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Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

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10/24/2014

... a more inclusive economy, especially for young people from low-income communities who are often the biggest losers ...

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Arts Funders Create Fund in The New York Community Trust to Advance Cultural Policy and Equity in New York City

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11/03/2014

... York City Cultural Agenda Fund to strengthen the City’ s arts advocacy network, develop a cohesive agenda for ... contributions and equally supported. “New York City’ s arts landscape runs the gamut ...

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UJA-Federation Report Explores Ways to Cut NYC Poverty Rate

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03/11/2015

... the poverty line participate), reducing the poverty rate from 21.4 percent to an estimated 15.9 percent, followed by ... wage or housing subsidies — would nearly halve the city' s poverty rate to 12.1...

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Kress Foundation Trustee to Lead Metropolitan Museum of Art

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03/12/2015

... He will succeed Emily Kernan Rafferty, who will retire from the Met on March 31 after 10 years in the post, and ... was formally elected to the Museum presidency at today’ s regular meeting of the Board of...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... Kresge Foundation head Rip Rapson; the Knight Foundation' s Alberto Ibargüen; and the Kellogg Foundation' s La June Montgomery Tabron—and made a jaw-dropping ... pay for the mistakes of the past...

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Ella Baff will Join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer

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07/15/2015

... Ella Baff, the executive and artistic director of Jacob’ s Pillow Dance Festival, will be leaving the organization to ... heritage starting in October. Ms. Baff has led Jacob’ s Pillow, established in 1933 in...

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Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant

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07/16/2015

Bloomberg' s Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of ... United States. This marks a milestone in the country’ s transition to clean energy and underscores Iowa’ s growth...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

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09/16/2015

... this issue of inter-district segregation. The report’ s author, The Century Foundation education fellow Halley ... charter school model, including: 1. enrolling students from multiple districts 2. using an...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of Science. The study from University of Chicago psychologists Sian Beilock and ... between parents’ uneasiness about math and children’ s low math achievement. To read the full...

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Oct 22 White House Conference on Criminal Justice Reform with Funders to be Live-Streamed

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10/22/2015

... The focus of the discussion will be how to make America’ s law enforcement, courts and correctional practices more ... and promoting successful reentry of those released from federal prisons. The panel...

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Justice Reform

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

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11/12/2015

... network decides to prioritize quality over scale, it’ s not hard to foresee that toes will get stepped on and ... to get the services they so desperately need. That’ s an agonizing choice for any nonprofit,...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

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11/16/2015

... years, CCA will be recruiting outstanding scientists from the U. S . and abroad for both junior and senior positions and will ...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... researchers wrote. . . The study was funded by grants from the National Institute on Disability, Independent ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights

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12/15/2015

... new Neighborhood Strength initiative. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000 and will bolster the work of ... on Crown Heights, this is Brooklyn Community Foundation' s first resident-led grantmaking program...

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Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... The Great Recession delivered a body blow to our country’ s financial equilibrium, and only after years of painfully ... of all Millennials have too much debt, and many borrow from predatory lenders...

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Economic Security

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Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?

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02/10/2016

... voluntary association of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches, which we ...

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Health

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JP Morgan Chase Institute Report: Understanding Income Volatility & the Role of the Online Platform Economy

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02/19/2016

... CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute, writes, "Even as the U. S . economy continues to create thousands of jobs each month, ... to work to mitigate this volatility?" The newest report from the JPMorgan Chase...

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