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Workforce Development |
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Community Development |
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As a journalist working with Feet in Two Worlds, Mohsin Zaheer has used new media to share his reporting with a range of New Yorkers>> |
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$100,000 grant to Citizen's Committee for New York City's Love your
(NYC) Block program is helping community groups get money and access to
City services to improve their neighborhoods. |
| | | Organizing a Maritime RenaissanceFor 400 years, New Yorkers have been putting their 578 miles of shoreline to work—but a lack of planning, complicated permit processes, private development, brownfields, and other obstacles have stymied coordinated development of the waterfront.
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Opening Access to the Bronx RiverWith funding from The Trust in 2004, the Bronx River Alliance turned the idea of an eight-mile greenway along the Bronx River into a reality. |
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Cleaning Up the Harlem RiverThe Harlem River in upper Manhattan has been transformed; tens of thousands of tons of garbage, construction debris, and sunken boats have been removed, and Swindler Cove was transformed into a five-acre park with a children's garden and a boathouse. |
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Cabs Now Running CleanerIn 2007, Design Trust for Public Space used a $35,000 grant
to work with the Taxi and Limousine Commission to make yellow cabs
pollute less. The grant resulted in the launch of the 2008 Taxi of
Tomorrow program which pursued the creation of a new iconic taxi for
New York City. |
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Helping Nonprofits Work Better
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 | | Fighting the Good Fiscal FightThe Fiscal Policy Institute has helped City and State groups understand and face the cuts, illuminating budget decisions through research and education, while advocating policies that benefit New Yorkers and the nonprofits that serve them>>
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health and child care, housing and legal help, even getting a better
tax refund. It nourishes our parks, brings art into schools, runs and
fills theaters, and nurtures new talent-all while providing more than 15 percent of all jobs in the City.>>
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