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Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

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09/08/2014

... will naturally be fretting about teachers — mainly, did their kids get the best ones? But what if, in the interest of ... while teachers made classroom-level decisions mostly on their own. Now principals are...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $5 Million to Universities for Innovative Programs Linking Academia and Policy

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09/23/2014

Carnegie Corporation New York will distribute $5 million to five universities over the next two years to merge policy studies with higher education.

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Ford Foundation Partners with Mozilla to Draw Young Engineers into Nonprofit Sector

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09/30/2014

... three years. The first fellows to be selected will spend their time at public interest groups including the American ...

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Bank of America Among Organizations Supporting Giving Tuesday

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10/16/2014

Charities, foundations, businesses and community centers will all give back on December 2 as part of the #GivingTuesday initiative.

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Ford Foundation Backs New Associate's Degree Program at New York State Prison

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03/02/2015

New York University has enrolled 36 inmates in the new program.

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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

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05/05/2015

... nationwide, and then from 102 State Honorees, based on their initiative, effort, impact, and the personal growth demonstrated in the course of their volunteer service. The National Honorees each received .....

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

The grant will fund research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies at the University of Maryland.

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... that year. The total represented an extra $705 per student — far more than any other school district in the ...

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Atlantic's Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International Philanthropy

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09/21/2015

The prize is awarded to people who have demonstrated outstanding commitment and leadership in all aspects of international philanthropy.

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... women, are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their skills are most needed. Just 24 percent of the world's .....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Backs Commission on the Future of Higher Education

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11/04/2015

The commission, which will be financed with a $2.2-million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will examine the future of higher education.

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In New York, More Than a Thousand in Record-Breaking Kids Challah Bake (UJA-Federation of NY)

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01/15/2016

Some 1,128 children gathered on Tuesday afternoon for a “Kids Mega Challah Bake” event, which took place at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan and sought to break a world record in challah baking.

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NPs Share Excellent Management Practices (New York Community Trust)

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01/19/2016

... Presentation were eager for information to bring home to their organizations. The awards, created by the ...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

Young people need pathways to high-quality training and skills to compete for jobs and JP Morgan Chase is starting an initiative to help youth be successful.

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Mayor Increases 'Fair Share' Funding for Schools, but Critics Want More

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01/25/2016

... no school will get less than 87 percent of its “Fair Student Funding” allocation, the mayor said. But that ...

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

The Mellon Foundation grant will support of efforts to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities.

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a supplemental gift of £3.7 million ($5.4 million) gift to the Oxford Pershing Square Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

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As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment

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06/17/2016

... grants to finance after-school programs, tutoring, and student health services over the last three years. The city ... not yet promised to pick up the tab for the schools when their $6 million expires at the...

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