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29 Nov 2011

Time as a Tool: Strategies for Transforming Schools through Time

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... regular school hours with additional ones used in more targeted ways to improve school performance. A few years ... eligible for SIG (School Improvement Grants). Today, more than a decade into the 21st century...

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09 Apr 2014

School Diversity in New York City

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... state of segregation and the path towards encouraging more high-quality economically and racially integrated ... outcomes Current opportunities and efforts to pursue more integrated schools in New York City...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Don Chen New Director of Metropolitan Opportunity

Release Date:

01/05/2015

... on transforming cities and metropolitan regions to be more just, inclusive and environmentally sustainable. He has ... improve urban development policies and practices to foster more equitable, environmentally...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Selects Genaro Lopez-Rendon as Next President

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... Foundation’s giving and programs.” "We could not be more delighted than to have Genaro join Noyes as our next ... the support for social justice in philanthropy has become more prominent,” said Lopez-...

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National Teen 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Recipients Named (Bloomberg)

Release Date:

03/15/2016

... humor, editorial cartoons, video game design and more . Sixteen high school seniors received the program's ... a $10,000 scholarship. In total, the Alliance awards more than $250,000 in scholarships...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

American Express, BofA, Citigroup, & JP Morgan Chase Adopt Policies to Deter Human Trafficking

Release Date:

04/04/2016

... generated by each year by forced labor for those who place more value on profit than people. From sex traffickers making ... Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, has received more than 4,000 reports of...

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American Express

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

Release Date:

01/20/2017

... Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across ...

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The Esteé Lauder Companies’ Breast Cancer Campaign Global Ambassadors Elizabeth Hurley And William P. Lauder to Light the Empire State Pink in Honor of 25th Anniversary

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... Pink Ribbon. The Breast Cancer Campaign has raised more than $70 million – globally – with more than $56 million funding 225 medical research grants ... to create a breast cancer-free world. Please see below...

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How The Funders Youth Collaborative Sees the Prospects for Youth Organizing

Release Date:

01/18/2018

... feel newly galvanized. Some groups, of course, are more established than others. In the Trump era, some feel ... But they all need resources, and while last year saw more funders back movement building, youth...

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Surdna Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Digitization Of 19th Century Navy Deck Logs

Release Date:

01/29/2018

... Foundation for helping us make these historic records more widely available.' After making digital images of the ... handwritten entries. So far volunteers have transcribed more than 3 million weather...

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Mellon Foundation

William Bell, President of Casey Family Programs, Spoke at the Senate Health Committee Hearing on the Opioid Crisis

Release Date:

02/12/2018

... addicted to opioids, including heroin, during pregnancy. More than 110 babies died between 2010 and 2015 after being ... law called the Family First Prevention Services Act fills more than 100 pages of the 652...

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Casey Family Programs

New Report From the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Probes Tech Use Among Young Kids in Silicon Valley

Release Date:

03/06/2018

... saying that they experience slower connections, more data limits, and more broken computers and devices than their white and Asian-Pacific Islander counterparts. More than 80 percent of...

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29 Mar 2018

Emergency Briefing on Adding Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Thursday, March 29, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... of Justice. The Secretary noted that he received more than 50 letters on the subject, and he interviewed more than two dozen people. That included a letter from ... even if there is some impact on responses,...

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Civic Engagement

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Census 2020

Suzanne Brundage Named Patricia S. Levinson Fellow at United Hospital Fund

Release Date:

04/18/2018

... Primary Care in New York , which lays out a vision for more effective pediatric primary care in New York. She is an ... of her death in 2015. She was an active board member for more than 20 years, and involved...

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United Hospital Fund

New Report From The Redlich Horwitz Foundation: New York Should Use Family First Act As “Tailwind” for Curbing Congregate Care

Release Date:

04/24/2018

... care or residential care, unless such facilities meet more rigorous quality standards. But a major child welfare ... New York’s foster care system, with an eye on placing more foster youth in the homes of...

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Health

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup Pushes Census Turnout

Release Date:

05/09/2018

... Bureau to hire people to go door-to-door. An effort to do more of the count online is untested and could fall short. ... Democracy Funders Collaborative Census Subgroup has pooled more than $5 million since...

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Arabella Advisors

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Ford Foundation

Groundswell Fund

Freedom Together Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Rockefeller Family Fund

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Tides

Unbound Philanthropy

Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... services in the program’s region has doubled, with more than 8,000 women opting to start a modern contraceptive method since the initiative began in 2016. More than 34,000 women have participated in education...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Foundation, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to Invest $50 Million on Social Impact Data

Release Date:

01/29/2019

... to a platform-based model, in which it will support more organizations on a set of common issues, including ... data scientists and engineers from their network of more than 30,000 to work on more...

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Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Report From Century Foundation: English Learners and School Choice: Helping Charter Schools Serve Multilingual Families

Release Date:

04/30/2019

... Families American public schools today are perhaps more linguistically and culturally diverse than at any other ... and seventeen years old. That represents an increase of more than 2.5 million children since...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Immigration

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The Century Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2019 Annual Report: Michael R. Bloomberg’s Annual Letter on Philanthropy

Release Date:

06/13/2019

... the worst impacts of climate change grows smaller. More Americans lose loved ones to opioid overdoses and gun violence. More students miss out on a good education and the ... building programs to provide...

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