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The Wallace Foundation

Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

... his own party described as a classic authoritarian. How is it possible that tens of millions of Americans supported a ... a ban on Muslim immigrants), freedom of the press (calling for opening up libel laws to...

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Civic Engagement

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The Century Foundation

Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students? It ’s been said that a budget is a statement of policy, the ... spending spree that the United States has engaged in for the past three decades, investing...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Justice Reform

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women ... After the Obama administration ordered the military in 2013 to open all combat positions to...

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Gender Justice

To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

One of Michael Bloomberg's main contributions to the global fight against climate change has been to help mobilize cities to curb greenhouse gas emissions, improving the quality of life for ciitzens. Now, he is looking to do the same with improving...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines ... the focus of most writing has been on the use of data for competitive advantage, a small set of companies has been ... in...

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MasterCard Foundation

Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat ... largest funders of climate and clean energy work. ( It gave out $40 million in 2013...

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The Simons Foundation

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion In this interview with the Business ... Giving, Shamina Singh, president of the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, discusses how the credit-card company .....

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Sloan, Skoll Foundations & Carnegie Support PBS NewsHour Exploratiopn of Future of Higher Education

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08/23/2017

... a Twitter chat on August 24 at 1 p.m. EDT with financial aid officers, policy experts and other key stakeholders. Use ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

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Skoll Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

... Texas are attracting millions of dollars in donations for relief efforts, much of it from corporate sources but also from tens of thousands of ... cost the region tens of billions of dollars, but private...

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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities I came to the United States when I ... here to join my parents, who had already been in the U.S. for years, having left our home...

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Mexican Women Stand Up to Cyberattacks and Vicious Digital Violence

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09/08/2017

... of the Take Back the Tech campaign began meeting in 2013 and launched Ciberseguras as a blog to share resources ... common, many women didn’t know where to turn for help. Even though millions of Mexicans still...

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Gender Justice

Will New Rockefeller Foundation President Break or Reinforce its Mold?

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09/08/2017

... president of the Rockefeller Foundation, shared his vision for the New York-based foundation’s future, which includes the use of science and technology for inclusive growth and leveraging the foundation’s .....

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... tanks, Prosperity Now (formerly CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies, America’s already large racial wealth ... riff on George Orwell’s classic The Road to Wigan Pier. It projects that, if current...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “ It ’s permanent until homelessness is solved.” So remarked ... Seattle headquarters will incorporate a shelter for homeless families. It...

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Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

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09/26/2017

... nearly 18 million people died from CVDs which accounts for 31 percent of all global deaths. Noncommunicable diseases ... to tolerate them at tragically high levels.” Outcomes for NCD sufferers in LIMCs,...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services

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09/28/2017

... City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services For most young people, turning 21 is ceremonious. It 's a rite of passage into adulthood celebrated with spirits ... shelters and move to single adult...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

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10/10/2017

... continued rehearsals, built sets, and found a new venue for the September 15 premiere of Describe the Night, a ... political saga set in Russia that had been on the calendar for months. As damage was being...

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New York State Health Foundation Releases Snapshot: Success in the Empire State: Health Insurance Coverage Trends

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11/15/2017

... (ACA) effectively and expanding health insurance coverage for nearly 1 million additional residents since the law took ... Within New York, uninsured rates declined more than 40% for most racial groups, age...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... The survey asked the voters whether they supported what it called the "Soros Plan" — including the resettlement of ... 9 million Hungarian forint ($33,772) in mandatory state aid per immigrant... OSF...

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