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31 May 2012

Saving Energy: New York City’s Leading Innovations

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -

8:45am to 10:30am

New York City modified its 100-year old zoning law this month in order to promote energy efficiency and the installation of solar and other renewable power technology. Called Zone Green, it is recognized as the nation’s boldest green building plan...

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14 Mar 2019

The Green New Deal: Putting Energy to Work

Thursday, March 14, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

The Green New Deal aims to address economic inequality while building a new clean energy industry. Green jobs growth, as demonstrated by recent industry reports at the state and federal levels, can serve disadvantaged communities in New York and...

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Environment and Climate Change

Workforce Development

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Announces New Staff and Board Members

Release Date:

10/15/2020

... Foundation Announces New Staff and Board Members A Letter from Rini Banerjee, President: Dear friends and colleagues, ... Inc. Caitlyn holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from California Polytechnic...

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Jordan Joseph

Jordan Joseph serves as the Assistant Director of Learning Services at Philanthropy New York. As Assistant ... at college readiness. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and is also a member of...

The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and the Foundation Center Partner to Share Knowledge on Foundations Spending Down

Release Date:

09/23/2013

... Decision makers across the social sector will benefit from the first-hand knowledge and community of learning created by the collection... The Andrea and Charles ...

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Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.

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04/15/2014

... of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to ...

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Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free

Release Date:

01/16/2015

... cities over a period of time to share what we’ve learned from operating some the world’s largest data centers,” ...

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Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

Release Date:

02/06/2015

... “The idea for the Brooklyn Accelerator came directly from the community,” said Brooklyn Community Foundation ...

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Brooklyn Org

Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids

Release Date:

03/30/2015

... and quite a few of these scholars are getting support from the William T. Grant Foundation, which lately has been ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Strives to Provide Free Psychiatric Evaluations to 10,000 NYC Kids

Release Date:

08/21/2015

... to the U.S. census -- are affected by psychiatric and learning disorders. But the majority of them do not get ... The Healthy Brain Network received a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The...

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Inside Higher Ed Profiles Teagle Foundation Gathering on Liberal Arts and Online Education

Release Date:

04/12/2016

... to provide updates on nine projects involving blended learning -- face-to-face courses with some online content. ... conclude until 2017 and 2018, have attracted participation from more than 110 faculty...

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Carnegie Supports New Study on What Keeps Parents Up at Night

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... K-8, was conducted by Hart Research and commissioned by Learning Heroes, in collaboration with Univision ... National Urban League, NCLR and UNCF, and with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

Release Date:

06/29/2016

... near the museum entrance, ready to answer questions from visitors as soon as they comes through the app. But it's teaching the museum staff something as well: They're learning how visitors interact...

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Arts

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Weighs in: What Kids Should Know by the Time They're Done With School

Release Date:

08/30/2016

... School The Atlantic asked prominent voices in education— from policy makers and teachers to activists and parents—to ... politics, and funding and imagine a utopian system of learning . They went back to the...

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

Release Date:

11/04/2016

... is a working illustration of what can and can't be learned from different impact-measurement approaches. Commissioned by .....

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Arts

Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

Release Date:

11/29/2016

... of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew ...

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Mellon Foundation

Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results

Release Date:

06/12/2017

... also expanding services to reach more youth. Early results from the California 2018 cohort suggest a similar trajectory ... PropelNext’s emphasis on creating a data-driven learning culture has taken root and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes

Release Date:

08/18/2017

... Institute of City of Hope have received over $300,000 from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to ... to prevent or halt it. The Helmsley grant will help foster learning , collaboration and...

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Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... the students at Farmingdale are going to have a head start learning about this tech and be ramped and ready to start ... senior policy manager at Tesla, who joined officials from Farmingdale and state...

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To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... Waste Through Economics and Data (ReFED) and with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Fink Family ... ensuring students receive quality meals in schools and are learning ways to make healthy,...

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