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ASPCA-Backed Program Uses Dogs to Help Teach NYC Students About Animal Welfare

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06/01/2015

... is more than puppy therapy. The youngsters are learning how to promote compassion for animals while spotting signs of ...

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North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

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08/14/2015

North Star' s Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking There’ s a reason elected officials like the term “grass roots” ... ardent account of what that connection would look...

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Wallace Foundation Releases Reports on Successful Audience-Building Efforts

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08/14/2015

... audiences new to those organizations. The reports explore how the two organizations attracted new audiences: young ...

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MetLife Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

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09/23/2015

... MetLife, Inc. announced the release of the company’ s latest corporate responsibility report, highlighting the ... Global Impact, provides a progress update on last year’ s report and includes information on...

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Tisch Education Center at Whitney Museum Profiled in Education Update

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12/01/2015

... Update article, Joan Baum spotlights the Whitney’ s new Laurie M. Tisch Education Center, prominently situated on the third floor of the museum’ s new downtown home. Dr. Baum describes the Tisch Center as .....

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NBC News Profiles Asian Women Giving Circle at Ms. Foundation

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01/29/2016

... serving victims of domestic violence, she discovered how hard it was to raise money for her cause. Korean-American ...

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Century Foundation Report Examines The Real Value of What Students Do in College

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02/26/2016

... Robert Shireman, offers specific recommendations for how the U. S . Department of Education could promote a renewed focus on learning at America’ s colleges. Century Foundation Report Examines...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)

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03/18/2016

... to 1,600 annually in recent years. But citing gaps in how this data is compiled, the report suggests the actual ...

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, were learning how to handle not just the unexpected payouts but also the ... Artist Awards — that integrates Creative Capital’ s financial planning curriculum into the...

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Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Publishes New Volume: 'Higher Education Effectiveness'

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04/08/2016

... accept the idea that "effectiveness" -- defined as how well an organization is meeting a set of agreed-upon .....

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

... by the colleges are too narrowly focused on the minutia of how financial aid is disbursed at the expense of broader and ...

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

... said. A spokeswoman for the foundation declined to discuss how it plans to use the building and which programs will be ...

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Inaugural All Female Festival Launches In New York

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05/09/2016

... The Other Festival showcases the women who are redefining how to do business, setting their own rules, putting new ... in. The event is spearheaded by WIE, an influential women' s leadership network that...

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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Campaign to Achieve Workplace Equality

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05/16/2016

... workplace equality, only 21 women helm the world’ s largest corporations today, according to a survey released ... a campaign to change that today at the Forbes Women’ s Summit. She acknowledged there’...

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Century Foundation Researcher Says It's Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own Biases

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06/07/2016

Century Foundation Researcher Says It' s Up to Schools to Ensure Teachers Are Aware of Their Own ... there needs to be a dialogue about racial biases and how to recognize them in the classroom... Century...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City

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06/10/2016

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York ... is now president of the Ford Foundation, one of the nation' s largest grant making organizations. After graduating, ... on...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Announces Low Vision Research Awardees

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06/13/2016

... Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Reader’ s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation (RDPFS), has announced ... fund researchers working on ways to improve the brain’ s ability to take information...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Brooklyn Museum App

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06/29/2016

... Their final product is the ASK Brookly Museum app. It' s a chat interface that lets museum-goers talk to staff about ... visitors as soon as they comes through the app. But it' s teaching the museum...

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Video: Rockefeller's Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star and Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda

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07/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Insight Dialogues Features Hamilton Star And Creator ... for attracting new audiences to the stage and changing how we think about American history. The production’ s creator...

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