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Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

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07/25/2016

... writing instruction for students, especially those in their first year. Wilson plans to use the funding to ... capacities -- central components of a liberal arts education . The Mellon Foundation award, which...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

... schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of Education ’s addition of more seats and new buildings, many ...

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

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09/28/2017

... Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows Americans who were left ... and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three...

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World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions

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10/13/2017

... for Sanctions The World Bank announced Wednesday that in response to the “violence, destruction and forced ... of a credit deal reached with the fledgling democracy in August and represented the first instance...

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More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

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10/13/2017

... school diploma. But less attention is paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some education or training beyond high school but have not earned ... of Training & Employment Professionals, a...

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Video: Time Warner Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility Discusses Women of Color in Leadership

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05/17/2016

... of Corporate Responsibility Discusses Women of Color in Leadership View the entire dialogue featuring Melody ... Vice Provost and former Director of White House Domestic Policy , and Diahann Billings-Burford,...

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Open Society Foundations President Names Nicole Wilett as New Chief of Staff

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07/16/2019

... Society President Patrick Gaspard, effective August 20. In this newly created position, Wilett will lead the Foundations’ work on public policy and advocacy, and advise the president on new ... Nicole’s...

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Newman's Own Awards Donates $200,000 to Five Military Non-Profits

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10/05/2018

... honor five non-profit organizations for their innovative programs created to improve military quality of life. The ... benefit service men and women and their families. As the event commenced,General Joseph...

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19 Oct 2015

Learning From Transformational Women Leaders: Leymah Gbowee & Sophia Bracy Harris

Monday, October 19, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... grassroots women into a force for peace and equity in their respective communities. Each woman’s blend of ... civil, human rights and social justice movements in the U.S. and Liberia What the next generation...

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Nonprofit Resource Equity and Access: A Call to Close the Gap

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08/14/2018

... risk of replicating or compounding society’s inequities in our sector. The issue of equity and access in the ... NFF partnered with local community conveners and where funders and resources...

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North Star Fund Announces 9 Catalyst Grants

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01/16/2018

... who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city by inequity and injustice. Like all our grantees, ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Diane Samuels as Vice President for Talent and Human Resources

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06/13/2019

... and Human Resources. Samuels was previously a director in the department and brings over 20 years of experience in the philanthropic, for-profit, and government sectors. She ... from Jamaica in...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Selects E. Tammy Kim as Inaugural Fellow

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09/03/2012

... Housed within the Ms. Foundation’s new Advocacy and Policy department, Kim will examine the working conditions of child care providers and the challenges that low-income women face in...

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Bettina Alonso and Eugene Keilin Elected to United Hospital Fund Board

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06/29/2016

... at Oceana, an international advocacy organization working for ocean conservation, and she also served as marketing manager for the Embassy of Austria. Born in Spain and fluent in English,...

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Arcus Foundation Supports Efforts to Protect Forest Habitats Through Local and International Strategies

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01/20/2021

... to habitat degradation and destruction. The latest grants in Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program support efforts ... that offer residents a chance to live with dignity in the most natural settings possible...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... graduate students, entrepreneurs and business leaders in a setting to advance research and business start-ups. In other words, the campus can be seen as a monument to a ... also represents significant power...

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25 Oct 2017

From Hurricane Sandy to Hurricane Maria: Can Disaster Philanthropy Be More Strategic?

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9:00am to 1:00pm

If you are a non-member funder and are interested in attending, please email register@philanthropynewyork.org . ... should be anything but haphazard. Time and again, we see funders coming together in...

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When Integrating A School, Does It Matter If You Use Class Instead Of Race? (Century Foundation)

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02/29/2016

... the latest social-media fitness app. It's a grant proposed in President Obama's new budget, reviving an idea that hasn't gotten much policy attention in decades: diversity...

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Revson Fellowship Produces Research on Female Face of Genocide

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03/16/2016

... Academy welcomed Dr. Sarah Cushman as its third guest in a Genocide Speaker Series on March 7. Cushman is the ... for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her...

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