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New Interactive Data Tool from the Education Opportunity Project, Supported by William T. Grant Foundation, Finds that School Poverty - Not Racial Composition - Limited Educational Opportunity

Release Date: 
09/23/2019
... Opportunity Fifty years ago, communities across America began efforts to make school districts more racially ... of Education (GSE). “The only school districts in the U. S . where racial achievement gaps are...

Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

Release Date: 
04/16/2020
... encroachment on political freedoms. Open Society’ s commitment includes rapid response at the local level where ... de Janeiro, to Amman and Cape Town. Half of Open Society’ s initial COVID-19 response will go...

Patrick Gaspard, Open Society Foundations and Maria Torres Springer, Ford Foundation Named to NYC Fair Recovery Taskforce

Release Date: 
04/26/2020
... ever. “This crisis is not only about a virus; it’ s about the fallout from hundreds of thousands of our ... jobs and struggling to provide for their families. It’ s about the outsized devastation communities...
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S.

Release Date: 
09/03/2020
... Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U. S . NEW YORK, NY – Mike Bloomberg today announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies will support the nation’ s four historically Black medical schools with...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $72 Million to Teams Led by Humanities Scholars to Ensure “Just Futures” and Expand National Cultural Narratives

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01/13/2021
... that contributes to public understanding of the nation’ s racist past and can lead to the creation of socially just ... will expand our collective understanding of our country’ s history,” said Mellon...
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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Transformative Partnership With Civica Foundation to Make Insulin More Affordable to Americans With Insulin-dependent Diabetes

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03/03/2022
... committed to the Type 1 diabetes community in the U. S . and around the world, announced today a $5 million grant ... organizations and philanthropies to support Civica, Inc.’ s (Civica, Civica Rx)...
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Marlon Williams

... team, where he informed and influenced the organization' s internal racial equity work and staff culture work. Marlon' s work at Living Cities was shaped by his prior experience as ... his days at...
18 Jun 2012

9th Annual Games for Change Festival

Monday, June 18, 2012 - 8:00am to Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 6:30pm
NYU Skirball Center 655 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, NYC
... with an opportunity to network with members of U. S . Federal Agencies that invest in games, including ... representatives from the Office of Science and Technology Policy , NASA, National Endowment for the Arts...

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