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Abraham Paulous Challenges the Immigration to Incarceration Pipeline

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04/06/2017

... Incarceration Pipeline Abraham Paulous, Executive Director of Families for Freedom, tracks the concepts of “citizenship,” “documentation,” and the changing face of immigration throughout...

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NY Women’s Foundation Points Out Gender Issues that Need Addressing in Rikers’ Reform

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05/11/2017

... more deeply about the people who end up there. The number of women in the American justice system increased by more ... from the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Supported Criminal Justice Mentorship Program Scales across Country

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05/02/2018

... Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, the Department of Probation funded 19 community-based organizations to hire ... young people designated as "high risk" by the Department of Probation...

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Kathryn Snyder and maisha quint to Lead Criminal Justice Grantmaking Strategy at The Libra Foundation

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08/25/2019

... Francisco-based Libra Foundation has announced the hiring of Kathryn Snyder , Senior Program Officer, and maisha quint ... programmatic, philanthropic, and legal support to a range of criminal justice-focused...

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The Future is Now: The Need for Health Information Exchange

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04/30/2012

... information technology has emerged as a key building block of the nation's health reform agenda, and since 2006, New York State has invested more than $450 million to develop a robust ... overall health...

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Four charter schools will be launched under initiative started by Mayor Bloomberg

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03/05/2013

The state Education Department has received applications to open the schools as part of the mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative, which is funded by ... is backing — and also wants to bankroll — the creation of...

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Tech industry booming in New York

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04/28/2014

... in New York, with growth outpacing overall city economy: state controller The tech sector in New York added 25,000 jobs from 2009 to 2013 — a growth rate of 33% compared with 8% for the city during the same...

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Deadline approaching: NYSHealth's 10th Anniversary Awards Program Nominations/Applications

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06/01/2016

... To mark its 10th anniversary in 2016, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) has created two special awards programs to recognize a total of ten influential organizations and/or leaders working to...

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Century Foundation Publishes Report on Reducing Economic Inequality

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08/11/2016

... not been this bad in almost a century—not since the end of the 1920s, just before the country crashed into the Great Depression. Today, despite maintaining one of the highest per-capita national Gross Domestic...

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Asharoken Storm Protection Project to Be Reviewed, Officials Say

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08/29/2017

... Protection Project to Be Reviewed, Officials Say New York State officials will ask the Army Corps of Engineers to reopen a project to protect Asharoken that ... agree on terms, Rep. Thomas Suozzi said Monday...

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap About Grantmaking for People with Disabilities

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11/05/2010

... funder can, and should, be a disability funder. A group of New York grantmakers and advocates gathered [on October ... is a good starting point for funders seeking additional resources as they explore this...

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U.S. Quietly Announces Plan To Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Accounts, Search Histories

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09/28/2017

... Social Media Accounts, Search Histories The Department of Homeland Security intends to monitor the social media accounts and internet search history of legal immigrants as part of a new...

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Carnegie "Opportunity by Design" Schools To Help Immigrant Students

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07/17/2014

... Immigrant Students Two new high schools will open in 2015 in Prince George’s County, Md., as part of Carnegie Corporation of New York's Opportunity by Design initiative, an effort to .....

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals Support from the Wallace Foundation ... for the city's schools. Among the stipulations of the foundation's grant: a significant...

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The Commonwealth Fund Recaps Health Care in 2014

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12/23/2014

... before the ball drops in Times Square. Don’t expect 2015 to be any more tranquil than 2014. For health care reformers, the old adage of “be careful what you wish for” comes to mind. Hang on ...

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to U.S.-based ... innovation. The Prize will...

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... are succeeding in fields that may not even be conscious of the gender imbalances. These imbalances manifest themselves in the number of women that are invited to speak at conferences, the ... of...

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NYCT Seeks Applicants for the Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program

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03/12/2015

... the Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program The ninth cycle of the New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards ... now at http://npexcellence.fcny.org and are due on May 1, 2015 ; application clinics,...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the grant will support implementation of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and the Tobacco...

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