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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 ... learning time -- improving the opportunities and chances of success for every student in...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

Part of the foundation's multiyear, $28 million Opportunity by ... districts (including the New York City Department of Education ) design and open new high schools that support ... vice-...

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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

Black girls and other girls of color disproportionately experience harsh school ... to the most recent data released by the US Department of Education , Black girls were suspended six times more...

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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

... policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high ... educational attainment. However, research on the effects of public school choice programs on...

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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...

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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 the live streamed discussion on the next wave of college affordability reforms with the nation’s...

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The Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2022 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

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06/29/2022

... The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2022 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars , celebrating five ... the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to...

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Jocelyn Downie Elected New Surdna Foundation Board Chair; Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian to Join Surdna Board

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11/01/2013

The Surdna Foundation has announced the election of Jocelyn Downie , a prominent scholar, as the next Chair of ... begin her board service in May 2014. Palandjian has been working to forge...

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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 elections . Vice president of ...

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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

... arts organizations founded by, with and for communities of color are selected for national arts initiative funded by ... Wallace Foundation today announced 18 arts organizations of color 1 will participate in...

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23 Jan 2012

Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic Change

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7:45am to 11:45am

... struggling to address basic human needs in the areas of housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and jobs. Yet these ... communities that are often ignored. Jim King, President of FAHE, and Bill Bynum, CEO...

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19 Jul 2012

Fracking in New York: A Donor Briefing

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8:45am to 10:45am

Large parts of New York sit atop the Marcellus Shale formation, and the ... and thousands of individuals across the state have been working to stop fracking and a new coalition called New .....

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11 Mar 2014

An Examination of the Nonprofit Revitalization Act from the Foundation Perspective

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8:45am to 10:30am

... Cuomo signed into law the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013, the most comprehensive reform of New York’s ... for your own. The plan is to come away from the working session with a basic...

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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 announced ... projects must be conceived as digital because the nature of...

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Don't Overthink It

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04/30/2019

... – the longest in U.S. history -- we followed the stories of the hardships placed on both furloughed government ... Financial hardships varied in impact – from lack of grocery money to missed mortgage payments...

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ASPCA Awards Nearly $7.4 Million In First Half of 2014

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08/08/2014

ASPCA Awards Nearly $7.4 Million In First Half of 2014 The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) today announced that it has granted ... across the country through the first two...

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