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Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... have struggled,” he wrote. “This evidence comes from top academic researchers, studying a variety of places, ... clear successes. “A consistent pattern has emerged from this research,” wrote University of...

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Rockefeller Supported Program Signs Up More Than 100 Schools To Teach Health Risks Of Climate Change

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09/26/2017

... Climate Change The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) today announced that, since its launch ... and programs representing an estimated 90,000 students from 15 countries on 6 continents...

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Health & Human Services

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The Rockefeller Foundation and WFP Launch Initiative To Strengthen School Meals for Millions of Children

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01/18/2023

... World Food Programme welcomes a US$ 10.7 million grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to help vulnerable children ... and healthier diets while improving health, nutrition and education in vulnerable...

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Announcing the 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Recipients

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08/12/2019

... Medal of Philanthropy recipients on Monday during a solemn event marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Andrew ... has influenced a wide range of issues, including education , the environment, scientific...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Well Fed and Well Read: The Case for Healthy School Meals for All

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11/03/2022

... healthy school meals for all. New York should join this group of leading states. We have plenty to build on. The New ... for schools to purchase locally produced foods from farms. Other cities, including...

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Surdna Foundation Announces a Reorganization and Promotions

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07/11/2023

... an integrated fashion across the foundation. Today, this group serves as a leadership collaborative on the ... justice, I’ve moved the People and Culture functions into my office. One of our top ongoing...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... 12,000 and 15,000 foundation staff in the U.S. I looked into this trying to find a more solid number, and the best ... ($) includes data on 9,476 full-time foundation employees from 964 foundations whose...

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The New Nonprofit: A Model for Innovation Across Sectors

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03/14/2013

... research as a whole. In our model, our donors are venture funders and our shareholders are the patients in need of the cures we’re working toward each day. The new nonprofits can push ... the entrepreneurial...

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These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?

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01/12/2012

... be seen in Foundation Communications Today , a report from the Communications Network that analyzes the findings ... to ensure that communications strategy was incorporated into grantmaking, advocacy, and...

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Peace and Security Funding Index: An Analysis of Global Foundation Grantmaking

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The Peace and Security Funders Group is a network of sixty-three funders – foundations and individual philanthropists – ...

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The Future of News

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05/08/2009

... a severe economic downturn along with growing competition from Google and Craigslist and other Internet-based ... in deep financial trouble; most recently the threat from the New York Times Company that it...

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Commonwealth Fund Names Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., as Its Next President

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12/12/2022

... its Disparities Solutions Center, which he founded. From 2001 to 2019, Betancourt headed the hospital’s efforts in Multicultural Education within the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. He ... better than Joe...

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NYCT Gives $7.6 Million in Largest Round of 2014 Grants

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10/07/2014

... schools meet Common Core standards; protect New Yorkers from mortgage fraud; and find new ways to help mentally ill ...

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Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality

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12/16/2014

Ford Foundation Pours Millions into Net Neutrality In addition to major ... that the Ford Foundation has poured millions of dollars into progressive groups calling for an ambitious net ... providers as public...

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Technology & Innovation

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Ford, Arcus, Palette Fund and Johnson Family Foundation Release Comprehensive Data on LGBTQ Community

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07/14/2015

... 100 studies and academic journals, combined with feedback from thousands of people across the country, is presenting a ...

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Pershing Square Supports Social Entrepreneurship and Mobile Healthcare

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10/19/2016

... However, they went on to secure philanthropic capital from high profile institutions such as Google.org, Y ...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Health & Human Services

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NYPost Investigates Immigrant Support Projects of NYCT and Brooklyn Community Foundation

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02/21/2017

... to battle Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven Muslim majority countries and to aid illegal ...

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The New York Community Trust

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New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens

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06/19/2014

... Humanities Institute, made possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, holds its first public event on Friday--a symposium that will explore the role of ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners

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06/29/2015

... Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners Selected from more than two hundred and thirty applications, the ... Indiana, which will transform a vacant downtown building into a cultural hub that showcases visual...

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