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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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The New York Community Trust

The John A. Hartford Foundation

Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

U.S. News Article Cites Wallace Report on School Leadership

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08/16/2016

... "instructional leaders," a buzz phrase in the K-12 education community that refers to the important role .....

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Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students

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08/18/2016

... Low-Income Students Eliminating public university tuition for most families could encourage more low-income young people to pursue higher education by signaling them from a young age that they can ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Century Foundation

New York City’s Universal Pre-K Program Wants to Teach Parents, Too

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09/09/2016

... Wants to Teach Parents, Too Setting preschoolers up for success takes more than good teachers — it also takes ... why New York City — which has already been lauded for its focus on teacher training and quality...

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City Council to Examine Young Men's Initiative Funded by Bloomberg and Open Society Foundations

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09/21/2016

... are greatest and the consequences most harmful: education , health, employment, and the justice system.” The ...

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Health

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Open Society Foundations

NPCC Announces Winners of 2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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11/08/2016

... Awards, which include a total of $60,000 and scholarships for the Columbia Business School Executive Education Programs in Social Enterprise. The three organizations will be honored for their...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

... able to offer affordable, high-quality performance and education programming with support fromSeason Sponsors Con ...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Arts

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Howard Gilman Foundation

Con Edison

Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

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04/14/2017

... Impact on Jobs America needs new tools for the timely measurement and monitoring of technology, jobs ... skills and tasks involved in various occupations to guide education and job-training programs. One...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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A Q&A with Sampriti Ganguli, Arabella Advisors’ CEO

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07/18/2017

... economic development, climate issues, women’s rights, education , good food, and more. . . A Q&A with Sampriti ...

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Arabella Advisors

Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind

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08/31/2017

... 6,000 school principals, assistant principals and other education administrators. “Nothing is more challenging than ...

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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

... few months have been marked by friction between the State Education Department and SUNY, Success Academy’s ...

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New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects

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09/05/2017

... us that too little and too much water can both be problems for fast-growing cities. Cities like Chennai in China, which ... infrastructure to boost resilience through conservation education , new stormwater...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four years.

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Health

City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... in the midst of a citywide surge in student homelessness. Education Department officials said it will cost the city $17 ...

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Housing and Homelessness

New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools

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09/20/2017

... as those in charter schools, meaning they are gone for more than 10 days in a typical 180-day school year, a new ... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a study...

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Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning

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09/21/2017

... Warning It took 13 years, but the 250-plus administrators for the Buffalo Public Schools finally have a new contract that includes raises. But, for the first time, it also requires contributions toward ... the...

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Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

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09/25/2017

... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials killed an experimental pay ... to $125,000 to oversee classes of as many as 60 kids. But for this academic year, which...

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students School districts from Florida to ... has experienced before,” Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s education secretary, told staff members in a letter Friday. . . School...

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Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project

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10/03/2017

... NJ, has just awarded Reeves-Reed Arboretum a grant for $8,000 towards the completion of the first phase of this ...

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Community Development

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Kessler Foundation

The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers

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11/03/2017

... Foundation join forces to award five teachers $5,000 each for innovative projects. You wouldn’t necessarily expect ... and the Overdeck Family Foundation, provided funding for innovative, out-of-school science...

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