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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, shows an increase in the number of schools that have integrated ...

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Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

Release Date:

02/11/2016

Friday, January 29, was Bob Woodruff's 10th Alive Day. As a reflection on the day that a roadside bomb nearly took Bob's life in Iraq, the Woodruff Foundation celebrated the impact that moment has had over the last decade.

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Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art

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02/16/2016

... by the $886,000 in contributions by the University, the investment to the Indigenous Art Initiative totals $1.7 ...

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Century Foundation NYTimes OpEd: The Secret to School Integration

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02/23/2016

Halley Potter, a Century Foundation fellow, and Kimberly Quick, a policy associate, write about school integration issues throughout the nation in this op-ed for The New York Times.

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Goldman Sachs Expands Philanthropic Fund to Younger Workers

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03/04/2016

Wall Street has recently seen its share of young analysts leave their six-figure salary jobs to join the scrappier worlds of start-ups, nonprofits and even food trucks. A new program for young analysts to compete for donations to a charity of their...

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JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities

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03/10/2016

... Great Urban Parks Campaign, a program aiming ultimately to increase and improve the use of green infrastructure in local ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

IU Joins Center For Integration Of Research, Teaching And Learning (Sloan Foundation)

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03/11/2016

... of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to increase the diversity of future university faculty in ...

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Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab

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04/14/2016

Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Surdna Foundation with in-kind support from the F.B. Heron Foundation. Upstart is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... diabetic retinopathy (DR) and cataracts, will dramatically increase impacting both individuals and society. The National ...

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

For over fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the U.S. economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term trends, widely reported and acknowledged.

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

... recently dropped legacy preferences, actually witnessed an increase in donations. And many esteemed private ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Will Join SheKnows Media for the Sept. 26 Panel on Next-Generation #Femvertising

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09/21/2016

The survey, fielded online in September 2016, examines attitudes toward the pro-female advertising movement in which brands are increasingly building gender-equality messages and images into ads that target women.

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Gender Justice

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Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues

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10/03/2016

On September 19th, Pinkett Smith joined Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin for the third edition of Insight Dialogues, touching on the many roles she balances in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women and youth empowerment and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/07/2016

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer wants to force employers to offer their workers a retirement plan, a move that could provide more savings options for 1.5 million people.

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Economic Security

Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices

Release Date:

10/17/2016

The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences received $2.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of New York for this initiative.

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

School districts and charter schools across the country increasingly are pursuing socioeconomic integration, with data on those efforts suggesting positive outcomes for both low- and middle-income students, a report from the Century Foundation finds.

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With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

Release Date:

10/21/2016

In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics” – an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

Release Date:

11/18/2016

The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.

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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

Release Date:

01/03/2017

The Trust and the New York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers in this moment of change.