Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
... Georgia and six members of the University of Califorinia system , all of which had recently dropped legacy preferences, ...
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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City
Release Date:
08/19/2016
About 127,000 New York City public school students — or one in eight — have been homeless at some point in the last five school years, more than the total population of Boston and Seattle’s school systems combined.
Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline
Release Date:
09/09/2016
Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, co-edits a new book that addresses the profound and life-altering consequences students face—especially young people of...
Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty
Release Date:
01/12/2017
The Future Cities Accelerator announced 10 $100,000 grants to organizations devoted to improving the lives of the urban poor, with the hope that some will be successful enough to export to other cities.
How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... Cuomo said, was to restore faith in the criminal justice system ... How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing .....
United Hospital Fund, NYSHealth Foundation Give $400K to Integrate Mental Health Care into Primary Care Practices
Release Date:
03/02/2017
... Health Care into Primary Care Practices Montefiore Health System and the University Hospital for Albert Einstein ...
Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many States On Healthcare Scorecard
Release Date:
03/16/2017
... in the organization's 2017 Scorecard on State Health System Performance... Commonwealth Fund Says N.J. Tops Many .....
ASPCA Supports Farm Animal Welfare Certification Guide
Release Date:
03/16/2017
The ASPCA and Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) are doing their part to help farmers raising animals—as well as food companies, restaurant owners and chefs sourcing animal products - understand welfare certification...
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Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed: Skills and Strategies that Support the Transition to Adulthood
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... to the latest Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Report System (AFCARS) data, 20,789 youth "aged out" of the foster care system when they reached the age of 18 or finished high .....
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program
Release Date:
04/27/2017
The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.
JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... workforce, this initiative will establish an innovative system that connects career and technical education schools ...
United Hospital Fund and New York State Health Foundation Support New Model to Advance Integration of Behavioral Health Services in New York Primary Care Practices
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... in New York Primary Care Practices Montefiore Health System , the University Hospital for Albert Einstein College ...
JPMorgan Chase and NY Community Trust Partner to Bring Middle-Skills Jobs Training
Release Date:
05/10/2017
... and logistics industry; and the development of a data system to track the expansion of opportunities for work-based ...
Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School
Release Date:
06/01/2017
... an increasingly authoritarian and corrupt political system in which he and those in his inner circle are growing ...
Markle Foundation: Trump's Infrastructure Plans Should Pair Building with Job Training
Release Date:
06/13/2017
... waterways, electrical grid, and air traffic control system . His plan to modernize America’s infrastructure will ...
Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’
Release Date:
06/13/2017
In a new paper published in Nature Communications , scientists have uncovered the complex and remarkably different behavior arising in a liquid crystal drop that is drying.
2017 Macy Faculty Scholars Named
Release Date:
06/27/2017
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation announced the seventh class of Macy Faculty Scholars. Each Scholar will engage in activities to enhance their career as an educator, as well as pursue a mentored educational innovation project at their home institution.
NY Women's Foundation's Oliveira Discusses Women and Rikers in NYN Media Insights Podcast
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... looked at the role gender plays in the criminal justice system . Since then, the movement to close Rikers has gotten ...
Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award
Release Date:
07/20/2017
... the world is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge ...
Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use
Release Date:
08/10/2017
... to reforming America’s hyper-localized criminal justice system . Plenty of well-heeled funders are inclined to agree. ...