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“Poor” is Washington’s Four Letter Word

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01/21/2015

... the world, one can hardly watch such a sweeping speech without hearing in every sentence a policy implication for ... end aren’t tiny at all. The poor are many, and the resources held by the top are...

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California Governor Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg Launch “America’s Pledge”

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07/12/2017

... commitments under the Paris Agreement -- with or without Washington,” said Governor Jerry Brown, who was ... and Bloomberg, the Rocky Mountain Institute and the World Resources Institute will jointly lead an...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Novo and Surdna Foundations Key Backers in Push to Build Community Wealth

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04/04/2018

... Build Community Wealth These are heady times for local and regional giving. Although national funders coming out of ... throws down the gauntlet on impact investing, arguing that without proper attention to...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Grant to Access Reproductive Care-Southeast on 49th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

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01/24/2022

... of us with marginalized identities — can get abortions without leaving our communities or jumping through hoops. ...

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

... again. As a substitute teacher in Boston during the 1970s school -busing crisis there, Orlando Bagwell was attacked by a ...

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The Role of Philanthropy and Advocacy in Healthcare Reform Implementation

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02/21/2013

... York, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Duke University’s Center for ...

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp

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07/13/2013

... success strategy and goal of helping reduce the high school dropout rate by half in the next five years... New ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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UJA-Federation of New York’s John Ruskay addresses Yeshiva University’s commencement and awarded honorary doctorate

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05/23/2014

... on May 22nd and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the school . Ruskay, who is stepping down June 30th after 15 years ...

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Leadership for Education Innovation

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05/24/2014

... As someone involved in the New York City work and in high school reform more generally, and with more than forty years ...

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NY Community Trust Supports Wide Range of Education Technology Efforts

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08/12/2014

... learning in NYC ranges from tech integration at the middle school level to workforce development and technology skills ...

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation Funds Expansion of REACT to Film Educationl Programs

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10/08/2014

... Foundation to support expansion of its Middle and High School programming. The expansion will include a yearlong ... to commit to civic engagement. RtF gives precedence to schools that serve socioeconomically...

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Communications/Media

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Six City Workers Win Sloan Award for Outstanding Public Service

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06/02/2015

... taming the city’s rat problem to creating more healthy school lunches have won Sloan Public Service Awards — the ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Transgender Health Discrimination Study

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07/29/2015

... People," written by Sari Reisner of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Fenway Health, and colleagues, .....

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Elmezzi Foundation Increases Funding for Free Queens Programs

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07/29/2015

... Center to offer new sessions of adult literacy, high school equivalency, and English classes at the Long Island ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Research to Prevent Blindess Finds New Clues to Vision Loss in Macular Degeneration

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09/02/2015

... degeneration. The research, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, sheds light on one of the ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Study Finds Gaps in Educational Attainment Among Students of Different Incomes

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05/04/2016

... in educational attainment. While the difference in high school graduation rates between high- and low-income students ...

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City Officials Want New Program to Connect Troubled Students with Legal Support

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05/06/2016

... writing and lawyering up. Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, the city wants to ...

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Century Foundation Says States Are Wrong to Tie Higher Education Funding to Performance

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05/26/2016

... are tying public college and university funding to the schools ’ ability to retain and graduate students. But a new ...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS Scholars and Young Scholars Program

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08/12/2016

... and Young Scholars graduates were placed in a selective school with enough financial aid to matriculate. In fact, ...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

... according to the needs of students in a particular school . In many cases, this will mean more team teaching that ...

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