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The Century Foundation Report on For-Profit Colleges Cited in NY Times

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10/13/2015

... Times When the Obama administration agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at ... for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread fraud, education officials promised...

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New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing

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04/28/2016

... central tool in the New York Community Trust’s strategy to improve the accessibility and quality of public education in New York City. The Mexican American Student ... issues, engages families through parent...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Weighs in: What Kids Should Know by the Time They're Done With School

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08/30/2016

... Done With School The Atlantic asked prominent voices in education —from policy makers and teachers to activists and parents— to look beyond laws, politics, and funding and imagine a ...

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NY Women's Foundation Co-Hosts Training on Healthy Manhood and Preventing Violence Against Women

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12/07/2016

... Manhood and Preventing Violence Against Women A CALL TO MEN and The New York Women's Foundation hosted a two-day ... nonprofits, including The Center for Anti-Violence Education , Safe Horizon, the New...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

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12/15/2016

... exchange. The Commission on Language Learning, responds to a request from a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and ... Members of Congress. It is composed of national leaders in education , scientific and...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative

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01/11/2017

... JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $20 million in grants to 10 U.S. states to dramatically increase the number of students who graduate ... each winning state will work with government, business and...

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In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools

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09/18/2017

In Harlem, These Elders Devote Their Golden Years To Improving Local Schools In the eve of her 92nd birthday, Lottie Raukx wasn’t going to let the aches of arthritis or numbness of neuropathy slow ... public...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success How do you judge how good a school ... is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student...

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Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/03/2017

... Them Three long-standing presidential commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them...

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

... of New York, around the country. I just think my solution to that problem, educationally, is a lot different,” she ...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... and women around the world is at stake, and according to reporter Courtney Columbus, the recent movement to make sanitary pads more accessible hasn’t been a silver bullet solution for increasing ...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce ... more than $1 billion in funding for nonprofits that seek to close gaps in education and the labor market nationwide...

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The Covenant Foundation Announces New Grants to Support Jewish Communities Across North America

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01/05/2023

The Covenant Foundation Announces New Grants to Support Jewish Communities Across North America New York ... with national and local leaders in the field of Jewish education , to create more...

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From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back: Philanthropy’s Role & Responsibility in Returning Stolen Land to Native Communities

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02/03/2022

From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back: Philanthropy’s Role & Responsibility in Returning Stolen Land to Native Communities By: Celia Bottger, Program Assistant & ... NorthLight Foundation As an...

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Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future of Philanthropy

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04/2013

... the Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University in an analysis of their new research on next ...

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Sloan Foundation Announces 2013 Research Fellowships

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02/22/2013

... and Canada. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and ... Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars...

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Good Charity, Bad Charity

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08/10/2013

This op-ed by Princeton University professor Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites ... Philanthropy Advisors. You are thinking of donating to a worthy cause...

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Scott Stringer Unveils Transition Team

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11/18/2013

... announced his transition team Monday as he prepares to take over the reins from Comptroller John Liu on Jan. 1. ... Robert Kasdin, senior executive vice president of Columbia University , as his co-chairs for...

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

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12/23/2013

... Center for School Crisis and Bereavement's capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools, reports ... Foundation has announced a four-year, $1.4 million grant to the National Center for School...

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