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A New Guide Helps Foundations Become More Transparent

Publication date:

04/2014

Foundations seeking to meet demands for greater transparency have some help in ... an arm of the Foundation Center, which provides resources to grant makers. The guide offers concrete steps on how foundations should decide what information to share and how to share it “in an easily accessible and ...

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Former Arcus Foundation E.D. Named Tenement Museum President

Release Date:

06/15/2017

... new permanent exhibition, “Under One Roof,” scheduled to open this fall. . . Former Arcus Foundation E.D. Named ...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Kay Takeda Senior Director of Artist Programs

Release Date:

05/09/2018

... York’s Joan Mitchell Foundation has tapped Kay Takeda to be its new senior director of artist programs. Takeda ... the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans putting out an open call for applications to...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Calls for Proposals to Community-based Archives

Release Date:

05/12/2019

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Calls for Proposals to Community-based Archives The 2019 Call for Proposals (CFP) is now open and directed towards community-based archives that represent and serve communities...

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Reimagining Early-Warning Systems for At-Risk Students in NYC High Schools

Publication date:

03/2013

... from a Philanthropy Connects program presented by The Education Working Group . Reimagining Early-Warning Systems ... how policymakers and educators are rethinking how to measure what matters when it comes to college and career readiness for New York students. ...

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Focus on What Works in NYC Schools

Release Date:

01/06/2014

... Fariña has a proven, serious track record in her approach to education reform. She knows the importance of cutting through the ideological clutter that so often surrounds education debates,...

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New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx

Release Date:

04/29/2016

New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx Thanks to a $600,000 grant from the New York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education , Teaching...

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Alison Bernstein, Longtime Ford Foundation Official, Dies at 69

Release Date:

07/12/2016

... a program officer with the foundation in 1983 and went on to become a vice president managing other grant makers for the organization’s Education , Creativity and Free Expression Program (which is now referred...

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Rockefeller Leads Initiative to Help Young People Without College Degrees Land First Job

Release Date:

09/21/2016

Rockefeller Leads Initiative to Help Young People Without College Degrees Land First Job ... the U.S. Youth Employment Initiative, which aims to find jobs for young people with limited education...

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How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color

Release Date:

01/12/2017

... harsh school discipline than their peers. According to the most recent data released by the US Department of Education , Black girls were suspended six times more than ... white girls. Punitive, rather than...

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Video

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

Release Date:

02/10/2017

... Inner-City Students High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries. These ... policies...

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Teach For America New York Executive Director Charissa Fernández On This Year’s Corps, DACA And Teacher Training

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... Teach for America may be one of the most well-known education nonprofits. The national group recruits new ...

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City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System

Release Date:

09/26/2017

City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System City schools pay more for many basic classroom ... goods than they would at big-box retailers — thanks to an in-house purchasing system set up by ...

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Day Of The Girl: A Worldwide Reminder That Gender Parity Awaits

Release Date:

10/25/2016

... we celebrate Day of the Girl but we have a long way to go before achieving gender parity. Fifteen million girls ... decades, but it hasn’t been enough. And if we want to accomplish Global Goal #5 – achieve...

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PIMCO Foundation

Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change

Release Date:

07/06/2017

Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change By Zia Khan, Vice President, Initiatives and ... appeared in What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities , copyright 2017, the ... Results-based...

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11/14/2014 - The Science of Convening - Notes

Publication date:

11/2014

View Notes from the program, " The Science of Convening. "

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Hartford Foundation Awards Nearly $2.3 Million in Grants

Release Date:

03/20/2014

... A. Hartford Foundation awards $2.275 million in grants to the areas of palliative care and aging-related ... The foundation awarded $2 million over five years to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners

Release Date:

06/29/2015

... the winning cities are Gary, Indiana, which will transform a vacant downtown building into a cultural hub that ... and Troy, New York, which proposed a collaborative project to illuminate up to...

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Rockefeller Foundation Recognizes Pioneers for Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda

Release Date:

10/05/2015

... in Rwanda and other developing African countries to escape hunger and poverty and improve their livelihoods. ...

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... Alexander joins Ford as a senior fellow, contributing to the foundation’s work on democracy, rights, and justice. ... lawyer and legal scholar whose work has been foundational to racial justice movements over...

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