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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

... ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund. The ... began giving solely to nonprofit groups in the United States — no mosques, no overseas...

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Can Business Save The World from Climate Change?

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09/06/2017

Can Business Save The World from Climate Change? "We are still in." On June 5, with these four words a group of ... earlier, but corporate America was not following suit. "We Are Still In"...

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Twin Megastorms Have Scientists Fearing This May Be The New Normal

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09/07/2017

... of emergency. For Donald Trump, these twin megastorms are a source of awe. “Hurricane looks like largest ever ... posted of Harvey last week. But for many scientists they are a worrying sign of a “new normal”...

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Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?

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09/08/2017

Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and leveraging the foundation’s influence to create new public-...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... — the learning loss that often occurs when students are out of school for two months. It’s a serious problem. ...

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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline

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09/15/2017

... undocumented immigrants to apply to stay in the United States under an Obama-era program that the White House ...

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J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million

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09/18/2017

It started as a relatively modest (well, relative to where it ended up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, born partially out of a kind heart and partially out of desperation when he couldn't be there to help in person. And in the end, it can be...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It? The international ... U.S. out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are still in.” These corporate titans and at least 22...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way ... 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a...

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With Its 'No Dancing' Law Verging On Repeal, New York Legitimizes Its Nightlife

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... of the nightlife industry and local communities, and are modeled after similar initiatives in London, Amsterdam ...

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

Andrus Family Fund appoints Edgar Villanueva, Vice President of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to its board.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... media to avoid “the tsunami of confusion.” All of them are recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood ... protects undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation...

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Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... changes to Philadelphia’s criminal justice system that are afoot, city officials are working with top data scientists to develop a ...

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Justice Reform

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Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

... the Women's March. In record numbers, more and more of us are becoming engaged in the political process, advocating ... the country, ever larger numbers of community leaders are working daily to organize...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

These days, to achieve maximum buzz, a policy idea needs the right combination of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has recently offered the headiest brew of that mix, for both the...

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New York Landlord Fined $500,000 in Tenant Harassment Probe

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09/28/2017

A New York City landlord will have to pay $500,000 and address a number of building violations as part of a settlement over alleged harassment of tenants, officials said.

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Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... thanking donors easier and less costly. Some organizations are investing heavily in online fundraising platforms ... donation process on their own website. Other organizations are transitioning from direct...

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Immigration Agents Arrest Hundreds in Sweep of Sanctuary Cities

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... four-day nationwide operation targeting cities that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement said give ... and where its requests to take those arrested into custody are not honored. The operation...

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Opinion: Take a Resistance Break

Release Date:

10/04/2017

When our social fabric and civil society itself are fraying, all of us should be asking ourselves how we can transform our lifelong skills into the protection of our most fundamental values, and each other.

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Nonprofits Help Shift Mayor De Blasio's Opinion On Closing Rikers, Commission Leaders Say

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10/05/2017

... which houses primarily low-income people of color who are unable to pay bail as they await their trial date. The ...

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