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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

... to School Integration By most measures, America’ s public schools are now more racially and socioeconomically ... minorities, up from 42.7 percent in 1968. In the country’ s 100 largest school districts,...

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JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities

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03/10/2016

The Great Urban Parks Campaign: Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities is bringing together thought leaders from around the country to explore solutions to stormwater management through the use of green infrastructure that also benefits...

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Freedom Together Foundation

IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

Indiana University has joined a national consortium, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, to improve the teaching skills of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

... Eye Institute in JAMA Ophthalmology found that the U. S . prevalence in visual impairment (VI) and blindness is ...

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... years immediately following the decision. The university’ s capital campaign raised $1.5 billion from 2003 to 2007, ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... print-digital The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’ s BH Media Group) that serves the demanding news consumers of ...

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Arts

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

A short documentary series created by Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a behind- the-scenes look at how four cities are using temporary public art projects.

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Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

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09/21/2016

... #Femvertising SheKnows Media, a leading women' s media company with 81 million unique visitors a month* and ... target women. Responses were compared to SheKnows Media’ s original #Femvertising study,...

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues

Release Date:

10/03/2016

... on and off screen remains one of Hollywood’ s greatest challenges despite increased rhetoric from several ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices

Release Date:

10/17/2016

The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received $2.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of New York for this initiative.

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

School districts and charter schools across the country increasingly are pursuing socioeconomic integration, with data on those efforts suggesting positive outcomes for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds.

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With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

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10/21/2016

... Politics Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’ s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic ... attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’ s success reflects the rise of...

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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

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01/03/2017

The Trust and the New York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers in this moment of change.

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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

Release Date:

04/03/2017

... the news they read and share online. The Initiative’ s mission is to advance news literacy, to increase trust in ... Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation,...

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

Release Date:

04/25/2017

... Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’ s Economy Billions Each Year Long Island’ s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 ... from $33,600 a year to $56,300 a year. The...

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Long Island Community Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs

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05/05/2017

... announced a $6 million commitment to expand young people’ s access to economic opportunity in the South Bronx. As ...

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Workforce Development

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

Release Date:

05/10/2017

... Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom Generosa Gonato' s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer .....

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Food Systems

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

Release Date:

05/12/2017

... students. The largest single grant in the law school' s history includes $7 million to establish and endow the .....

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

Release Date:

06/01/2017

Soros Hits Back at Hungary’ s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School ... Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’ s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros ... reached...

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Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals

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