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Charter-School Operators, Feeling Pressured, Seek New Direction at Symposium

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09/25/2017

... upstarts with good ideas to shake up the U.S. education system one school at a time. But some backers of the model ... expects to gather about 350 educators and advocates in Queens on Oct. 12 and 13. . ...

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How Much Time Was Spent on Subway? M.T.A. Can Now Tell You

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09/26/2017

... the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced a new system for both tracking delays on the subway as well as ...

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Community Development

New MIF/Hewlett Foundation Webinars Explore How Funders Can Fight Misinformation

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09/27/2017

... Knight Foundations’ collaboration with Democracy Fund in support of CUNY’s News Integrity Initiative, to Craig Newmark and others’ investment in Poynter’s fact-checking initiative, many in...

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Mellon Foundation Makes the Business Case for Humanities Education

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09/29/2017

... grant is the first of its kind pairing a community college system with a flagship public university and it explicitly ... humanities collaboration. Labor shortages and skill gaps in New Hampshire have limited...

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Economic Security

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12 Innovative Post-Sandy Projects Built to Withstand Future Storms

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10/03/2017

... building codes require. There’s even a homegrown rating system for New York’s coastal buildings called the ... The guidelines, which the Waterfront Alliance launched in 2015, will soon go national, the...

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Community Development

With Federal Cuts to Hospitals, Cuomo Suggests New York City Step Up

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10/03/2017

... to the state’s already overworked public health care system . The cut came as a result of a lack of action by ...

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Health

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care

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10/04/2017

... Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, ... Almodovar, Robert Gore, MD, and James R. Tallon, Jr.— in recognition of their important...

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Former Microsoft CEO and Wife Pledge $60 Million to Fight Social Inequality

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10/05/2017

... centers on reducing racial and socioeconomic disparities in educational success and improving partnerships among ...

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Economic Security

New York City Students Are Getting Younger

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10/05/2017

... New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes ... added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two...

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Pfizer: Joins AMP Health Partnership to Increase Access to Care in Africa

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02/02/2018

... AMP Health Partnership to Increase Access to Care in Africa The Aspen Management Partnershipfor Health (AMP Health) and Pfizer are working together in an innovative partnership to help advance access to...

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Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

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03/27/2018

... bleaching, which spread across the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 2016 and 2017. Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, ... on the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ...

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Why Bloomberg Philanthropies Focuses on Teacher Salaries as A Key Component to Education Reform

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04/30/2018

... Teacher salaries vary widely by district and state, but in too many places, teachers are grossly underpaid compared ... — a gap that is widening. Before the walkout in West Virginia, starting teachers there...

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Ingrid Rasmussen Joins Unbound Philanthropy as Chief Operating Officer

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06/05/2019

... and she is passionate about Unbound’s mission to invest in leaders and organizations in the US and UK working to build a vibrant, welcoming society and just immigration system . Ingrid...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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19 Jul 2012

Supreme Court Decision in Arizona v. United States: Implications for Funders

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

... , Robina Foundation Distinguished Senior Research Scholar in Law and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School Marielena Hincapié , Executive ... Designed for All interested funders Supreme Court Decision in...

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the ... industry it helped create, took its first direct stake in a renewable energy company in a move...

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens

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04/14/2017

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens ... email program inquires to lifesciences@simonsfoundation. org and administrative inquires to lifegrants@...

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06 Feb 2014

Valentine Road - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, February 6, 2014 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

Ford Foundation

... 4th).  Please contact register@philanthropynewyork. org with any questions.  Join us for a wine-and-cheese ...

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25 Feb 2014

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium VIII: Re-Imagining Impact

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 -

7:00am to 12:00pm

Baruch College School of Public Affairs

... of Association Executives, Support Center, NYCharities. org , VCG Governance Matters and Women in Development.  This Program is " Partially Open ."   ... , Senior Program Officer, Altman Foundation  (...

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Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India

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03/24/2015

Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India Bank of America today announced a $1 million grant to Water. org , a global organization that provides innovative, ... and communities. This...

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