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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

... 426 students, who learned how to knead and bake dough, in 2013 . The Guinness World Records is currently tallying up ... included JSpace.com, JCC Manhattan, PJ Library, Hellmann’ s Mayo and UJA-Federation of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

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02/16/2016

... Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford' s Saïd Business School. Established in 2013 with a gift of £4.5 million ($6.6 million) from the ... to pair an MBA earned in a year with one of...

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

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12/09/2016

Hazen Foundation' s Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? It’ s been said that a ... has tripled to about 2.2 million since 1982. As of 2013 , 8 million...

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

Report Finds U. S . Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace ... household wealth trends (as have occurred between 1983 and 2013 ) continue indefinitely into the future, by 2053 the ... 20 years afterward...

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A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

... Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids In 2013 , the New York city council approved a plan for a ... business owners appears to have been for naught. “It’ s a waste of the city’ s...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

Documents Show NYC’ s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records ... sent an intriguing public records request to the city’ s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of ... I request all e-mail...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something to Say, a 2013 study of successful arts-focused organizations that ... larger, generalist...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’ s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013 . Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’ s Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced ... commitment to educational access and the liberal arts. We are delighted to welcome her to the Mellon board...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Hospitals: We Want Billions Back if Obamacare Dismantled

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02/10/2017

... message for Washington: if you dismantle the Affordable Care Act, we want the billions in funding we received before the law was enacted. WSJ' s Melanie Evans explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. .....

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ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire

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08/09/2018

... Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) joined members of Lake County Care and Control to rescue and shelter more than 2,500 ... state history as of Monday. Responders from both agencies are checking individual residences...

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Scott Stringer Unveils Transition Team

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11/18/2013

... appointed as co-chair of Comptroller-elect Scott Stringer' s transition team. Its members include Lisa Garcia Quiroz, ... Stringer appointed Ana Oliveira, president of the New York Women ’ s...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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$50-Million from Goldman Sachs Seeds Fund for Businesswomen

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03/05/2014

... money for the venture, which builds on the banking giant’ s 10,000 Women venture to provide business education in developing countries. The World Bank’ s International Finance Corporation is...

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Andrew W. Mellon Study Examines Demographic Composition of Museum Staff

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08/05/2015

... Study Examines Demographic Composition of Museum Staff Women account for a clear majority of art museum staffs in ...

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With Support from Atlantic and Hartford, Researchers Develop Novel 3-D Imaging Tool

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04/06/2016

... conducted a prospective study of 100 patients (56 percent women ) with biopsy-proven NAFLD to assess the efficacy of ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements

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10/14/2016

... of Chicago and the University of Michigan, finds that women college students are more active than men in racial justice movements – and ...

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U.S. Trust Surveys 1,435 U.S. High Net Worth Households on Attitudes Toward Giving

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11/21/2016

U. S . Trust Surveys 1,435 U. S . High Net Worth Households on ... three years as they have in the past. These percentages are even higher among women , African-Americans and...

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Video: At Rockefeller, Actor Robin Wright on Negotiating Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’

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05/25/2016

... for gender equality and to put a stop to violence against women and children. On our first dialogue, Robin joined us ...

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Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama's Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap

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08/31/2017

Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama' s Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap Ivanka Trump, who came into her father’ s administration vowing to fight for women in the workplace, has blessed a...

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