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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

... Awareness About U.S. Fiscal Challenges The fiscal future of our generation is up to us — or at least this is the ideal that a team from the College of William and Mary has made its mission...

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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 utopian...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

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09/23/2016

... Growth As more Latinos enroll in college, the number of Latinos going into the professoriate is not keeping pace, according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of...

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

... Outcomes like those posted by SEM are the exact kind of results officials from the Wallace Foundation say they are hoping to reproduce nationwide through a $47 million partnership ... universities to...

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Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic

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04/06/2017

... in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was a reminder, if any was needed, that proponents of school diversity need to...

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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check

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08/28/2017

... Field Faces a Reality Check In the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up offering an unusual promise: Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months and join the high-paying...

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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... view themselves as scrappy upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model say they have “lost the narrative” to...

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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

... in common with Bill de Blasio. I do think there’s a tale of two cities, educationally, I do think there is a level of injustice in the city, around the state of New York, around the country...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women around the world is at stake, and according to reporter Courtney Columbus, the recent movement to make ... hasn’t been a...

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Arabella Advisors Launch "Good Food Ventures III" to Transform Food System

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09/24/2019

Arabella Advisors Launch "Good Food Ventures III" to Transform Food System WASHINGTON, September 24, 2019 ... and its food-system investment team announced the launch of “Good Food Ventures III.” Good...

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Give Generously—You Can’t Help It!

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12/18/2009

... Glickman Chief Executive Officer FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds For those of you who read blogs about ... deep in the middle of the “Giving Season,” I decided to...

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U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits

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06/04/2015

... on Cuba-related grants emphasized that internal changes to economic and other policies in Cuba are shifting the ... Barnes, a program officer overseeing coastal and marine grant making at the MacArthur...

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Doris Duke and Simons Foundations Back Breakthrough Sickle Cell Research

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09/18/2015

... hemoglobin disorders, such as thalassemia. This stretch of DNA, called an enhancer, controls the molecular switch ... Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ( grant numbers...

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Weinberg Foundation Launches New Website

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10/22/2015

... . Whatever your reason for coming to the Weinberg Foundation online, we want to make your visit ... Foundation is proud to announce a complete redesign of its website. The...

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Bank of America, Water.org Expand Partnership to Bring Safe Water to India and Brazil

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11/02/2018

Bank of America, Water.org Expand Partnership to Bring Safe Water to India and Brazil Water.org received a $3 million grant over three years from Bank of...

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Service for Impact Working Group Breakfast

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9:00am to 10:30pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

Supporting strategic volunteerism is a critical component to strengthening grantees in this current economic climate. A ... At the January meeting “Reimagining Service and Cities of Service: A Funder’s Guide...

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In NYTimes, Ford’s Walker on Internships and Inequality

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07/06/2016

... and Inequality TALENT is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. And while many Americans believe ... While some students take a summer job in food service to pay the bills, others can afford to...

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Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships

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12/02/2016

... Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships When Capital ... Berkowitz stepped down earlier this year to pursue other opportunities, one question...

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Geraldine R. Dodge and Silicon Valley Community Foundations Accepted to Knight Community Information Lab

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02/14/2017

... R. Dodge and Silicon Valley Community Foundations Accepted to Knight Community Information Lab The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a new opportunity for community and place-based...

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