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Eighth Graders Win $25K In Citi Foundation Entrepreneur Contest

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10/12/2016

Baltimore eight graders Anna Doherty and Hope Sacco won the 2016 NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge this week, presented by the Citi Foundation.

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Economic Security

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Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?

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11/01/2016

The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.

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Mayor De Blasio Says City Has to Grow Taller and Denser Despite Anti-Development Attitudes As Population Rises

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11/02/2016

Relentless growth fueled by immigration, people arriving from other parts of the country and more residents simply staying put will push an already swelling population past the 9 million mark in the decade beginning 2030.

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Community Development

The Bronfman Fellowship Announces 31st Application Season

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11/03/2016

The Bronfman Fellowship selects 26 outstanding North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of seminars including a free, five-week trip to Israel in the summer between the fellows’ junior and senior years of high school.

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Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

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11/30/2016

The winning librarians were recognized for their exceptional contributions to transforming lives and communities through education and lifelong learning.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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UJA-Federation of New York Supports $50 Million Arts Campus in Jerusalem

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12/21/2016

... space featuring four of Israel’s leading performing arts schools as well as performance venues and an outdoor plaza, ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Rita Allen Supports Research That Identifies Source of Opioids’ Side Effects

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02/02/2017

A commercially available drug may help drastically reduce two side effects of opioid painkillers — a growing tolerance to them and a paradoxically increased sensitivity to pain — without affecting the drugs’ ability to reduce pain, according to a...

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

Scientists at the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology at the Kresge Eye Institute are the first to show that the Zika virus (ZIKV) can replicate in the eye's retinal cells, causing severe tissue damage and even...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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New App Connects Hungry Children With Restaurants

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03/21/2017

An app that helps fellow students in need get an after-school meal is among the finalists in Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow Contest.

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Children, Youth and Families

Commonwealth Fund Report Predicts a Detrimental Impact of an ACA Repeal on Jobs

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08/04/2017

A report by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and the Commonwealth Fund predicts bad news if Congress repeals the ACA. Research shows that the loss of 'ACA tax credits and Medicaid expansion would lead to a...

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Bargaining With Cancer Patients About Treatment

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09/05/2017

... they had a low-grade version of the illness, they wouldn’ t need immediate treatment, let alone major surgery. . . ...

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Here Are 5 Things To Know About The ESSA Plan New York Is Sending To Betsy Devos

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09/11/2017

... plan Monday that could reshape the way the state evaluates schools , intervenes in those that are struggling, and several ...

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Children, Youth and Families

City Launches Coordinated Effort to Serve LGBTQ Youth

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09/20/2017

... suicide prevention and added supports in the public schools . First Lady Chirlane McCray launched the initiative ...

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The Century Foundation Has Obtained New Data Showing 99 Percent of Student Fraud Claims Concern For-Profit Colleges

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11/13/2017

... has never before released a comprehensive list of schools accused of predatory behavior. Now, in response to a ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Funder Recommendations Meet City Leader Action

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06/02/2014

... " Research on Recommendations: What Works - and What Doesn' t - in Re-Structuring Workforce Development Systems in U.S. ... This article was the feature piece for the May 2014 Philanthropy Connects...

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PNY News

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Workforce Development

How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

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09/28/2011

... The Clark Foundation Chair of the Board of Directors, Philanthropy New York ( This essay originally appeared in ...

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Build Trust With A Purpose Statement

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12/05/2016

... However, programs and initiatives alone don’ t necessarily build trust with stakeholders, especially if ... as identified by Fortune Magazine and The Chronicle of Philanthropy , were financial service companies...

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Citi Foundation Announces Recipients of Community Progress Makers Initiative in the United States

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12/13/2021

... Development Center. “Citi Foundation’s trust-based philanthropy is game-changing. It gives us the freedom and ...

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