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Inside HigherEd Examines New Book from Russell Sage Foundation

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08/04/2015

... facts, found that Asian culture -- which is ofen credited for the high rates of success for Asian Americans -- actually had little to do with it .... Inside HigherEd Examines...

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... that have opted to take part in the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA), a multi-donor program set ... between what citizens expect and what governments do . Sometimes called “the accountability...

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Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

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09/22/2015

... federal government. Sam Adler-Bell, a policy associate for The Century Foundation, who focuses on research ... with one company, Student Debt Relief, and how it operates in a regulatory grey area. Mary, a...

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Ms. Foundation Launches Campaign to Define 21st Century Feminism

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10/23/2015

... Century Feminism What does feminism mean to you? For a long time, I did not consider myself a feminist. In fact, for most of my life, I did not consider myself a feminist. ... us grew up being told that we...

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation Launches Arts in a Changing America With Webcast

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10/23/2015

... What is not on the institutional arts sector's radar? How do we learn from different models of arts practice and .....

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NY State Health Foundation Sees Need to Educate Consumers on State Obamacare Offerings

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11/02/2015

... very long. There is rent, food, clothing and day-care for her 2-year old son. So last year, when she shopped for health insurance on the New York State exchange, she found the $150 monthly premium unaffordable...

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

... doing vital work—from educating preschoolers to caring for the elderly. But I’ve come to understand that good ... reached record highs, graduating teens are ill-prepared for today’s jobs, and heroin deaths now...

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Commonwealth Fund Advice: It’s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare Coverage

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12/16/2015

Commonwealth Fund Advice: It ’s Important to Read the Fine Print of Healthcare ... and prohibits insurance companies from charging copays for them. But findings from the most recent Commonwealth ... employers, or...

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

... of the most respected academic economists in the country. It adjusts for many factors that could legitimately affect the cost (or ... analysis of spending variation has been very difficult to do...

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

... study from the organization, which outlines the evidence for why racially integrated schools boost student ...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... “The Theory of the Business.” The essay called for leaders to stop focusing on what Drucker labeled “how to do ” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental ... Today, we need a new “theory of (or...

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How Mobile Games Can Help You Identify Your Next Great Employee (Rockefeller Foundation)

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03/28/2016

... Foundation) Those of a certain age probably heard it time and again while growing up: “Video games will rot ... As a result, companies often struggle to know what to look for , and how to identify the most...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

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04/21/2016

Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change When I ... century leaders and social reformers who paved the way for today's activists. In Social Movements for Good...

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Carnegie President Says Humanitarians Can Have Impact on Refugee Crisis

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04/26/2016

... A six-country survey commissioned by the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity finds widespread misperceptions of ... action, the public realizes that those humanitarians who do intervene on behalf of others can...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Carnegie Backs New Learning Pilot Targeting Interstate Passport Initiative

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06/10/2016

... Passport Initiative The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and Taskstream – a provider of assessment management and e-portfolio solutions for higher education – just announced the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

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07/29/2016

... on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion I wish I could say it was easy. Grantee inclusion seems, on the face of it , like such an obviously good idea: Of course the people ... by grantmaking should be central to...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

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09/09/2016

... Discipline Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The ... and arrests so widely used? • What should we do to change these patterns in schools?...

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

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09/15/2016

... Equitable Childcare System in America The Ms. Foundation for Women’s latest report, Raising Our Nation , highlights ... care costs in our country outpacing the costs of college, it forces women who barely earn...

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