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New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

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11/13/2018

... and design can improve learning in middle and high schools and help students make sense of phenomena in the ... in the laboratory or outside of it. In classrooms using these approaches, students ask questions...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Science

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William T. Grant Announce Winners of 2019 Institutional Challenge Grant Competition

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04/05/2019

... Boulder to work in partnership with the Denver Public Schools . The Institutional Challenge Grant was created to ...

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Pfizer Invites Proposals for Psoriatic Arthritis Educational Projects

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05/15/2019

... nursing, allied health, and/or pharmacy professional schools ; healthcare institutions (both large and small); ...

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Lack of Diversity Hurts Science: Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program Is Changing That

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06/10/2019

... that. The 2016 graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School graduate attends the University of Florida but ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Science

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Tokyo Joins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Partnership for Healthy Cities

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12/12/2019

... replaced junk food with healthy options for 50% of public school students—expanding to 100% next year. In Accra, ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Report Examines Impact from Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Five-Year, $15M Healthy Food & Community Change Initiative

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01/17/2019

... organizations, health care facilities, local businesses, schools , nonprofits and public agencies; helped cultivate ...

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Food Systems

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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The Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2022 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

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06/29/2022

... Barnes , Stanford University Ryan Flynn , Harvard Medical School Maria Antonietta Tosches , Columbia University The ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Science

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Well-Told Stories Can Super-Power Social Change

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05/17/2016

... is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” What I shared that day ...

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Communications

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The Opportunity Agenda

13 Nov 2014

Infographics: Make Sure Your Picture Doesn’t Actually Say a Thousand Words

Thursday, November 13, 2014 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... visually Why data visualization being used Results of using a visual graphics What distinguishes one visualization ...

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Communications Staff

06 Feb 2019

The Fight for a Fair Vote - A Food for Thought Conversation

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... But when representatives get to draw their own electoral district lines, legislators are choosing their voters ... How can philanthropy support the fight for a fair vote? Resources Links to articles exploring...

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Roundtable Discussion

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13 Mar 2012

Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012 GEO Conference)

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 -

11:30am to 1:00pm

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

... more vibrant, our organizations more productive, and our schools more effective. Join your grantmaking colleagues ... Explore How to strengthen your organization using the thought processes that make up...

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Note to Funders: If You Believe in the Importance of Leadership, Fund What Leaders Want to Do

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07/08/2014

... No matter if the research focuses on what makes effective school principals, college presidents, nonprofit executives, ...

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Philip Zelikow Joins Markle Foundation As Visiting Managing Director

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08/27/2014

... University after completing a term as dean of the Graduate School . His collaboration with Markle began in 2002 when he ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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On Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn: Start With Existing Community Assets

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03/16/2017

... for years. Vital Brooklyn will bring more attention and resources to Brownsville, one of the six neighborhoods across ... Brooklyn, we are excited to see more attention and more resources devoted to these...

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New York Health Foundation

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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

... may seem more personal than academic, but at some schools , they’re now part of the regular curriculum. Some ... than intelligence when it comes to students’ success in school . But critics worry that the...

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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

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05/05/2015

... in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). These National Honorees, named ... from a field of more than 33,000 middle level and high school youth volunteers nationwide...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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John A. Hartford Helps Expand Program to Support Older Hospitalized Adults

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09/01/2015

... and professor of medicine in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry geriatrics division, and ... professor of medicine and public policy at Alpert Medical School and the School...

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Aging

The John A. Hartford Foundation

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As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats

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01/22/2016

... donors. The bulk of the coats will go to 32 elementary schools that are part of the city’s “community school ” initiative, which seeks to boost attendance rates ... to domestic violence to a lack of warm...

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

Release Date:

08/19/2016

... In New York City About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s...

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Housing and Homelessness