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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

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04/03/2015

... is particularly acute among college kids, whose natural state , if we're to believe stodgy old sociologists, is one of ... $515,000 to technology and media organizations to "support new work to build...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... Dance Project in 1996 to encourage the creation of new dance work to share with audiences in communities ...

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Arts

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

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08/27/2015

... according to an analysis by two professors at Michigan State University of grants by the 15 largest philanthropies ... charter schools or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund, that support...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson ...

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The Century Foundation Examines Russia's Syrian Conflict Strategy

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09/24/2015

... 28, on the heels of a shrewdly publicized deployment of new Russian troops and military equipment to Syria. ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Immigration

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

... was organized by NewMexicoWomen.Org, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation designed to address issues affecting the state ’s women and girls. . . Ms. Foundation CEO Puts ...

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Gender Justice

Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... a proven educational innovation: school integration. A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think ...

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Climate Adaptation Fund, Supported by Duke Foundation, To Enable Conservation Projects In Urban Centers

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04/04/2016

... managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society is exploring new methods for helping wildlife in the United States to ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen institutions and ...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

... problems, but one that is committed to investing in new ways of building economies, environments and communities ...

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Community Development

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

... the good (and perhaps hardly surprising) news in a new report from our organization, the Center for Effective ...

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Backed by Henry Luce and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, Report Shows Need for U.S. to Invest in Language Learning to Remain Competitive

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02/28/2017

... a national effort established to examine the current state of U.S. language education, to project what the ... English: cognitive benefits, important habits of mind, and new and valuable perspectives on the...

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The Henry Luce Foundation

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

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06/01/2017

... billionaire accused Orban of building a “mafia state ” in Hungary. In doing so, he reached for a term that ... of law across the region. Orban’s Fidesz party passed new legislation in April that threatens its...

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Reading, Math Disparities Persist At Capital Region Schools

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08/29/2017

... in Albany, where 42 percent of white students passed the state 's 2017 English language arts exam compared to 27 ... percent of black students. The achievement gap is nothing new . Nationwide, numerous...

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... of Challah for Hunger, a Philadelphia nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a ...

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Wellcome Trust and the Simons Foundation Fund Researchers Uniting to Create International Brain Lab

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09/19/2017

... way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched ...

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