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Twenty-Seven Foundation Executives Call for President Obama to 'Ban the Box'

Release Date:

08/14/2015

... into New Communities re-entry council, “My driver’ s license was automatically suspended. I couldn’t vote in ... aid as I went back and tried to matriculate through college , I was denied admittance into...

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Johnson & Johnson to Provide Scholarships for Rutgers Students in Health-related Fields

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11/12/2015

... announced the scholarship initiative during Tuesday’ s kickoff ceremony for Rutgers 250, the celebration that ... 10, 2016 – the 250th anniversary of the birth of Queen’ s College , the...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Study Dementia

Release Date:

11/17/2015

... the University of California at San Francisco and Trinity College , in Dublin, Ireland, both longtime Atlantic grantees. ...

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In Memoriam: J.M. Kaplan Fund Trustee Richard D. Kaplan

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01/25/2016

... affairs and the environment. He was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Other ...

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Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

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02/01/2016

... predecessor company is donating $25 million to Barnard College , which the Columbia University affiliate will use to ... a technology requirement beginning with this fall’ s entering class. . . Tow Foundation...

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Bangladeshi Law Student Receives Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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04/19/2016

... Pennsylvania. He was recently named a Truman Scholar for college juniors who show leadership potential and have an ... interest in government or public sector service. And he’ s also one of 30 recipients of...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Release Study On Building a Successful Transfer Program

Release Date:

05/17/2016

... articulation agreement is announced between a community college and university intended to ease the transition for ...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City

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06/10/2016

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker Advocates for Keeping Artists in New York City When he was in his freshman year of college almost four decades ago, Darren Walker saw the Dance ... is now president of the...

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Bank of America Announces $300k to Boost Workforce Skills Among Local Youth, Veterans and People With Disabilities

Release Date:

06/20/2016

... on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc., Nassau Community College Foundation, The Viscardi Center Inc. and United ...

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Mellon's Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth

Release Date:

09/23/2016

Mellon' s Bengochea: Latino Student Enrollment Outpacing Faculty Growth As more Latinos enroll in college , the number of Latinos going into the professoriate ... to the Excelencia report, published at the...

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NYSHealth Supports Survey That Unveils Strong Appetite For Health Insurance Info—As Early As High School

Release Date:

10/13/2016

... health insurance plans before or during high school or college . Forty-one percent thought the skill should begin to ...

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Ford-Supported Survey Finds Black, Hispanic Youth Less Likely To Get Money From Parents

Release Date:

10/06/2016

... help them with financial needs, from big-ticket items like college tuition to smaller expenses, than do whites or ...

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Kalief Browder's Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail

Release Date:

10/21/2016

Kalief Browder' s Mother Paid a Cost Far Higher Than His Bail Three thousand dollars. The price of a cheap used car, a decent college scholarship, or maybe a round-trip international ... they couldn’t raise...

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... according to a report released on Monday. That’ s a huge sum of money for a movement that started just four years ago on U. S . college campuses and its growth is likely to continue as the ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Supports Westchester Green Business Program in New York State

Release Date:

12/19/2016

... Speaker Series held at Westchester Community College . Representatives from the Business Council of ... explore the role of business in achieving New York State’ s energy goals... Westchester Community...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Humanities through Open Access, Open Source and Not-for-Profit

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12/21/2016

... the Association for Jewish Studies, and (coming soon) the College Art Association... Mellon Foundation Supports ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... Professor of Jewish Social policy at the Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and lead ...

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'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... Rojas beat poverty to put herself through engineering college , where she collected accolades for academic ... hired by a utility company to help modernize the city’ s electrical grid. But her life could soon...

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One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration' s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ... a mixture of resignation and resolve. "In some ways there' s a lot of...

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Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... Civil War icons to be taken down nationwide. A Siena College poll released Wednesday shows that 59 percent of ... Jefferson and Columbus, they are part of our country' s history and for some, they are a...

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