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Disaster Relief

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Wanted: Hartford Change AGEnts with Red Pens

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03/13/2014

... the then-Senior Program Officers a giant cup filled with new red pens. It seemed to me at the time that the program ... spent a lot of time editing (aka “making stronger”) all sorts of documents—evaluations,...

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Aging

Report Outlines Internet and Broadband "Vision" for LGBT Community

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06/26/2014

... already play a critical role for the LGBT community in all aspects of life and according to a new report, they can do more. The LGBT Technology Partnership & Institute’ s A Vision for...

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Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U.S. Starts with Preschool

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04/30/2015

Century Foundation Report Illustrates How Segregation in U. S . Starts with Preschool Publicly funded preschools across ... enrolled in the lowest quality programs, according to a new report released Wednesday by...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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

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02/26/2016

... instruction—sometimes never completing their degree at all . A new report, The Real Value of What Students Do in College , ... Shireman, offers specific recommendations for how the U. S ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Specialty Food Foundation Addresses Hunger With Social Entrepreneurship

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03/02/2016

... the grant application process through the end of April. New this year, the foundation managing all of the application process online. Specialty Food ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Food Systems

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Sickest Americans Are Paying More for Care, Getting Less

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08/31/2016

... person for health care, about four times the average for all adults. Despite that higher spending, however, a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund finds that those ...

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With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates

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06/02/2017

... Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates A new study published in Cell Host Microbe led by researchers ... at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center completely maps all mutations that help the HIV...

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Science

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

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09/12/2017

... rather than using a system erratically or not at all , according to a new survey. While that may seem like common sense, the study ...

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Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food

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09/13/2017

Opinion: Want to Fix America’ s Health Care? First, Focus on Food The national debate on health care is moving into a new , hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying ... massive and ever-rising price...

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Food Systems

Mayor's Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, Study Says

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09/18/2017

Mayor' s Affordable Housing Not Helping People Who Need it Most, ... housing plan fail to target the city’ s low-income New Yorkers who need help the most. The de Blasio ... a report...

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Housing and Homelessness

Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ... leaves it to states to decide. The final state plans have all been submitted: 36...

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FDA's Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely Expand Treatment

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10/04/2017

FDA' s Approval Of A Cheaper Drug For Hepatitis C Will Likely ... for the Medicaid program' s criteria for treatment with a new class of highly effective but pricey drugs. The recent...

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Researchers: Supporting Teenage Girls Requires More Than Pads

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10/06/2017

... “If you give a man a fish…” NHPR has a story with a new twist: “If you give a woman a menstrual pad…” In all seriousness, the reproductive health of girls and women ...

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Gender Justice

The Long Island Community Foundation Awards $610,000 in Grants to 30 Nonprofits

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10/14/2021

... to low-income, minority and women-owned small businesses. NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND INC. – $25,000 to ... to live, learn, work, and play, while building permanent resources for the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arts

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Long Island Community Foundation

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02 Jun 2010

Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Equity: How Can School Districts Provide Effective Teaching in Every Classroom?

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... Connects , the public policy committee of Philanthropy New York , and by the Donors' Education Collaborative and the ... and district administrator, who is leading Harvard’ s “Project on...

23 Jun 2022

Language Matters: The Power of Narrative Change in Advancing Criminal Legal Reform

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

... the recent rollbacks on several criminal legal reforms in New York State (e.g., bail reforms, changes to its discovery ... Reform Working Group The Justice Fund at New York...

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Communications/Media

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Ford Foundation Appoints Achmat Dangor to Lead Its South Africa Office

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04/01/2013

... CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, extending Mandela’ s vision and legacy through the Nelson Mandela Centre of ... the HIV epidemic. By supporting efforts to strengthen transparency and accountability in...

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