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De Blasio drafts biz execs to push pre-K tax

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01/29/2014

... Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, have signed on to Mayor de Blasio' s plan to raise taxes to fund citywide pre-K and after-school programs, reported Crain...

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Education

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Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... Month In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest that LGBT History Month was founded a mere decade ... there at the start, more than two decades ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.” In...

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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders Just as parents are not the root of all their children’ s problems, a single gene mutation can’t be blamed for...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... Are Rethinking Mealtime The day before students returned to class this month, New York City officials announced that ... and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address school meal debt —...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers

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12/07/2017

... of health care revenues reported by the five largest U. S . commercial health insurance companies (UnitedHealthCare, ... Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, Humana), according to a new Health Affairs study supported by the...

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UJA-Federation To Launch Largest Anti-Poverty Push In Its History

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01/31/2018

UJA-Federation To Launch Largest Anti-Poverty Push In Its History In the ... of New York launched Connect to Care. It was the charity’ s central response to the economic...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Food Systems

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MAC AIDS Fund Survey Shows Kids Don't Know Enough About AIDS

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12/05/2014

... 12-17 don’t think they’re at risk for getting HIV at some point in their life. One of their board members of the ... organization, Andy Frye, joined the board when he was 18 years old to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $75 Million for Smart Power India Project

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04/16/2015

... pledged $75 million as part of its new initiative to use renewable energy based mini-grids not just to light up ... renewable energy companies, government agencies and even some not-for-...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Arcus and Other Organizations Shift Focus to Stop LGBTQ Violence and Intolerance

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10/02/2015

Arcus and Other Organizations Shift Focus to Stop LGBTQ Violence and Intolerance When the Supreme ... same-sex marriage, it was mission accomplished for Freedom to Marry. The 12-year-old nonprofit, after all, had...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... each year. Many quickly get into trouble again and return to custody. The beleaguered prisoner reentry effort is getting some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New ... drug violations and are...

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Justice Reform

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Following Ford's Lead, Another Foundation Goes All In on Equity

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08/17/2016

Following Ford' s Lead, Another Foundation Goes All In on Equity Yesterday, ... join the Ford Foundation, which made a similar commitment to address inequality a little more than a year ago. The ... grants...

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

... a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’ s 56-year history — that will be used to continue exploring an ambitious range of projects aimed at ... scientists to delve into the...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

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12/13/2016

... $5.2 trillion in assets have committed to — and in some cases already started — divesting from fossil fuel ... according to a report released on Monday. That’ s a huge sum...

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

... Perceptions of Trump Jermaine Anderson keeps going back to the same memory of Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, referring to some Mexican immigrants as...

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F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000

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08/31/2017

... first-ever treatment that genetically alters a patient’ s own cells to fight cancer, a milestone that is expected to transform treatment in the coming years . The new therapy...

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The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy

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09/12/2017

The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy In an article published earlier ... in lasting change. But starting this process presents some challenges. What’ s the first step? And...

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Billionaire Diller’s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead

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09/14/2017

Billionaire Diller’ s Plan for Elaborate Pier in the Hudson is Dead Diller Island is dead. After years of toe- to -toe battling with a small band of critics and ... which has become one of the top...

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Unorthodox CEO Reinvigorates Decades-Old Jewish Charity

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09/18/2017

... CEO Reinvigorates Decades-Old Jewish Charity Despite his years behind a university lectern, David Schizer isn’t one to speechify. So he spoke for only a few minutes at a recent ... "I apologize if this is...

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