Residents of two Bronx neighborhoods — Crotona Park East and Morrisania — are more likely to be spending the night behind bars than people who live in any other part of the city, according to an analysis using DATA2GO.NYC, a new free mapping and...
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The Rockefeller Foundation hosted the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for the launch of a new study on venture philanthropy.
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Created as part of our work with the Coalition for New Philanthropy, this toolkit offers examples of effective donor-engagement strategies; challenges and lessons learned; best practices; and useful tools.
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The report suggests that students face bias from some professors based on stereotypes and that this creates "stereotype threat" in which students may come to doubt their own abilities.
As part of its College Completion report series, Robert Shireman, senior fellow at The Century Foundation, writes about the state of college education, including improved focus on learning as opposed to drop out rates, and what can be done to remedy...