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Into the Public Policy Deep End

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08/18/2015

... She will be joined by a second fellow next summer, and we ’ll have overlapping fellows for the next ten years. ... and is swimming fast in breaking waves. In her first week, we immersed her in the Forum of...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

... to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives Every day we are inundated with harrowing stories of desperation from ... the world's largest internally displaced populations. We must act with solidarity to...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bank of America Foundation President Seeks to Increase Youth Development Opportunities

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08/19/2015

... internet--among other things. However, more and more we 're seeing these young adults, now the largest living ... age than their Baby Boomer and Gen-X counterparts. And we 're seeing that this...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

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09/02/2015

... in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “ We are grateful for the Foundation’s partnership as we launch key initiatives to advance the use of technology ...

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Come Help Me Be Less Racist

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10/21/2015

... Come Help Me Be Less Racist As the song says, “ We ’re All a Little Bit Racist.” And sexist. And ... coding in our brains that makes us think and act the way we do, no matter how much we...

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PNY News

NoVo Foundation Picked by Cuomo to Create New York City Women's Center

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10/27/2015

... center of the worldwide women’s-equality movement. " We take down an institution of failure and defeat and we rise from those ashes," Cuomo said Monday at the Chelsea .....

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Social Justice

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... which Tiffany & Company made jewelry. The conclusion we reached was inescapable: No amount of corporate profit or ... pledging not to use gold produced by the Pebble Mine, we became vocal opponents of mine...

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Environment and Climate Change

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De Blasio Enlists New York City's Wealthy for His War on Income Inequality (Morgan Stanley)

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12/08/2015

... housing, youth employment and mental health. “ We may not agree on individual issues but we ’re all in the same ecosystem,” said Morgan Stanley ...

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Economic Security

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Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree

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01/19/2016

... Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. “If we care about upward social mobility, then we need to pay attention to transfer students.” ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

... the country, including one Thursday in Santa Fe. “ We have to provide leadership and strive to make everyone completely uncomfortable until we have women at the table where everybody is comfortable,” ...

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Gender Justice

F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

... skills needed to make a living. In the social sector, as we build enterprises and invest capital, we may be depending on assumptions based on an obsolescent ...

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

... people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, ... nonprofits — needs to play a role. At JPMorgan Chase, we ’re starting by giving thousands...

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New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

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07/15/2016

... driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe. “ We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2 ... effects of dark energy in the expansion of the Universe. We are making our results and map...

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

... struggle almost as much as their homeless peers. “ We can’t just think about it as a point-in-time event,” ... a policy analyst who worked on the report. “ We need to think about the life course of a student...

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Housing and Homelessness

A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... the country is an especially hot funding area of late, as we 've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about, ... underrepresented in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we 've written about a...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course, but ... liberal answer for nearly a generation now has been that we should become aware of and “celebrate...

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Public Policy

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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

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04/17/2017

... the varied modes of doing the work. Several years ago, we were struck by the way some of our grantee partners were ... lives, the organization, and in the surrounding community. We hosted a series of...

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Supported by NY Community Trust, New Research Ties Arts to Well-Being

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04/19/2017

... studios give city kids a chance to challenge themselves. We ’ve long sensed that the arts improve communities. Now we have proof. New research by the University of ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

... rather than treated holistically. For far too long we have known that too many children enter school buildings ... barriers to their academic and career progress. Yet, we continue to approach the task of...

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