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Jessi Stafford Joins The Century Foundation as Blogger & Social Media Specialist

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10/15/2013

... particular interests include income inequality, education reform and women's rights. She is a new arrival to New York .....

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

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01/30/2015

... Cuomo provoked strong reactions with his proposals to reform education, particularly teacher evaluation. But what ...

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Ford Foundation Joins Bipartisan Coalition to Change Criminal Justice System

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02/20/2015

... — the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform , the Tea Party-oriented FreedomWorks — are also part ...

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Philanthropic Groups Sign on to Raise the Age Campaign

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03/06/2015

The initiative has received report from eight PNY member organizations.

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Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance

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05/12/2015

... As a nationwide, bi-partisan push is underway to reform the broken criminal justice system, The Pershing ...

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NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

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06/18/2015

Philanthropic support includes Tow Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, Andrus Family Fund, Long Island Community Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation, Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation, David Rockefeller Foundation and New York Foundation.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

The site will be called Seventy Four, which references the 74 million children in the United States under age 18.

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... Education Fund, which was created in 2007 to support reform efforts in the public school system. At least $ 7 ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... the education sector to integrate the elements of school reform , deepen learning about what works, and expand public ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation, has approved $5.4 million in grants for dozens of promising projects—from reforming the bail system to developing an arts and leadership program for children on the autism spectrum.

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

In Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change, Derrick Feldmann adeptly dissects many of the social movements we've become familiar with.

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NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment

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03/28/2017

... on including a repeal of the Johnson Amendment in tax reform legislation. Philanthropy New York spoke with key ...

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NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast

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06/30/2017

... on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform , and Alison Wilkey director of public policy at the ...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a far cry from the air-conditioned spaces data wonks usually inhabit. But according to Measures for Justice (MFJ), better data is key to reforming America’s hyper-localized...

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Universal Deduction Bill Draws Measured Praise

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10/13/2017

... and $4,200 for married couples. Under the Republican tax reform framework released last month, the standard deduction ...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to...

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UJA-Federation Study Examines Role of Synagogue Top Job Nationwide

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05/31/2018

... this crucial role across the four mainstream movements— Reform , Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox—and ...

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