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Marsh & McLennan, Tow Foundation Honored Alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda

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03/30/2016

Peter J. Beshar, Vice President and General Counsel of Marsh & McLennan and member of the John Jay College Foundation's Board of Trustees, will be honored for his service to the college, along with the Tow Foundation for its work on juvenile and...

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The Tow Foundation Appoints Nadia Alia As The New Director Of Operations

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03/28/2017

In this newly created role, Nadia will create and direct the Foundation’s various operating systems. She will also develop and implement the Foundation’s internal activities that enable the Foundation’s current board and next generation family...

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Abraham Paulous Challenges the Immigration to Incarceration Pipeline

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04/06/2017

Abraham Paulous, Executive Director of Families for Freedom, tracks the concepts of “citizenship,” “documentation,” and the changing face of immigration throughout American history. He shares his own experience as an Eritrean refugee and his time at...

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Ford, J.M.Kaplan, Teagle and David Rockefeller Fund All Working to Bring College Into Prison

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10/30/2017

A small but steadily growing prison education program continues to expand with the help of some big foundations. The Prison to College Pipeline Program (P2CP), one of several programs offered by the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of...

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Propel Capital’s Sarah Williams Honored by The Center for Court Innovation

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03/19/2018

The Center for Court Innovation honors four leaders who have made New York a better place.

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Social Justice

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Annie E. Casey Foundation Funded Research Shows Close to Home is Worth Fighting For

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03/30/2018

... causality cannot be determined from the data, and other reforms such as the end of stop and frisk certainly ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice

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07/23/2019

New justice group aims to provide ‘Center of Gravity’ for reform.

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The New York Community Trust

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Leading With Race to Reimagine Youth Justice: JDAI’s Deep-End Initiative - Report Released by The Annie E. Casey Foundation

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05/26/2020

... Initiative® (JDAI®) — which focuses on front-end reforms ... Leading With Race to Reimagine Youth Justice: ...

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Accelerating the Upstate Economy: A Series on Entrepreneurship in our Region

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... producers, businesses and families. Their grants act as a catalyst for business development and ...

UJA-Federation Launches Campaign for Passage of Education Tax Credit

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05/27/2015

... legislation last week as the Parental Choice in Education Act . The campaign will include lobbying efforts in Albany, ...

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North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

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08/14/2015

... people, and to signal they understand what moves voters to act . Here in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has ...

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NoVo Foundation’s Peter Buffett Talks about ‘Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/02/2015

Philanthropist Peter Buffett, co-president of the NoVo Foundation, says foundations sometimes try to solve the world's problems themselves rather than acting as facilitators of change.

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Indian Government to Remove Ford Foundation from Watch List

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01/08/2016

... to register itself under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, which enables it to receive foreign funds ...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

... were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act . It was written by Robert Shireman, a senior fellow at ...

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How Ford, Rockefeller Supported "Street Orgs" in the 1970s

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06/03/2016

... constraints that compelled them to live and to act in ways that sometimes negatively impacted their ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Is Largest Funder of Tobacco-Control Efforts in the Developing World

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12/05/2016

... efforts in the United States. He signed into law an act banning smoking in bars and restaurants and increased the ...

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