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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... the fact that her children must work and have no time for school . In another family, a teenage son has now been out of school too long to be allowed back. He lives in a sort of limbo: no school...

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Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential

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03/26/2018

... on student loans. For example, 47 percent of for-profit school students default on their federal student loans within ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Announces New Editor of The Milbank Quarterly

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07/27/2018

... Markets, Public Policy, and Law Department of the Questrom School of Business and professor of health law, policy, and management in the Boston University School of Public Health. Cohen was the national...

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Support From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Continues College Access and Success Program of American Indian College Fund

Release Date:

05/02/2019

... to college within six months of graduation after high school is 70 percent. For Native American and Alaska Native ... into four components working with students. The High School Admissions Pathway program...

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A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project

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02/28/2014

The National Priorities Project, a Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantee, has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

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04/15/2014

Surdna Foundation launched $18 million Program Related Investment (PRI) revolving fund to support its mission of fostering just and sustainable communities in the United States.

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Unions, Reform Groups Gird for California-Inspired Lawsuit

Release Date:

06/17/2014

... to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state ’s tenure laws and possibly many other teacher ... and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case...

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Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, plans to refocus grant distribution to sectors the foundation is not currently funding, but has supported in the past.

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Open Society Foundations Announces $50 Million Gift to ACLU

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11/07/2014

The money will go towards the ACLU's effort to overhaul the justice system.

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Tow Foundation President Emily Tow Jackson Supports Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age

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01/20/2015

... Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age New York state should raise the age that youths can be tried and ... Public Safety & Justice as a legislative package to the State Assembly. “I’m incredibly...

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ASPCA Cautions Against Using New Cannabis Treats for Ailing Pets

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04/23/2015

The organization's medical director discusses the lack of research on the therapeutic uses of marijuana for animals.

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Ford Backs Initiative to Fight AIDS in the Deep South

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05/29/2015

The South makes up 49 percent of all new HIV diagnoses.

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

... well using a waterless method that will test the state ’s fracking ban. The Snyder Farm Group, made up of ... filed an application for a natural-gas well with New York state regulators last week.... Well...

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Nonprofit Insurers Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules

Release Date:

08/20/2015

... Lose on Medicare Under New Obamacare Rules New York State has in many ways been a showcase for things that have gone right with Obamacare. The rollout of the state -run health insurance exchange went relatively...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

New report from Carnegie shows today's volume of immigrants. Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another.

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Russia Bans Soros-Backed Foundations as Security 'Threat'

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12/02/2015

... George Soros from the country, saying its work undermined state security, Reuters and CNBC report. The office of ... system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state " but did not offer...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

Up to Us, a non-partisan program sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact, aims to empower students to raise awareness about the United States’ long-term fiscal and economic health in a...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan

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04/28/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies released the results of a poll that examined the attitudes of voters toward the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in four key states: Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In each of these states, attorneys general have sued the...

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Co-Sponsored by Simmons Foundation, New Report Examines Immigrants, Refugees and the Future of Texas

Release Date:

07/11/2016

... linked to the immigrants and refugees who call the state home. One in three children in Texas—most of whom are U.S. citizens—has a foreign-born parent, and the state ’s foreign-born population is growing six...

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Lois Quam Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

Release Date:

07/11/2016

... and 2014, Quam served as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, focusing on global health ... Obama’s Global Health Initiative at the Department of State , serving as executive director...

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