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If Elite Colleges Want to Address the College Admissions Bribery Scandal — Accept More Low- and Middle-Income Strivers

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03/18/2019

... Strivers By Cynthia Rivera Weissblum President and CEO of the Edwin Gould Foundation The admission scandal is a ... destiny. The commitment of these students is evident. In every major city...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... has awarded a $10 million gift to the City University of New York to drive change across 25 campuses and develop ... is the largest gift the Mellon Foundation has made to CUNY in its 45-year history of...

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Long Island Community Foundation Welcomes Mary Beth Guyther as New Program Officer

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09/03/2012

Mary Beth Guyther joined the staff of the Long Island Community Foundation (LICF) in April 2012. She manages the Foundation’s grantmaking in ... Universalist Fund. Guyther has an extensive...

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Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D. Resigns as President of Foundation for Child Development

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08/22/2013

The Board of the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) announced that Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D., has resigned as President of the Foundation. Dr. Phillips will be returning to her faculty position at Georgetown...

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Anti-Poverty Research Study Launched in NY

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05/18/2014

The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, and UJA-Federation of New ... public policies that could have a significant...

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Uninsured Rate Drops From 20 Percent to 15 Percent Due To ACA

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07/10/2014

... Rate Drops From 20 Percent to 15 Percent Due To ACA In the wake of the Affordable Care Act’s first open enrollment period, significantly fewer working -age adults are uninsured than just...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Offers Best Practices For Winding Down

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08/13/2014

... Down At the same time the Atlantic Philanthropies is working on giving away all its money, it's taking in a great deal of knowledge that could be helpful to other foundations .....

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Penny Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as the Head of the Office of International Affairs

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09/16/2014

... Abeywardena Joins the de Blasio Administration as Head of the Office of International Affairs Penny Abeywardena, who currently ... International Affairs Commissioner Tuesday. She will be in...

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How Institutions Take Risks

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10/12/2014

... As Adolf Hitler harassed, isolated, and murdered many of Europe's greatest scientists, philosophers, and thinkers, ... work to the heart-wrenching and perilous business of saving scholars who were seeking...

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Giving Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System

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11/26/2014

... Thanks for What's Right With Our Health System Those of us working to improve the health system sometimes joke that at ... to achieve often mediocre outcomes; we are under-invested in...

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Rockefeller's Rodin Urges Cities to Build Greater Resilience

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01/28/2015

... her surveying the destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. “There were the low-lying neighbourhoods of Staten Island exposed to sea rise, flooding and storm ... lives destroyed.” Rodin, who...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

... Foundation (DDCF) today announced the 2015 class of Doris Duke Artists. Twenty remarkable performing artists will each receive $275,000 in flexible, multi-year funding as an investment in and...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Fights Climate Change By Backing New Resource Center

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06/10/2015

... Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization working to save the places people love by strengthening land ... through a robust and multifaceted website, Conservation in a Changing Climate is a...

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... Philanthropy Care About Energy Access? Investing in clean energy access provides a disruptive opportunity to ... electricity systems and get on the right side of the politics of development...

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation The Dyson Foundation has promoted Cecilia Stancell of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’s new ... for the Foundation for the...

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Rebuild By Design Joins Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities Initiative

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10/01/2015

... experts with community members and stakeholders when working to address the resilience challenges of cities. This new structure also combines two powerful ... take the most effective tools – tools that have...

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Opinion: Does a Soda Tax Reduce Obesity? Ask Mexico (Bloomberg Philanthropies)

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02/23/2016

... Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, ... in January 2014. That tax, supporters claim, is working . A 2015...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities

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10/21/2016

... Chase Commits $20 Million to Revitalize Neighborhoods in Five U.S. Cities JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced $20 million for five community development organizations working to create economic...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality Media coverage of America's independent workers leans more positively than ... The analysis found that while the media discusses growth in the independent...

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Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

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01/24/2017

... influences people's giving. Read through the letters of the Giving Pledge members, for example, and you'll see ... been struck by how closely the apple falls to the tree in terms of...

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