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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Principal Evaluation

Release Date:

01/27/2016

... always help principals sharpen the skills they need to improve student achievement. For example, a 2007 ... skills so that they could improve teaching and learning in their schools? A new study, Building a...

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Ford Foundation Announces Three New Concentration Areas

Release Date:

01/18/2018

... letters with an old colleague and companion from his days as minister to France’s court of Louis XVI. This friend, Pierre Samuel ... this “fundamental law” has guided our grand experiment in...

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The Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the Humanities

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09/23/2020

The Teagle Foundation Partners with the National Endowment for the ... Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) are partnering to jointly sponsor Cornerstone: Learning for Living , a grant program to...

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Unemployment

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12/09/2014

... into the twenty-first century, African Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to be unemployed, all else equal. Younger workers, women, and the unmarried also face employment...

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Teagle Foundation's Connor on Asserting the Value of the Humanities

Release Date:

04/22/2016

Teagle Foundation President on Asserring the Value of the ... 101 where the enrollment is eight, while the enrollment in Economics 101 is 189?” My friend reported she had become ... for that question. She told me...

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NYS Health Foundation Launches ‘Health Reform Watch’

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03/17/2017

... Watch’ The health care landscape is changing rapidly in 2017. As Congress sets out to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the ...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... The phrase “by the bootstraps,” still widely used to describe those Americans who have found success through a ... of The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen: In it, the eponymous aristocrat pulls...

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Social Justice

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Gilman Louie Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

Release Date:

12/03/2012

... venture capital firm. "Gilman Louie has been a pioneer in this country's technology economy. His vast experience ... will help Markle advance the use of information technology to address the most...

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The F.B. Heron Foundation Welcomes New Team Members

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04/15/2014

The F.B. Heron Foundation recently welcomed new members to their team. Amy Orr joined Heron as a Capital Deployment Analyst after graduating from The New School’s Graduate Program in...

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08 Apr 2015

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Professional and Personal Effectiveness

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Do you tend to be precise and deliberate in teams, and frustrated by others who are more relaxed or ... Director of Sales, Insights Designed for Members of FAN , as well as...

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HR & Operations Staff

24 Sep 2015

Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits

Thursday, September 24, 2015 -

9:00am to 12:15pm

As the philanthropic sector increasingly recognizes the ... many foundations are funding or engaging themselves in multifaceted communications campaigns to achieve their social missions. But how...

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On the Occasion of the New York Foundation’s 100th Anniversary

Release Date:

11/05/2009

By Keith Hefner Trustee, New York Foundation Executive Director, Youth Communication (from ... on October 7, 2009) The New York Foundation believes in the quaint idea that individuals, and people...

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All Funders

This is What Ford Foundation Does with its Resources

Release Date:

08/13/2014

by MacKenzie Fegan, Mulitmedia Producer, Ford Foundation Last week the Ford Foundation launched the final installment in our three-part video series, From Dollars to Change ,...

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Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff

Publication date:

06/2013

... a positive impact. Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff ...

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Open Society Foundations: Central Asia at History’s Crossroads

Release Date:

07/17/2017

Generally, when discussions turn to the politics of Central Asia, one hears of authoritarian ... and unmovable structures. The region is considered to be burdened by the weight of a history defined by ... on-the-...