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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

... supports Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University that collaborates with chosen financial ... services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to...

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No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. Will That Slow Its Momentum?

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10/06/2017

... states might use it as a launching pad to use measures of students’ social and emotional competencies to determine ... for judging school performance—calls for inclusion of such measures in its school...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... locate 10 labs where they can serve a diverse population of school-age children, rural communities that otherwise ... hands-on STEM-styled experiments, encouraging them to try new things — and try them over...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

... Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, considered one of the founding fathers of ... Thaler said of the...

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Economic Security

Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

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10/10/2017

... diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that can result in ... for a chief executive—or get them fired—according to new research from the University...

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TED Talk: Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect

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11/14/2017

... Judge Victoria Pratt on How Judges Can Show Respect In a new TED Talk, Judge Victoria Pratt draws on her experience ... Newark Community Solutions to explain the real-life impact of procedural justice. “It’s a...

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“Arabella Advisors Partners with Fannie Mae to Announce Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge”

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12/20/2017

... Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) today announced the launch of its Sustainable Communities Innovation Challenge (The ... said Jeffery Hayward, Executive Vice President and Head of Multifamily, Fannie Mae. “We are excited...

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Morgan Stanley Announces Creation of Innovative Play Spaces for Children in 14 Cities With KaBOOM!

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02/02/2018

Morgan Stanley Announces Creation of Innovative Play Spaces for Children in 14 Cities With KaBOOM! Morgan Stanley today announced the creation of 14 new play spaces for children through a Morgan...

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How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility

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02/09/2018

... Upward Mobility To bridge the various gaps in our world of work today, and to find ways to work even smarter and to introduce new career paths, we should start by shifting the mindset of .....

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Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity

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02/28/2018

... W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity We spent the hour hearing a panel discussion that Celeste Headlee hosted last week at the Carter Center in Atlanta. This...

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Schott Foundation Report Offers Framework Providing All Children Equal Opportunity To Succeed

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03/01/2018

... an opportunity to learn and thrive. By providing this new framework, the Loving Cities Index helps cities evaluate how well they are doing at providing all children – regardless of race,...

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ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications

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03/08/2018

ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications At a recent ComNetwork session panel participants ... ReFrame Mentorship Andrew Quinn, Program Director, Aspen New Voices Fellowship...

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Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President

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03/22/2018

... will be Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He will succeed Judith Shapiro, who ... public role in discussions of higher education...

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... Partners Citigroup is setting restrictions on the sale of firearms by its business customers, making it the first ... stance in the divisive nationwide gun control debate. The new policy, announced Thursday,...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

... in its CSR Lata N. Reddy, the senior vice president of Diversity, Inclusion & Impact at Prudential Financial, urged small businesses and startups ... the company chose to remain in its hometown city,...

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Community Development

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Newman's Own Foundation Forms Native American Nutrition Cohort

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05/08/2018

... philanthropist Paul Newman, today announced the formation of a Native American Nutrition Cohort, comprised of nine ... country. The first convening is May 8 and 9 in Santa Fe, New Mexico...

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Food Systems

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy ... mathematical contributions, which focus on problems at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory. The...

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Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook Launch Coding for Employment Program

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06/07/2018

... Facebook have launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda which aims ... and matching graduates directly with ICT employers, this new Program prepares Africa’s...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Public Theater Celebrates Leonard Tow, Founder and Chairman of The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala

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06/12/2018

... Theater Celebrates Leonard Tow, Founder and Chairman of The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala The Public Theater’s annual gala ... collaborated on the 2016 Encores! revival of Runaways...

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