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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

... Is Expanding On a recent afternoon, Charlene Davis sat in a dimly lit room across from the holding cells on the ... for jail. Ms. Davis, who works for a criminal justice nonprofit contracted by the city, was...

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Justice Reform

New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

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09/05/2017

... be problems for fast-growing cities. Cities like Chennai in China, which in December 2015 experienced its worst rainfall in 100 years, are now building out urban water infrastructure ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation

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09/07/2017

... initiative that later spun off into a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit known as the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, or ... gap for young men and boys of color. As he launched MBK in 2014, he prefaced his...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping and that problems in the endowment would “require time to overcome.” That ... by Cambridge Associates, which manages...

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Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production

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09/26/2017

... AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production In May 2015, the entertainment producer Harvey Weinstein ... a condition: $600,000 of the money raised at the auction, in Cannes, France, would go to the...

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Jewish Group Slams Mayor De Blasio’s Free School Lunch Plan for Not Offering Kosher Foods

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10/02/2017

... lunch plan isn’t kosher — and that’s left many in the city’s Jewish community bellyaching about a program ... city students. But Jewish advocates say 30,000 students in yeshivas aren’t getting the free meals...

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Education

‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim ... and their tactics helped to drive down crime in East New York and the South Bronx, two neighborhoods ... 18...

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Justice Reform

12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... The guidelines, which the Waterfront Alliance launched in 2015, will soon go national, the nonprofit ’s president and CEO Roland Lewis said. . . 12 ...

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New York Is Betting $155 Million That It Can Cut Evictions

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10/03/2017

... That It Can Cut Evictions At New York City's housing court in downtown Brooklyn, where judges preside over landlord-tenant disputes, about 30 people stand in line, waiting to speak to a clerk. They’re...

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Housing and Homelessness

Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... a barrier success. "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the equality of opportunity," Buffett ... conference in Omaha. Buffett...

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Former Microsoft CEO and Wife Pledge $60 Million to Fight Social Inequality

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10/05/2017

... years to a program created by StriveTogether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve education for low-income ... centers on reducing racial and socioeconomic disparities in educational success and...

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Economic Security

Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U.S. with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor communities have a foothold in the bond market. There are $...

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

... school diploma. But less attention is paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some education or training ... York Association of Training & Employment Professionals, a nonprofit group...

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Workforce Development

Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality

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12/12/2017

... non-profit counterparts. They argue the bill, passed in the waning days of this year's legislative session and now .....

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

... Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods ... Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and...

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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards Grants for Arts Writing

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12/03/2018

... a total of $725,000. Administered by the New York–based nonprofit Creative Capital, the grants support critical ... perspectives,” foundation president Joel Wachs said in a statement. “Critical writing on...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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UJA-Federation of New York Mobilizes 3,000 Volunteers for 70 Service Projects on MLK Day

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01/16/2019

... January 21, more than 3,000 New Yorkers will participate in UJA-Federation of New York’s third region-wide MLK ... carry out approximately70 service projects to help people in New York City, Long Island, and...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces New David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center

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06/05/2019

... reuse of the Orangerie, built by John D. Rockefeller in 1908 on the historic Rockefeller family estate and bequeathed to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1979 by...

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