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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

A conversation with Williamson Foundation's ED Caroline Williams explores how the foundation uses adaptive leadership, the framework developed by Dr. Ronald Heifetz and colleagues at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice.

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The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

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Some NYC K-12 Schools Cross $50,000-a-Year Mark

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09/19/2017

Five years ago, parents gulped when the price for attending some private K-12 schools in New York City hit $40,000 a year.

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City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

The City Council’s Courts and Legal Services Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program designed to increase accountability and responsiveness to domestic violence victims in...

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Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/19/2017

Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, announced a $100,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid in immediate relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey.

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Disaster Relief

Macquarie Group Foundation

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Xanax Or Zoloft For Moms-To-Be: A New Study Assesses Safety

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09/19/2017

Studies completed decades ago suggested a risk of birth defects from these drugs, but data from more recent studies have shown no clear evidence of an increase. There are remaining questions, researchers say, about whether prenatal exposure to the...

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Opinion: Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books

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09/19/2017

For all of Sunset Park’s celebrated taquerias, dim sum parlors and picturesque piers, the most popular destination in that neighborhood might just be the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Despite its squat concrete frame and fluorescent...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

As U.N. Gathers, De Blasio Urges Fellow Mayors to Fight Trump on Climate, Immigration

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09/19/2017

As the United Nations General Assembly got underway in New York City on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio crisscrossed Manhattan speaking at two events highlighting the issues of climate change and immigration, taking both opportunities to criticize...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

A universal pre-kindergarten center with 180 seats is coming to East 76th Street, providing spots in a neighborhood clamoring for more pre-K options, DNAinfo New York has learned.

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Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

Concussions among young people are seen as a silent epidemic. As student athletes begin the next season of activities, experts say parents should get their children tested for brain injury before they even step on the field. Health reporter Erin...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

New York City officials have announced that all 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily lunch. This came a few months after state Senator Liz Krueger and state Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon introduced a bill to address...

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As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

NYTimes examines how the processed food, soda and fast food industries’ increasing focus on markets in the developing world — and the accompanying rise in obesity rates and weight-related illnesses — is playing out around the globe.

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.

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Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces For Deadly Heat Shocks

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09/19/2017

As hurricanes and floods grab headlines, heatwaves associated with climate change are claiming lives around the world.

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Environment and Climate Change

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A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

Employee resource groups — voluntary workplace networks organized around identities (race, gender, sexual orientation) or interests (animal welfare, education) — can be great conduits between companies with philanthropic dollars to spend and...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes in third among the three most generous donors (numbered among the 10 richest people in the United States), for giving more than 10 percent of his fortune to charity since 2000.

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New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

This conversation features Cynthia Agyeman , Community Organizer & Amy Blumsack , Community Action Program Director at Neighbors Together

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Community Development

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain -- The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on September 19, combines 21 of the foremost neuroscience laboratories in the United States and Europe into a giant collaboration that will...

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Health

Science

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Wallace Foundation: New Report Sheds Light on How Effective Nonprofits Expand Their Reach Through Partnerships

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09/19/2017

In successfully scaling up social programs through partnerships, 45 diverse nonprofits faced three key choices: their partner, their approach to spreading their work, and their call on the balance between fidelity and flexibility at the expansion...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

A few years ago, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, they took some heat for incorporating it as an LLC—since such entities can operate with little transparency.

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