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Fourth Annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge Seeks Problem Solving Ideas From Students Nationwide

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08/17/2015

... no-coding-skills-needed contest that gives middle and high school students a chance to bring their problem-solving app ...

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Technology

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Prudential Seeks New York's Top Youth Volunteers of 2016

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09/09/2015

Prudential Seeks New York 039 ; s Top Youth Volunteers of 2016 Now through November 3, ... in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), was created in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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American Express Awards $2.5 Million to Five Innovative Principal Leadership Programs

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10/05/2015

... American Express and the National Association of Secondary School Principals today announced the five winners of the ... of heightened awareness of principals’ crucial roles in school improvements.... American...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

... Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible. Together, they distributed more than 100 backpacks covered in beloved heroes and brimming with school supplies to students at P. ...

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United Way of New York City

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy 039 ; s role in K-12 education these days, so often it 039 ; s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... Succeeds Act rolls back much of the federal government 039 ; s big footprint in education policy, on everything from ... gives big new leeway to states in calling the shots. That 039 ;...

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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

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08/28/2017

Successful schools, analysts say, will increasingly be the ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employers.

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Workforce Development

Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

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08/29/2017

... Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’ s Homeless Not since the Great Depression has New York City ... such a critical shortage in affordable housing. The city’ s population of unsheltered...

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Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’s 2017 State Test Scores

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08/29/2017

Eight Top 10 Lists From New York City’ s 2017 State Test Scores Test scores in New York City ... for celebration among city officials. Unlike last year’ s scores, which came with an asterisk because of significant...

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

... pre-K options, DNAinfo New York has learned. The new school , slated to open at 355 E. 76th St. between First and ... and the local community education council. On Friday, the School Construction Authority...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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09/25/2017

Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’ s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G That 039 ; s gotta hurt. Nearly two dozen teachers at Brooklyn’ s New ... officials...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

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05/12/2014

... the board to match its investments with the foundation’ s values. The board recruited Imprint Capital, a San ... don’t have the resources to solve the world’ s pressing problems alone – we must also harness...

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Impact Investing

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Insights from “Responding to the Moment: Participatory Approaches in Philanthropy”

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09/19/2024

... people and communities directly affected by the funder’ s work. Practitioners say that participatory philanthropy ... leaders from the beginning, which helped shape Kolibri’ s mission, governance, decision-...

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Women 4 Health Care: Helping Uninsured Women Get Covered

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10/01/2013

by Lois Uttley, Director, Raising Women’ s Voices-NY Women use more health care than men do, in ... because of our need for reproductive health care. That’ s why it’ s so dismaying that one in...

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The Term Impact Investing Needs to Be Better Understood

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02/03/2016

... resources to maximum use to serve their organization’ s social mission, impact investing means getting creative ... itself has a specific, commonly-understood meaning. That’ s why it was so frustrating to us...

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12 Jul 2018

Philanthropy’s Response to the Addition of a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

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3:00pm to 4:00pm

... Systems Funders United Philanthropy Forum Philanthropy’ s Response to the Addition of a Citizenship Question to the ...

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Census 2020

Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

The country’ s only independent polling agency has been accused under a ... who broke off their relationship with Vladimir V. Putin’ s administration and set up the country’ s only independent...

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Ford Foundation

Spending Down the Family Foundation

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03/10/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors CEO Melissa Berman and Arabella Advisors Managing Director Elliot Berger share their thoughts in a Wall Street Journal article on the growing spend-down trend at family foundations.

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Family Foundation

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arabella Advisors

U.S. Trust Study Says the Rich Feel Strongly About Giving to Improve Society

Release Date:

05/23/2016

U. S . Trust Study Says the Rich Feel Strongly About Giving to ... environmental problems, according to a study by the U. S . Trust, which surveyed people with $3 million or more in ... in the nonprofit world. Among...

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