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Mellon Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence

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07/26/2021

... W. Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of two new Mellon Foundation Fellows in Residence: Columbia ... book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...

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17 Sep 2024

Youth Power Now: Lessons from Youth Organizers in New York

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Philanthropy New York, 320 East 43rd Street

... have played a critical role in New York’s organizing history . Today, young people are leading transformative ... major climate justice legislation and defending the rights of undocumented young people. Even so...

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William T. Grant Foundation Website Gets New Look

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07/01/2014

... has launched a new website and logo, along with the debut of the blog, "Researchers Digest" that features guest .....

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In WSJ, Commonwealth’s Blumenthal on Making Health Records Mobile

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06/29/2016

... on Making Health Records Mobile The digitization of our health-care system is well under way, but several obstacles frustrate efforts to take full advantage of the health information revolution. Perhaps the...

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With Funds From Helmsley Charitable Trust, Researchers Target Fat to Treat Cancer

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09/20/2016

... 19, 2016 in Nature Medicine. Like halting the delivery of supplies to a construction site, the approach stalls the ...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints

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04/18/2017

... to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints The proliferation of preprint servers has come to the attention of funders. Concerns have been raised regarding issues ...

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NYC To Vie for Amazon's Second Headquarters

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09/18/2017

... to New York City." The NYEDC is looking for buildings or sites that meet or exceed Amazon's criteria and .....

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How Debt Is Threatening Retirement Dreams

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09/21/2017

... a recent analysis by MagnifyMoney, the site I co-founded, of data from the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) Health and Retirement Study, a growing number of Americans...

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20 Jun 2023

Cannabis, Communities and Real-World Reparations: What Funders Need to Know about How It’s Playing Out

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 -

10:00am to 11:30am

The State of New York is engaged in a social justice experiment with ... intentions of New York’s cannabis legislation and the resources necessary to give justice-impacted communities a ... In...

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Washington Post Focuses on Carnegie Corporation Report

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09/05/2014

... Are Drastically Changed The Carnegie Corporation of New York, which supports the Common Core State Standards, ... that the high school dropout rate could double as a result of the Core initiative. The report...

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UJA-Federation Report Explores Ways to Cut NYC Poverty Rate

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03/11/2015

... to Cut NYC Poverty Rate Commissioned by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, and the UJA-Federation of New .....

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JP Morgan Chase Report Addresses Summer Youth Employment Deficit

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02/25/2016

... where young people are experiencing Depression-era levels of employment. While the economic recession over the last ... and young adults have experienced the steepest drop of any age group. JP Morgan Chase...

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New Study Supported by Simons Foundation Finds Math and Science are Kids' Favorite Subjects, But Parents Value Reading and Writing Skills More

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04/18/2017

... Reading and Writing Skills More Though more than half of parents with school-aged children say math or science is ... than the other three subjects: More than 80 percent of parents believe having a strong...

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Surdna-Funded Study Calls for Targeted Federal Policies to Create Quality Jobs

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05/09/2017

... that encourage private-sector investment in the creation of quality jobs are needed, a report from Pacific Community ... in Good Quality Jobs: Ideas for Policy Change (67 pages, PDF ), examined five federal...

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Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

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01/11/2018

... to five national organizations to strengthen the field of impact investing. The five grants complete a special ... announced in February 2017, to allocate $100 million of its endowment to impact investing to...

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New York State Health Foundation Report Finds NY State Premiums Are Among the Highest in the Country

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04/02/2018

... insurance market, which is where 56 percent of New Yorkers get their coverage. Among its key points: The ... plans increased at more than double the rate of the median household income. New York’s deductibles...

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New Report Funded By The New York State Health Foundation Offers Solutions to Help NY’s Unpaid Family Caregivers

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09/17/2018

... to Help NY’s Unpaid Family Caregivers As the number of older New Yorkers explodes with the aging of the Baby Boomer generation and as New Yorkers live longer ... help – and a new report from AARP outlines a...

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Russell Sage Foundation Grantees Cited in NY Times on Disputed Timeline for When Whites Will Assume Minority Status in US Population

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11/29/2018

... and lose their majority status. The presentation of the data disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau ... about this,’” said Dr. Prewitt, now a professor of public affairs at Columbia University. He...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Welcomes New Board Members

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07/18/2019

... Foundation, a private foundation supporting communities of color fighting for education and racial justice, has elected three new members to the board of trustees: Alberto Retana , Rukia Lumumba and Lorella...

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