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Mellon Announces $125 Million "Creatives Rebuild New York" Initiative to Reactivate the State's Creative Economy and Provide Artists with the Critical Support They Need

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06/03/2021

... initiative that will provide artists with either full- time employment opportunities or guaranteed income to remedy ... of broad-based employment programs to put artists back to work and to...

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

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05/23/2017

Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation Despite decades of ... policies that had been voluntarily adopted by some school districts to address rising segregation...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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NYC Education Dept. Must Make School Cafeteria Health Inspection Results Public

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09/14/2017

NYC Education Dept. Must Make School Cafeteria Health Inspection Results Public New York City will soon have to post school cafeteria health inspection reports online for public ... website must post the results...

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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

... Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year Increases in overweight and obesity rates among ... children occur during summer vacations, not during the school year, according to new research...

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Diverse Charter Schools In New York City to Get Boost from Walton Money

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09/14/2017

... can benefit students and is considered one remedy to school segregation. . . Diverse Charter Schools In New York ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

... Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... may have overlooked a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

... of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Gives $6M to Help 100,000 Inner City School Children See 'Hamilton'

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06/24/2016

Rockefeller Foundation Gives $6M to Help 100,000 Inner City School Children See 'Hamilton' The Rockefeller Foundation ... says it is giving $6 million to help 100,000 inner city school children across...

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Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

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11/02/2016

New York City’s schools are among the most segregated in the country — an issue that has attracted growing attention and advocacy.

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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates, Families for Excellent Schools Two hedge ... dropped $1 million each on a controversial charter school advocacy group in April, the...

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Cuomo Assigns ‘Gang Prevention’ Cops to Long Island Schools Where MS-13, Others Thrive

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09/14/2017

Calling schools “the breeding ground” for dangerous gangs like MS-13, Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday announced state police will be going into schools to combat the problem.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

15 Jul 2019

**POSTPONED: FCCP Racial Equity Series: July 2019 - Metrics as Tyranny or Metrics as "Strategic Objects" - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

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... elections, stand alone vs. integrated approaches to this work , and how we can change grantmaking strategies for the ... power throughout philanthropy. In recent years, our understanding of how to best to...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies Provides a $3.25 Million Grant to Cornell Law School for Death Penalty Center

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10/28/2016

... Provides a $3.25 Million Grant to Cornell Law School for Death Penalty Center The center will focus on the ... members, professors and students gathered at Cornell Law School Oct. 25 for the launch of the...

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Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis

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11/21/2017

Tow Foundation Funded CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Announces First-Ever Endowed Chair, Professor Jeff Jarvis The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is excited to announce its first-ever ... who has been a...

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

Foundations like Carnegie Corporation of New York and Open Society are major supporters of these small high school programs.

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After Blasting Success’s Board Chair, Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School

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09/05/2017

... Chancellor Rosa To Visit Success Academy On First Day Of School To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly strange school to visit: Success Academy Bronx 2. The...

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... officials said the 5,161 homeless students being taken to school in buses represent a nearly 77% increase over last ...

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration ... and Morris Township schools in 1971. Yet the Morris School District has endured, surviving early racial...

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