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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Shares New Report on Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Outcomes For Youth

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12/16/2016

The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Lessons From the Field is a compilation of initial research into the foundation’s Propel Next initiative along with the observations of staff and consultants who worked with the grantees.

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Children, Youth and Families

The New Parameters of Our Policy Work

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12/15/2016

Philanthropy New York’s Board of Directors has refined our official procedures for taking policy positions to more clearly articulate the parameters of our work, and they are important distinctions that all of our members should understand in this...

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PNY News

Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

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12/15/2016

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has released a report that suggests a diminishing share of United States residents speak languages other than English, a trend that could have important consequences for business, international affairs, and...

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Education

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Milbank Memorial Fund Writes Letter to the New Administration

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12/15/2016

While Congress prepares to debate the future of the Affordable Care Act, we know that bipartisan action on health care reform is possible.

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Health

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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the...

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Justice Reform

PhilTV This Week Dec 15 Features Edna McConnell Clark, Arabella Advisors and Hazen Foundation

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12/15/2016

PhilTV This Week Dec 15 Features Edna McConnell Clark, Arabella Advisors and Hazen Foundation

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PhilTV This Week

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Edna McConnell Clark Announces Spend-Down, Major Investment in Blue Meridian Partners

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12/14/2016

With a deep desire to improve the lives of many more disadvantaged children and youth, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's trustees have decided to "sunset" the Foundation and spend all of its resources (approximately $1 billion) over the next...

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Russell Sage Publishes Study on the Problems of Parents Funding College Education

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12/14/2016

More parents today are financially supporting — and paying more — for their children’s college education, but that development also might be exacerbating economic inequality, according to a new study by a University of Kansas professor.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on Trump Policy for Student Loan Forgiveness

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12/14/2016

Education Department officials say they will work through Jan. 20 to review claims of defrauded students, but borrowers and advocates call for more urgency.