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Century Foundation Report: The Real Price of College

Release Date:

03/15/2016

... student and family pocketbooks, and the economy. Some people caution against giving too much weight to the ... of financial aid means that college is not as expensive as people think it is. But they overlook a...

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

Release Date:

03/22/2016

... “There is no such thing as good guys and bad guys. All people do good and bad things, including you. You can never ... Prisons there are small, typically housing fewer than 50 people and some fewer than 10...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... is to focus more on population health. With millions more people insured, the assumption is that governments could ... broader social determinants -- foundational ways to keep people healthy, such as stable...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn Forty people sit in a circle. Most are residents of Crown Heights, ... On that Sunday afternoon in September, the spectrum of people who came together included...

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

Release Date:

05/10/2016

... when they try to leave it behend. “In my experience, people go to prison and they learn how to live without hope, ... and that’s not the conversation we tend to have about people who get locked up.” Glenn E...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

... main cause of blindness for half of the 40 million or so people who cannot see. Millions of people can see today because of these efforts... Conrad N. ...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

Release Date:

04/05/2017

... for the program had revoked. These include four people , all attorneys, working for the American Bar ... "the retroactive aspect of this filing reasonably causes people to be nervous." Century...

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

... and National Endowment for the Arts are being undermined. People are responding to these extraordinary times in ... in anti-Semitic acts. They are organizing vast groups of people who are showing up at...

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JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training

Release Date:

05/10/2017

... commitment to expand access to middle-skill jobs for young people in the South Bronx. Part of JPMorgan Chase's ... work-based learning and internships and help match young people to those opportunities...

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The New York Community Trust

Our Demographic Destiny is Not Our Democratic Destiny

Release Date:

05/16/2017

... merely as a political constituency, rather than a group of people with economic and cultural anxiety about a changing ... And, the reality is that many Americans, including people of color and immigrants,...

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Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

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05/24/2017

... resulted in over 5 million Syrian refugees, 6.3 million people internally displaced, and 13.5 million people in Syria in desperate need of help. But as we've .....

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Clark Foundation Emphasizes Access to Higher Ed for City Students

Release Date:

06/27/2017

... and bring up some of the most amazing and thoughtful people on this issue,” said Jonathan Bowles, CUF executive ... and accessibility continue to be problems for many young people seeking a college education...

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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... U.S.—that’s everything from foundation grants to money people gave at church. That year, foundations reported more ... any other, to maximize its financial value. One set of people in a foundation would manage...

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The Blaustein Foundation Focuses on Mental Health Diversion

Release Date:

07/28/2017

... police officers with social workers on calls that involve people in the throes of a mental health crisis in an effort ... the public and reduce use of jails and emergency rooms for people who would be better...

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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

Release Date:

08/11/2017

... created by the National Park Foundation to inspire people to connect with, celebrate and support America’s ... parks. The documentary illustrates how SCA empowers young people from all backgrounds through...

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American Express

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

Release Date:

08/21/2017

... "through the lens of financial inclusion." Two billion people worldwide are locked out of the financial system — ... and its familiar brand, to plug 500 million more people and 40 million small...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Sixty Days Into MTA's 'State Of Emergency,' Critics Wonder What Happened To Review Plans

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... As if redesigning a bureaucracy that employs 70,000 people within 30 days weren’t enough, Cuomo said Lhota ... two days after a subway derailment in Harlem injured 34 people . Sixty days later, the MTA says it...

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Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... admitted to me that she “can’t stand to be around fat people .” Her reaction is almost visceral, and it prompts her to avoid social and professional contact with people who are seriously overweight. Although...

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Executive Director of the Staten Island Foundation to be Honored by City & State NY Media Company

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... & State for a cocktail reception to mix and mingle with people from the borough and people who helped shape the borough. Executive Director of ...

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Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... the community-driven leadership of the organization. People of color only make up 18% of non-profit staff and 22% ... staff and board of Third Wave Fund is 90% women and 70% people of color. ... Third Wave is...

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