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Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Board recommended the NYPD discipline the cop who used a banned chokehold in the death of Eric Garner in Staten ... Island three years ago. The CCRB sent letters to Garner’ s family and the...

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Justice Reform

Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere

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09/11/2017

... upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report. New York' s unemployment rate is at 4.8 percent and more than 9 million New Yorkers were part of the workforce...

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Economic Security

Record Level of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight

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09/14/2017

... of Job Openings Doesn’t Mean the Labor Market is Tight A record-high level of job openings might overstate tightness ... openings at the end of July, up by nearly 200,000...

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Workforce Development

Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... earned an 8.1 percent return for its most recent fiscal year . The endowment’ s new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping...

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At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... of Mayor Bill de Blasio has steadily expanded the city’ s interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel ... officers. The...

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Justice Reform

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... online journals. The idea for the program, launched last year with the help of a $1. 2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, came out of...

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Trump Plans 45,000 Limit on Refugees Admitted to U.S.

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09/27/2017

Trump Plans 45,000 Limit on Refugees Admitted to U. S . President Trump plans to cap refugee admissions at 45,000 over the next year , according to current and former government officials briefed on the decision,...

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De Blasio’s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule

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09/28/2017

De Blasio’ s ‘Homeless Hotels’ Plan Is Way Behind Schedule Nearly two years after Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to create 15,000 units of supportive housing to deal ... least 250 units would...

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De Blasio Taps Acting Commissioner Vincent Sapienza To Head Department of Environmental Protection

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10/03/2017

... of the Department of Environmental Protection, more than a year after the last permanent head left. Sapienza, a ... after a medical leave...

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Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?

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10/10/2017

... suggest the opposite should be happening. The city' s unemployment rate has been trending down since 2008 and is ... one- to four-family homes as of the second quarter of this ...

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Ford Foundation and Citi Fund Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation

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10/17/2017

... $22.3 Million Renovation The New York Public Library’ s renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in ... celebrated the reopening of several renovated spaces after a nearly two...

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William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research

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05/04/2018

... on Inequality Research The foundation will award grants of up to $600,000 over two or three years in support of research designed to build, test, and increase understanding of approaches to...

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Four Early Career Researchers Selected for 2019 William T. Grant Scholars Program

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05/15/2019

... Scholars Program We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 William T. Grant Scholars awards. Launched in ... the Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising researchers in...

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The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation Announces Desiree Vazquez Barlatt as New Program Officer

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07/12/2021

... is delighted to welcome Desiree Vazquez Barlatt as a new Program Officer. Most recently, Desiree served as Director of Strategic Partnerships for CUNY' s Office of K-16...

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Jessie Smith Noyes At Top of the List of Family Foundations Who Fund Social Justice Work

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10/07/2015

... sector in funding social justice initiatives, a report from the National Committee for Responsive ... of Foundation Center data on the thousand largest U. S . foundations, the report, Families...

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Rippel Foundation: What We Discovered at “The Frontiers” about Financing and Leading Improvements in Health

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12/18/2015

... space, the metaphor of the frontier has always served as a touchstone for American optimism. ReThink Health, an ... project allowed us to test and confirm ReThink Health’ s learnings to date...

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03 Aug 2017

FAN Brown Bag Lunch: The Work Life Juggle

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... meetings, the Foundation Administrators Network hosts a summer brown bag lunch series. Rather than have a set ... staff member is important at every level, and it’ s vital that an environment...

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12 Jun 2018

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Building Relationships and Successful Networking

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... sits next to you or someone who works on the other side of the world, building relationships is crucial to achieving ... supportive relationships with other professionals. It is a great way of...

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Reception

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A Primer on Nonprofit Mergers & Sustained Collaborations - New Report Published by SeaChange Capital Partners

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11/24/2021

A Primer on Nonprofit Mergers & Sustained Collaborations - ... collaboration; we want to know we are not alone. It’ s a disservice that we tend to focus on mergers and sustained ... build...

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