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Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... kind of system is this? We didn't get a chance to vote, our whole community didn't get a chance to vote." "If you ... have sold the data to that person, they can say it's not our fault...

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Civic Engagement

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Ford Foundation

The Smart Way to Get US Employees Back to Work

Release Date:

04/29/2020

... grapples with grave and interconnected challenges to our health and economy. We are a long way from returning to ... it viable to resume economic activity, it is critical for our nation’s leaders to start...

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Insights

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Disaster Relief

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

12 Mar 2013

Getting Your Foundation’s Spending Policy & Asset Allocation Right

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Today’s volatile market environment changes how foundations are thinking about spending policy and asset allocation. Come hear leading colleague, both foundation staff and trustee, in the field about their forecast of the market for the next few...

13 May 2013

TED: Media As A Catalyst for Ideas and Community

Monday, May 13, 2013 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

Founded nearly three decades ago as a conference forum for spreading ideas, TED has since evolved and grown into an organization with worldwide media reach and ongoing initiatives in translation, education, science and the environment. The TED model...

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19 Jul 2010

College-Ready or Not? Preparing High School Students for Success

Monday, July 19, 2010 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

A Philanthropy Connects program presented by the Donors’ Education Collaborative (DEC) and the Public Education Grantmakers Network (PEGNET). WHO SHOULD ATTEND : This session is for all funders who are interested...

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20 Oct 2011

"Fixing vs. Preparing"...The Role of Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice

Thursday, October 20, 2011 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

"Positive Youth Development" is a process all young people go through as they move from less mature ways of thinking, feeling and acting as they transition to adulthood. This process often happens unevenly and with great difficulty for youth such as...

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Carol Levine to Receive Award for Raising Awareness About and Influencing Policy on Family Caregiving

Release Date:

10/21/2014

... of the Next Step in Care website ( www.nextstepincare. org ), which provides guides and other tools to family ...

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

The Century Foundation Has Obtained New Data Showing 99 Percent of Student Fraud Claims Concern For-Profit Colleges

Release Date:

11/13/2017

The Century Foundation (TCF) has obtained new data from the U.S. Department of Education about nearly 100,000 “borrower defense claims”—applications for loan relief from students who maintain that they have been defrauded or misled by federally...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Supported By The New York State Health Foundation, IMPAQ Health Launches NYPlanCosts Calculator

Release Date:

12/19/2017

... a model for other states, available at http://NYPlanCosts. org . Designed to help New Yorkers make more informed health ...

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New York Health Foundation

Salesforce, Johnson & Johnson, and New York Women’s Foundation Harnessing Talent To Remake Workplace Giving

Release Date:

04/02/2018

Corporate philanthropy is a rapidly evolving space these days. Companies are getting more creative and strategic, backing causes that utilize corporate assets and line up nicely with the quest for profit . Peeking under the hood, some of these...

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The New York Women's Foundation

Salesforce

Johnson & Johnson

Bloomberg Report Shows Mayors Concerned About Budget, Infrastructure

Release Date:

04/11/2018

Mayors across the United States increasingly are feeling pressure to address policy and funding issues that once were the purview of federal or state governments, a report from Bloomberg Philanthropies finds.

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Suzanne Brundage Named Patricia S. Levinson Fellow at United Hospital Fund

Release Date:

04/18/2018

Suzanne Brundage, director of the Children’s Health Initiative at United Hospital Fund, has been selected for the second year in a row as UHF’s Patricia S. Levinson Fellow.

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Appointments & Transitions

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United Hospital Fund

Evaluation of OSF-Funded Education Program for Boys of Color Finds Efforts Didn’t Improve Outcomes

Release Date:

05/10/2018

Four years and $24 million, the program has not lived up to its promise, according to a report released Wednesday by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools. Schools in the program turned out to be no better at preparing young men of color...

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Education

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Open Society Foundations

Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Release Date:

12/10/2019

While making decisions, rats’ brains replay their memories, a process called memory consolidation, researchers report.

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Health

Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Two Changes in Executive Team at Carnegie Corporation of New York

Release Date:

02/04/2020

Nicole Howe Buggs has been promoted to chief administrative officer and corporate secretary of the foundation and Trish Callahan joins as chief human resources officer.