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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Weighs in: What Kids Should Know by the Time They're Done With School

Release Date:

08/30/2016

... The Atlantic asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to activists and parents—to look ...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

Release Date:

09/12/2016

Saying it made a major mistake by overlooking the needs of people with disabilities in revamping its programs to focus on inequality, the Ford Foundation pledge Monday to undertake a top-to-bottom review of its policies and practices on the issue.

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Details its Mission-Aligned and Impact Investment Strategy

Release Date:

09/16/2016

... The section also includes the Fund's updated Investment Policy Statement as well as a guiding document on .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Open Society Foundations Founder George Soros Writes in WSJ About $500 Million Investment in Migrants

Release Date:

09/20/2016

I will invest in startups, established companies, social-impact initiatives and businesses founded by migrants and refugees.

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

Release Date:

09/21/2016

A program of the Open Society Foundations, Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform and spur debate on a range of issues facing the criminal justice system in the United...

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Carnegie Corporation Seeks Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks

Release Date:

09/23/2016

... effort that has direct relevance to a current policy issue; contain ideas that can be adopted by ...

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RFPs Etc

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

Release Date:

10/13/2016

... principal preparation programs and to examine state policy to see if it could be strengthened to encourage ...

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Steps Into Political Arena With $50 Million Fund

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... in 1982. Atlantic affiliates have long backed left-leaning policy initiatives, from opposing the death penalty to ...

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Civic Engagement

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Peter G. Peterson Foundation Founder Writes About Ignoring the Debt Problem

Release Date:

10/24/2016

... structure is a key ingredient of any viable economic policy . Yes, this country can handle the nearly $600 billion ...

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Economic Security

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

For Noyes Foundation, Fixing Food Means Racial and Economic Justice

Release Date:

11/09/2016

... land to reliance on slavery—that lingers in modern policy . “That legacy of the inequities of our agricultural ...

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Food Systems

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform

Release Date:

11/17/2016

Democrats and Republicans alike agree: the United States' international tax system is broken.

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

NY Women's Foundation Co-Hosts Training on Healthy Manhood and Preventing Violence Against Women

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... York City Department of Probation, the African-American Policy Forum and many others. This is the third Training ...

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Study Shows Covered California Consumers Saving and Paying Much Less Than Expected for Quality Coverage

Release Date:

01/11/2017

This analysis of health plan premium growth in California’s insurance marketplaces, focusing on the policies that consumers actually purchased, finds that the average price paid for plans selected in 2014 was 11.6 percent less than the average price...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

Release Date:

01/13/2017

... of the federal government's big footprint in education policy , on everything from testing and teacher quality to .....

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Caught Our Attention

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Education

Sarah Williams and Ella Gudwin Share Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

Release Date:

01/20/2017

... and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures ," Policy Fellow Shiza Pasha interviews Sarah Williams of Propel .....

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After the Q&A

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Propel Capital

The Commonwealth Fund Outlines 10 Recommendations for Policymakers Designing a High-Performing Health Care System for Patients with Complex Needs

Release Date:

01/20/2017

... evidence, and its members’ collective expertise in policy and program design, implementation, and evaluation, ...

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Member News

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Health

UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... by Steven M. Cohen, Research Professor of Jewish Social policy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of ...

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Economic Security

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UJA-Federation of New York

Gay Rights Group Turns Down Bank of America’s Money Over HB2 Compromise

Release Date:

05/09/2017

The nation’s largest gay rights group plans to reject $325,000 in Bank of America sponsorships to protest the role bank executives played in brokering a replacement for North Carolina’s House Bill 2 - known as "the bathroom bill."