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Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

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04/29/2015

Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge On Tuesday, April 28, ... poverty alleviation, and using data to drive impact in social good enterprises. Congratulating the nine ... conference at the...

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid in New York City, told The Huffington Post. But that ... is starting to ease up for trafficking survivors, thanks in large part to Mogulescu’s efforts to...

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing Community loan funds are ... nonprofit, financial institutions that provide loans in underserved communities. The loans they make benefit ... funds...

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Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

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08/04/2015

... O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy In addition to her extensive publishing track record of books on poverty, Alice O’Connor’s Ford credentials ... inequality, which he sees as “structurally...

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Arcus Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month

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09/04/2015

... Director Examines the Story Behind LGBT History Month In August, The Advocate ran an op-ed that seemed to suggest ... ago, we’d like to set the record “straight.” In January 1994, a suburban St. Louis high...

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New York Botanical Garden Partners with MetLife Foundation for Healthy Families Program

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09/21/2015

... tours, and free weekly cell phone recordings with "What's in Season" at the Greenmarket. On select Wednesdays of each month, visitors may receive free health-related ... offered by staff from...

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Citi Announces Donations to Four New York City Area Community Organizations Through the 2015 Citi Community Home Runs Program

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10/06/2015

... the Citi Community Home Runs Program, Citi made a donation of $2,000 to one of these four tri-state area community ... at Citi Field, which is the most the team has ever hit in a single...

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New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth

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11/04/2015

... Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth A group of funders is making 12 new grants, worth nearly $900,000, to ... research civic and political issues, and reduce pollution in their communities. "...

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Tech Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study

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11/13/2015

... Companies Lead the Way on Paid Family Leave, and the Rest of the Country Should Catch Up - Century Foundation Study ... or paid sick leave, it is one of only three countries in the world that...

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... and Education During 25 years as president of one of New York’s leading charitable foundations, I’ve overseen more than $1 billion in grants to nonprofits doing vital work—from educating ...

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Former NYC Official & Former Philadelphia Mayor Named 'What Works Cities' Senior Fellows (Bloomberg)

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02/08/2016

... Senior Fellows, providing expert guidance to city leaders in participating What Works Cities as they expand their use of data and evidence to improve residents’ lives. The ... movement focused on utilizing...

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... what many private surveys have shown: that the proportion of Americans under 65 who lack health insurance has plummeted ... became law. Twenty million fewer Americans were uninsured in the first nine months...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New ... Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest...

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

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08/22/2016

... Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history ... have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in the shelters and...

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Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling

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12/09/2016

Stonewall Community Foundation Is Key Funder of Trans and Queer Storytelling Time magazine declared a “transgender tipping point” in 2014 when it featured actress Laverne Cox on its cover. In the...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... go online — especially for the enthusiastic digger of sometimes obscure history. Brooklyn history buffs have a new source of information (and distraction) thanks to the Brooklyn ... Academy of...

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NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources

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08/29/2017

... O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources The secret is out — at ... recently overturned a guilty verdict against an officer in a department misconduct trial...

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Harrowing Journeys: Children and Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation

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09/12/2017

... Youth on The Move Across The Mediterranean Sea, At Risk of Trafficking and Exploitation Young migrants and refugees ... or secure better futures – and face staggering risks in the process. For 17-year old...

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