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Heckscher Foundation Supported EdTrust–NY Launches New Data Tool “The New York FAFSA Challenge” to Highlight Success and Encourage FAFSA completion.

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02/19/2019

Heckscher Foundation Supported EdTrust–NY Launches New Data Tool “The New York FAFSA Challenge” to Highlight Success and Encourage FAFSA completion. While ... for the rest of the state, according to...

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U.S. Education Secretary Addresses Century Foundation Forum

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04/19/2016

U.S. Education Secretary Addresses Century Foundation Forum The intersection of decades of education , housing, and transportation policy has left the ... schools... U.S. Education...

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Educational Foundation of America Seeks Proposals for Website Redesign

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08/30/2016

Educational Foundation of America Seeks Proposals for Website Redesign ... EFA has purposefully assumed a low profile as the Foundation is not interested in touting its own achievements. ... in strengthening our...

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Gates Foundation Launches a New Global Education Strategy

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06/01/2018

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International/Foreign Affairs

Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-staffed Foundations

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11/2015

Impact investing has the potential to enable every foundation , regardless of size, to pursue its philanthropic mission more effectively. It can ...

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arabella Advisors

Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and Autism Science Foundation launch Autism BrainNet registration site

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05/16/2014

ATLANTA, GA (16 May 2014) — The Simons Foundation , Autism Speaks and the Autism Science Foundation ... collaboratively by the Simons Foundation and Autism...

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

Release Date:

10/17/2014

... of enrolling in college, but it may also cost less per graduate . These small schools shared some key ... relationships with teachers and real-world relevance to the classroom lessons. Another key: outside...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Teagle Foundation Announces Appointment of Two New Directors to Its Board

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02/12/2014

The Teagle Foundation is pleased to announce two new members of its ... for Academic Planning and Programs at Queens College/ CUNY . She was a tenured member of the biology faculty at Queens...

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Diverse Strategies for Funding Education

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09/18/2013

... week, we sent you a "save the date" for the launch of the Education Funders Research Initiative (EdFunders). Sixteen ... diverse strategies around school reform have come together to help inform both...

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PNY News

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Education

American Express-Supported Awards Go to Michael Brown, CEO of City Year, and United We Dream’s Julieta Garibay

Release Date:

11/02/2015

... Timothy J. McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation , which sponsors the NGEN Award. Julieta Garibay ... serves on the boards of Cradles to Crayons and the Center for Disaster...

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It's Possible for All NYC School Meals to be Cooked from Scratch, Report Supported by the New York Community Trust , New York State Health Foundation and Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Finds

Release Date:

12/03/2019

It's Possible for All NYC School Meals to be Cooked from Scratch, Report Supported by New York Community Trust , New York State Health Foundation and Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation

Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New Horizons Prize

Release Date:

12/15/2017

Simons Investigators Awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize, New ... The award notes their “transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal ... in 2012 for his...

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

... have not graduated from high school lag on economic, education and health outcomes, compared with children of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child...

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Foundation for Child Development

Citi Community Development and The Poses Family Foundation Support New Initiative Aimed at Building the Financial Security of People with Disabilities

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01/29/2018

Citi Community Development and The Poses Family Foundation Support New Initiative Aimed at Building the ... Cities , a new national initiative enabling municipalities to expand financial empowerment and economic...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in Communities of Color

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04/30/2020

Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in ... Grassroots Asians Rising, National Movement Strategy Center...

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis To Step Down In March

Release Date:

09/14/2017

Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis To Step Down In March Mellon ... return to the academy, and launch a new initiative, The Center for Social Solutions, to...

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Salesforce Issues Grant to NYC Department of Education to Advance Equity and Opportunity

Release Date:

12/18/2019

Salesforce Issues Grant to NYC Department of Education to Advance Equity and ... recently opened a new Salesforce Tower. This grant supports several key leadership initiatives...

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21 Oct 2010

Understanding the Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in New York City

Thursday, October 21, 2010 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

The Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, NYC.

... who work in partnership with leading researchers in urban education Drs. Pedro Noguera and Ronald Mincy, will discuss research-driven policy recommendations dedicated to closing this academic achievement gap...

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20 Sep 2011

School Transformations III: Practices and Programs that Are Transforming Schools & Policies that Support Them

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

This is the third session of a series designed to inform grantmakers about realistic options for ... two programs (Turnaround for Children and Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility) that are .....

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Philanthropy Should Support Frontline Workers During Pandemic and Beyond - from Arabella Advisors

Release Date:

03/27/2020

... relief workers, and other frontline workers who chose to take the risks necessary to save lives during a ... life-threatening circumstances. Some have no postsecondary education ; others have...