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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

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07/20/2017

... have implemented tobacco control policies, ranging from graphic pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking ... to implement such policies have saved millions of people from an early death. However, the...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

... (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, ... scaling of the model with a $200 million investment from the Blue Meridian Partners, a “big bet” ...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

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07/28/2017

... in an effort to calm situations that can easily move from tense to violent. The goal is to improve relations with ... crisis intervention training, but a report last summer from the U.S. Department of Justice...

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The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

... of California, Los Angeles, began collecting data from over 3,000 people from all income and education levels who work or have worked ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities

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08/17/2017

... on Climate and Cities In East Oakland, a few blocks from the home of the champion Golden State Warriors ... just environmentally, but also socially and economically. From Miami to New York, Houston to Oakland...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Supports Exhibition of Contemporary Women Abstractionists

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08/25/2017

... featuring the work of seven artists who hail from across the United States. The works defamiliarize ... artists are nuanced, time-intensive, and often drawn from unlikely modernized sources. These include “DIY...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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A Golf Center Grows in Harlem

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08/28/2017

... never held a golf club. And now here he was, a freshman from the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, competing against the top player from the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city’s ...

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The New Power of the Purse: Younger Women and the Future of Philanthropy

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08/25/2017

... decide where the family's gifts go. Now comes a study from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) suggesting ... of WPI. “Fundraisers who don’t know how to raise money from women simply will not be as...

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As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored

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08/29/2017

... James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of ... New York City, Texas and country as a whole could benefit from a candid top-to-bottom...

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Commonwealth Fund: How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Women Gain Insurance and Improved Their Ability to Get Health Care

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08/31/2017

... of adult women under age 65 without insurance climbed from 13 percent in 2001 to 20 percent in 2010 — from 11 million to 19 million women (Exhibit 1). Women who ...

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Gender Justice

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For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year

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09/07/2017

... Arrivals program, which had granted temporary protection from deportation to immigrants brought to the country at a ... me and my students,” said Mr. Ballesteros, 25, who is from the Philippines. “Today, I...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Want a date for next week? You can meet someone from the comfort of your couch. Reading about Hurricane ... to open a new tab. Many of you may have seen the prompts from Google and Facebook to donate to...

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How JPMorgan Chase Is Fueling Detroit’s Revival

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09/11/2017

... with a passerby, both of them oblivious to the horn blasts from the westbound Number 30 whose space they occupy. It’s ... image of Rust Belt stagnation; the only detail missing from the stereotype is that none...

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Community Development

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Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds

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09/12/2017

... Health — part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending, toward defense and border ... only rejected the president’s N.I.H. proposal; lawmakers from both parties have joined...

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

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09/14/2017

... The donation, which the library announced on Wednesday, is from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and is the second ... was renamed in his honor.) Together with $151 million from a longstanding city commitment,...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

... topics, like a tax overhaul. But this week, proposals from both the left and the right are grabbing headlines. ... Obamacare.) On Wednesday came a "Medicare for All" bill from Vermont Independent Sen...

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Federal Judge Urges Trump Administration to Push Back DACA Deadline

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09/15/2017

... General Jeff Sessions announced that immigrants shielded from deportation by the program, which is known as the ... Court in Brooklyn. “It would make a lot of sense from various vantage points to extend this...

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Immigration

43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says

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09/18/2017

... infection in 2015 rose to 350 cases per 100,000, up from 315 cases per 100,000 in 2014. The infection rate of ... per 100,000 in 2015, which was also a slight increase from the year before. . . 43% of City...

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Education

Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

... squat concrete frame and fluorescent lights — a far cry from the neighboring brownstones — the library draws a ... capacity crowd most days. On a recent afternoon, students from down the block and around the...

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