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Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties

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02/05/2015

... project to a global communications phenomenon. Now, say a group of foundation leaders, it’s time to make sure it is a force for good. The group , which includes several heavy hitters from the ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change

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04/27/2016

... Change Climate Central, a Palmer Square-based nonprofit group devoted to studying climate change, has joined several ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying

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08/29/2017

India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organization to come...

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Celebrating a Year of Progress on Expanded Learning Time

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05/15/2013

... citizens would come together with leaders in government, education , civil rights, business, academe and community ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

... districts (including the New York City Department of Education ) design and open new high schools that support ... vice-president, National Program, and director of urban education at Carnegie Corporation. “By...

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New York Community Trust Brings Reading Instruction Program to the Bronx

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04/29/2016

... York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education , Teaching Matters brought its program to improve ... said Principal Diane Daprocida, who taught special education for 10 years before coming...

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How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color

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01/12/2017

... to the most recent data released by the US Department of Education , Black girls were suspended six times more than ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Justice Reform

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries.

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William T. Grant Foundation

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City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System

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09/26/2017

... — thanks to an in-house purchasing system set up by education officials. Every school must funnel its purchases through a city Department of Education portal called the Financial Accounting Management ...

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Century Foundation Hosts Discussion on College Affordability Ideas for the Next Congress and Beyond

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10/01/2018

... momentum recently, as public funding for higher education has fallen and student debt has skyrocketed. Watch ... affordability reforms with the nation’s leading higher education experts, advocates, and...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Support Facebook Research Initiative to Study Social Media Impact on Elections

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04/09/2018

... The social network announced an initiative that will see a group of scholars analyze the impact of social media on ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Communications/Media

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IFC and the Rockefeller Foundation Partner to Advance Distributed Renewable Energy Solutions in Emerging Markets

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06/22/2021

... Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group , and The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) today announced a ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Eighteen arts organizations founded by, with and for communities of color are selected for national arts initiative funded by The Wallace Foundation

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05/26/2022

... on artistic practice. The foundation sought to create a group of funded organizations serving a variety of ...

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Arts

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23 Jan 2012

Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic Change

Monday, January 23, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:45am

... the F.B. Heron Foundation Designed for All interested funders . Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic ...

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19 Jul 2012

Fracking in New York: A Donor Briefing

Thursday, July 19, 2012 -

8:45am to 10:45am

... and thousands of individuals across the state have been working to stop fracking and a new coalition called New ... Julia Walsh , Frack Action Designed for All interested funders . Fracking in New York: A Donor...

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11 Mar 2014

An Examination of the Nonprofit Revitalization Act from the Foundation Perspective

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... for your own. The plan is to come away from the working session with a basic draft of a checklist of key ... CFOs, and COOs, a well as other senior staff. Interested funders also welcome. 8:45-9:00 AM Check-in...

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New Joint NEH & Mellon Foundation Fellowship Encourages Digital Research in the Humanities

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03/01/2016

... (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the two largest funders of humanities research in the United States, today ...

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Doris Duke Foundation Announces "Racial Equity in Clinical Equations"

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06/27/2023

... necessary is a concerted and collaborative movement among funders , researchers, clinicians and patients to develop a ...

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