In 1901, Andrew Carnegie established one of philanthropy's most extraordinary partnerships with government: To build 65 neighborhood public libraries throughout New York City. Carnegie's terms were straightforward. He paid for the buildings' construction; the city provided the land and a commitment to fund operations.

Today, in the midst of the greatest revolution in access to information since Gutenberg - with notebooks and eBooks commonplace and tablet computers coming down the pike - we must rewrite that partnership to ensure that New York City's libraries can move fully into the digital age.

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American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed. The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has released a report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, by Michael Schudson, a communications professor at Columbia, and Len Downie, the former longtime editor of The Washington Post. The report was supported by the Revson Foundation.

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Rabbi Mychal Springer: New JTS pastoral care initiative “will deepen our engagement” with Union Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College.

JEWISH WEEK - September 25, 2009 — Armed with a $500,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Jewish Theological Seminary will expand its clinical pastoral training program, “institutionalize it and make JTS ... the center for clinical pastoral education in the City of New York.”

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