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Doris Duke Launches Land Trust Climate Initiative

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01/24/2017

... How do you protect a dwindling species when it’s fled from its changing habitat? Large green groups and funders are ... that conservation efforts have often drawn supporters from across the ideological...

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Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust

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01/31/2017

... devastation of addiction, has received a $600,000 grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The ... Shatterproof to support its work in protecting loved ones from addiction to illicit...

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... Racial Justice Recommendation A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown ... this past September of a report containing recommendations from the university’s Working...

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Social Justice

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Supported by Greenwall Foundation, Study Finds Two-Thirds Of Americans See Docs Who Got Paid By Drug Companies

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03/07/2017

... the United States visited a doctor who received payments from drug companies, but most have no clue about it, ... within the last year who had received payments or gifts from pharmaceutical or medical device...

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Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe

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03/23/2017

... in Eastern Europe say they have also drawn inspiration from the United States, particularly from rightwing U.S. media like the website Breitbart, which ...

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.02 Million to New Critical Theory Initiative

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03/30/2017

... New Critical Theory Initiative Using a $1.02 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern will ... program plans to change that by working with professionals from the Global South, which...

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Education

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

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04/06/2017

... Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary Stage Company announces ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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NYS Health Foundation Grant Supports NewYork Quality Care Roll Out of OpenNotes to 30,000+ Patients

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05/18/2017

... initiative, called OpenNotes, is funded in part by a grant from the New York State Health Foundation. “We believe in ... director of NewYork Quality Care. “With this grant from the New York State Health...

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New York Health Foundation

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Sloan Foundation-Supported Poll Finds Blacks Less Likely to Have Enough for Retirement

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05/18/2017

... likely to collect Social Security benefits, inherit money from their families or receive income from the sale of a home or other physical assets. . . Sloan ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Up to $15 Million to Fill the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty

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06/02/2017

... result of President Donald Trump’s announced withdrawal from the Paris agreement and proposed steep budget cuts for ... including on climate. “Americans are not walking away from the Paris Climate Agreement,”...

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Environment & Sustainability

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Snapshot of Veterans and Health in New York State

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07/13/2017

... call New York State home. The aggregated data, compiled from recently released information from the Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Census Bureau, ...

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Serving Up Success: Citi Foundation Grant Funds FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs

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08/25/2017

... FIU Assistance to Food and Beverage Entrepreneurs A grant from Citi Foundation helped Florida International University ... at below-market rates. The target audience: entrepreneurs from low- and moderate-...

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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To Shrink Jail Population, a Bail Program Is Expanding

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08/30/2017

... afternoon, Charlene Davis sat in a dimly lit room across from the holding cells on the lower level of Bronx Criminal Court. A phone on her desk lit up with calls from family members, often frantic, asking...

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Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

... as a pioneer in analyzing the most complicated evidence from crime scenes. It developed two techniques, which went ... F.B.I. and other public labs, for making identifications from DNA samples that were tiny...

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Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy

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09/06/2017

... low-level offenses can be very critical to prevent them from getting citizenship," he explained. "It can prevent them from being allowed reentry if they leave the country and go .....

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... is trying to tackle some of the stigma that keeps people from seeking help, or from offering help. It seeks to educate New Yorkers about ...

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How Much Did These 90 Companies Add to Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

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09/11/2017

... a quarter of sea level rise and about half the warming from 1880 to 2010 can be traced back to just 90 corporations. ... two-thirds of historical greenhouse gas emissions came from the products and operations...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation CEO Comments On Federal Debt Passing $20 Trillion For First Time

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09/12/2017

... to a daily Treasury statement. The debt jumped from $19.8 trillion to $20.1 trillion after Congress ... it had been using off-book extraordinary measures to keep from defaulting. Since President Trump signed a...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Amid Hurricane Chaos, Domestic Abuse Victims Risk Being Overlooked

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09/12/2017

... domestic violence face a unique challenge: seeking safety from their abusers. Most evacuees are seeking shelter but ... of escaping the danger of their abuser and finding safety from the looming disaster, said...

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