students passed the state' s 2017 English language arts...

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Education

‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

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08/29/2017

... during the course of our careers. Racism is evident when a new idea is only considered legitimate when the white guy in ...

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How to Improve Diversity in Corporate America

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08/29/2017

... has gone beyond Silicon Valley and Google’ s gender problem. The current impersonator-in-chief would ... Moreover, the geopolitical business scene is changing, and new business-related immigration policies...

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... in East Harlem gets a facelift every few months — a new mural painted by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed ... Aztec symbols, for example, and a piece devoted to women’ s rights on the barrier that hides...

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Opinion: Learning from Harvey and Sandy

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08/30/2017

... at risk. Recovery efforts are slowly underway and there’ s no mistaking that it will take years to get back to a sense ... a debate about who should’ve evacuated and when. Let’ s be clear, mass evacuation of...

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Environment and Climate Change

Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a ... maternity- or parental-leave policies, and it’ s time the federal government made this a...

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Democratic Group Plans Attacks on G.O.P. Efforts to Undermine Obama Health Care Law

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09/05/2017

... repeal the law, considered former President Barack Obama’ s most consequential domestic legislation, a group called ... the Affordable Care Act. The group will soon launch a new website that will be highly...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

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09/05/2017

... who hold them, yet they can strongly influence someone’ s behavior. A new study by researchers at Duke University, for example, ...

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Bike-Share Expansion in Harlem, Astoria, and Central Brooklyn Starts Next Week

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09/06/2017

... 12, Citi Bike operator Motivate will begin installing 140 new stations and 2,000 bikes in Astoria, Crown Heights, ... 49. (You can see the final station maps on the city’ s website.) Citi Bike will also add...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... the first campaigns to partner with Instagram to use their new ads in stories format for charity, EmojiMeals features ...

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Food Systems

US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... under the US health care system, so the states of Alabama, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Colorado are using the program ...

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Indian Women Speak Out About A Government Tax that Declares Certain Feminine Hygiene Products 'Nonessential'

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09/08/2017

... Last month, the Indian government rolled out a new tax plan — the Goods and Service Tax — labeling ... the rural part of the country, about 75 percent of India’ s female population, have far less access to...

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