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The Whiting Foundation Provides New Grants for Public Humanities Projects Filling in the Tapestry of History and Culture

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05/11/2021

... with nomination by a university, scholarly society, or state humanities council and proceeding through two further ... designed alongside high-school testers and a California nonprofit A series of comics...

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The Pocantico Center at The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Summer Performance Series to Support Artists and Honor Local Frontline Communities Impacted by the Pandemic

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06/07/2021

... be held in-person at Pocantico in accordance with New York State health guidelines. The series marks the first reopening ... a robust slate of programming—including conferences for nonprofit and policy leaders...

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Alliance Building in a Hyper-partisan Environment

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02/25/2022

... of our nonpartisan status, private foundations—and the nonprofit advocates we fund—are in a unique position to ... their work. Our presenters will discuss work at both the state and federal levels and will...

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The Tow Foundation Launches New ‘Innovation Fund’

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09/27/2022

... of $1.5 million in grant funding to support 10 exciting nonprofit programs as part of its newly created Innovation ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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17 Jun 2025

Collaborating to Find Systemic Solutions to the "Pathway Gap" in Postsecondary/Workforce Advising

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Virtual via Zoom

... to access quality career exploration/advising resources (and guidance on how to use them); no centralized ... maintaining and updating these career development tools/ resources to ensure they remain accurate,...

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

... a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop ... the six winners of a national competition to provide state and local governments with technical...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... by the Wallace Foundation has outlined three major state policies that are necessary in order to create the most ... report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state policy could be effective in...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative

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01/11/2017

... for New Skills for Youth Initiative The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. today ... global New Skills for Youth initiative, each winning state will work with...

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

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06/23/2017

... free SUNY tuition this fall, you will be paying more. The state University of New York this week quietly voted to ... the Excelsior Scholarship, that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature instituted in...

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The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health

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07/28/2017

... complications of pregnancy and childbirth doubled; the state now has the very best maternal mortality fee within the ...

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Gender Justice

Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere

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09/11/2017

... Not Everywhere Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in ... part of the workforce last year, the highest number the state has seen since the...

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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

... Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan laying out the state ’s goals for its education system, as required by the ... Student Succeeds Act...

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New York’s Most Controversial Teacher Certification Exam Is Now a Little Easier To Pass

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09/13/2017

... prospective teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state ’s top education policy makers are lowering the score ... have failed the exam in disproportionate numbers since the state began requiring it in 2014...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

As Republicans rush toward a precipitous vote on the Graham-Cassidy repeal-and-replace bill by Friday, one issue needs a lot more attention: even last night’s version of the bill won’t work, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

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Cuomo Says Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding

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09/26/2017

... Care Funding Gov. Cuomo said a special session of the state Legislature may be needed if more than $2 billion in ... could require lawmakers to make drastic changes in the state ’s already-adopted budget. “If...

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The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance

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12/10/2018

Middle-income families are spending more of their incomes on health insurance as average premiums skyrocketed in 2017 after modest rate increases earlier this decade, The Commonwealth Fund found in a new report.

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