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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) states are asked to use five measures of student success. The first four are related to...

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

... in common with Bill de Blasio. I do think there’s a tale of two cities, educationally, I do think there is a level of injustice in the city, around the state of New York, around the country...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women around the world is at stake, and ... hasn’t been a silver bullet solution for increasing education rates in some developing countries...

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Gender Justice

Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

... Foundation represents the most thorough analysis to date of the nearly 100,000 loan forgiveness claims known as ... an alarming picture of the state of for-profit higher education...

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Sandra O. Moose Named Chair of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Board of Trustees

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06/04/2012

The Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has also ... as Chair of the Foundation’s Board. I look forward to working with her," commented Foundation President...

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Doris Duke’s Andrew Bowman to Lead The Land Trust Alliance

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11/30/2015

... Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization working to save the places people love by strengthening land ... today announced that Andrew Bowman will assume the role of president starting Feb. 10...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Transformative Partnership With Civica Foundation to Make Insulin More Affordable to Americans With Insulin-dependent Diabetes

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03/03/2022

... (Civica, Civica Rx) manufacturing and distribution of insulins, which will be available at significantly lower ... pricing model, Civica’s insulins will minimize out- of -pocket expenses, particularly...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Philanthropy New York Seeks Nominations for our Board of Directors

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12/05/2023

... Philanthropy New York Seeks Nominations for our Board of Directors Dear Members: At Philanthropy New York’s ... Meeting each spring, the membership votes on the election of new board members. That vote is the...

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Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

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08/27/2012

... A nation’s most valuable resource is the brainpower of its citizens. Today, in the knowledge-based economies of the West and, increasingly, of the globe, no country can ... customized for...

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Johnson & Johnson Announces $1.75 Million Donation to Save the Children to Support Syrian Humanitarian Refugee Crisis

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11/18/2015

... The $1.75 million commitment was announced in advance of Save the Children's third annual Illumination Gala in New York City. "The distressing images of families caught in the global refugee crisis...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grant to Expand Access to Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in Africa

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01/28/2021

... The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new grant of US$12 million to the Africa Public Health Foundation to help expand the geographic coverage of testing and strengthen contact tracing for Covid-19 in...

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A Big Move to Build Our Community

... is also advancing its long-term fiscal stability – one of the core pillars of our strategic plan – by securing precious midtown ... supporting and serving our membership. We look forward to working...

13 Dec 2022

Philanthropy New York's New Strategic Framework: A Community Conversation

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... The answer, outlined in this framework, is a restructuring of our institution and institutional relationships to become ...

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Improving the Health of Older Adults Using Integrated Networks for Medical Care and Social Services

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07/10/2015

... service agencies to the health care sector, with the goal of establishing an integrated health care and social services ... agencies are expert at addressing the social determinants of health and ensuring that...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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United Hospital Fund Report Says You Get What You Pay For in Children’s Health Care

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06/16/2016

... report focuses on the quality measures to consider as part of value-based payment arrangements for children’s health ... rooted in value-based payment requires close consideration of how value in children’s...

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Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Leadership Development and Managing Director of Mission Real Estate Development

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07/29/2019

Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Leadership Development and Managing Director of Mission Real Estate Development NEW YORK, NY, July 29, ... resources to sustain their own missions. They...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Two New Board Members

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10/14/2020

... Castleberry Singleton and Alex Busansky as members of its distinguished Board of Directors. These two additions bring expertise in ... engagement, criminal justice reform, and more to the board of...

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Long Island Holocaust Survivors and Seniors Received COVID-19 Vaccines at UJA-Federation of New York and the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC Pop-Up Vaccine Site

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03/10/2021

... and Seniors Receive COVID-19 Vaccines at UJA-Federation of New York and the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC Pop-Up Vaccine ... Site Pop-Up Vaccine 1.jpg In an effort to reach some of the most vulnerable residents...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Creating A Positive Workplace Culture - A Little Kindness Goes A Long Way

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08/28/2017

... toll on our overall well-being. We spend more time working than we do anything else. It is becoming more ... with respect? Wharton professor Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, explains that leader kindness...

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