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Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 2)

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06/24/2014

The NYC Department of Ed’s Digital Ready network of schools has been working with the Hive NYC Learning Network to give kids opportunities to explore their interests through the creative application of digital and technology, and recognize their...

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The New York Community Trust

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

NYC Preparing To Expand Restorative Justice Programs in Schools

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06/20/2014

NYC is poised to dramatically expand restorative justice programs aimed at improving school climate and rethinking school discipline next year.

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Education

Could Universal Pre-K Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

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06/19/2014

Reasons why a high-quality universal pre-K program could be an effective tool for severing the school-to-prison pipeline.

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The Century Foundation

Goldman Sachs: Women Are the Smartest Investment We Can Make

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06/16/2014

"Womenomics" became the impetus behind one of Goldman Sachs’ most powerful investments, "10,000 Women."

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Gender Justice

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Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 1)

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06/13/2014

A badge can offer a more complete, accurate depiction of an educational experience than a grade or a test score.

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Education

Technology

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The New York Community Trust

Badge Alliance

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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

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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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Education

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The Century Foundation

What Kinds of Public-Private Partnerships Do We Want?

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05/19/2014

Regardless of our approach to public-private funding partnerships, it is essential for philanthropists to engage with our government counterparts in order to better understand the larger policy, regulatory and funding environment within which we and...

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Public Policy

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

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05/12/2014

Judith Rodin of The Rockefeller Foundation and Margot Brandenburg of the Nathan Cummings Foundation on their new e-book “The Power of Impact Investing: Making Markets Work for Profit and Public Good.”

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Impact Investing

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

The Perpetuity Debate

Release Date:

04/29/2014

John Hoover of The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies has a different perspective about perpetuity. He writes that spending down is a healthy issue for donors and Boards to consider, but there are significant points of clarification to think...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

The Rockefeller Foundation

Perpetuity, continued

Release Date:

04/24/2014

Tony Proscio of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy keeps the conversation going around the question: What Is the Case for Foundations Living in Perpetuity? This topic was the...

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