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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

Women for Afghan Women (WAW), which describes itself as a “grassroots, civil society organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York,” has backing from NY foundations...

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation. The new generation of school choice policies adopted in response to legal decisions may actually be increasing school inequalities,...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Snapshot of Veterans and Health in New York State

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07/13/2017

Who are New York State's veterans? Where do they live? When did they serve? And where do they turn to for their health care needs? These are the questions the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) seeks to answer in a new snapshot of the...

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Bloomberg, Tiffany Support Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Communications

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08/03/2017

Richard Vevers worked in ad agencies for 10 years, then left to become an underwater photographer and ended up founding a not-for-profit organization called The Ocean Agency. His films of coral reefs are spreading the word about climate change...

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Clarity Needed In Clean Labeling

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08/30/2017

The “why” and “how” behind a product have become as important as the product itself, according to new research from the Nielsen Co. Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. consumers say they would switch from the food and beverage brands they currently buy to others...

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Transgender Students Find Open Door at More Women's Colleges

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09/05/2017

Ninotska Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school's 147-year history.

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Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/05/2017

Corporate giants are making big contributions to disaster relief organizations to help victims of Tropical Storm Harvey. The storm is expected to leave behind billions of dollars in damages.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

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09/06/2017

Denisse Rojas, a third-year medical student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, with a mixture...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

Party politics and constant Twitter barbs aside, the vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... and parents and children, which means this affects all of us . It drives the economy: $14 billion in estimated ...

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Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids

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09/11/2017

Increased efforts by federal immigration agents to deport undocumented immigrants have nonprofit officials worried that those clients may stop seeking services for fear of being swept up in a deportation raid. President Trump’s decision to end...

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Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of intent (LOI) is November 6, 2017 , 5:00 PM Eastern Time.

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

Food is the number one cause of poor health in America.

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Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?

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09/20/2017

The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about so often—the one he wants to help—are doing much better these days. The question is how much credit he deserves for it.

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Economic Security

DACA Recipients Scramble to Reapply, But Not All are Eligible

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09/21/2017

At a meeting in Jackson Heights, under the rumble of the 7 train, about 40 DACA recipients learned that their fate in this country depends on one date: March 5, 2018.

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

Independent charter schools view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model say they have “lost the narrative” to bigger networks.

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

Chefs Boot Camp initiative is part of the James Beard Foundation's education and outreach programming and represents a relatively new step in the culinary community: the recognition that chefs can — and should — try to influence food-systems policy...

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What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

The Walton Family Foundation recently pledged to invest more than $2 million to create new charter schools in New York City.

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance?

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Senate Republicans Say They Will Not Vote on Health Bill

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09/27/2017

... be able to do that this week, but it still lies ahead of us , and we haven’t given up on that.” . . . Senate ...

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