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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... in the video may be extreme, but they are not isolated. All across America, schools predominantly serving students of ... seem designed to prepare students for lives in jail. We've all heard the stories:...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Org

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

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03/15/2016

... people. According to Rockefeller Foundation research, all the food that never makes it from farm to table could feed all of the 1.2 billion hungry or undernourished people on the ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment

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03/28/2017

... Council of Nonprofits is putting out an urgent call to all nonprofits and foundations to sign on to a Community ... awareness of this issue. This is a bi-partisan issue and all legislative staff we talked to...

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PNY News

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Supported by Capital One, Bloomberg and Other Funders, Apache Recognizes Innovations Integral to Panama Papers Investigation

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04/17/2017

... Investigation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all -volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more ... of the Panama Papers. Established in 1999, the all -volunteer Foundation oversees more than...

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Technology

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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

... with residue from conditions of neglected communities, all of which create systemic barriers to their academic and ... of healthier living and learning communities that provide all students an opportunity to...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Education

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... was most widely reported by men of color, with women of all backgrounds experiencing significantly more unfairness than men of all backgrounds. According to the study, this unfairness ...

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Commonwealth Fund Issues Brief on the Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access

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05/08/2017

... ACA expanded Medicaid coverage in participating states to all nonelderly adults with incomes below 133 percent of the ... between insurance coverage and access to care. Virtually all have found that people...

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A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others

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05/23/2017

... East Village in mid-April, promising to donate 100% of all profits to charities whose missions might be affected by ... now includes Fetch eyewear in Portland, Oregon, which puts all proceeds toward animal...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions to women, the Army developed ... to ensure that recruits entering the infantry were all treated the same. Still smarting over...

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Gender Justice

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

... public and private partnerships: it will cost money. All told, the estimate is in the trillions, which neither ... improvement committed $22.1 billion to 8,000 investments. All told, the emerging industry,...

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New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance Award $750K in Grants to Middle School Out-of-School Time

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06/21/2017

... school students reach ninth grade on time. Recipients are all afterschool, summer and expanded learning programs, ... part of a nationwide competitive application process. In all , $750,000 went to 18 Aim High...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign In honor of all that fathers do to help raise and nurture their children ... consists of two short films that feature eight couples, all of whom have...

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Science

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Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

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07/17/2017

... baby boom population ages, more people in the U.S.—and all over the world—are living with age-related disabilities ... short, failing to deliver indicated services reliably to all who could benefit. In...

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

... Angeles, began collecting data from over 3,000 people from all income and education levels who work or have worked in all types of jobs. What they discovered about how we work may ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Declaration Of Principles Across Hockey Takes NHL Where Other Pro Leagues Ought To Go

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09/08/2017

... Federation, along with 14 major organizations across all levels of hockey signed on to a Declaration of Principles ... stakeholder had its own business worldview and activities, all were interested in “growing...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... for reelection, four of them due to term limits. Notably, all five are women of color: Rosie Mendez, Melissa ... Mark-Viverito, Annabel Palma, and Darlene Mealy are all term-limited and Julissa Ferreras-...

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Standing Up For Housing Equality

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09/13/2017

... versus white; it’s a call to end segregation based on all things: race, income, social status, and is supported by local residents of all colors and beliefs. NYCC is a coalition of working ...

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Housing and Homelessness

NYC Schools Are Inadequate on Sex Education, Stringer Says

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09/15/2017

... Says The New York City comptroller’s office said not all middle and high school students are being taught sex ... are not licensed, the audit said. Further, only 7.6 of all health instructors participated in...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like CVDs, cancer, and diabetes represent about 70 percent of all deaths worldwide, with 80 percent of...

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