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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools across ... and the Poverty &Race Research Action Council, a civil rights organization. “But a lot...

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the nation’ s second biggest philanthropy. Not only will Ford direct ... operating support to 40 percent of the foundation’ s grant-making budget, projected to be...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches Redesigned Carnegie.Org

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09/22/2015

... knowledge about important issues of our times. Voting rights is one such issue, long a focus of the Corporation’ s Democracy program. Launching on the eve of National Voter ...

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08/2017

... ability to access our website through your organization’ s membership to Philanthropy New York. If you experience any issues or if you wish to be added as your organization' s administrative contact, please email .....

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Arcus Foundation Launches Fourth New York Pride Photo Book

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06/29/2016

... first anniversary of the Stonewall riots for the world’ s first march for gay rights . From its modest, though ambitious, beginnings, the ... Kate Clinton and published in the wake of the historic U. S...

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

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’

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03/06/2017

... Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’ s Policies Of ‘Fear’ A Manhattan philanthropy is raising ... for New Yorkers under siege from President Trump’ s new policies. From legal assistance to...

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... on the scale and scope of the challenges America’ s incarceration crisis presents. While it seems that federal ... for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’ s still possible to take meaningful...

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

... decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U. S . schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 ... and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new...

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... enactment of justice reforms in many states, the nation’ s prison and jail population has dropped only slightly in ...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

... Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’ s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism The ... a Pulitzer Prize that helped spur the British newspaper’ s international expansion, is fully...

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How To Balance Policies And Guidelines To Prompt Different Levels Of Employee Engagement

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08/30/2017

... or act. e.g. “BRAVE 1. Behaviors to respond to customer' s request 2. Relationships strengthened with customers How .....

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Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools

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08/31/2017

... reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan’ s Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote ... three or four other districts,” she said. “So that’ s one of the goals.” . . . Carmen Fariña...

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Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program

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09/06/2017

I have a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. As a city, we do not take kindly to anything that affronts our people. We don't like it when our neighbors are singled out for who they are.

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LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

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09/06/2017

LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There' s an Effort to Change That Teachers sit at square tables in a ... poring over primary and secondary sources about the civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. There...

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City Council to Consider Expanding Stays at Shelters for Runaway and Homeless Teens, Young Adults

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09/08/2017

... runaway youth would be able to stay longer in the city’ s crisis shelters under new legislation that will be ...

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Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case

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09/11/2017

... Island three years ago. The CCRB sent letters to Garner’ s family and the NYPD notifying them of the long-awaited ... untaxed cigarettes that led to the 43-year-old man’ s death in July 2014 has been the...

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

Patrick Gaspard, Former U. S . Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at ... investor George Soros on Monday said a former U. S . ambassador to South Africa will become the new acting ... founded the...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

... teacher groups is vowing to continue boycotting New York’ s standardized tests. NYS Allies for Public Education said ...

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