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Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11

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05/07/2014

... Talks About The Fight Against Discrimination After 9/11 In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual ... explains her trajectory as a little girl growing up in a small town in...

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Carnegie Among Funders of STEM Learning Ecosystems, 17 Regional Partnerships Focused on STEM Education Pathways Added

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05/25/2017

... U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference. In just two years, the STEM Learning Ecosystems Initiative ... See more at http://stemecosystems.org/first-community-of- practice / . “It’s so important...

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For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together

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05/30/2017

... can inform our work — and that of our fellow funders — in the future. One hundred years ago, John E. Andrus founded Surdna to be of service to those most in need. Over the last century, five successive...

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Casey Family Programs Publishes Report on How Positive Factors Change Child Trauma

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06/09/2017

... outcomes that children and families experience in midst of trauma. By now, the link between adverse ... experiences (ACEs) and poor health outcomes later in life have become well established and the focus of...

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Opinion from NY Community Trust: How Arts And Culture Make New York A Place For All Of Us

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06/21/2017

... on proscenium stages to longstanding drumming circles in City parks, New York is home to an unparalleled variety of ... urban enclave; provide space for people to engage in civic action; and celebrate the...

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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

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08/30/2017

Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children Loopholes in state laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the practice...

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Gender Justice

Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

... Became Tainted Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner emerged as a pioneer in analyzing the most complicated evidence from crime scenes. ... It...

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Editorial: Falls Water Board Must Get A Handle On Its Procedures And Discharges

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09/06/2017

... Managers of large and complex operations put systems in place to promote efficiency and prevent accidents such as occurred in Niagara Falls a little over a month ago. Yet, a ...

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New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students

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09/07/2017

... Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary ... admit they cannot afford to pay for lunch. Nationally, the practice of “lunch shaming” —...

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New York City Education Department to Improve Response to Public Record Requests

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09/14/2017

... more realistic timelines for responding to requests. In new guidelines released Wednesday, the education ... provides. That is meant to end the widely-criticized practice of sending form letters every 30 days...

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Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men

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09/15/2017

... paying them less than men who do similar jobs. In the suit, which was filed Tuesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco, the plaintiffs say Google knew or should ...

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Xanax Or Zoloft For Moms-To-Be: A New Study Assesses Safety

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09/19/2017

... obstetrician's office at 4 a.m., and one of the midwives in the practice , after listening to her symptoms, said, "It sounds .....

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Supreme Court Weighs Immigrants’ Rights to Have Detention Reviewed

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10/04/2017

... Rights to Have Detention Reviewed Amid a nationwide surge in immigration arrests spearheaded by the Trump ... immigrants fighting deportation or applying for asylum in the United States are entitled to...

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SUNY Revises Controversial Proposal to Let Some New York Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers

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10/10/2017

... Though the basic elements of the original proposal remains in tact, prospective teachers will now be required to sit for ... of instruction (though the amount of time they must spend practice teaching has been...

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

... picture of the state of for-profit higher education in America. The report comes as Education Secretary Betsy ... that the department now is considering abandoning the practice of full loan cancellation...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... populations that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education. The grant will build on the successful programs developed in a prior Mellon Foundation grant, which established the ...

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World Cities Culture Forum Announces Four Leadership Awards across 9 Global Cities

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05/03/2018

... shaping public policy. As Mayors around the world invest in cultural projects ranging from cultural facilities and ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arts

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William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research

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05/04/2018

... award grants of up to $600,000 over two or three years in support of research designed to build, test, and increase ... understanding of approaches to reducing inequality in youth outcomes on the basis of race...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

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06/05/2019

... the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. To that end, the foundation is inviting ... Through the program, teams of four to six scholars in any discipline will be awarded up...

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