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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces $65 Million Investment in America’s Working Families

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02/25/2020

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces $65 Million Investment in America’s Working Families WASHINGTON, D.C., ... Foundation today announced a comprehensive $65 million investment to help more than 10 million low-...

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Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

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09/15/2016

... a person who has had problems with drug use. I come from a community not too different from Staten Island - rural ... wondered the following: Why didn’t my community have the resources to...

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Arabella Advisors Hires Julia Sze as Managing Director of Impact Investing

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02/03/2016

... Sze has more than 25 years of experience in the investment management field, specifically in emerging ... ways.” Sze also sits on the board of the Marin Community Foundation and on the College of Marin’s...

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Recording: Investing in Change: Foundation Support for Lobbying and Other Advocacy

... wages for nonprofit workers or expanding nonprofit and community input on legislation? And how can your efforts ...

The Philanthropic Community Can Help 250,000 New Yorkers Access $10 Billion in Loan Forgiveness: A Conversation on Public Service Loan Forgiveness

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08/11/2022

... or nonprofit work experience would have all remaining student loans eliminated, in October 2021, the US Department ... period to transition. Before that, I was a Columbia University student...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities

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05/19/2017

... W. Mellon Foundation Awards $1.725 Million for Hopkins & Community College of Baltimore County Partnership on Humanities Johns Hopkins University and the Community College of Baltimore...

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Open Society Foundations to close OSI-Baltimore after 25 years; will invest $20 million to seed the future of social justice philanthropy

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02/16/2023

... In keeping with Open Society’s legacy in Baltimore, the resources will enable OSI to make final investments in the community and sustainably deploy technical assistance to ... to make Baltimore a better place...

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Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Launch the Tipping Point Fund to Help Scale the Impact Investing Field

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12/05/2019

... by prioritizing the areas best suited for collective action but that are unlikely to be funded through market ... that brings together the financial and intellectual resources of those who are committed to...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Invests in Six Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and Non-Binary (TGNCNB) Organizations in Recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance

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12/05/2019

... justice lens, and presented a clear and realistic plan for action . Each organization will receive $30,000 to help fund ... four-year initiative to support organizations with limited resources to better the...

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Results from The Moody's Foundation-sponsored National Survey of America's Top Math Students Provides Glimpse into their Academic Success

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04/05/2017

... in extracurricular activities such as clubs and student government, while 55 percent are involved in ...

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City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... 2,920. The spike comes in the midst of a citywide surge in student homelessness. Education Department officials said it ...

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Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment

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02/16/2018

... at the International Space Station in June as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program sponsored by NASA. ...

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New Study Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering

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11/13/2018

... Corporation Shows Investigation and Design Can Improve Student Learning in Science and Engineering Centering science ... frame, and facilitate the learning environment to allow student engagement and learning...

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Grant Supported Research: Self-Affirmation Intervention with Existing Institutional Channels Leads To Academic Success for Minority Students

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06/28/2017

William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...

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Lavelle Fund for the Blind Backs Program to Assist Blind and Visually Impaired College Students

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08/17/2015

The new program will offer specialized curriculum and resources as well as student mentors, membership at no cost.

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Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Research on How Social Context Shapes School Choice for Inner-City Students

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02/10/2017

High school choice policies attempt to improve the educational outcomes of poor and minority students by allowing access to high schools beyond neighborhood boundaries.

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

Legacy preference is the practice of providing qualifying students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process.

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits The study by ... of full loan cancellation in favor of partial forgiveness. Student advocates point to the Trump...

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