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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

Release Date:

07/24/2014

... school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can ... in Education Week. Zero-tolerance policies "hurt students ’ ability to learn and thrive...

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Education

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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

Release Date:

09/30/2014

... finds that barely 10 percent of computer science students wind up working in those sectors. The vast majority ... designed to put young engineers in a position to affect how tech policy, particularly when it...

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Technology

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Ford Foundation

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

Release Date:

01/15/2016

... they broke an existing record in Hong Kong held by 426 students , who learned how to knead and bake dough, in 2013. The Guinness World ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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UJA-Federation of New York

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

Release Date:

01/25/2016

... Adams, who has asked to take additional steps and outline how and when schools will be fully funded. . . Mayor ...

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Education

NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

Release Date:

04/17/2017

... by the way some of our grantee partners were changing how they saw the people they serve, who are commonly seen as ...

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Video

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Community Development

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New York Foundation

Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... their community. In many traditional classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills or considering how their work could help those around them. But a new ...

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Education

After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... Department would focus its training for teachers on how to defuse behavior crises and make sure that bullying was ...

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Education

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

Release Date:

09/13/2018

... of the Buffalo Museum of Science. "This is a program for students from backgrounds that are too often not represented ... of the Buffalo Maritime Center, which teaches youth how to build wooden boats as a...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

Philanthropy New York Elects New Board Members and Board Chair; Announces 2021 -2022 Executive Committee

Release Date:

06/03/2021

... Giving Circle, Philanthropy Advancing Women’s Human Rights , the Groundswell Fund, and the Funders’ ... Foundation. She was previously the president of Bennington College . During the Obama administration, she...

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PNY News

Commentary: Understanding Muslim America

Release Date:

08/11/2011

... When I was a teenager, my Russian-born father recounted how he had experienced prejudice in his youth in his new ... understanding of its diversity. She deemed it “the civil rights issue of our time.”...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 New Executives Fund Recipients

Release Date:

06/15/2021

... open society, including through legal protection of LGBTQI rights , digital rights advocacy, gender equality, community-centered ... crises threatening our common future, to increase resources...

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Leadership Development

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Heckscher Foundation Congratulates Heather Sutton on New Role

Release Date:

10/25/2017

... the 2018 launch of genARISE . As first-generation college graduates move into independent life and careers, ... they have fewer safety nets than they may have had in college . Heather and a team are developing...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Humanizing Immigration: A Three Part Conversation Recap

... the media-driven narrative surrounding immigration: how what we read in articles and watch on television impacts ... International Refugee Assistance Project ) stressed how significantly forced displacement...

Russell Sage Foundation Grantees Richard Alba, Justin Gest & Dowell Myers Cited in NYT Article on the Political Implications of Future Population Models

Release Date:

09/06/2018

... in 2017, Alba addressed the interrelated questions of how mixed-race Americans classify themselves, how the census classifies them and how the census classification deals with the offspring...

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Census 2020

Civic Engagement

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Russell Sage Foundation

17 Mar 2016

Changemakers: National Networks Engaging Next Gen Philanthropic Leaders - Webinar

Thursday, March 17, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Family foundations are poised to see an unprecedented change in leadership over the next few years as the next generation of philanthropists begins to take over governance roles.

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Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

Release Date:

06/16/2014

... two-year grants to support leadership transitions at human rights and social justice organizations are part of the $2 ... posts with innovative ideas, but often lack the necessary resources to execute them,...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Mayor's Fund Hires New Director of Development

Release Date:

03/15/2016

... individuals, corporations and foundations to bring vital resources to New Yorkers in all five boroughs. Mayor's Fund .....

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... North Carolina has become a flashpoint for transgender rights , and Rory Philbrick is one of the faces working behind ...

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Sector News

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Gender Justice

Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... and the administration: “A fundamental question is how tax reform will affect our nation’s unsustainable ... our fiscal outlook. This framework doesn’t tell us how or whether tax reform will be paid for. Going...

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Economic Security

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Meet the 15 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/05/2014

... growing leadership in family philanthropy, shaping how wealth made by spouses or earlier generations is given ... philanthropy, bringing people together to mobilize huge resources for different causes. Too...