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Ms. Foundation Helps Film Lab Fight Elder Abuse Through Film

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09/09/2015

... competitions, educational outreach to support diversity in media and its production arm featuring diverse ...

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Aging

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Immigrants, Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds

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09/24/2015

... Their Children Integrate Well into US Society but Not in All Areas, Report Finds As U.S. immigrants and their ... English. But a new report found their well-being declines in the areas of health, crime and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman It was, in the vernacular of corporate America, a win-win: a bond ... had helped 109 “at-risk” kindergartners avoid special education...

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How Do You Build a Field? Lessons from Public Health - Rockefeller Foundation

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11/23/2015

... educators and others who led the public health response in West Africa and beyond. We owe the existence of these ...

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

... Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College Most students attend college to learn skills ... all. A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in College , from TCF senior fellow Robert...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Robertson Foundation Gifts $25M to Success Academy Charter School Network

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04/13/2016

Success said that the gift would help it achieve its goal of expanding to 100 schools, from 34, within the next 10 years, as well as allow the network to share its curriculum and pedagogy with other educators.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 33 Winners of Its Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows

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04/19/2016

... 33 winners of its prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows in recognition of their proposed research on an array of topics in the social sciences and humanities. Each of the 2016 ... one or two years of scholarly...

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Bangladeshi Law Student Receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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04/19/2016

... juniors who show leadership potential and have an interest in government or public sector service. And he’s also one ...

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Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans

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Immigration

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John A. Hartford Foundation’s Rachael Watman Named VP of Programs at Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

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05/03/2016

... has joined the foundation as Vice President of Programs. In this newly created position, she will help to oversee the Foundation's Innovation and Education portfolios, which include the Hillman...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Carnegie, Helmsley Release Study On Building a Successful Transfer Program

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05/17/2016

... institutions better serve students who often get stuck in the quagmire of process and policies. Although almost ... intended to ease the transition for transfer students, education researchers say many of the...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

NY State Health Foundation Grants Available to Brownsville Residents to Help Improve Community Health

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06/09/2016

... organization is welcoming ideas. Crowd-resourcing platform In Our Backyards, or ioby, is partnering with the New York ... State Health Foundation to provide training and $100,000 in matching grants to help...

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New York Health Foundation

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Westchester Community Foundation Helps Students Turn Opportunity Into College Degrees

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06/21/2016

... journey from Yonkers to Southern Vermont College in two words: culture shock. Last month, Ramos and three ... students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont's Green Mountains with...

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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Funded by the New York Community Trust, Redford Center Establishes Filmmaker Grants

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06/22/2016

... Filmmaker Grants The Redford Center, which was founded in 2005 by Jamie and Robert Redford, will be accepting ... well-timed story as a means to inspire positive change in the world.” The pilot program will...

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The New York Community Trust

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action

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06/24/2016

... Supreme Court decision upholding race as a factor in the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin ... of challenges, colleges that have significant competition in the admissions process can now...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

... talk to staff about anything that strikes their fancy in the institution. A team of art educators sit around a ... and as a result, are providing more information in some places or making changes to displays...

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NYCT, Jonas Center, John A. Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs

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07/20/2016

... Hartford and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Highlighted in Health Affairs The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ... the average for all occupations [7 percent].” Nurses are in demand for several reasons,...

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U.S. News Article Cites Wallace Report on School Leadership

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08/16/2016

... little was known about how much support principals in the United States receive to be effective "instructional leaders," a buzz phrase in the K-12 education community that refers to...

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Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students

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08/18/2016

... encourage more low-income young people to pursue higher education by signaling them from a young age that they can ... from disadvantaged backgrounds: their fear of falling in national college rankings if they...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program Wants to Teach Parents, Too

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09/09/2016

... been lauded for its focus on teacher training and quality in pre-K — is turning its sights to the home. This school year, the Department of Education and New York University will launch a new parenting ...

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