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Six International Parks Selected as Finalists in 2015 Urban Land Institute Urban Open Space Award Competition

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06/08/2015

... outstanding examples of successful large- and small-scale public spaces that have socially enriched and revitalized the ... finance, architecture, land planning and development, public affairs, design, and...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Works to Demystify NYC High School Admissions Process

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07/13/2015

... NYC High School Admissions Process Applying to public high schools in New York City can be a daunting task, ... students rank their top 12 choices from among 700-plus public high school programs. Yet thousands...

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Carnegie and American Library Association Seek Nominees for I Love My Librarian Award

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07/31/2015

... the U.S. to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional public , school, and college librarians. Administered by the ... Nominees must currently be working in the U.S. in a public library, a library at an...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... More than two-thirds of the funds raised went to the D.C. Public Education Fund, which was created in 2007 to support reform efforts in the public school system. At least $ 7 million went to specific ...

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Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest

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11/10/2015

New analysis from The Commonwealth Fund offers guidance on how to improve outcomes and lower costs for “high-need, high-cost” patients.

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Health

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... Tuesday that it has gathered more than $375 million in public and private financing to be channeled into projects to ... reform, deepen learning about what works, and expand public knowledge of the school...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

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11/20/2015

... has Victorian-style homes with big porches, immaculate public parks, and tree-lined streets where children play. But ... evident a few blocks away, where families are crowded into public housing near the...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record

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01/12/2016

Owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest donated the entire Philadelphia Media Network, which runs the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The institute...

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Two Mexico City Landmarks Reopen With Support From The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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06/10/2016

... in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, one of the oldest public parks in the world. In 2014, the Foundation provided a ... support of the Chapultepec Trust to restore these iconic public spaces. “As our cities...

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Environment and Climate Change

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George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

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03/21/2017

... ladder for all of our fellow citizens, including strong public education from pre-K to college. And, we need to invest in the fragile bridges, tunnels, waterlines, public buildings, and roads that we all...

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Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

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05/10/2017

... call for collaborative reporting projects that will enrich public -interest journalism. Proposals are due June 30 . ... and ideas on projects to make timely contributions to public knowledge and civic life. The...

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Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala

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05/12/2017

... Gala On Thursday, May 11, 2017, the Schott Foundation for Public Education (@schottfound) marked 25 years of fighting to end educational inequities in America’s public schools by honoring grassroots, community...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school ... includes $7 million to establish and endow the Greene Public Service Scholars program, which will...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Report Amplifies Black Community Leadership in Improving Quality of Education

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05/26/2017

... African-American community leaders believe inequities in public education are a critical problem, many also are ... dropping out of school, respondents urged more funding for public education, with a focus on...

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Groundswell Engages The Community To Make Art – And A Statement

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08/31/2017

... with local youth and community stakeholders to turn public walls – in NYCHA developments and elsewhere – into public works of art. “It always turns out that those who ...

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Sustainability Starts Within: Meet NYC’s Green City Force

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09/14/2017

... job in the sustainable energy industry. She lived in public housing where crime was very high … and opportunity ... Force, which empowers young adults from New York City’s public housing developments with the...

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The War Against ‘Lunch Shaming’: NYC Joins Growing List of Cities and Districts That Are Rethinking Mealtime

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09/19/2017

... New York City officials announced that all 1.1 million public school students would be provided with a free daily ...

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Andrus Family Fund Appoints Edgar Villanueva to Its Board

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09/22/2017

... of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education, to its board. For the first time in the ...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... Fund is a first-of-its-kind investment vehicle leveraging public money to raise private capital for sustainable land ... collaboration with Mirova and numerous partners from the public sector, the private...

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