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Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens

Release Date:

06/01/2014

... by third grade and sustain that success beyond elementary school . In addition, the organizations will engage in community- and school -wide events and publicity campaigns designed to send a ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

Release Date:

09/01/2014

With the backing of several leading foundations, Education Post, a new nonprofit group, will encourage respectful and fact-based dialogue on public education.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

New Data Illuminates Long Island's Education Inequities

Release Date:

01/30/2015

... Racism last week in Melville. The forum brought together school administrators and education advocates and was the ...

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The Rauch Foundation

New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

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05/21/2015

... Make Affordable Housing Healthier Co-founded by The New School 's Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green Science .....

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Freedom Together Foundation

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

... students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process. ...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

... Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible. Together, they distributed more than 100 backpacks covered in beloved heroes and brimming with school supplies to students at P.S. 156 in...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

Release Date:

11/23/2016

Communities in Schools is a federated network of about 165 separate 501(c)(3) in 25 states and the District of Columbia.

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Princeton Project Funded by Two PNY Members Reveals Insight into Behavior-Change Campaigns

Release Date:

01/20/2017

The William T. Grant Foundation's Scholars Program and the Russell Sage Foundation fund a project that asked students to report who they socialized with on a regular basis — both in person and online — and then used the data to identify the most...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Representatives Tour Renovated Labs at University of Miami

Release Date:

03/31/2017

... of America recently toured the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Division of Neonatology, where unit ... Foundation were completed. Accompanied by Miller School and Department of Pediatrics...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families

Release Date:

08/25/2017

... Michelle Obama Academy (formerly D.H. Stanton Elementary School ). The new 26,600 square-foot building is set to open ...

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Opinion: Vacant Lots And Properties Could House New York City’s Homeless

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... People like Cecelia Grant, who spent her career as a school safety agent for New York City public schools, and is ...

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Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a ... of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management calculates...

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Russell Sage Foundation

Nearly Two Dozen Teachers at Brooklyn’s New American Academy Taking Pay Cuts Of Up to $50G

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... officials killed an experimental pay program at the school . Highly qualified instructors at the public elementary school in Crown Heights were once paid up to $125,000 to ...

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New York City Students Are Getting Younger

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years. Now, for the ...

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Aetna Foundation Supports Anti-Bullying Campaign

Release Date:

11/17/2017

... will feature content produced by SPOT 127 high school participants. The students will research, conduct ...

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John Ruskay, Ph.D., to Step Down in June 2014 as Executive Vice President and CEO of UJA-Federation of New York

Release Date:

05/01/2013

... "John has ensured that UJA-Federation has the financial resources to support the services provided by our beneficiary ... UJA-Federation has been at the forefront of starting and developing programs to...

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12 Feb 2015

Key Traits of Phenomenal Foundation Executive Directors

Thursday, February 12, 2015 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

... questions. In collaboration with Exponent Philanthropy Resources The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner) about Bell Labs and ...

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08 Dec 2015

Nonprofit People Rising: How Foundations Can Nurture Diverse Grantee Talent and Build Organizational Strength

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Only 1% or less of foundation grant dollars aim to build up nonprofit professionals, or empower nonprofits to develop their staff. And that has been the case for at least 20 years now.

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Professional Development

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11 Apr 2019

Financial Series: The IRS Form 990 as a Tool for Understanding Organizational Capacity

Thursday, April 11, 2019 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

Nonprofit organizations face increasing challenges in today’s operating environment. In order to better understand the realities facing nonprofits and make sound funding decisions, grantmakers must have a firm grasp of the story told by the numbers...