Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches Redesigned Carnegie.Org
Release Date:
09/22/2015
... knowledge about important issues of our times. Voting rights is one such issue, long a focus of the Corporation’s ...
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Opinion: Health Reform Lives!
Release Date:
11/23/2015
To the right’s dismay, scare tactics — remember death panels? — and spurious legal challenges failed to protect the nation from the scourge of guaranteed health coverage. Still, Obamacare’s opponents insisted that it would implode in a “death spiral...
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Meet the Women and LGBT Activists on the ISIS Frontlines
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 -
11:30am to 1:30pm
... policy recommendations for securing the lives and human rights of women, girls and LGBT Iraqis. Learn about their work to document human rights abuses in ISIS-controlled areas and provide emergency ... in...
New York Women's Foundation Celebrates Leaders in Philanthropy
Release Date:
04/18/2016
... Burch Foundation and Elizabeth A. Sackler, PhD, human rights activist, President of The Arthur M. Sackler ...
Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action
Release Date:
06/24/2016
... concern on campuses nationwide about whether colleges are actually inclusive – and not just diverse – the high ... ruling is being seen by many higher education and civil rights leaders as a jumping off point...
Ford Program Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy
Release Date:
07/25/2016
... Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy We are living in anxious, often frightening times. Earlier this ... right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest, and are inexorably linked to Philando...
Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... for every dollar, respectively. But even though things are generally headed in the right direction, in the past ... the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when...
Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform
Release Date:
02/16/2017
In the fall of 1964, Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), was summoned to the White House along with his peers from...
Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... trail, they came out in record numbers to rally for the rights of women and others who felt threatened by the new administration. Of course, women are not a monolithic voting bloc, and many of them are...
Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women
Release Date:
05/04/2017
... organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in ...
Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... — for financial help to report on issues including human rights and climate change. Rachel White, the president of ...
Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented
Release Date:
08/31/2017
The “summer of hell” at Penn Station due to Amtrak’s track upgrades was averted due to planning and communication, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday in a statement.
Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools
Release Date:
08/31/2017
City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school year.
Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... affronts our people. We don't like it when our neighbors are singled out for who they are . On Tuesday, the President sent out his attorney general, .....
City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults
Release Date:
09/08/2017
Homeless and runaway youth would be able to stay longer in the city’s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be introduced in the City Council Thursday.
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... 2014 has been the subject of a long-running federal civil rights investigation. Review Board Recommends Departmental ...
Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... founded the global philanthropy network to promote human rights . Mr. Soros is a major donor to liberal causes and ...
Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... standards approved this week by the Board of Regents are “little more than a rebranding” of Common Core, a ...
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
... Recently fired undocumented employees of Tom Cat Bakery are joining with worker advocates to urge the food industry ... dozen bakery workers, union organizers, and workers’ rights advocates took to the streets...
New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... Schools Teachers in traditional district schools are three times as likely to be chronically absent from the classroom as those in charter schools, meaning they are gone for more than 10 days in a typical 180-...