Education

Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires

Release Date:

06/04/2014

[The Rockefeller Foundation] Foundations just make grants, correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector.

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Impact Investing

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Why the New Teachers’ Contract Is Great News for NYC’s Students

Release Date:

06/03/2014

Important for the future of the city’s public schools and the prospects for its students are the quite radical but largely overlooked contract provisions affecting how administrators and teachers will work with each other.

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Insights

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Education

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The Century Foundation

New York Community Trust's HIVE Grants to Boost Digital Media Learning

Release Date:

06/02/2014

Teens will record residents' stories to make a multimedia map of the Bronx; make, play, and remix wired steel drums; and use a rock camp, audio lab, and planetarium to learn about the science of sound-with grants from the Hive Digital Media Learning...

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The New York Community Trust

Citi Foundation Awards $2.1 Million for Student Mentoring Initiatives

Release Date:

06/02/2014

The Citi Foundation has announced two grants totaling $2.1 million in support of initiatives designed to connect high-potential students from low-income households with mentoring and career counseling provided by early- to mid-career professionals.

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Change Captial Fund Launches Initiative to Support Community Development

Release Date:

06/02/2014

[Altman Foundation; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; Brooklyn Community Foundation; Capital One; Citi Foundation; Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation; F.B. Heron Foundation; Goldman Sachs; Mizuho Bank USA; M & T Bank; New York Community Trust; New...

Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens

Release Date:

06/01/2014

The Pinkerton Foundation has announced the launch of a neighborhood literacy initiative in South Jamaica, Queens, and awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants in support of the community-based program.

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Education

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The Pinkerton Foundation

11 Leading Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color

Release Date:

05/30/2014

[Open Society Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation] The White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force today released a report on policies, regulations, and programs that have the...

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Leadership for Education Innovation

Release Date:

05/24/2014

[Carnegie Corporation of New York] Michele Cahill authors Education Week piece: "Looking to implications for the country, the question is, What will it take to do this at scale? As someone involved in the New York City work and in high school reform...