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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... a White school safety officer at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, pulled a Black, female student ... the classroom. Most disturbingly, the actions depicted in the video may be extreme,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Justice

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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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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 said that a budget is a statement of policy , the surest way to determine the values and priorities ... while states struggle...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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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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Economic Security

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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 ... Bill de Blasio’s administration quietly announced a policy...

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EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation Announces New Grants in Emerging Market Countries

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01/13/2022

... - The Emerging Markets Foundation Announces New Grants in Emerging Market Countries Recently, EMpower and its UK ... to only worsen the situation. Our grantee partners are working hard to meet the needs of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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After 16 Futile Years, Congress Will Try Again to Legalize ‘Dreamers’

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09/06/2017

... from deportation. The bill was called the Dream Act, and in Congresses Democratic and Republican, and in the Bush and Obama administrations, whether by stand-alone ... it failed again and again. Now, with 800,...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Immigration

Markle Foundation’s Skillful Initiative Welcomes 35 Career Coaches From Indiana for its First Convening Governor’s Coaching Corps

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03/19/2019

... so they can serve Indiana job seekers more effectively in a changing economy. The participants represent a diverse ... career development professionals who play a pivotal role in our workforce and ...

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Workforce Development

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African Philanthropy Forum to Promote Transformation of the Continent 'From Within'

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04/22/2013

... African continent; the Tony Elumelu, MasterCard, Equity Group and Rockefeller foundations have pledged financial ... — committed to advancing equity and opportunity in the developing world. APF members...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a longtime associate of the Carnegie ... Chern Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes in the field of mathematics. Griffiths...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science Despite the progress made by women in science, ... career ladder compared to those of men. The 2015 IWISE Working ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields

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03/23/2015

... Foundation Backs Panel to Explore Ways to Keep Women in STEM Fields Women who enter science and engineering ... 28-member Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group...

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

Russian authorities have barred the pro-democracy charity network founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros from the country, saying its work undermined state security, Reuters and CNBC report.

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... A major public-health organization and a local government group are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a rise in healthy communities. The American Public Health ... (APHA) and the National...

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Health

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley The non-profit group Scenic Hudson has been working to preserve land for decades, but a new grant from ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... The five-year Mellon grant will assist the university in establishing a center for racial justice, hiring faculty ... report containing recommendations from the university’s Working Group on...

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Social Justice

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Robert Sterling Clark Adopts Trust-Based Grantmaking Model and Garners Thousands of Positive Comments from Nonprofit Community

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08/22/2017

... groups that breed hate and violence. And now the terrorism in Barcelona and Finland. I’ll try to move back to grace ... currents we are pushing against are only getting stronger. In the midst of feeling weary...

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Sustainable Business Model Innovation

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08/30/2017

... not provocative to state the importance of innovation in creating business value from your sustainability efforts. ... MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group shows that nearly 50% of...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness "Social entrepreneurship ... President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group of people working on poverty...

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