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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

... be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well” than to go to a highly selective ...

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The Daphne Foundation Appoints Yvonne Moore to Its Board of Trustees

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04/28/2016

... and a MS in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School . She has completed post-graduate studies in democracy ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Author James Rosenbaum, Writes About Alternatives To Four-Year College Degrees

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10/23/2017

... of college admissions. Since low test scores can hurt a school ’s reputation and funding, high schools sometimes ...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

... events — and still he was seriously considering law school . The intrepid young reporter had spent the summer of ... the publication’s magazine — and he still took the Law School Admission Test. But in the end...

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JPMorgan Chase Releases New Data Platform, The Good Jobs Index

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11/14/2017

... jobs require some education and training beyond high school , while the traditional blue collar jobs largely required just a high school diploma. That means that we have to work together to ...

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

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Boys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds

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11/29/2017

... doesn’t constitute a top-notch art program. Many after- school providers would like to expand their arts activities ... goal is to offer high-quality arts experiences in after- school programs serving low-...

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

... at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also found that excess ... said Zachary Ward, programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School ’s Center for Health...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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A New Study Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Reveals that Antioxidant Therapy Prevents Vision Loss in Rare Birth Defect

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02/07/2018

... A new study led by vision researchers at UB’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the VA Western ... research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Jacobs School and the Ira G. Ross Eye...

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Research Funded By The Commonwealth Fund Shows Overdose Risk Quintuples With Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use

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06/22/2018

... according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, published today in JAMA Network Open. ... Hernandez, Pharm.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at Pitt's School of Pharmacy and...

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Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

... Foundation has awarded the Brown University Graduate School a $1.675 million, five-year grant to support the ... at Brown,” said Andrew G. Campbell, dean of the Graduate School . “We are leading the way in one...

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Committed $1 Million to Children's Health Fund

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12/03/2018

... star Michael Griffin will help students at Cook Elementary School learn about the importance good oral hygiene at a fun and interactive event. K-2 students at the Austin school will brush larger-than-life...

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Century Foundation Launches New Public Policy Pop Up Think Tank - Next 100

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02/21/2019

... organizing on a campaign, an activist who completed high school from inside a juvenile detention center, or a high school teacher with ideas about how to make education better ...

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Staten Island, Conrad N. Hilton Foundations, New York Community Trust, and More Launch Campaign to Make NYC First in Nation to Offer Long-Term Support for Foster Youth

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02/28/2019

... and tutors for current and former foster youth from middle school through age 26, a model that nonprofit foster care ... source of income, and only 22 percent had a high school degree or equivalent, according...

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Black Girls Play Secures Three-Year Funding from Novo Foundation

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03/06/2019

... Funding from Novo Foundation It was nearly midnight on a school night, and eighth-grader and pianist Ariel Moore was ...

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A New International Exchange Opportunity for Greek Students Supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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08/20/2019

... and academics, but for people the age of secondary school students, an international exchange experience can ... Global Citizen Scholarship Program will give 50 high school students from Greece the opportunity...

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Lukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer, Research Supported by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award

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09/20/2019

... a multi-institutional team led by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University ... senior author Ruben Abagyan, PhD, professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy. “While...

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Remembering Janet Kelley

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02/03/2020

... Founding Executive Director of the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), Janet was a skilled and innovative ... She was widely recognized for her contributions to out-of- school time education and the...

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New York City Youth Funders Network

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Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Errol Louis as Board Chair

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04/04/2022

... professor of Urban Reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and is co-editor of Deadline ... Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School . Charles H. Revson...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Dr. Stephen Blacklow to Board of Trustees

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11/01/2022

... Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School , and a member of the Department of Cancer Biology at ... in Basic and Translational Sciences at Harvard Medical School from 2007-2012 and has...

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