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Carnegie-Funded Commission Finds Most People Want A College Degree, But That Goal Remains A Challenge

Release Date:

09/22/2016

... on the Future of Undergraduate Education: In addition to improving retention and graduation rates, colleges must ... associated with race and ethnicity, income level, and gender . And cost and debt remain...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Seven Community-Based Organizations Receive Grants from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts to Combat the Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Crisis

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06/22/2023

... will assist individuals with obtaining treatment and other resources , including housing. Center for Counseling & ... specialist to reduce barriers to accessing treatment. Health Brigade in Richmond,...

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Community Development

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Program Focuses on Getting City Workers to Live Healthier Lives

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01/22/2015

... Live Healthier Lives The city has created a Culture of Health team to explore programs that would prod city workers ... more and eating better, The Post has learned. Among the approaches under consideration by...

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Most Funders Don’t Think About Disaster Until It Strikes

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07/05/2016

... a complicated question with no single answer. There are resources , however, to help funders start to prepare their ... Networks Education Employee Support Environment Health & Behavioral Health...

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Open Society Foundations Names Kenneth H. Zimmerman as New Director of U.S. Programs

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06/04/2012

... offers a remarkable vehicle to combine vision and resources to further our country’s core principles of ... and justice in the United States. “Collaboration among public, private and nonprofit sectors is...

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Human Services

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Launches Network of Cross-Sector Leaders To Advance Economic Mobility In New York City

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01/08/2018

... public, and social sectors. Collectively, their work spans key issue areas including education, housing, immigration, health , justice and transit. United by a shared orientation ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Community Development

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Thrive by 25: Casey Foundation Announces Increased Focus on Youth and Young Adults

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01/28/2021

... policies and practices that can thwart their success. The health and economic crises of the past year have exacerbated ... at least half of its investments over the next decade to improving the well-being and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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

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12/09/2016

... behind bars or within the probation and parole system. For black residents of all ages and genders, the rate is one in ...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Education

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Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President

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07/16/2019

... New York, NY, July 16, 2019 — Liz Fowler, a leading health policy expert in both the public and private sectors, ... overseeing the Delivery System Reform and International Health Policy programs. Fowler most...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... university. The funds will advance CUNY’s programs in Black , race, and ethnic studies and the humanities; expand a ... The $10 million Mellon Foundation gift will be allocated among a variety of innovative...

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GIH Elects Jacqueline Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors

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12/04/2014

... Martinez Garcel to Board of Directors Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce that Antony Chiang, ... terms begin immediately after the GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy in March...

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Water.org Receives $2.9M Grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust to Provide Safe Water and Sanitation in East Africa

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10/22/2014

... and improved sanitation in Kenya. In addition, Water.org's health and hygiene education programs will reach at least .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

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28 Apr 2020

The Climate Crisis & COVID-19: What is “Grassroots?” – A Webinar Hosted by CLIMA Fund

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12:00pm to 2:00pm

... play in supporting action towards justice, collective health , and sustainability? In this five-part dialogue ... Leaders In Movement Action (CLIMA) Fund (a collaboration among Global Greengrants, Grassroots...

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Racial Justice and Eviction Prevention Dominant Themes in $15 million in Grants Awarded by Trinity Church Wall Street

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06/17/2021

... priorities from immigrant rights to restorative justice to Black -led community organizing to eviction prevention. ... students, LPSHS’s school population is 60% Hispanic, 25% Black , and 8% Asian. Over 80% of...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

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Housing and Homelessness

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Verizon Foundation Launches Diabetes Study

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05/29/2015

... Diabetes Study The Verizon Foundation and Baptist Health have announced a pilot program to study whether mobile technology can improve the health of diabetes patients. The foundation is putting up ...

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9/30/2014 - To Convene or Not To Convene? - PowerPoint Presentation and Video

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09/2014

View related materials presented during the program, "To Convene or Not to Convene?"

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07 Nov 2017

Protecting Our Precious Waters: New York City’s Impacts on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Estuary

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

What are New York City’s impacts on the health of its waterways and the Long Island Sound? How do ... nonprofit efforts to address this complex problem will be key to successful grantmaking in this policy area...

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Panel

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College Receives Grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund to Build Endowment and Expand Education Programs

Release Date:

07/21/2020

... from around the region. The grant will endow a key Tang position, which will now be called The Laurie M. ... that enabled Skidmore faculty to expand the use of museum resources in their coursework, and support...

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