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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

Release Date:

05/05/2015

... engraved gold medallions, crystal trophies for their schools , and $5,000 grants from The Prudential Foundation for ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... learning materials, such as textbooks, were delivered to schools in a timely manner. Monitoring teacher absenteeism – whether teachers even showed up at schools – was another serious concern. Now with the .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

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John A. Hartford Helps Expand Program to Support Older Hospitalized Adults

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09/01/2015

The program specifically addresses recovery of hip fractures among older adults.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats

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01/22/2016

... donors. The bulk of the coats will go to 32 elementary schools that are part of the city’s “community school” ... to domestic violence to a lack of warm clothing. The schools serve a disproportionate share of...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

... can impact the quality of teaching in the classroom, in schools , and throughout school districts. The grants, ... the expertise of teachers to drive transformation in schools , districts and states, including...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Prodded by Advocates, City Unveils District-Wide Integration Plan for Lower East Side

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09/13/2017

... spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools . It is the first effort under Mayor Bill de Blasio to ...

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In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation

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09/18/2017

... even somebody as powerful and committed as him couldn’ t make fundamental reforms [to schools ], I didn’ t see how anybody else could.” But ... city’s largest, most controversial network of...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

Release Date:

11/29/2018

... not in the classroom. The project is collaborating with schools and youth organizations to collect data that will ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

Release Date:

11/29/2018

Carnegie Corporation of New York is pleased to announce that Farhad Asghar will join Carnegie Corporation of New York on December 17, 2018 as Program Officer, Pathways to Postsecondary Success, overseeing part of our education portfolio. Farhad’s...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

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02/21/2019

Johanna Van Fleet may still be in high school, but she knows as much about stocks, bonds and mutual funds as her friends do about emojis and apps – and now she’s offering that winning advice to a famous entrepreneur! Van Fleet recommended an...

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Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue

Release Date:

03/22/2017

... traumas of their violent situations? I tried to find out , but it understandably does not have a working website. Organizations like ASF don’ t want to be public, so they must remain underground and find .....

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Gender Justice

J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces Open Call for Applications to 2019 Innovation Prize

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02/06/2019

... “The Prize is designed to fill this gap in innovation philanthropy , supporting ideas that others may deem too risky ... pilot or prototype with Prize funding • Hold out the promise to benefit multiple...

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Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job: A Landscape Scan of Assessment Tools

Release Date:

08/02/2018

... used? This is what the Hewlett Foundation’s Effective Philanthropy Group were curious to discover, so we ... were many rich findings from the scan, but a few stood out to us: Organizational assessment tools...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

Release Date:

05/05/2020

... appliances. The brothers brought the same outlook to their philanthropy , seeking out practical ideas that could make a real difference. By ... of the undertaking. The Foundation would be setting out...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Public Policy

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Community Development

Public Policy

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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... and attentive voters to conclude that we shouldn’ t just shrug our shoulders about this; that bad budgeting has ... place during each of the two preceding years. It wiped out most of the state’s structural...

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LaVerne Evans Srinivasan named Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management at Carnegie Corporation

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03/25/2014

... with a goal of getting great teachers into high-needs schools and supporting them to be successful. Srinivasan ... Department of Education, President of New Leaders for New Schools , and President of Time to...

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