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RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems

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05/29/2013

The Rockefeller Foundation-funded initiative is a two-year effort to help municipalities rethink the way they design, plan, implement and finance infrastructure.

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Hartford Foundation Awards Nearly $2.3 Million in Grants

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03/20/2014

The John A. Hartford Foundation awards $2.275 million in grants to the areas of palliative care and aging-related philanthropy, reports Philanthropy News Digest.

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Teagle Foundation Awards $2.1 Million for Two New Higher Education Initiatives

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05/24/2014

... Liberal Arts Experience program and the Faculty Planning and Curricular Coherence program... Teagle ...

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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

Simons Foundation will be providing findings from its neuroscience research to the Brain Initiative.

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Whatever Happened to Obama’s ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ in NYC?

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11/12/2014

... those five nonprofits applied for and received federal planning grants of up to $500,000 for what the Obama ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

... concern expressed by boards and CEOs: succession planning . In survey after survey of nonprofit leaders succession planning comes out on top. In fact, it is mentioned twice as ...

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Several NY Donor Families Among Millionaires Asking for Tax Raise on the Wealthy

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03/23/2016

More than 40 millionaires - many associated with large NYC philanthropies - asked New York state to raise taxes on the wealthy, under what they called a “1% plan for tax fairness."

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

The Simons Foundation, founded by mathematician and hedge-fund billionaire James Simons and his wife, Marilyn, is expanding in the Flatiron District.

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Commonwealth Fund Reports Detail Impacts of Clinton and Trump Health Reform Proposals

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09/23/2016

The Commonwealth Fund recently commissioned analysts with the RAND Corporation to crunch the numbers and find out how some of the candidates’ proposals would affect health care in the U.S.

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Carnegie Corporation Seeks Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks

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09/23/2016

Through the program, Carnegie will support projects aimed at generating innovative, solutions-oriented approaches that can be taken up by government and industry.

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NYSHealth Supports Survey That Unveils Strong Appetite For Health Insurance Info—As Early As High School

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10/13/2016

In a nationwide consumer survey conducted this year for FAIR Health by ORC International, 76 percent of respondents felt people should begin understanding health insurance plans before or during high school or college.

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Milbank Memorial Fund's Koller Comments on Consequences of Dumping Essential Benefits

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03/24/2017

A last-minute attempt by conservative Republicans to dump standards for health benefits in plans sold to individuals would probably lower the average consumer’s upfront insurance costs, such as premiums and deductibles, said experts on both sides of...

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Transgender Ban Frozen as Mattis Moves Forward With New Review Of Options

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08/30/2017

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced that he is freezing the implementation of President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, saying that he will first establish a panel of experts to provide advice and recommendations on how...

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Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented

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08/31/2017

... due to Amtrak’s track upgrades was averted due to planning and communication, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday ...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

The city is seeking proposals to transform the site of the former Greenpoint Hospital — shuttered since 1982 — into hundreds of units of affordable housing, Mayor de Blasio will announce Wednesday night.

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De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

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09/21/2017

Mayor de Blasio rolled out a $10 million plan to install as many as 1,000 new electric-car charging stations throughout the city by 2020.

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Billionaires, Bruised Egos and the Death of a Grand Project

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09/25/2017

For Barry Diller, the turning point came at a Sept. 5 settlement meeting with the small band of opponents who had tied up his plans for a $250 million park and cultural center in the Hudson River for more than two years.

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Opinion: New York’s Republicans Must Resist The Obamacare Repeal And Replace Effort

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09/27/2017

The latest effort, Graham-Cassidy, is by far the worst for New York: it completely eliminates the Basic Health Plan (renamed the Essential Plan in New York), which offers excellent coverage for $46 or less to 700,000 New Yorkers.

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Johnson & Johnson Partners with Other Global Leaders to Expand HIV Treatment

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07/26/2018

Johnson & Johnson, the Elton John AIDS Foundation along with the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Unitaid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and...

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