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AROUND THE WEB
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Bronx Women's Business Resource Center
Latinas are the primary target of this hub for networking, learning and business-building.
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Immigration Equality
This NYC-based organization fights for fair and free immigration policy for LGBT people and those with HIV/AIDS.
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State-by-State Head Start Program Information Report
An array of information from required 2006 reporting creates profiles allowing each state to be compared to nationwide patterns.
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Foster Care Alumni - Postcard Project
An art project encouraging former foster children to express themselves - and realize common experiences.
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Griot Circle
A Brooklyn-based group dedicated to meeting the needs of older LGBT people of color, using the storytelling griot as a touchstone.
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NYC Dads
This website from the city's Human Resources Administration offers an array of parenting resources to fathers.
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How U.S. House and Senate Plans Help States Deal With Foreclosures
These interactive maps show how Congressional "neighborhood stabilization legislation" would affect the states in terms of generating jobs, construction revenue, taxes and more.
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Queens' Changing World
A wide-ranging look at the most diverse county in the U.S., from CUNY's journalism graduate students.
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Youth Media Reporter
"The professional journal of the youth media field."
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Keeping Track of New York City's Children
This database of education, housing, health and other indicators of the well-being of the city's youth, from the Citizens' Committee for Children, has just been updated.
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Going To Market: NYC's Neighborhood Grocery Store and Supermarket Shortage
A study issued last month by the Department of City Planning shows a widespread lack of access to fresh food -- and major opportunities for those who want to get into the grocery biz.
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Everyday Tras
You can't be Green until you take a long, hard reckoning look at trash.
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Bike Month NYC
Spring is in the air, falling petals are in your hair, and turning pedals are under your feet.
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Mapping the Innovation in Correctional Health Care Service Delivery in New York City
This detailed survey looks at the health needs of inmates and those leaving prison, evaluating to what extent services available in their home neighborhoods will be able to help.
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311 Customer Service Center: More Calls and A Growing Budget
A look at the growth of the 311 call center, which has received about 61 million calls since its inception in March 2003.
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FROM THE CENTER FOR AN URBAN FUTURE
City Limits' sister policy institute
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Trouble Brewing
A co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery wonders whether his company's trouble finding room to expands augurs the end of light manufacturing in NYC.
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Recipe For Growth
This new brief argues for more "kitchen incubators" around the city -- commercial food preparation spaces that food entrepreneurs can rent to help get their young businesses off the ground.
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Schools That Work
Many students at the city's public Career and Technical Education high schools outperform their peers -- so why doesn't the city invest more in such schools?
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Affordable Housing Gaps in High Cost Urban Areas
Spring 2008
This new white paper keeps current the insights from a June conference of high-level city, state and private sector housing leaders.
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Q&A With Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of CUNY
February 2008
Goldstein reflects on how different CUNY's needs are today than when he graduated in 1963, and the investments needed to make CUNY a top-tier university.
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Q&A With Blake Walters Foote, Head of NYC's Workforce Investment Board
February 2008
The new WIB executive director discusses how she plans to make the most of the Bloomberg administration's two remaining years.
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Q & A With Cathie Mahon, Head of the City's Office of Financial Empowerment
February 2008
The city is mounting a unique effort to help lower income residents bank and maximize the money they do have.
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Something To Build On
February 2008
This brief on city efforts to attract new workers into the construction trades finds plenty of job training opportunity still available in the building boom.
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Against The Clock: The Struggle To Move Kids Into Permanent Homes
Winter 2008
The latest issue of Child Welfare Watch covers everything from NYC's overwhelmed Family Court to the status of the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act, one decade on.
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Developing New York's New Workforce
November 2007
A recent conference brought together experts and practitioners to discuss how to better integrate immigrants into New York's economy. Here's the transcript.
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