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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing There is a growing realization that, ... philanthropy, financial institutions can help solve some of the world’s social problems...

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Newman's Own Foundation Awards $1.5 Million in Grants to Military Service Organizations

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11/20/2015

... Grants to Military Service Organizations In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Newman's Own Foundation today ... and the Foundation is pleased to continue its support of military service organizations...

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

... Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of efforts to increase the number of...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... All across America, schools predominantly serving students of color are being buried under a culture of "zero tolerance." These policies are turning what should ... the cafeteria. Of...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation) Schools and states have poured millions of dollars into overhauling teacher evaluation systems, .....

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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... have been for decades. In the Northeast, 51.4 percent of black students attend schools where 90 percent to 100 percent of their classmates are racial minorities, up from 42.7 ... to 2010. In some ways, it’s as...

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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

... Preparation Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and yet school leaders usually receive ... attention than teachers in the national conversation about education . The Wallace...

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen ... to social movements. Reich currently serves as director of organizational effectiveness and philanthropy...

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Carnegie Sponsors Search for Nation's Favorite Librarians for 2016 I Love My Librarian Award

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06/17/2016

... Librarian Award. The award recognizes the public service of exceptional public, school, college, community college or ... foundation and award sponsor, Carnegie Corporation of New York. The I Love My Librarian...

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CEO Writes Op-Ed on Why JPMorgan Chase & Co. Is Giving Employees a Raise

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07/12/2016

... a Raise WAGE stagnation. Income inequality. A lack of quality education . Insufficient training and skills development. ... Issues like these have led approximately two-thirds of Americans to...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... The billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ... 19.6 million Class B shares to five charities. The bulk of the money, $2.2 billion, will go...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds U.S. Healthcare System Failing High-Need Patients

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12/09/2016

... is failing patients with complex medical needs, many of whom struggle to access the coordinated medical, ... brief from the Commonwealth Fund finds. Based on a survey of more than three thousand adults, the...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Students? It’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the surest way to determine the values and ... engaged in for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-...

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

... support Wikimedia community efforts to enable the addition of structured data to the more than thirty-five million ...

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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

... Development Publishes New Index on the Economic Stability of the American Family In new research funded by the ... created a new index that provides a more accurate picture of the economic health of...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature

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02/17/2017

... The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care,...

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

Release Date:

03/17/2017

... Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy Communities grant program. The grants are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million program. "This funding...

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding Since President Lyndon Johnson and a ... Northern-educated playwright, produced a satirical story of a town that wakes up to...

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George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes

Release Date:

03/21/2017

George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, Abigail Disney and Some Of New York's Wealthiest Tell State Government To Raise Their Taxes Some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are asking the state to raise ... for all...

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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

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04/17/2017

... a news release. Earning high returns isn’t just a matter of bragging rights — endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education , as with college and...

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