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Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

... women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders in experiential learning that spurs innovation, develops the entrepreneurial ...

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MasterCard Worldwide [Corporate]

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... of Malawi faced difficulties tracking whether teaching and learning materials, such as textbooks, were delivered to ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Community Development

Economic Security

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Open Society Foundations

Gap Inc. Announces Commitment To Advance The Lives Of One Million Women

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09/28/2015

... world. Additionally, P.A.C.E. will broaden into a suite of learning programs with new curriculum to reach adolescent ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Community Development

Gender Justice

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... sector to integrate the elements of school reform, deepen learning about what works, and expand public knowledge of the ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

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12/22/2016

Many funders want to ensure college access for disadvantaged and first-generation college students, but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation’s top institutions of higher education.

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

Columbia University has announced a 15 million dollar gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to endow a full-tuition scholarship program and clinical professorship and increase public service opportunities for deserving law school students.

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P2CP Program Is Expanding with Support from The David Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, JM Kaplan Fund, Teagle Foundation and Pinkerton Foundation

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10/20/2017

At Otisville, the Prison-To College Pipeline is expanding educational opportunity for students both inside and out.

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Justice Reform

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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04/04/2019

... team at the newly launched ACT Center for Equity in Learning . Greg held several positions at the John D. and ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Jamie Merisotis Becomes Council on Foundations' Board Chair

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05/14/2019

... foundation that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. He previously ...

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Atlantic and Bronfman Philanthropies Among Those Profiled for Spend Down Strategies

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10/08/2015

... to invest its remaining assets—in its case in blended- learning strategies for improving our nation’s schools. ... adhere to his intent; it would be doubly difficult for my children to do so.” And so the...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

MetLife Foundation Supports Expansion of Green Schoolyard Initiative

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... spaces, and it is also about creating opportunities where children and families can play and learn,” said Mayor ...

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Community Development