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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

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03/10/2014

... to teach America’s students by the year 2016, thanks to a big push by large philanthropies like Carnegie, Gates, and Helmsley, working alongside corporate grant makers. As part of that effort, foundations and...

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Searching for the Next Breakthrough in Health Care

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05/05/2014

... care system, on many levels, doesn’t measure up on a global scale. We’re simply not getting what we pay for. ... or adjustments to change our course. It’s going to take a real breakthrough.... Searching for...

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

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03/13/2015

... net-neutrality rules, and their discord has escalated into a sharp, at times even personal, feud. Beyond a split over the merits of the new policy, civil rights ... broadband providers in the same category...

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Technology

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Wallace Foundation President Will Miller Tackles Education Reform in NYTimes Editorial

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04/17/2015

... in the schools that need them most — those with poor and minority students. School districts, states and universities ... more to get outstanding principals into these schools. A generation ago, good...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Backs Workforce and Educational Development Opportunities

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06/30/2015

... The selected charitable organizations play a critical role in connecting low-income individuals and ... benefits of employment have been proven time and time again , providing confidence, optimism and stability...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse A new global report shows that money doesn't buy everything ... according to the Commonwealth Fund findings. "Time and again , we see evidence that...

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... change in philanthropy. One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an ... understood in various ways and is hard to pin down, it has a persistent influence on how an organization behaves. Over ... bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, habitually neglected this important contributor ...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... 50,000 inmates each year. Many quickly get into trouble again and return to custody. The beleaguered prisoner reentry ... Society Foundations. The program is aimed at assisting a few of the thousands of...

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Justice Reform

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Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere

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05/24/2016

... public shift to inequality means for the nonprofit world as well as how it will affect their own organizations... ...

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Economic Security

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Surdna Foundation to Recognize Four Community Development Financial Institutions

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10/31/2016

... low-income communities. Many banks remain hesitant to take a chance on these owners, forcing them to turn to payday lenders, as a result. Several community development financial ...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... Women for Afghan Women Before Afghanistan turned into a war zone in the late 1970s and then came under Taliban rule ... of subjugation for Afghan women. Yet with the Taliban again making military gains—they...

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Houston's Undocumented Immigrants Left Destitute And Fearful In Harvey's Wake

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09/07/2017

... Immigrants Left Destitute And Fearful In Harvey's Wake As the water rose on their first floor apartment, Rosa Sosa and her family fled to a vacant unit on the second floor. They watched in horror ...

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The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

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09/07/2017

... immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors — some commentators tried to find a ray of hope in the dismal forecast. Trump, they noted, ... the DACA-protected “Dreamers” from deportation with...

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Education Coalition Promises To Continue ‘Opt-Outs’

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09/14/2017

... this week by the Board of Regents are “little more than a rebranding” of Common Core, a coalition of parent and teacher groups is vowing to ... us in the right direction, we continue to institutionalize...

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At James Blake Trial, Judge Invokes Law Shielding Police Records

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09/21/2017

... has steadily expanded the city’s interpretation of a state law that bars public disclosure of the personnel ... application of the statute appeared to expand again , when a Police Department...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... grant will build on the successful programs developed in a prior Mellon Foundation grant, which established the Wabash ... Program (WLAIP). “We are exceptionally proud to again benefit from the generosity of...

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