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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

... Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges The report -- titled “Looking in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit...

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Staff at Open Society Foundations Just Voted to Join a Union. Is That a Good Thing?

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07/22/2016

... operation known for its creative chaos. Stone set to work. As he told me last year, his goal was to create a more ... with offices in 37 countries and famously fragmented lines of authority... Staff at Open...

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Gap Inc. Connects Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

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11/04/2016

... will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With low unemployment, the competition ... for talent remains fierce. Gap is joining a growing corps of large companies that are...

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Inside Pinkerton, a Low Profile Anti-Poverty Foundation

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12/21/2016

... Pinkertons were hired guns involved in strike busting, as well as the forerunner of the Secret Service. Years later, Robert Pinkerton ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Finds College Degree Can Be A Blunt and Inaccurate Way For Evaluating Real Talent

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03/22/2017

... say entry-level candidates are hard to find. Almost half of employers (43%) said it was hard to source entry-level ... Employers are concerned with retaining this talent, as well. "For a long time, a...

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Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy

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09/06/2017

... by considering other pleas that result in the same length of sentence. "These low-level offenses can be very critical .....

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College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!

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09/07/2017

... Hydroponic Cilantro! Students returning to the University of Texas at Austin this fall will have twice as much help wrestling with some of the big questions that college presents. For...

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Food Systems

The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

... company went hunting for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in dead-end jobs. Brian Brown, ... there, some at 20% below what it paid in New Jersey. New hires , meanwhile, got more...

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Whatsapp Co-Founder Brian Acton Is Leaving The Company To Start His Own Foundation

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09/13/2017

... was acquired for $19 billion in 2014, is the lesser-known of WhatsApp’s two co-founders. (CEO Jan Koum is the other, ...

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MTA May Cut Back On $836M Emergency Subway Repair Work If De Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up

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09/28/2017

... Blasio Doesn’t Pay Up The big subway fix may be in a bit of a fix. An ambitious MTA plan to rescue the subway from collapse may get scaled back for lack of funding, the head of the MTA said...

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Community Development

High-Paying Jobs Alone Won't Save Big Cities

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09/28/2017

High-Paying Jobs Alone Won't Save Big Cities The specters of white worker angst and racial disparities that took center ... mayors outstretching their arms for the possibility of accommodating and hosting...

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Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility

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09/28/2017

... in 2017 than they were in late 2016, according to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report. At the same time, employers ... millennials to successfully attract, hire and retain them. As millennials become an...

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U.S. Lost 33,000 Jobs in September as Hurricanes Roared Through

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10/06/2017

U.S. Lost 33,000 Jobs in September as Hurricanes Roared Through The Labor Department released ... September on Friday morning, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy. The economy lost 33,000 jobs...

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Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State

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10/12/2018

Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State A new organization aims to help Hoosier employers recognize the value of skills training when hiring employees for their ... at the Markle Foundation said...

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Supported in Part by Ford Foundation, Smithsonian Launches American Women’s History Initiative

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11/14/2018

... American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. The initiative strives to be the nation’s ... display and share the rich, complete and compelling story of women in America. It will greatly increase...

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How Philanthropists Can Play Politics

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09/24/2012

... giving. On September 12th, Jim Joseph, Partner at Arnold & Porter, LLP , and I hosted a webinar to discuss the topic in more detail. What we learned was that many of you (and 80 percent of...

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Start a Giving Circle This Summer

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06/15/2011

By M. Starita Boyce Ansari, Ph.D., President & Chief Change Officer, MSBPhilanthropy Advisors ... LLC Summer is finally here! After the brutal winter many of us experienced, it is time to look forward to those...

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

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12/15/2016

... Nonprofit Journalism Groups Are Gearing Up With Flood of Donations The New Parameters of Our Policy Work PhilTV This Week Dec 15 Features Edna ...

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