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City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

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06/29/2015

... Schools At a time when the public and private sectors are struggling to create jobs, the technology sector is ... fill innumerable open positions. Jobs in computing fields are among the highest paying and...

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North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

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08/14/2015

North Star Fund Executive Director Hugh Hogan questions de Blasio's claims of grassroots governance.

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... organization. While culture can be understood in various ways and is hard to pin down, it has a persistent influence ...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

... States. But today’s volume of immigrants is in some ways a return to America’s past. Read more and explore the ...

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Jonas Center Supports Visionary Project Bringing New Light to End-of-Life Issues

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11/03/2015

‘Dying in America,’ by photographer/filmmaker Carolyn Jones, launches website with resources for patients, families ahead of feature film.

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Grant Foundation Shifts Research Focus, Invites Studies that Improve Use of Research

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12/17/2015

... The stakes of omitting or misusing research evidence are high, but too often research is absent from deliberations ... studies of how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. To that...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Divests from Fossil Fuels and Exxon

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03/24/2016

In a letter posted on its website, the Rockefeller Family Fund announced that it would divest from fossil fuels “as quickly as possible,” eliminating its holdings in ExxonMobil Corp., which it called “morally reprehensible.”

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Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

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05/05/2016

Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation Surdna has an idea: Give more ownership of companies to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the 19th century — but it’s an idea that...

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What Big (and not-so-big) Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style

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05/23/2016

... donors and their philanthropic gifts. Spoiler alert—they are more connected than ever. While it still does happen (we ...

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Century Foundation Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases

Release Date:

06/07/2016

... Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases There are several ways schools could work to lower suspension rates, according .....

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

Release Date:

06/13/2016

... vision. Separate awards will fund researchers working on ways to improve the brain’s ability to take information ...

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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

For the past six years, Jarrett Lucas has been making his way, as he says, "up the non-profit stepping stool," working at Stonewall Foundation for the past six years.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

Release Date:

06/29/2016

... last few years the Brooklyn Museum has been prototyping ways to reach visitors on a more personal level. Their final ... visitors interact with the collection, and as a result, are providing more information...

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Co-Sponsored by Simmons Foundation, New Report Examines Immigrants, Refugees and the Future of Texas

Release Date:

07/11/2016

... state home. One in three children in Texas—most of whom are U.S. citizens—has a foreign-born parent, and the ... than that of U.S.-born. Whether immigrants and refugees are able to reach their full potential...

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Guttman Foundation Leads Funder Collaborative All About Child Care in New York City

Release Date:

07/25/2016

... back from economic stability. Although child care funders are few and far between, they do exist. Alongside the W.K. ...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

... Foundation is earmarked for specific kinds of land "that are going to be important in helping the region adapt to ... added that rising temperatures affect the Hudson in many ways . "We see sea level...

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Research to Prevent Blindness- Backed Study Uncovers Major Cause of Vision Loss

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... of retinal disorders, including those for which there are no treatments, such as retinitis pigmentosa and advanced ...

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2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease

Release Date:

10/05/2016

... and diabetes. Now drugs that can target the process are being tested in early-stage clinical trials in human ...

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Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

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11/22/2016

The grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust extends the historic $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013.

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

... Prepare Principals Outcomes like those posted by SEM are the exact kind of results officials from the Wallace Foundation say they are hoping to reproduce nationwide through a $47 million ... will support...

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