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Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors

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04/12/2017

Tony brings more than a decade of experience at the cutting edge of digital media, in both analytics and content, to help guide MDIF’s investments in independent news businesses in countries with challenging media environments.

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Communications/Media

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Will California Choose Prisons Over Schools—Again?

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09/18/2013

... Governor Jerry Brown’s bid to raise taxes to increase state revenues for schools... Will California Choose Prisons ...

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DOE Expands Comfort Dog Program In NYC Schools

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10/02/2017

... a staff member adopts a dog. The dog is brought into the school to help students and staff with social-emotional learning and improving the school environment. The dogs also assist in...

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Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

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07/27/2017

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced the 17 junior physician scientists receiving the 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years.

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Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State

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02/05/2016

... and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State The media company, City & State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year's Corporate, Foundation, and .....

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School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students

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10/03/2017

School Systems Prepare for Puerto Rican Students School districts from Florida to Massachusetts are ... to identify which schools have space and which resources will be needed. Puerto Rican...

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

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05/26/2016

The Century Foundation says the performance-based funding model is reinforcing disparities within public higher education and is doing little to move the needle on completion.

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Simons Foundation-Supported Research: New Map May Lead to Drug Development for Complex Brain Disorders

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07/25/2017

... complex brain disorders like autism, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC neuroscientist. To help researchers ... network of protein associations. It’s a first step to developing treatment drugs that...

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Mayor De Blasio Says City Has to Grow Taller and Denser Despite Anti-Development Attitudes As Population Rises

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11/02/2016

... policy experts to confront how to house, transport, and school another half million people... Mayor De Blasio Says ...

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What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding

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09/11/2017

What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding What's The Data Point? Episode 11 - $66 billion - a Back to School episode with CBC's Dave Friedfel & Riley Edwards ... year. Gotham Gazette...

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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’

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09/05/2017

... schools, the average English-math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four ...

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Flying the Colors: Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center

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03/17/2016

Flying the Colors: Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center In celebration ... be recognized on March 18 through the lights on the Empire State Building. The building will be lit with Jonas' ... as...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants $4.3 Million to Develop Tools for the Clinical Testing of Anti-fibrotic Treatments for Crohn’s Disease Patients

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04/15/2019

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded $4.3 million to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Robarts Clinical Trials, Inc. to launch the Stenosis Therapy and Anti-Fibrotic Research (STAR) consortium for the development of...

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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... Governor and develop a plan that would not only solve the state ’s immediate budget crisis, but prevent new fiscal ... on Governor Patterson’s administration and the current state government, are the subject of...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries

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10/20/2016

... Foundation Gives $500K to Support Solar Energy in Developing Countries GivePower Foundation, a non-profit ... to deliver essential community services to the developing world, was awarded a second $500,000...

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, today released the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

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26 May 2015

Next Steps: Supporting the Community Schools Initiative

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8:45am to 11:00am

On April 14, funders across various sectors and issues convened to explore the next steps in the expansion of Community Schools in New York City.

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... Region Schools In the Capital Region's three major cities, school districts continue to see stubborn disparities between ... in Albany, where 42 percent of white students passed the state 's 2017...

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