Education
Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges
Release Date:
05/28/2015
The study explores how community colleges are key to jump starting social mobility.
Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants
Release Date:
05/28/2015
The program will provide 1200 students with a $25,000 scholarship to attend college.
Bank of America Charitable Foundation Tackles Workforce Development in Baltimore
Release Date:
05/28/2015
The foundation has granted $352,000 to 29 nonprofits in the Baltimore area.
Time Magazine Spotlights Walker's UT Austin Commencement Speech
Release Date:
05/27/2015
Ford Foundation President Darren Walker gave this year's commencement speech at University of Texas at Austin.
UJA-Federation Launches Campaign for Passage of Education Tax Credit
Release Date:
05/27/2015
OU Advocacy-Teach NYS, the nonpartisan public policy arm of the Orthodox Union, together with the UJA-Federation of New York, is launching a 30-day campaign to push – over the next six weeks – for New York State legislators to pass the Education Tax...
United Hospital Fund Backs Initiative to Address Depression Among CUNY Students
Release Date:
05/22/2015
The grant will develop and pilot test an awareness campaign.
Edgar Villanueva Joins the Schott Foundation as Vice President of Programs and Advocacy
Release Date:
05/22/2015
Edgar Villanueva was most recently a Program Officer at the Marguerite Casey Foundation.
NY Rejects All Applications for New Charter Schools
Release Date:
05/21/2015
There were 15 total applications for new charter schools, including 12 in New York City.
What World Do You Want to Live In?
Release Date:
05/21/2015
"The world has changed since my grandparents were excluded from getting an education – no doubt about it, but inequality and injustice are still very much with us." - Fred Frelow, Ford Foundation