Heavy Hitters Debate School Achievement Gap
Release Date:
10/15/2013
The Education Funders Research Initiative’s recent Education Forum conversation on the achievement gap in New York City was reviewed on The Times’ SchoolBook blog.
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Lilien Leaves Charities Bureau to Join Zuckerman Spaeder
Release Date:
10/15/2013
Jason R. Lilien, former New York State Charities Bureau Chief under Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and former Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, has moved on to joined the firm of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP. Lilien will be leading the firm's new...
Three Education Ideas for NYC’s New Mayor
Release Date:
10/15/2013
Century Foundation Policy Associate Halley Potter reports from our Education Funders Research Initiative launch and shares three proposals from the event that she found particularly compelling.
Richard Correia Named as Surdna Foundation’s Assistant Controller
Release Date:
10/14/2013
The Surdna Foundation has announced the appointment of Richard Correia, an experienced operations and fund accountant, and C.P.A. candidate, as Assistant Controller.
Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2013 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/14/2013
The Medal is awarded annually to individuals whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City.
Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows
Release Date:
10/14/2013
Advocacy groups are pushing for changes in New York policy to attack what they say is a rising tide of hunger among the working poor, children and the elderly while combating obesity and boosting farming.
See the Storify and More: Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event
Release Date:
10/10/2013
More than 130 attendees joined us and an esteemed panel of education leaders at the launch of the Education Funders Research Initiative, our new project to engage New Yorkers and focus on how the education system can best prepare and support...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields
Release Date:
10/09/2013
The grants to nine national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF's Fund for National Projects and are designed to strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields and improve...
Top Education Official Supports More Teacher Professional Development
Release Date:
10/08/2013
Beth Fertig reports from the Education Funders Research Initiative launch event at Trinity Wall Street for The Times’ SchoolBook blog.
Report: What Works - and Doesn't - in NYC Schools
Release Date:
10/08/2013
Beth Fertig reviews the Education Funders Research Initiative’s first two reports for The Times’ SchoolBook blog. (PNY President Ronna Brown is also interviewed in the article.)
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