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Peterson Poll: Broad Majority Calls for More Focus on Nation's Fiscal Outlook

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10/27/2015

... Fiscal Outlook With important fiscal deadlines looming in coming weeks, the nation’s fiscal outlook remains a top ... October Fiscal Confidence Index, a monthly measure of public attitudes about the nation’s...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Wallace Foundation Supports New Professional Standards For Educational Leaders

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11/30/2015

... Standards For Educational Leaders The Council of Chief State School Officers has released the long -awaited set of professional standards for educational ... Educational Administration. They...

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New National Standards for Principals Flow from Wallace Work

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12/10/2015

... from Wallace Work Eight new standards for supervisors of school principals, covering topics such as instructional ... as they help those principals improve their effectiveness in an evolving role. The...

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

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01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth As I discussed in my post last week on funders helping foster youth age out ... “proactive grantmaker” that initiates and develops “...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations

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03/31/2016

... Financially Fragile Populations More than $1.6 million in additional grants from the Ford Foundation and Visa will ... play a more active role in improving the financial lives of their...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation-Sponsored Team Wins Competition

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04/12/2016

... Awareness About U.S. Fiscal Challenges The fiscal future of our generation is up to us — or at least this is the ... students to raise awareness about the United States’ long -term fiscal and economic health...

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Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

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04/21/2016

... Research Initiative on Thursday announced the launch of an online research initiative that aims to gather DNA and ... have identified some 50 to 70 genes that may play a role in the condition. Some estimate...

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Health

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Simons Foundation Expanding Its Space

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05/09/2016

... James Simons and his wife, Marilyn, is expanding in the Flatiron District. The philanthropic organization has signed a long -term lease for all of the office space at 162 Fifth Ave., according...

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What Big (and not-so-big) Donors Can Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style

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05/23/2016

... Learn from Philanthropy, Bloomberg-style If you have been in the nonprofit sector long enough, you may have noticed that as the Baby Boomer generation ages, the face of philanthropy and...

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Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship Graduate Class Selected

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05/23/2016

... The Fellowship is designed to increase the capacity of New York City's community development organizations and to ... that project, and receives a $20,000 stipend to serve in a half-time, year- ...

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Stonewall Community Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads

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06/20/2016

... Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads Alexander Gardner loves hearing gay people call each other “family.” “The gay community has long called itself ‘family’—as in , ‘Oh, him...

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Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter

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08/08/2016

... published a detailed and ambitious policy agenda, with a long list of “demands” that are attempts to match systemic problems ... their voice to the growing chorus of supporters, in...

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Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights

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08/12/2016

... height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances. It’s a behavior known as thermal soaring ... complex decision-making within the turbulent environment of a rising column of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row In 1989, a 29-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer ... were convicted of various crimes as juveniles and...

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Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika

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08/19/2016

Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika Zika infection kills ... Cell Stem Cell. It has yet to be studied whether the death of these cells has any short or long...

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Ms. Foundation for Women President Attends White House’s First South by South Lawn

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10/05/2016

... House’s first South by South Lawn started off with a long line of interesting people. I was with a group of amazing women ... go through security, we chatted about the state of...

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NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

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10/06/2016

NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep In response to what it called a rising tide of bias incidents and Islamophobia, the New...

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2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists Announced

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10/07/2016

... York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program, in its 10th year, announced the nonprofit organizations in ... created and run by the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

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10/19/2016

Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa Post-conflict countries can, and often do, remain in disarray long after the bullets stop flying. NGOs working in...

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