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The New York Times Is Looking for Nonprofit Funding. Will It Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

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09/05/2017

"Fractured Lands," a prodigious New York Times Magazine piece last year on the chaos in the Middle East, was an inadvertent window onto a fractured business model. It was thus relevant that Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joseph...

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’ s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid The clock is ticking. Community ... until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the...

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Community Development

Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... built vast cities. We appropriate about half the planet’ s accessible fresh water and nearly half the desert-free land surface to feed ourselves. The results are evident at a ... to hundreds of “dead zones”...

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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

... helping a group of auto-repair shops that occupied the land move to a new home in the Bronx. Four years later, the ... business owners appears to have been for naught. “It’ s a waste of the city’ s...

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Community Development

The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

... And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy There’ s been no shortage of news stories over the last several ...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

... to the violent civil war. Today, they live in a foreign land , impoverished, unable to pursue their careers or support ... refugees; approximately 1 in 4 persons of the country’ s 4.4 million is now a refugee...

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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

... Warehousing’ Next? When DeBoRah Dickerson says “it’ s been a journey,” she means it both figuratively and ... the five boroughs—both efforts to count the city’ s vacant buildings and lots. For over a decade,...

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Housing and Homelessness

East Harlem Rezoning Approved by Planning Commission, Moves to City Council

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10/03/2017

... Commission approved the De Blasio administration’ s proposed rezoning of East Harlem. There was one abstention ... would upzone major avenues while adding several other land controls, including contextual...

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The JPB Foundation Supports Creation of ParkServe Database

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05/01/2018

... Creation of ParkServe Database Today, The Trust for Public Land launched www.ParkServe.TPL.org , providing free, ... a goal which has been endorsed by more than 200 U. S . mayors. The ParkServe site lets users...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, which will include roughly a dozen two-year visiting faculty fellowships, according to Gennifer Weisenfeld, dean of the humanities at Duke.

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NY State Health Foundation Sees Need to Educate Consumers on State Obamacare Offerings

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11/02/2015

... she says doesn’t last her very long. There is rent, food , clothing and day-care for her 2-year old son. So ... want to take away from expenses I have to pay such as food and the light bill and rent.” . . ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

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03/15/2016

... one third of it into the trash. Welcome to the global food supply chain of 2016, a vast system in quiet crisis ... our planet and protect profits. By 2050, the earth’ s population will have swelled to an...

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ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide

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03/16/2017

... Certification Guide The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’ s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their part to help farmers raising animals—as well as food companies,...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards University of Glasgow Over $1.1M to Tackle Crohn's Disease in Children and Adults With a Novel Diet

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07/30/2019

... Awards University of Glasgow Over $1.1M to Tackle Crohn' s Disease in Children and Adults With a Novel Diet The ... to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel, regular solid food -based diet to improve...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Justice Reform Working Group

... in history in which strategically deployed philanthropic resources might make a significant difference. In response to ... Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’ s Opioid Epidemic (September...

Wil Priester joins Arabella Advisors as CFO; Shelley Whelpton to Lead Arabella Advisors' Mid-Atlantic Practice

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10/15/2013

... in Washington, DC. Wil Priester will oversee Arabella' s finance and operations teams with a focus on aligning ... systems and operational policies to better serve Arabella' s clients. He comes to...

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Century Foundation’s Li to Chair Philanthropy New York Board

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06/09/2015

Century Foundation’ s Li to Chair Philanthropy New York Board As PNY Prepares for ... Ana Oliveira , President and CEO, The New York Women ’ s Foundation Patricia Swann , Senior Program Officer...

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The New York Community Trust

26 Oct 2016

Members Want to Know: How Are the Policy Fellows Doing?

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... but it is meant primarily to support Philanthropy New York' s commitment to growing diverse leadership in the ... Patricia Eng , Vice President of Programs, The New York Women ’ s...

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Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations, Including the Ford Foundation, Commit Unprecendented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations

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09/24/2020

... and regional initiative to recognize “America’ s Cultural Treasures.” Together, the funders will grant ... that have been impactful, despite historically limited resources and funding streams. They, along with...

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