Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges
Release Date:
04/13/2016
... outlined in the report is that audits of colleges by the federal government and auditors hired by the colleges are too ...
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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing
Release Date:
04/14/2016
... Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on a collaborative ... how results-based funding could revolutionize America' s approach to entrenched social...
Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry
Release Date:
04/26/2016
... Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry Federal prisons release nearly 50,000 inmates each year. Many ... drug violations and are being released by order of the U. S . Sentencing Commission under...
Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth
Release Date:
09/23/2016
Mellon' s Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty ... according to a recent Excelencia in Education analysis of federal data. In 2013, Latinos made up 17 percent of all ... to the Excelencia...
Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies
Release Date:
09/29/2016
... Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies When the federal government stopped guaranteeing new bank-based ...
American Cancer Society Honors Dave Hattem of AXA at 54th Annual Gala on Long Island
Release Date:
10/20/2016
... on Long Island The American Cancer Society honored Dave S . Hattem, Senior Executive Director, General Counsel, AXA ... New York on September 22nd, 2016. Hattem leads AXA’ s law department, including compliance...
Peter G. Peterson Foundation Founder Writes About Ignoring the Debt Problem
Release Date:
10/24/2016
... Yes, this country can handle the nearly $600 billion federal deficit estimated for 2016. But the deficit has grown ...
Covenant Foundation Funds Expansion of Shinui, the Network for Innovation in Part-Time Jewish Education
Release Date:
11/08/2016
... Jewish Education. The expansion coincides with Shinui’ s new partnership with The William Davidson Graduate School ...
Dodge Foundation’s Daggett in NYTimes: Auction of Airwaves Could Transform Media
Release Date:
11/28/2016
Dodge Foundation’ s Daggett in NYTimes: Auction of Airwaves Could Transform ... Media With the demand for wireless broadband growing, the Federal Communications Commission is auctioning off a big ... satellite or...
De Blasio Derided by Sergeants Union for Deportation Stance
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... Mayor Bill de Blasio for not requiring the city’ s police force to act as immigration enforcers as the Trump ... Roundtable” radio program on 970 AM, said the city’ s top brass have a “moral obligation” to...
Commonwealth Fund Explains Why the House Repeal Bill Is Unlikely to Stabilize Insurance Markets
Release Date:
03/13/2017
... sector had never offered before. To ensure this product’ s viability, Congress enacted stabilizing measures —a ... population they covered, and a fallback program for the federal government to assume the risk...
Atlantic Philanthropies, Commonwealth Fund and Other Foundations Take a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan
Release Date:
03/20/2017
... seven years ago don’t want Congress to gut the landmark federal health-insurance legislation. But some health-care ...
Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic
Release Date:
04/06/2017
Century Foundation' s Richard Kahlenberg Writes About School Integration in The Atlantic The decision by Donald Trump’ s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, to kill Opening Doors was ... proponents of school...
Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities
Release Date:
04/10/2017
... Foundation, which has steadfastly kept up the family’ s commitment to the liberal arts. Today, with funding for NEA and NEH in jeopardy, the Mellon Foundation’ s website prominently features an article on why...
Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island
Release Date:
05/15/2017
... on the scale and scope of the challenges America’ s incarceration crisis presents. While it seems that federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’ s still possible...
Cuomo Administration Bullish On State Climate Action After RGGI Agreement
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... state Department of Environmental Conservation said there' s a good chance the Northeast agreement between states to ... Seggos said the agreement demonstrates that even with the federal inaction on...
Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program One of the country’ s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness ... the Massachusetts attorney general. “This company’ s...
Winning the Lottery: Enrolling in Success Academy Produces Math Gains for Students, New Study Shows
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... firm MDRC. The analysis, funded by Success as part of a federal grant, found that the network’ s third- and fourth-graders showed about a year to a year and ... in math put Success Academy towards the top of...
Review Board Recommends Departmental Charges Against N.Y. Police Officer in Eric Garner Case
Release Date:
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...
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... married as well. When Spyer died in 2009, though, the federal government didn't recognize that love on Windsor' s tax forms, expecting her to pay more than $350,000 in .....