With Support from the Simons Foundation, Researchers Uncover Clues About How HIV Virus Mutates
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... up with HIV researcher Dr. Julie Overbaugh and doctoral student Adam Dingens. The mutations they uncovered are a mix ...
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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’
Release Date:
09/05/2017
They are the schools Mayor de Blasio doesn’t mention. At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English-math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row.
Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools
Release Date:
09/12/2017
... by President Barack Obama in 2015 known as the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Regents’ approval means the state ...
It's Time to Apply to High School in New York City
Release Date:
09/18/2017
It's officially a very busy time of year for New York City's eighth graders.
With A New School Year Underway, Hundreds of Teaching Positions Remain Unfilled In New York City
Release Date:
09/26/2017
Hundreds of schools are missing teachers and support staff two weeks into the school year, with many of the openings in high-poverty districts and struggling schools that are typically the hardest to staff, according to postings on a city database...
Century Foundation Fellow Addresses How this Higher Education Bill Will Only Increase Inequality
Release Date:
12/12/2017
Anti-poverty activists are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for-profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts.
Live Now From The Century Foundation: Diversity Matters: Getting Public School Choice Right
Release Date:
05/15/2018
... Harris-Perry , author Monique Morris , TCF experts, student activists, and school leaders from across the ...
Capital One and Others Fund Tech Training for Youth
Release Date:
06/29/2018
Operation Spark is training local youth and adults for high-tech careers of the future.
First-of-its-kind Study From the Century Foundation: How Well Does Your State Support Integration in Charter Schools?
Release Date:
04/04/2019
With the enrollment flexibility and design choices available to them, charter schools have the potential to help reverse trends of school segregation—or to further isolate students by race and class.
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... Long Island Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Adelphi University , New York Council of Nonprofits, New York Society ... Sponsored by American Express, EmblemHealth, The New York Community Trust and United Way...
Proteus Fund President Meg Gage Steps Down, Paul Di Donato Will Be Interim President
Release Date:
12/03/2015
... from her role as President of Proteus Fund and Proteus Action League as of November 30. As you know, Meg founded ... to continue her thought leadership from a new perch at a university or philanthropic support...
Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights
Release Date:
04/19/2017
Physicians for Human Rights has announced an $8 million challenge grant from the Open Society Foundations in support of its efforts to advance human rights through science and medicine.
Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter
Release Date:
08/08/2016
The Ford Foundation is planning on studying and underwriting what it calls a “new and dynamic form of social justice leadership and infrastructure,” by investing in the Black-Led Movement Fund.
Is Nonprofit Board Service Worth It? Reflections from a One-Time Skeptic
Release Date:
01/16/2014
... working with the Civic Education Project on post-communist university reform. In the 20 years since I first came to know ... in Romania from the proceeds of a U.S. government-financed investment fund that was...
What It Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives
Release Date:
05/19/2021
... predecessors -- Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard and Jennifer Ching, Executive Director of North ... Funders need to double down and add on general support resources...
Wm. T. Grant Foundation Report: Scarcity of Funding for Research on Youth Inequality
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... People in the United States, by Sarah K. Bruch of the University of Iowa, draws on an examination of materials from ... efforts to understand and address youth inequality: more resources to build research...
Ford Foundation Appoints Elizabeth Knup to Lead Its China Office
Release Date:
06/03/2013
... ensure that all segments of Chinese society gain access to community resources and government services. Through her leadership ...
Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023
Release Date:
02/16/2023
... health (Zimmerman 2020). There is an urgent need for resources and funding. Nowhere is that truer than in rural ... and the Future of Capitalism . Princeton: Princeton University Press, March 17, 2020. “...
From Katrina to the “Next Sandy”: Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Older Adults
Release Date:
04/04/2013
... one-year NYAM project, supported by both The New York Community Trust and the Altman Foundation, to work with community organizations in hard-hit areas to assess the gaps, ... to formulate and disseminate...
Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 27 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships
Release Date:
05/12/2020
... established in 2015. The program represents an overall investment of $38 million in some 200 recipients whose ... Corporation of New York and president emeritus of Brown University . “Fellows from earlier...