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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

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11/17/2015

... on aging populations: a $177 million grant to create a new institute to study dementia. The new organization, the Global Brain Health Institute, will be ...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated ... Bloomberg, the businessman, philanthropist and former New York mayor, has agreed to donate...

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Newly-Named Soros Fellows for 2016 Include Six Indian Americans

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04/14/2016

... The 18th annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans were announced April 12 and included six Indian ... the 30 recipients. The graduate school Fellowship for New Americans — for immigrants and...

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

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10/06/2016

... smaller expenses, than do whites or Asians, according to a new GenForward poll. And more than half of millennials ... the poll released this week. This information comes from a new GenForward survey of young...

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Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List

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03/29/2017

... president, millions of women marched in Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities across the country and around ... the rights of women and others who felt threatened by the new administration. Of...

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Gender Justice

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Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11

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05/07/2014

... Discrimination After 9/11 In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Farhana Khera , president & ... as a little girl growing up in a small town in Upstate New York, freely...

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven hospitals and health ... collected from 31 clinics across nine health systems in New York City, revealing considerable...

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, ... said in a prepared statement. “The Shed will help New York achieve all three goals.” . . ...

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NYC Youth Funders Accepting RFPs for 2017 Cycle

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06/02/2017

... Located in and serving primarily populations in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut Annual local budget under $2.5 ...

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IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

... giant announced the launch of Science for Social Good, a new program that partners IBM researchers with postdoctoral ... to take on societal issues through data. With the new initiative, IBM announced 12...

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Technology

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Bloomberg, Tiffany Support Ocean Conservation and Climate Change Communications

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08/03/2017

... organization called The Ocean Agency. Vevers stars in a new documentary, Chasing Coral, which won the Sundance ... Netflix in mid-July. He recently sat down with Adweek in New York during a press tour for the...

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Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... has raised approximately $1.5 million, according to New York City Housing Authority Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye. ... with tech startups, plans for the construction of new playgrounds, efforts to create a “...

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

... of Buildings more than $25,000 in fines from pulling new construction permits, measures that expand the definition ... the civil penalties for it. “Sometimes it feels like in New York City that this city is...

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Bloomberg, Gateses, and Other Big Donors Race to Fill Void of Clinton Global Meeting

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09/05/2017

... of the nation’s major philanthropists will gather in New York next month to coincide with the United Nations ... Bloomberg, Jeff Skoll, and Bill and Melinda Gates hold new gatherings that promise to update...

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Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. As a city, we do not take kindly to anything ... for all of us across the United States, but especially in New York — the ultimate...

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Immigration

Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

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09/06/2017

... Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up A majority of New York voters believe Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War icons ...

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Community Development

USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

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09/06/2017

... by the 2014 Farm Bill. “Agricultural science depends on new ideas and new perspectives,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. ...

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Food Systems

City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council ... up from 30 days under current law. Another bill would let New Yorkers up to age 25 stay...

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What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding

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09/11/2017

... to school and the data point is $66 billion: the amount New York's school districts received in revenue during the ... talks with Ben to bust myths about school overcrowding in New York City. Listen to...

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