Press
September 2008
- 09/17/08 - Laurie Tisch Donates $5M to Cardozo School (New York Sun)
- 09/17/08 - Laurie M. Tisch Donates $5 Million for Loan Repayment (Press Release)
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March 2008
- 03/18/08 - Healthy Options On the Way (Daily News)
- 03/13/08 - $1.5m Donation for Healthy Carts (Daily News)
A prominent philanthropist is donating $5 million to Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law to help law students interested in working in public service law after graduation.
Thousands of law school graduates, mired in considerable educational debt, are shunning jobs in public service law because these jobs pay considerably less than those in the private sector.
Fresh produce should soon be for sale in parts of the borough where it is now hard to find, under a law signed last Thursday by Mayor Bloomberg, and it should be very welcome.
Athousand fruit-and-vegetable carts will soon hit the streets in the city's poorest neighborhoods — and a private donor is footing the $1.5 million bill, the Daily News has learned.