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The Joys and Frustrations of Managing Young People

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... with her at her own pace. I had to remember that she was still in high school, and that even I didn’t use Outlook ... leave us unable to reconstruct what had been done and why . Mundane administrative support...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Public Policy

Helmsley Charitable Trust Donates $1.6 Million to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia

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10/21/2014

... Ethiopia's education system has experienced significant growth in primary school enrollment rates, but the number of .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Citi Foundation and Technoserve Partner for Economic Opportunity in Africa

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07/20/2015

... a partnership to stimulate entrepreneurship and job growth in four sub-Saharan countries. Citi Foundation’s ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Carnegie, Helmsley Release Study On Building a Successful Transfer Program

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05/17/2016

... for transfer students, education researchers say many of the students still don’t succeed for myriad reasons, from misaligned ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Surdna Foundation to Recognize Four Community Development Financial Institutions

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10/31/2016

... Small business owners throughout the U.S. are still struggling to find the funding needed to thrive, ... women, minorities, and those in low-income communities. Many banks remain hesitant to take a chance on...

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... skyrocketed, and retirement accounts shriveled up. And many of the hardest hit families still haven’t recovered financially, leaving millions of ...

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Economic Security

Syria’s War Created Millions Of Refugees. Some Might Be Forced To Return Home.

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08/28/2017

... As Syrian refugees begin to trickle back to a homeland still at war, aid agencies fear that a proposed change to ... and detention in Syria so grave that it has supported many of the refugees in the region...

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... are using some form of chronic student absenteeism. Many of the state's plans still need to be approved by the U.S. Department of .....

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24 Jul 2019

A Post-Victory Breakfast Briefing on Congestion Pricing & the Road Ahead

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... is the plan that is implemented. With plenty of opponents still agitating against congestion pricing, there is a real ... – or simply rendered ineffectual as a result of too many exemptions and carve-outs. In...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $75 Million Commitment to Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide in Greater Washington

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01/25/2022

... commitment in philanthropic capital and flexible low- cost loans to the Greater Washington region. These ... from critical lessons learned from the firm’s business growth and community investments in the Mid-...

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Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in ... Work is ongoing to also link the data on apes to the World Resources Institute Global Forest...

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Animal Welfare

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All Investing is Impact Investing

Release Date:

01/12/2015

... donations for the public good. The great majority of those resources are invested for a financial return without regard ... grants for social impact and investments for financial growth . Grants to nonprofits...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Bloomberg Awards $10 Million for Women Coffee Farmers in Africa

Release Date:

09/23/2016

... women to benefit from and participate in Africa's economic growth through training programs and access to the region's ... Rwandan women coffee farmers, connects women farmers to resources and global...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... likely to go without needed health care because of costs. Why should this be? For one thing, Americans are more likely ...

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Aging

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The Commonwealth Fund

Despite the Pall of National Politics, We Are Bending Toward the Light of Justice

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... for State and Local Governance, especially focusing on the many complicated aspects of reform that need private support. ... coordinate to increase effectiveness in the deployment of resources necessary to get...

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PNY News

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Justice Reform

28 Feb 2017

Prison Is The Most Unaffordable Housing

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... link between rising housing costs, the recent drastic growth of evictions, and the exploding prison and ... and an output in the criminal justice formula, and for too many , the toxic cycle between streets,...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project

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01/19/2017

... information, idea exchange, and gathering of philanthropic resources across the borough. Among its many functions, the Brooklyn Accelerator connects ...

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