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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

... Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment Findings from a new long-term study of small high schools in New York ... classroom lessons. Another key: outside funding, including from the Bill & Melinda Gates...

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Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

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11/10/2014

... groups, some with ties to the city, to help rescue Detroit from bankruptcy by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to spare retirees from deeper pension cuts and protect the city’s famed art ...

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... that struck me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school leaders, in terms of having an impact ... of the time that I've worked in education. I had also come from a highly...

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

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03/13/2015

... they represent in exchange for financial support from wealthy outside donors. The divide stems from a disagreement over whether new net-neutrality rules ...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U.S. Centers for ... of the CDC Global Tobacco Surveillance System. Results from the survey, which will be...

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NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

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03/24/2015

... unaccompanied, undocumented minor has kept 13 children from being deported as of February, new data provided to ... by the New York City Council following the flood of minors from Central America who made...

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... arrivals) status. Commitments of $15 million each from former Washington Post publisher Donald E. Graham and ... TheDream.us national partner colleges. The latest pledges from Graham and Ackman are in addition...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... the Port Morris neighborhood in the South Bronx, returns from the program-related investment, or PRI, will be ... training nonprofit that received a $250,000 loan from the New York Pooled PRI Fund. Per Scholas...

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Ford Foundation Board Making Rare Detroit Visit

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06/15/2015

... collaborated to create a $816 million, 20-year commitment from foundations, private companies and state taxpayers to ... with nonprofit organizations that receive grant money from the foundation.... Ford...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

... the written word plus works of art and culture – from 1,600 institutions. “The Sloan and Knight ... have been such generous contributors to DPLA’s success, from our planning phase to the rapid build-out of our...

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women

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07/01/2015

... on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women From banking to the arts, technology to health care, New ... rank—the 50 women on this list. We weighed many factors, from their job titles and...

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Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

... an inspiring group of well known naturalized citizens from all walks of life — the “Pride of America” — who ... Carnegie’s journey to America and read the latest news from our grantees and other partners...

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

... ban. The Snyder Farm Group, made up of five landowners from Barton, N.Y., near the Pennsylvania border, signed an ... the energy company Tioga Energy Partners to collect gas from 53 acres of land collectively...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

... world—is expanding. Through a $500,000 donation from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, GivePower ... Foundation, established with funding that came entirely from SolarCity in 2014, will begin to...

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David Berg Foundation Underwrites Free Saturdays at the Jewish Museum

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09/02/2015

... Jewish Museum has received a one-year grant of $275,000 from The David Berg Foundation to underwrite Free Saturdays ... visitors the Museum routinely tracks. Information derived from the surveys will identify...

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Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace

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10/13/2015

... and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation bears this out. A survey of women from 19 G20 countries including Argentina, Mexico, Russia...

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Pfizer and UICC Award 20 Grants Totaling $760,000 to Address the Needs of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

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10/14/2015

... Cancer Control (UICC) announced the recipients from the Seeding Progress and Resources for the Cancer ... breast cancer worldwide. In total, 20 organizations from 18 countries have been selected to receive...

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Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed

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10/22/2015

... nation the world’s top destination for people moving from one country to another. Mexico, which shares a nearly ... the source of the largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United...

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Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

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02/01/2016

... is donating the money alongside a $25 million gift from Cheryl Glicker Milstein and Philip Milstein, and $20 million from Diana Vagelos and Roy Vagelos. The money will be used ...

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