New Bloomberg-backed Report Highlights Opportunities to Finance Urban Water Projects
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... infrastructure to boost resilience through conservation education , new stormwater management systems and other green ...
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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... Treating Mental Health ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four ... and parents and children, which means this affects all of us. It drives the economy: $14...
City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Public Schools This Year The city will bus a record number of homeless students from shelters to public schools this ... when the city bused 2,920. The spike comes in the midst of a citywide surge in student...
New Study Finds 1 in 4 Teachers Chronically Absent from Classrooms; Problem Is Three Times Worse in Traditional Schools
Release Date:
09/20/2017
... year, a new research paper has found. In all, 28.3 percent of teachers in traditional schools, compared with 10.3 ... to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-leaning education -focused think tank, in a...
Buffalo School Administrators Get New Contract Amid Fiscal Warning
Release Date:
09/21/2017
... for the cash-strapped school district. The Buffalo Board of Education Wednesday approved, 8-0, a three-year deal with the Buffalo Council of Supervisors and Administrators, the union...
Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G That's gotta hurt. Nearly two dozen teachers at ... Academy took pay cuts, some in the $50,000 range, after Education Department officials...
School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... from Florida to Massachusetts are anticipating an influx of Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria and ... a unique, difficult and unprecedented situation that none of us has experienced before,”...
Kessler Foundation Awards Reeves-Reed Arboretum with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... with Grant to Complete Accessibility Project The mission of Reeves-Reed Arboretum is to engage, educate, and enrich the lives of visitors to become better stewards of nature and the planet...
Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... rise, to want to game the system,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think tank FutureEd. She recently ... absenteeism to measure schools under ESSA, the federal education law. “In that regard, I don...
The Simons Foundation Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers
Release Date:
11/03/2017
... Awards “Science Everywhere” Grants to Teachers As part of a campaign to bring science and math outside the ... map out areas in their community with high concentrations of carbon dioxide and offer solutions to...
Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors
Release Date:
12/01/2017
Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to ... which helped address changing dynamics in health, higher...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students
Release Date:
04/27/2018
... that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education . The grant will build on the successful programs ... exceptionally proud to again benefit from the generosity of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to...
Live Now From The Century Foundation: Diversity Matters: Getting Public School Choice Right
Release Date:
05/15/2018
... the day to hear from speakers including former secretary of education John King , professor Melissa Harris-Perry , ...
New Arcus Report on Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation Reveals Potential of Collaboration Among Industry, Conservation and Government Sectors
Release Date:
04/18/2014
... Industries and Ape Conservation Reveals Potential of Collaboration Among Industry, Conservation and Government ... among peoples and in nature, today announced the release of State of the...
Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children
Release Date:
07/09/2014
... in 27 cities and 17 states. The grants are part of a $13 million Morgan Stanley commitment to Feeding America and its network of local food banks that distribute millions of meals every .....
Three Named Winners For Best Green Business Ideas In Western Balkans
Release Date:
07/31/2014
... Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced the 2014 winners of the Philanthropy for Green Ideas competition, a program it ... the Western Balkans. The awards program is operated in partnership with local...
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Valerie S. Peltier Elected Chairman of The New York Community Trust
Release Date:
12/04/2014
Valerie S. Peltier Elected Chairman of The New York Community Trust Valerie S. Peltier has been elected chairman of The New York Community Trust's Distribution Committee, the ... since 2008, after she was...
GIH Elects Jacqueline Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors
Release Date:
12/04/2014
GIH Elects Jacqueline Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to ... Graham, and Brenda Sharpe have been elected to its board of directors. Their terms begin immediately after...
Rita Allen Foundation Backs Innovative Biomedical Research
Release Date:
01/27/2015
... has been around since 1976, but I bet you’ve never heard of it. Some programs are like that—kind of under the radar, even though they’re doing big, ... pain research, which the Rita Allen Foundation supports...