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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

... the increasing focus on qualities like grit will distract policy makers from problems with schools. In a 2014 paper, ...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... schools to provide students with a broad overview of food policy , social justice, environment, health, science and ... the Hunts Point food markets, and elsewhere. Hostos’ s program is intended to train a new...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License

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02/04/2015

... announced today that it is adopting an open licensing policy for all grant-funded projects and research to promote ...

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Technology

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Studies Impact of Volunteerism

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03/06/2015

... by MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm. The yearlong randomized control trial ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Natasha Lifton Joins The New York Community Trust as Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and Families

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03/16/2015

... Natasha Lifton is The New York Community Trust’ s new Senior Program Officer for Children, Youth, and ... Fund, a funders’ collaborative. She has master’ s degrees from New York University and Hunter College...

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Children, Youth and Families

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

... Volatility: Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of U. S . Individuals, that uses proprietary data from JPMorgan ... Council and Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic Policy from 2009-2011......

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Community Development

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Terry Fulmer Takes the Helm as President of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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06/11/2015

... Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of Social Sciences ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Partners with YMCA to Prevent Diabetes

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06/12/2015

... the John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to deliver the YMCA' s Diabetes Prevention Program to older adults. The program ... John A. Hartford Foundation, the Y will spread the YMCA' s Diabetes...

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OSF to Continue Grantmaking in Russia

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08/10/2015

... Grantmaking in Russia In a statement on the foundation' s website, president and CEO Chris Stone wrote, "In recent ... and within the limits of the law." Out of the seven U. S .-based NGOs on the...

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

... of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’ s new Director of Programs. “Cecilia has worked for ... Stancell will work with the Millbrook-based foundation’ s Chairman and the President to direct and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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John A. Hartford Helps Expand Program to Support Older Hospitalized Adults

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09/01/2015

... designed to replicate the local program. The program’ s premise is older adults hospitalized with hip fractures ... investigator and a professor of medicine and public policy at Alpert Medical School and the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Issues RFP for Innovative Approaches to Peacekeeping

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09/15/2015

The joint Public-Private Partnership on Peacebuilding will provide grants of up to $1 million to one to three consortia to conduct projects involving a U.S., a Norwegian, and at least one Southern/emerging power partner.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

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09/22/2015

... are paid by the federal government. Sam Adler-Bell, a policy associate for The Century Foundation, who focuses on ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Century Foundation

Philanthropy Leaders Call for Greater Role in Tackling Global Challenges Defined in New Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2015

... ensure that they are included in the development of policy agendas, and facilitate partnerships among ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs

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10/14/2015

... PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School. . . Hartford ...

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders

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10/26/2015

... leaders are set to head out the door. The National Policy Board for Educational Administration unanimously ...

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The Wallace Foundation

Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

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01/13/2016

... researchers at the University of Michigan Health System’ s Kellogg Eye Center and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, are published online ahead of print in ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Guardian: Are Gates and Rockefeller Using Their Influence to Set Agenda in Poor States?

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01/19/2016

... organisations, says the report by the independent Global Policy Forum, which monitors the work of UN bodies and global ... With assets of more than $360bn (£250bn), the world’ s 27 largest foundations give...

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