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New Study Supported by Simons Foundation Finds Math and Science are Kids' Favorite Subjects, But Parents Value Reading and Writing Skills More

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04/18/2017

New Study Supported by Simons Foundation Finds Math and Science are Kids' Favorite ... Writing Skills More Though more than half of parents with school -aged children say math or science is...

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NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

... as shutting out low-income children. Ms. Fariña, in an interview this week covering a variety of issues, ... to preserve the number of gifted programs citywide. “ What exists right now is...

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Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind

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08/31/2017

Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind Mark Cannizzaro thinks ... Cannizzaro will become president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators,...

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Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile

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05/12/2016

Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile The ... earliest moments to today . The Heising-Simons Foundation is providing an additional $1.7...

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Russell Sage Foundation - Funding Opportunities Announced

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08/15/2017

Russell Sage Foundation - Funding Opportunities Announced Funding ... of care and moderating the growth in costs. The new law is likely to have far reaching effects, beyond the way health .....

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking Communities in Schools (CIS) is the largest and most effective US organization dedicated to keeping disadvantaged kids in...

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Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

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07/29/2016

Ford Foundation 's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion I ... most affected by grantmaking should be central to deciding what to do with grants they receive—after all, they know...

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14 Nov 2018

Postponed Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible

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** This program is postponed until January 2019 - please stay tuned.** In 2016, an investigation by the United States Attorney for ... current situation for students with physical disabilities What...

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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Rachael Watman Named VP of Programs at Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

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05/03/2016

John A. Hartford Foundation ’s Rachael Watman Named VP of Programs at Rita & ... Hillman Foundation The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation today announced that Rachael Watman...

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5 Questions for. . .Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation

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10/15/2015

5 Questions for. . .Judith Rodin, President, Rockefeller Foundation The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was ... and contain it. As we have come to understand more fully in the decade since, Katrina also...

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UJA-Federation Announces $50 Million Day School Challenge Fund

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06/09/2014

UJA-Federation Announces $50 Million Day School Challenge Fund UJA-Federation of New York has ... tuition and invest in educational excellence. The fund is targeted at providing tuition relief...

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Annual Meeting Program Booklet - "Full Participation" with Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton

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05/2014

Philanthropy New York 35th Annual Meeting presented an in -depth conversation between former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and “Good Morning America ” Co-Anchor Robin Roberts focusing on issues central ... and other NGOs. The event was hosted by The Ford Foundation . Our Annual Meeting Program Booklet has the full ...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

Part of the foundation 's multiyear, $28 million Opportunity by Design initiative, the grants will help the school districts (including the New York City Department of ... design and open new high schools that...

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Target Hits $25 Million Goal For School Supply Donations

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08/04/2014

Target Hits $25 Million Goal For School Supply Donations Target Corp. announced that it hit its campaign goal to donate $25 million in school supplies to children in need based...

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Altman Foundation Welcomes New Trustee, Lisa Hinds

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05/19/2020

Altman Foundation Welcomes New Trustee, Lisa Hinds We are pleased to ... Foundation Board of Trustees in April 2020. Lisa Hinds is a Senior Vice President at EnTrust Global, one...

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia More ... the good (and perhaps hardly surprising) news in a new report from our organization, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). But...

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Pfizer Foundation Continues Support of Local Organizations through 2018 Global Health Innovation Grants

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04/12/2018

Pfizer Foundation Continues Support of Local Organizations through ... through GHIG reflects our belief that local innovation is essential to driving solutions needed to achieve a ... the GHIG program and hear...

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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators A science teacher ... study the East River, a mathematician teaching immigrants in the South Bronx and a teacher who raised test scores ... The...

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