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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

Release Date:

03/16/2017

... more than 13 million years old, compared with our solar system 's 4.6 billion years. "This is such a young star; we ... a snapshot of a baby star that just formed its planetary system - a rare peek at...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Climate-Smart Agriculture Urgently Needed in Africa

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09/05/2017

... Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) System Organization, analyses the impact of this staggering ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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International/Foreign Affairs

Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods

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09/12/2017

... three years ago to get a clearer picture of how well the system was working. What they learned about the system — which includes 952 churches, religious ...

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Food Systems

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

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09/25/2017

A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, based on interviews with leading NGOs and grantmakers, seeks to offer some concrete recommendations and catalyze a conversation about how to change the industry with an eye...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

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09/26/2017

An EU-funded index measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more resilient to climate change.

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Food Systems

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... human nature, when the stakes rise, to want to game the system ,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think ...

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Policy Brief: NYC’s Looming Task of Property Tax Reform

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10/04/2017

... one, however, denies that New York City’s property tax system is profoundly flawed. That consensus has not made it any easier to change the system , though. Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

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10/17/2017

Our food system produces more than enough to feed our entire global ... food insecure. The world can’t sustain a nourishing food system if the world doesn’t eat more of what it has. In ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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13 Oct 2021

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... strategies to strengthen the public workforce development system . How do we define a “ system ” as fragmented and complex as New York City’s? ... opportunities exist to shape a more coherent and effective...

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Workforce Development

18 Dec 2014

Who Will Benefit from the President's Immigration Reforms? - Webinar

Thursday, December 18, 2014 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a new policy that could allow nearly five million undocumented immigrants, mostly parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, to apply for temporary work permits and reprieve from...

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Immigration

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3/12/2015 - Looking at the 990 Part 2 - Recording & PowerPoint

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03/2015

View materials and the recording of the program,"Looking at the 990 - Part II"

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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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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

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09/30/2016

... Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth (109 pages, PDF ), found that in five urban districts participating in ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Wallace Foundation

Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

Release Date:

10/19/2016

... in Practice: Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF ), the number of districts and charter schools with .....

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... Lessons From Limited Life Foundations (50 pages, PDF ), highlights the practitioners' perspectives in nine key .....

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

... Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy (25 pages, PDF ), highlights discussions among philanthropic leaders, ...

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State UBIT and Commuter Benefit - Legislative Fix in the Governor's Budget

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02/06/2019

A drafting error that created problems for organizations with a fiscal year start date that does not align with the calendar year has been fixed and is included in Governor Cuomo's budget this month.

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