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NoVo Co-President Peter Buffett Uses New Notoriety to Champion Women and Girls Around the World

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10/10/2014

... rethink their assumptions: “Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market,” he ... progress really Wi-Fi on every...

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Gender Justice

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F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

... just as radically as Starrett Brothers and Eken did. We have good materials (committed people, financial capital, ... practices that are often more grounded in an inside- out , funder-centric point of view than...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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NYCT and JPB-Backed Immigrant Legal Aid Program Will Expand Beyond NYC

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05/14/2015

... Aid Program Will Expand Beyond NYC New York City’ s melting pot has been boiling over in the larger ... arrived unaccompanied minors and older immigrants, have nearly as many people eligible for legal services...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.1 Million to 41 Theater Programs

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07/06/2015

... Programs “The New York Theater Program recognizes the out -sized influence of the city’ s small and mid-sized nonprofit theater organizations on the ... Women lead about half of the organizations, while 25%...

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For School Leaders

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10/26/2015

... standards for education school leaders are set to head out the door. The National Policy Board for Educational ... School Leaders Licensure Consortium standards, as they have been known since they were first...

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The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot

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06/03/2016

... Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’ s $100 Million Jackpot NPQ has covered a lot of contest ... Over the past 18 months or so, the fad seems to have waned a bit, but now the John D. and...

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Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

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08/11/2016

... September heat is a reminder that they’re running out of time to find a stable place to live before the start ... on Family Homelessness, one in every 30 children in the U. S . does not have a...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration

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02/03/2017

... For weeks, Donald Trump ran his presidential transition out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. Now that he has been ... he has made the move to the White House – and he’ s taking part of New York with him...

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Is Rezoning In East Harlem A Trojan Horse For Gentrification?

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08/30/2017

... by the Harlem Art Collective, which formed in 2015. They have painted Aztec symbols, for example, and a piece devoted to women’ s rights on the barrier that hides a vacant lot. But this ... a wide avenue,...

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BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry

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09/06/2017

... dedicated to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to ... nationally. The initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids in America is hungry,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent On Wednesday, the U. S . Education Department confirmed that the education ... 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter — a directive that laid out exactly what the government...

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Opinion: New York’s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job

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09/11/2017

Opinion: New York’ s Bad Teachers, Back on the Job On Thursday, a million New York City children will return to school. Educators have long been concerned about a “summer slide” — the learning loss that often...

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The Future Of New York City Transit in Every Borough

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09/19/2017

... first streetcars started rumbling along New York City’ s streets in the 19th century, people have sought ways to make it easier, more efficient, and safer ... and other transit hubs), there are a plethora of...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... When President Donald Trump committed to yanking the U. S . out anyway, PayPal and Western Union countered “We are ... complicated. The overwhelming majority of these companies have no overt...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... Powell Jobs and Pierre and Pam Omidyar also have LLCs —and there are good reasons to look beyond the ... change: It makes grants to 501(c)3 groups, which are paid out of a donor-advised fund housed at the...

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Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

... Rico is part of America!” On Saturday, chants rang out as thousands flooded the streets in Washington, D.C. and ... the aftermath on Facebook. Since then, racial incidents have continued to dominate the...

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Gender Justice

Research Funded By The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Leads To Passwords In Clothing

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11/02/2017

... of Washington can make it so. A research team led by UW’ s Shyam Gollakota has demonstrated a method for encoding ... activated by magnetizing the threads, and then can be read out using magnetometers. A...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism

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12/08/2017

... said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown' s Mellon Lecture Series last week. The Mellon Lecture Series, ... the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to...

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