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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to provide elementary school teachers with ... teaching...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... are the millennials, who the Pew Research Center tells us were born between 1980 and...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... question is how tax reform will affect our nation’ s unsustainable fiscal outlook, and that question remains ... tax reform must be fiscally responsible. Tax reform that’ s unpaid for would actually be anti-...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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30 Oct 2017

Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum

Monday, October 30, 2017 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... the funding and planning challenges facing Census 2020, it' s imperative that philanthropy take action now to support a fair and accurate count. Join us to learn more about options for you and your...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... place, but that much work remains to be done. The report' s conclusions are...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’ s right about what’ s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But ... corn and soy for cheap meat and processed food, which make us...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

... foundation averages. What that means is that as a group, U. S . foundations, which have a collective $800 billion in ... Individual foundation returns vary, of course, and it’ s possible that actively managed...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

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10/03/2017

... to Scale: The Elusive Goal.” The Wallace Foundation’ s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: ... the preface of the Wallace report echoes Rockefeller’ s title, declaring, “Scaling what works...

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Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One

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10/04/2017

... and information management practices to improve a city’ s resilience. With new technologies coming out all the time, ... preparedness efforts is never easy. In New York City’ s case, however, it’ s...

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SVdP-USA Launches Disaster Services Corporation

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10/05/2017

... in recent weeks in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U. S . Virgin Islands. The corporation, which will remain under the auspices of SVdP-USA’ s national council, represents a necessary change in legal ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

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10/10/2017

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Just prior to that, Vermont S enator Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer “Medicare for all” bill into the S enate with sixteen co-sponsors. Both pieces of legislation .....

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

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10/19/2017

Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’ s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’ s Fines Library books are free, until they aren’t: Patrons ... according to library officials. “They shouldn’t block us...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Freedom Together Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

... Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’ s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change The last two years have ... realized climate progress, and many solutions available to us now remain underutilized—...

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14 Nov 2017

Hats on, Hats Off – A Creative Approach to Capacity Building

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... organizational and field types. We hope you’ll join us . Explore Nuts and bolts of capacity building - what it ...

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... “The way we go about college access in the U. S . is a catastrophic failure,” said Max Kenner, vice ...

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Education

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

... journalists with foreign experience. In Schreckinger’ s case, that meant traveling north up the Burma Road through Myanmar to report on the country’ s reopening. Yet even as Schreckineger and his fellows were...

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Communications/Media

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change

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11/16/2017

... Collaborative for Systems Change A group of the world’ s leading philanthropists today announced the formation of ... and social change at scale. Co-Impact will invest US $500 million in three critical areas—...

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