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

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Get the Credit? The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about so often—the one he ... by economist James Parrott of the Center for New York City Affairs. Real median family...

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De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

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09/21/2017

... as 1,000 new electric-car charging stations throughout the city by 2020. The plan, which aims to have one new charging ... 2018, is part of a larger effort to have one-fifth of all city vehicles be electric by...

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Environment and Climate Change

NYC’s Fiscally Troubled Public-Hospital System Gets New CEO

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09/25/2017

... Bill de Blasio has chosen a new official to lead New York City ’s sprawling, fiscally troubled public-hospital system. ... official told The Wall Street Journal. The New York City agency has been without a...

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Health

Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

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09/26/2017

... Sandy victims have dropped out in droves from the city ’s Build It Back recovery program, new data shows. An analysis by City Controller Scott Stringer found steep declines in many ...

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Community Development

Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city ’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program they ... funded program on Sept. 6, promising free meals for all city students. But Jewish advocates say 30,...

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Mayor De Blasio Eyes 'Ideal' Queens Site For New Jail As Rikers Shuts Down

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10/03/2017

... as Rikers Island shuts down. After eleven borough City Council members backed the Queens Detention Complex as a ... spokeswoman Natalie Grybauskas told the Daily News Monday City Hall likes the idea. “...

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Justice Reform

New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions At New York City 's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges ... Ninety-nine percent of landlords in New York City eviction cases have lawyers. Just...

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Housing and Homelessness

Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

... I do think there is a level of injustice in the city , around the state of New York, around the country. I ...

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Education

NYPD: Serious Crime Drops at Record-Breaking Pace In September

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10/04/2017

... at Record-Breaking Pace In September Crime in New York City fell at a record-breaking rate in September, the NYPD ... offenses than September 2016, the records showed. The city had 20 homicides in September...

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Justice Reform

24 Sep 2015

Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits

Thursday, September 24, 2015 -

9:00am to 12:15pm

... Media Impact Funders Public Policy Communicators NYC Resources Suggested reading materials: Personal Affect: ...

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Century Foundation Scholar Releases Report on The Future of Statewide College Promise Programs

Release Date:

03/07/2018

The report provides guiding principles for state policymakers considering new Promise programs.

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Member News

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Education

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The Century Foundation

18 Apr 2019

Through the Eyes of Children - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... how children are experiencing new policies and how those working closest with children are working to give voice to their trauma and create ...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Immigration

The Future of ‘Zipcode as Destiny': Three Scenarios

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01/14/2016

... West Side of Manhattan. Place—separate from but also working in concert with other drivers of poverty and ... new types of digital divides might emerge? Are those of us working to help address poverty,...

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Insights

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Economic Security

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Recording: "Sing Sing": A Special Film Screening & Conversation on Art, Incarceration, and Systemic Change

... as well as leaders from The Legal Aid Society and RTA. Together , we will explore the power of storytelling and the ...

How We're Addressing the Overhead Fiction

Release Date:

11/24/2015

... seven thematic areas, operating both within the areas and across them. At the same time, even outside the BUILD ... the actual operating costs of nonprofit organizations working in the US and internationally...