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Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success?

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Would a Later School Start Time Increase Student Success? How much sleep do you get each night during the school year? ... Sleep a Little Later,” Aaron E. Carroll writes: Many high -school-age children across the...

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Support From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Continues College Access and Success Program of American Indian College Fund

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05/02/2019

... going to college within six months of graduation after high school is 70 percent. For Native American and Alaska ... is divided into four components working with students. The High School Admissions Pathway...

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The Citi Foundation Launches Pathways to Progress to Improve Career Readiness for 100,000 Youth

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03/31/2014

... ages 16-24 develop the workplace skills and leadership experience they will need to secure jobs and begin developing career paths. The ...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

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05/06/2014

... investing. I’ve been privileged to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different ... directed towards solutions. It’s clear we desperately need new ways to solve old problems…...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Impact Investing

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

... students with the tools, skills, and experiences they need for positions in museums, libraries, and other research ...

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Arts

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New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech

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05/05/2017

The New York Stem Cell Foundation's $22 million, 40,000-square-foot headquarters on West 54th Street, which opened last month, represents founder and CEO Susan L. Solomon's grand effort to turn the Far West Side into the city's newest biotech hub.

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

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MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

Release Date:

09/18/2015

... Act® will feature a “Be the Change” segment on how corporate America is empowering people to build better ... “Providing quality, affordable financial tools and know- how for those in need ”...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Communications/Media

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We’re Not Just Fighting the Good Fight

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09/22/2014

... in its public policy work. With limited staff and resources , we choose our issues carefully based on their ...

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PNY News

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

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02/03/2015

... achieve a breakthrough like the Empire State Building, we need to fundamentally change the underlying practices we use ... grantees, programs, and systems we seek to change. We need to become far more outside...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces New Grantmaking Areas

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02/20/2015

... of some zero-sum game. In fact, both imperatives – the need to raise living standards for the poor and the need to transition the planet to a zero- or low-carbon future ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Let's Fight Racial Bias in Voting Through Donor Collaboratives and Litigation

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09/08/2016

... with Carnegie Visiting Media Fellow Gail Ablow to discuss how foundations can support voting rights litigation. Gail ... know who will take which cases, in which places. Ablow: How do donor collaboratives make...

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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12 Aug 2021

Impact, Measurement, and Evaluation - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, August 12, 2021 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... What is the most effective way to monitor grants? How do families define and measure success? What is the burden on grantee partners and how might it be mitigated? Successful family philanthropies .....

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Family Foundation

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PNY's President Gives Insight on Funder Collaboration

Release Date:

09/08/2015

... private foundations — they also don’t have the same resources as public charities. Collaborating on a shared ... an organization that connects people, institutions and resources , said 15 foundations recently...

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PNY News

Moody's Seeks to Open Doors to a Better Future

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04/26/2018

... empowering people around the world with the information, resources and confidence they need to create a better future — for themselves, their ... nonprofits to help provide Reshape Tomorrow programs and...

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Community Development

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Clinton, Roberts and Three Other Amazing Women Leaders at PNY’s Annual Meeting

Release Date:

05/21/2014

... in Beijing, she is advancing new work to identify just how much progress we’ve made on issues central to women and ... author of “Redefining Realness” We invite you to experience (or re- experience...

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PNY News

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Gender Justice

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CrainsNY Looks at Helmsley-Supported DATA2GO.NYC

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12/18/2015

... Will Obamacare help? One would think that residents with health insurance would live longer, healthier lives than ... all, insurance helps people afford necessary preventive care , medicine for illnesses, and...

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Community Development

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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American Express Chairman and CEO Steve Squeri Share COVID-19 Funding Memo

Release Date:

03/18/2020

... of backing our communities, especially during times of need . I’m proud to announce that the American Express ... and the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization. In China, we also...

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

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12/09/2016

... to determine the values and priorities a society embraces. How then should we interpret the extraordinary spending spree ... trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-justice system that has incarcerated...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Justice Reform

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

Release Date:

03/09/2017

... engineered systems . . . you have to have a more resilient system that has redundancy and multiple different flood ... is that we really have to go back into history and learn how to live with water in a city...

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