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A Top State Education Policymaker Benefited From Integration. Now, He Wants To Bring It Back.

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09/06/2017

If Vice Chancellor Andrew Brown had been born a few years earlier, his schooling — and possibly his life — could have been very different.

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of hunger nationally. The initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids...

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USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals

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09/06/2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $12.6 million to support the training of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture...

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Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch?

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09/06/2017

On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference.

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Yes, It Can Be Done: A Philanthropist on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts

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09/06/2017

In 1998, the couple founded the Hunter, New York-based Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF), an organization committed to transforming rural communities through the arts. Over the next five years, the foundation plans to inject $20 million—in addition...

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A Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia

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09/06/2017

There is a boom in Muslim-led nonprofit work that counters ideas of Islam as foreign and dangerous. And all of them are connected by an invisible thread: Pillars Fund.

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Can Business Save The World from Climate Change?

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09/06/2017

"We are still in." On June 5, with these four words a group of U.S. businesses and investors with a combined annual revenue of $1.4 trillion sent a powerful message to the world: U.S. President Donald Trump may have withdrawn from the Paris...

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Raising Money from the Modern Family

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09/06/2017

When fundraising efforts focus on couples, nonprofits miss some of their best potential donors. The typical donor profile is shifting fast, in part because women are often earning as much as or more than their husbands.

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

More than $275 million has been pledged or raised in the week since Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on the Houston area.

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

After a fraught last few years in terms of national attention to issues of race, one would expect that nonprofit boards would demonstrate at least a modicum of advancement in the realm of diversity.

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