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Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators

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12/04/2014

... and a teacher who raised test scores despite students being displaced by Hurricane Sandy were among seven city ... individual prize of $5,000 and $2,500 for their school’ s math or science department.... Sloan...

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White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments

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03/24/2015

... to a White House news release. "With the commitments being made today, the President' s "Educate to Innovate" campaign has resulted in over $1 .....

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NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

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03/24/2015

... Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids New York City’ s effort to supply lawyers for every unaccompanied, ... undocumented minor has kept 13 children from being deported as of February, new data provided to...

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New York Foundation and Brooklyn Community Foundation Lauded for Nimbleness

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05/27/2015

... director, Maria Mottola, it does make a big difference by being able to respond to the issues of the day. "We don't .....

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What We Learned from the Failure of the Rikers Island Social Impact Bond

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08/10/2015

... the troubled Rikers Island prison didn’t work, despite being hailed as a success by some. The concept of SIBs is ...

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Goldman Sachs

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

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03/23/2016

... managed assets of a trust in the years after Rauschenberg' s death, as the assets were being transferred to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, .....

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... of inmates who were charged with drug violations and are being released by order of the U. S . Sentencing Commission under revised guidelines approved in ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation President Says Superheroes Of Caregiving Need Better Support

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04/27/2016

... Says Superheroes Of Caregiving Need Better Support Being a caregiver can be deeply rewarding, but it can also ...

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New York Community Trust Helps Mexican Students with Resident-Led Advocacy and Organizing

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04/28/2016

... has been a central tool in the New York Community Trust’ s strategy to improve the accessibility and quality of public ... For example, a group of parents felt they were not being welcomed to a charter school...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Poll Finds Broad Support For Clean Power Plan

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04/28/2016

... In each of these states, attorneys general have sued the U. S . Environmental Protection Agency to block the CPP from being enacted. The poll was conducted just days before the ... at the United Nations in New...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

... Discipline Reform The allegations sound like a parent’ s nightmare. Roughly two dozen children at New York City ... an attorney for the plaintiffs in the suit, which is being backed by the charter-school...

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Ford Foundation's Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of Philanthropy

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07/21/2016

Ford Foundation' s Jee Kim Contributes to 'The Nation' Article on Future of ... In fact, the discussion of institutional philanthropy’ s role in society, and its relationship to government and .....

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Ford, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, FB Heron Named to 2016 Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50

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08/01/2016

... within a decade. The “social entrepreneurship” being practiced surely will eclipse the current donor and ...

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Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks

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08/10/2016

... Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks "HOPE." That’ s the one-word message at the center of a new awareness ... concern that we all have in philanthropy about what’ s happening in our country...

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

... and psychiatric disorders, with the method already being used to treat conditions from epilepsy to depression. ...

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Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

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10/21/2016

Kalief Browder' s Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail Three thousand ... Browder served three torturous years in prison without being convicted of a crime, and died by suicide two years ... they...

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For Noyes Foundation, Fixing Food Means Racial and Economic Justice

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11/09/2016

... system run very deep, says Kolu Zigbi. At the root, there' s a history of racial injustice—from appropriation of ... of the inequities of our agricultural past are still being fought today,” says Zigbi,...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform

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11/17/2016

... broken. As a result, over $2.5 trillion in profits from U. S . companies are sitting overseas untaxed and underinvested. Reforming America' s international tax policies would help create a corporate .....

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Workshop To Further Innovation And Sustainability in New Jersey

Release Date:

12/20/2016

... New Jersey From finding ways to better engage the city’ s youth to empowering the disenfranchised, a new ... Foundation, a two-day event, planned for January, is being administered in partnership with Creative...