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Nadia Alia Appointed Manager, Grants and Communications at The Tow Foundation

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04/20/2015

... grant application and reporting process. She is the system administrator for the Foundation’s online ... “The Big Picture: Finding A Perfect Grants Management System ,” a series about the intersection of...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... the age of jurisdiction for the state’s juvenile justice system . This would make Connecticut the first state to ... include anyone over 18 in the juvenile justice system . Eye_home_2Not surprisingly, the...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... aware of these protections. And many have chafed under a system whose fees and sometimes elaborate permission ... 18 years before his death in 2008, has been a part of this system . But after experiments over...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Marist College, Rockefeller Archive Center Partner on Open-Source Technologies for Digital Archival Processes

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08/24/2016

Marist College and the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) have partnered to develop and implement a sustainable and robust platform capable of supporting the complex archival management of digitized and born-digital records.

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Rockefeller Archive Center

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-justice system that has incarcerated millions while states struggle ... 40—were behind bars or within the probation and parole system . For black residents of all ages...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

... raised his powerful voice to show the injustice of the system as well as the obstacles those who are cycled through the system face when they try to leave it behend. “In my ...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... engineered systems . . . you have to have a more resilient system that has redundancy and multiple different flood ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

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04/26/2017

... experiences, and rates of development. Yet in each system they encounter—education, community, health—they ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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The Peterson Center on Healthcare Aims to Transform U.S. Healthcare

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05/15/2017

... to transform American healthcare into a high-performing system that provides higher quality care at a lower cost," it .....

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... on September 13, 2017, at 7:30pm with leading food system thinkers such as Ruth Reichl, Sam Kass, Danielle ... or un-coveted and inspiring new applications in our food system . . . Rockefeller Foundation’s...

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Food Systems

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

... Facing political and budgetary pressures, an entire school system can slide without strong leadership. That’s now ... reauthorized mayoral control of the public school system , Mayor Bill de Blasio’s...

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Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist

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09/25/2017

... arrested. Welcome to Philadelphia’s criminal justice system . You’ll soon be whisked into a room where bail will ... of sweeping changes to Philadelphia’s criminal justice system that are afoot, city officials...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Sponsored Research Reveals How Cities Can Embrace Innovation Without Sacrificing Public Health and Safety

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01/05/2018

... Regulations are a big part of the city’s operating system , and, like an operating system , they should be data-informed, continually tweaked, ...

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Community Development

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Commonwealth Fund Study Reveals State Rankings on the Nation’s Best Health Care

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05/08/2018

... followed in the rankings. The nation’s worst health care system was found in Mississippi, with Oklahoma, Louisiana, ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation Funds Report Rethinking How Medicare Pays for Services

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07/13/2018

... existing RUC process ripple through the entire health care system . But the importance of reform is growing, and it is ... outline what changes must be made to Medicare’s current system . In a new report, Center...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

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03/18/2019

... kilometers of water contained in the atmosphere, this new system could tap into those reserves and potentially lead to ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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NYT Opinion: Darren Walker Reflects on Why Museums Need to Step Into the Future

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07/26/2019

... are trustees who benefit from a distorted economic system that protects and promotes inequality. Wealthy donors ... collections. On the other side are people whom the system excludes and exploits. An...

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