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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... our organization has a comprehensive paid parental-leave policy . I am extraordinarily lucky. While an overwhelming ... made this a priority. Yet a comprehensive national policy likely wouldn’t cover someone...

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Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates

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04/06/2018

... toward efforts to find sensible, consensus solutions to policy challenges. Pete Peterson played large on the national stage, in business, politics, and policy . In recent years, he focused much of his energy—...

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Newman's Own channels money to broadcasters

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01/31/2013

... has announced grants totaling $2.4 million to 13 public broadcasting stations and organizations. Newman's Own ... has announced grants totaling $2.4 million to 13 public broadcasting stations and...

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Report About NYC’s Libraries Sparks New Proposal from Speaker Quinn

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04/05/2013

... H. Revson Foundation, documented the important role that public libraries play in communities across New York City. In ... about the increasingly important role that the city’s public libraries are playing in...

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Philanthropy as Backer of Brains

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05/02/2013

... history of creating, defining and advancing fields, from public health, molecular biology, area studies, and public administration. We even had a role in launching the ...

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Target Hands Decision on $5-Million Schools Gift to Online Voters

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08/15/2013

... how it will distribute $5 million in donations to public schools through its “Give With Target” campaign. ... on how it will distribute $5-million in donations to public schools, the first time the store has...

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Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality

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12/16/2014

... to major telecommunications firms aiming to influence the public debate on net neutrality, there’s the Ford ... Commission will regulate broadband providers as public utilities, restricting providers from...

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Ellen Rautenberg Elected Chair of the NY State Health Foundation Board

Ellen Rautenberg

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12/04/2015

... Ellen Rautenberg, the retired President and CEO of Public Health Solutions, has been elected to a two-year term ...

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Century Foundation President Comments on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness

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07/22/2016

... on New Proposal Offering Debt Forgiveness What makes you a public servant? For the purposes of the federal student loan ... Swalwell (D-Calif.), would allow borrowers who work in public service for incremental...

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Ford Foundation Paper Cited in Wired Article on the Future of Open Source Code

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08/11/2016

... demand. Nearly all software today relies on free, public code, written and maintained by communities of ... to individuals—to write their own software. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Gives $300M to Johns Hopkins to Tackle Major Domestic Health Issues

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09/27/2016

... Health Issues The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health today announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies, ... on a path to transform our national approach to modern public health challenges... Bloomberg...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to NJ Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic

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10/26/2016

... Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, announced an open call for ... Drug Addiction Crisis. NJTV challenges members of the public to write an original poem about...

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Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

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11/02/2016

... On the same day the diversity report was released, Public Advocate Letitia James called for the city Department ... oversee efforts to reduce segregation in New York City’s public schools.” While the new...

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

... selected from nearly 1,100 nominations submitted by the public detailing how their favorite librarians working in public , school, college, community college or university ...

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Kress Foundation Accepting Proposals for Conservation Grants

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12/21/2016

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation supports projects that illuminate European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

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The Surdna Foundation Discusses Good Governance in New CEP Report

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05/02/2017

CEP’s advisory services team and the Surdna Foundation partnered to produce a new publication that shares stories of good governance at family foundations.

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Success Academy Ratchets up Pressure on City to Give It Space

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09/15/2017

... network to approve a request for shared space inside public -school buildings for up to seven new middle schools. ... the earliest the city can approve those requests is at a public meeting in November,...

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The Power of Bridging Issue Silos Through Funding Collaboratives

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11/13/2019

Unbound Philanthropy’s Taryn Higashi interviews Anita Khashu of Four Freedoms Fund, Bridgit Antoinette Evans of Pop Culture Collaborative and Aleyamma Mathew of Collaborative for Women’s Safety and Dignity to discuss the role of cross-issue...

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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Bold Family-Related Benefits to Meet the Diverse Needs of Its Employees

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04/25/2018

... will be expanded to 20 weeks and an enhanced flexibility policy for parents returning to work will be implemented. The ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Estimating the Real Cost of Community College

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10/24/2017

... adults. Yet, access to equitable, high-quality two-year public colleges remains largely dependent on state - and ... to higher education with a recent push to extend free public education from the elementary...

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