This document identifies and summarizes current public policy issues and updates for Philanthropy New York's collective membership and the Public Policy Committee of the Board. The issues included represent issues that are aligned with our vision and values and where peers have identified the continued need for advocacy in the coming year.
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The report suggests that students face bias from some professors based on stereotypes and that this creates "stereotype threat" in which students may come to doubt their own abilities.
Tow Foundation Supports Fellowships to Strengthen Reporting on Juvenile Justice The Center on Media, Crime and ... at John Jay College (CMCJ) has selected 26 journalists as Reporting Fellows for its third year-...
As New York City faces increasing pressure to promote school diversity, a new report from the Century Foundation shows that more districts nationwide are using socioeconomic status to shape admissions processes.
The Center for an Urban Future’s report, which was funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, documented the important role that public libraries play in communities across New York City.
A new report from the Charles H. Revson Foundation makes the case for philanthropic support of journalism, though its focus is on local news in the US.
Since 2010, when the Milbank Memorial Fund published its first behavioral health integration (BHI) report, the field has advanced conceptually, and there has been a proliferation of research.
The evaluation report provides updates on implementing strategies for grantmaking to movements and organizations working toward LGBTQ rights in East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and the southern United States.
A new report by international experts draws significant linkages between industrial food and farming practices and many of the “severest health conditions afflicting populations around the world,” from respiratory diseases to a range of cancers and...
Carnegie Corporation and the Russell Sage Foundation backed the study, which was released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.