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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Neill Coleman as Vice President, Global Communications

Release Date:

07/02/2012

... the power of communications to influence and inform public policy and yield innovations that respond to our ... Coleman has served in senior communications roles in the public , private and nonprofit sectors...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Communications

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

Release Date:

02/15/2013

... Mr. Bagwell, a fledgling filmmaker, was hired by public television to work on a piece about a South Boston ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $3.25 Million to Expand Children's Access to Health Coverage

Release Date:

02/01/2013

... of city leaders to maximize children's participation in public health insurance programs. The effort is part of The .....

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Role of Philanthropy and Advocacy in Healthcare Reform Implementation

Release Date:

02/21/2013

... York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Duke University’s Center for Strategic ...

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Legal Issues

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Health

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Philanthropy New York

$15 Million Gift and New Name for Community College

Release Date:

04/29/2013

... Community College, one of the largest donations ever for a public two-year college. The foundation is giving an ...

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Education

How our community colleges are falling behind

Release Date:

05/23/2013

... of college or university in the United States? Is it big public research universities like UC Berkeley or the ...

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Member News

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Public Policy

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Education

Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

Release Date:

05/20/2013

... Open Society Institute Foundation. In recent years, when public opinion turned against the Kremlin, there was one main ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

14 Jun 2011

Speaker's Bio: Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., MPH

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 12:00pm

... Dr. Shah oversees the administration of the state’s public health insurance programs, which provide health care ... manages a premier biomedical laboratory; and directs public health prevention initiatives...

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19 Jul 2010

College-Ready or Not? Preparing High School Students for Success

Monday, July 19, 2010 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

... by the Donors’ Education Collaborative (DEC) and the Public Education Grantmakers Network (PEGNET). WHO SHOULD ... PROGRAM DESCRIPTION In 2008, more than 70% of the recent public school graduates who entered...

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Reimagining Early-Warning Systems for At-Risk Students in NYC High Schools

Publication date:

03/2013

... NYC High Schools from Susan Fairchild of New Visions for Public Schools discusses how policymakers and educators are ...

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Program Presentation

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Public Policy

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Education

The Possible Philanthropic Response to Trayvon Martin

Release Date:

08/19/2013

... the Open Society Foundations and the Schott Foundation for Public Education are cited in a Nonprofit Quarterly article ...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Foundations Aim to Save Pensions in Detroit Crisis

Release Date:

01/13/2014

... world, which has not been a source of money to shore up public -sector pensions in the past, and in municipal ...

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Arts

Community Development

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Ford Foundation

Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

01/15/2014

... a Feminist Leadership Fellow with the Center on Women and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Gaskins worked for several years as a trial ... volunteering her...