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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... segregated than they have been for decades. In the Northeast, 51.4 percent of black students attend ... classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 percent in 1968. In the country’s 100...

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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation Strong principals are ... leaders usually receive far less attention than teachers in the national conversation about education...

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... serving as policy analyst and program officer for early education programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 global offices to .....

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... the I Love My Librarian Award ceremony and reception in New York City on Nov. 30, 2016, hosted by the ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

... WAGE stagnation. Income inequality. A lack of quality education . Insufficient training and skills development. ...

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Economic Security

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ), ... filing Thursday. He's now made a huge donation 11 years in a row. This year, Buffett is...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... the brief, How High-Need Patients Experience Health Care in the Unites States (20 pages, PDF), found that while 95 ... care, 44 percent reported that they had experienced delays in care in...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? It’s been ... spending spree that the United States has engaged in for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars .....

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Justice Reform

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... than thirty-five million freely licensed media files in Wikimedia Commons , making it easier for people and ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Foundation for Child Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family

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02/06/2017

... New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family In new research funded by the Foundation for Child ... health of families and the ability of parents to invest in their children’s development...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health Aetna recently announced a new ... opportunities for all Americans—regardless of income, education or ethnic background—to take...

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence. In 1965, Douglas Turner Ward, a Southern-born, ... wakes up to learn its black residents have disappeared. In “Day of...

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release. Earning high returns isn’t just a matter ... supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education , as with college and...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

... Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a national leader in the movement to strengthen and sustain the human ... the national voice for baccalaureate and graduate nursing education , today announced that they...

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Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color

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06/21/2017

Ms. Foundation Noted in Article on Fighting for Women of Color By now it’s clear ... cuts to the nation’s most effective health, nutrition, education , and disability programs, eviscerating benefits ... that would...

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

... for folks refusing home care. According to the study, in most cases, people resist home care to their own ...

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Aging

Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... slide without strong leadership. That’s now happening in New York. In July, two weeks after the State Legislature reauthorized ... administration quietly announced a policy reversal: In the...

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

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... Integration Plan for Lower East Side The New York City education department on Tuesday revealed a plan that officials hope will spur more economic diversity in Lower East Side elementary schools. It is the...

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