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14 Apr 2010

Accountability: Judging Students, Judging Teachers

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... All interested funders. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION How can data -driven systems improve student achievement and reward ... to graduate from high school. The City includes test data in decisions about whether to...

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The Ford Foundation Joins the Reporting Commitment

Release Date:

08/19/2014

... to increase the accuracy, currency, and openness of grants data . The Reporting Commitment’s interactive map on ...

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Foundation Center

Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

Release Date:

03/13/2015

... the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, said the data from her research shows “disturbing” results of how ...

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Communications/Media

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

Release Date:

02/22/2016

... make its entire collection available through Linked Open Data (or LOD), SAAM received a grant from the Andrew M. ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Launches Research on Genes That Cause Autism

Release Date:

04/25/2016

... and their families, generating an enormous amount of data for researchers to learn more about genes that can cause ...

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Health

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Sixteen Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative

Release Date:

10/24/2016

... cities in an initiative to help city halls embrace data -driven decision making and citizen engagement ...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy Formation, Genomics, Neuroscience and Other Fields

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11/23/2016

... inadequate to the task of analyzing massive quantities of data ... Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to ...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

With Support from Citi Foundation, Report Highlights Innovative Education Development

Release Date:

11/30/2016

... cities, and whether it had success at scale and had enough data to prove its value... With Support from Citi Foundation, ...

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Education

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Airbnb Touts A 'Pivot,' But Its Fate In New York City Remains Uncertain

Release Date:

12/08/2016

... platform. In New Orleans, it agreed to share substantive data with the city and require hosts get permits. It also ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

Release Date:

12/21/2016

... template for how government’s ability to collect data and deliver services at scale can align with funders’ ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color

Release Date:

01/12/2017

... than their peers. According to the most recent data released by the US Department of Education, Black girls ...

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Justice Reform

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests in Venture to Install 1.3 Gigawatts of Renewable Electricity across Africa by 2018

Release Date:

01/20/2017

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund invested in the Lekela Power platform -- a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and Actis LLP that plans to install more than 1.3 gigawatts of renewable electricity across Africa by 2018.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports Analytical Tools to Map Health Variables in NYC

Release Date:

01/25/2017

... public health in terms of improving wellness. Guided by data -driven insights, cities and counties are moving as never ...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

What Happens if the Affordable Care Act Is Repealed?

Release Date:

01/26/2017

... the lowest it has ever been in history." At the same time, data show that access to healthcare has improved... What .....

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PNY Short Takes

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Health

Apply Now for WT Grant Foundation's Youth Service Improvement Grant

Release Date:

07/17/2017

The William T. Grant Foundation's Youth Service Improvement Grants support nonprofit organizations in the five boroughs of New York City. These awards of $25,000 help improve programs and services for youth ages 5 to 25.

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RFPs Etc

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama's Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... in January 2016, would have required employers to collect data on how much they pay their workers, broken down by ...

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Gender Justice

CEO Pay: Top Earners From Across the Country

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... The Chronicle examined Internal Revenue Service data for more than 500 organizations that raised $35 million ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

How Debt Is Threatening Retirement Dreams

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... recent analysis by MagnifyMoney, the site I co-founded, of data from the University of Michigan Retirement Research ...

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Aging

Economic Security

JP Morgan Makes Philanthropic Contribution to Support Servicemembers and Afghan Resettlement Efforts

Release Date:

09/02/2021

JPMorgan Chase is making a $1 million philanthropic contribution to continue to support servicemembers and veterans, and to aid Afghans seeking better, safer lives.