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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library Last year, the New York Public ... library that has long been the ungainly stepsibling to the magnificent Beaux-Arts building across Fifth...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue When images of white supremacists ... The protests were powerful affirmations of our city’ s stance against racism and hatred. But even though...

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Women Lose Ground In The New York City Council, Even If Chin And Ayala Win

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09/14/2017

... A day after the primary election, two women are holding on to razor-thin leads for New York City Council seats. But even if they both survive, next year’ s City Council will have fewer women, down from 13...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... diseases we do now, but of simple injuries that led to infections. Antibiotics changed all that and yet, as ... to have created an action plan in 2015. It’ s also common enough that many...

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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’ s Green City Force Growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Edna ... free, energy-efficient light bulbs for Franklin Energy to people in her neighborhood. “With this position, I...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

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09/18/2017

... of an opioid epidemic, many insurers are limiting access to pain medications that carry a lower risk of addiction or ... and doctors have come under intense scrutiny in recent years , but the role that insurers...

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Trump Administration Rejects Study Showing Positive Impact of Refugees

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09/19/2017

... officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees ... refugee totals as President Trump faces an Oct. 1 deadline to decide on an allowable number. The...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

... Can Be More Than Just Books For all of Sunset Park’ s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque ... but really, the central air was broken and has been for years . . . Opinion: Libraries Can Be More...

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

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09/19/2017

... Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It? The international climate-fighting pact would create ... When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S . out...

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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

... Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain—in much the same way that physicists ... have together...

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Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked Provider, Manhattan Pol Warns

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09/21/2017

Health-Care Titan Centene Will Try to Duck Contraceptive Coverage With Pickup Of Church-Linked ... and health as well as Attorney General Eric Schneiderman' s office — said that Centene does not qualify for...

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If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk

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09/21/2017

If Congress Doesn’t Act Fast on Children’ s Health Insurance, Millions Could Be at Risk Last Tuesday, ... Committee announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the national Children’...

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

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09/22/2017

... Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth In an effort to reduce youth unemployment in cities ... of CA$700,000. This contribution is part of the Foundation' s...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an ... instrument that we developed over the past three years...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... hundreds of social change initiatives over multiple years and interviewed social entrepreneurs, civil society ... brings the grievances of specific individuals or groups to the forefront of public awareness...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness A few years ago, the Hudson River Park Trust floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre wavy rectangle 200 feet off ... design...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... hear a lot about the lack of diversity in philanthropy’ s upper leadership, and also about the lack of support to organizations headed by women and people of color. Well, here’ s one funder...

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

... — The recent announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of ... Care Act will not affect New York, the head of the state’ s online exchange said Thursday...

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Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

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10/02/2017

... Half the Pay Lai Yee Chan worked piece-rate in the city' s textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China ... looks nothing like the factory floor...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come? One of Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’ s major philanthropic priorities has long been ocean ... and while Johnson has been eager to...

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