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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative

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03/30/2017

... New Critical Theory Initiative Using a $1.02 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern will ... program plans to change that by working with professionals from the Global South, which...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

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04/06/2017

... Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary Stage Company announces ...

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NYS Health Foundation Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients

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05/18/2017

... Medicine, will now be able to view their physician’ s appointment notes in order to better understand their care. ... initiative, called OpenNotes, is funded in part by a grant from the New York State Health...

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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

... and other minority groups extends beyond pensions, 401(k) s or other retirement accounts. The survey shows older white ... likely to collect Social Security benefits, inherit money from their families or...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Up to $15 Million to Fill the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty

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06/02/2017

... Up to $15 Million to Fill the Budget Gap Left by Trump’ s Revoking U. S . Support For U.N. Climate Treaty Michael R. Bloomberg, the ... result of President Donald Trump’ s announced withdrawal...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Snapshot of Veterans and Health in New York State

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07/13/2017

... and Health in New York State Who are New York State' s veterans? Where do they live? When did they serve? And ... (NYSHealth) seeks to answer in a new snapshot of the State' s veteran population...

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Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs

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08/25/2017

... FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs A grant from Citi Foundation helped Florida International University ... at below-market rates. The target audience: entrepreneurs from low- and moderate-...

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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

... afternoon, Charlene Davis sat in a dimly lit room across from the holding cells on the lower level of Bronx Criminal Court. A phone on her desk lit up with calls from family members, often frantic, asking...

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Justice Reform

Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

Traces of Crime: How New York’ s DNA Techniques Became Tainted Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City’ s chief medical examiner emerged as a pioneer in analyzing the most...

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Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy

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09/06/2017

... and bringing charges, during an interview with WNYC' s Brian Lehrer. He said the policy only applies to low-level ... low-level offenses can be very critical to prevent them from getting citizenship,...

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... is trying to tackle some of the stigma that keeps people from seeking help, or from offering help. It seeks to educate New Yorkers about ...

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How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

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09/11/2017

... of sea level rise or increments of warming on the globe' s thermometer be attributed to specific energy companies? A ... a quarter of sea level rise and about half the warming from 1880 to 2010 can be...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time

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09/12/2017

... On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time The U. S . federal government' s gross debt surpassed $20 trillion on Friday, according to a daily Treasury statement. The debt jumped from...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Amid Hurricane Chaos, Domestic Abuse Victims Risk Being Overlooked

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09/12/2017

... domestic violence face a unique challenge: seeking safety from their abusers. Most evacuees are seeking shelter but ... in disarray and are likely to increase any person’ s or family’ s...

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New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing

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09/12/2017

... fund dedicated to affordable housing, the company’ s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors. The fund, which will acquire, improve and ... including the Ford Foundation, Deutsche...

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Housing and Homelessness

Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business

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09/12/2017

... Responsibility To Drive Business Remember Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall Street? Little did we know then how ... and a worldwide financial crisis lambasted the world’ s economy a few years ago. But it also...

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Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business

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09/15/2017

... As addiction has grown, so have for-profit rehab centers, from those sponsored by massive corporations to little ... people seeking help, they advertise online, and Google’ s AdWords program is a key part of...

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Whitney Museum Wants To Bring A Permanent Art Installation To The Hudson River

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09/21/2017

... for its own permanent Hudson River installation, not far from where Pier 55 would’ve taken shape, reports The New ... would sit at the edge of Gansevoort Peninsula, not far from the museum’ s...

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The GOP Tax Plan: Tough Choices With Limited Room to Maneuver

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09/26/2017

... of tax cuts inside a $1.5 trillion box. This week’ s planned release of a unified GOP blueprint from the Senate, the House and the Trump administration marks ... down the corporate tax rate into the low 20%...

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