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Oscar Raposo Jr. Joins United Way of New York City

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08/18/2016

Raposo brings to UWNYC decades of experience in global finance and operations across industrial, consumer and financial services—in both the public and private sectors.

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Many Hispanics, Poor Still Without Health Insurance

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08/18/2016

Majority live in states that haven't expanded Medicaid, survey finds.

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With Support from NY State Health Foundation, Plattsburgh Retrofits Old Tennis Courts

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08/18/2016

A grant received by the Foundation of CVPH from the New York State Health Foundation allowed the city to retrofit old tennis courts to establish 13 permanent Pickle Ball Courts in Clinton County.

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Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students

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08/18/2016

Top public schools fear falling in national college rankings if they accept students with lower test scores.

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The New York Community Trust

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Introducing Our Muslim Neighbors, One Story at a Time

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08/18/2016

Clare Church, Graduate Communications Fellow for the New York Community Trust, writes about three nonprofits in New York City that are countering Islamaphobia through the arts.

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Communications/Media

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Minority Business Accelerator Gets Another Big Boost from Surdna Foundation

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08/19/2016

The MBA's work aligns well with one of the core missions of the Surdna Foundation, said Jose Garcia, a program officer with the foundation's Strong Local Economies program.

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Community Development

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Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika

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08/19/2016

Zika infection kills off neural stem cells in adult mice bred to be vulnerable to the virus, researchers at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell.

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Science

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined.

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Housing and Homelessness

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Native American Youth Can't Wait

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08/22/2016

Edgar Villanueva, VP of Programs & Advocacy at The Schott Foundation for Public Education urges philanthropy to see the tremendous potential in Native communities.

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

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08/22/2016

Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history rhymes rather than repeats itself. For New Yorkers who have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in...

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Century Foundation Fellow Proposes Post-Obama Syrian-U.S. Relations Strategy

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08/22/2016

Thanassis Cambanis, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, advocates that the United States escalate its existing military intervention in Syria to raise the chances of a political solution to Syria’s civil war while limiting the potential for...

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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap

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08/22/2016

A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, said she believes the Obamacare markets are maturing rather than dying.

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MasterCard Makes Fortune List of Businesses Confronting World's Problems

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08/23/2016

More businesses are taking on society’s biggest problems—and making money doing so. Here’s our look at 50 companies that do well by doing good.

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Bloomberg's Henning Explains Why Understanding Death Leads to Better Health

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08/23/2016

“The goal here is really to address this giant gap, whereby we know 65 percent of deaths in the world — that’s about 35 million — go unrecorded,” said Dr. Kelly Henning, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies public health program since it started...

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Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes

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08/24/2016

Marist College and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records.

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Rockefeller Archive Center

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Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments

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08/24/2016

Kim Lew, chief investment officer of the Carnegie Corporation, raised another concern in the low-return environment: the move by endowments into riskier assets.

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