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Rockefeller Foundation Funds Tickets for Students to See 'Hamilton'

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10/28/2015

... musical “Hamilton” has excited critics and audiences with its hip-hop exploration of America’s revolutionary ... bring 20,000 New York City 11th graders, all from schools with high percentages of students from...

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

Release Date:

11/17/2015

... Investing There is a growing realization that, along with government aid and charitable philanthropy, financial ... good for humanity while generating a financial return with limited downside risk. As socially...

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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

... after he started Newman's Own, the food company, in 1982 with all profits going to charity. Newman was a World War II ... rehabilitation, career development, entrepreneurship, education , and housing...

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

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02/04/2016

... in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities. With the grant, the Center for Minority Serving Institutions in Penn's Graduate School of Education will launch Pathways to the Professoriate, an .....

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... the cafeteria. Of course, it is critical - from both an education and a public safety perspective - that schools are ...

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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... to 2010. In some ways, it’s as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened. Increasing residential segregation ...

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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

... attention than teachers in the national conversation about education . The Wallace Foundation has been seeking to change ... programs, each of which will be expected to partner with several school districts so...

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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

... at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She has been with Packard since 2001, earlier serving as policy analyst and program officer for early education programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide the ...

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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

Nominations open to the public now through September 19.

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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

... WAGE stagnation. Income inequality. A lack of quality education . Insufficient training and skills development. ...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Four other charities with links to the Buffett family will share the rest: Buffett's education -focused charity, which is named after his late wife .....

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

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12/09/2016

... Patients The U.S. healthcare system is failing patients with complex medical needs, many of whom struggle to access ... experienced delays in care in the past year — compared with 21 percent of non-high-need...

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

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12/09/2016

... while states struggle to provide adequate funding for education ? Despite the deep political divisions laid bare by ...

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

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01/12/2017

... Wikimedia Commons includes files donated by institutions with substantial media collections, including the ...

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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

... Foundation for Child Development, Children’s Experience with Parental Employment Insecurity and Family Income ... development, such as higher-quality early care and education , access to better schools,...

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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, policing — remains elusive.