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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. We launched in November of 2008.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

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What she did was, growing up in South Bronx, that's kind of the dumping ground for all of New York, she said, "Hey, I want to turn this into a recycling center. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. million dollar budget, and six attorneys, and a new ED.

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