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Many Students Around the World Can’t Read or Add, World Bank Says

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09/27/2017

Around the world, hundreds of millions of students are spending years in school while learning virtually nothing, and many countries are neglecting to even measure their progress, the World Bank warned in its flagship annual economic development...

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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

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09/28/2017

Humanitarian assistance relies on a charity model of providing immediate relief in emergency situations. But once the emergency has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way.

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

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11/29/2018

... not in the classroom. The project is collaborating with schools and youth organizations to collect data that will ...

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

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11/29/2018

Carnegie Corporation of New York is pleased to announce that Farhad Asghar will join Carnegie Corporation of New York on December 17, 2018 as Program Officer, Pathways to Postsecondary Success, overseeing part of our education portfolio. Farhad’s...

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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

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02/21/2019

Johanna Van Fleet may still be in high school, but she knows as much about stocks, bonds and mutual funds as her friends do about emojis and apps – and now she’s offering that winning advice to a famous entrepreneur! Van Fleet recommended an...

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31 Oct 2019

Not One More: The Fight to Stop Southeast Asian Deportation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, October 31, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Between 1975 to 1990, 1.4 million Southeast Asian refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos were resettled in the United States.

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Philanthropy in Haiti: Don’t Miss Out on the Opportunity

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01/22/2010

... use precious clean drinking water an infrastructure for schools , community gardens, police, arts & culture, etc. that ... Contact Phone: 202-628-9033 Haiti Action Committee www .haitiaction.net/About/HERF/...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Communications Associate

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10/2013

The following jobs descriptions for communications associate professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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Sample Job Descriptions: Human Resource Associate / Assistant

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09/2013

The following jobs descriptions for human resources associate and assistant professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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LaVerne Evans Srinivasan named Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management at Carnegie Corporation

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03/25/2014

... with a goal of getting great teachers into high-needs schools and supporting them to be successful. Srinivasan ... Department of Education, President of New Leaders for New Schools , and President of Time to...

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What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

By Penny Fujiko Willgerodt Executive Director, Prospect Hill Foundation (This post originally appeared in OnEarth Magazine on June 11, 2010 and is reprinted with permission.) We at the Gulf Coast Fund have noticed people asking...

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Consultant & Vendor Lists: Coaching & Leadership Development

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02/2022

... Development AB Strategies Antonia Bowring http:// www .AB-strategies.com antonia@AB-strategies.com , ... , (415) 758-7067 Barbara Grant Consulting Group www .bgrantgroup.com Barbara Grant, info@bgrantgroup.com Bobbi Block www .bobbiblock.com Bobbi Block, bobbiblock@comcast.net ...

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Three Ways to Maximize Impact Through Collaboration

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01/26/2015

Lauren Marra and Bruce Boyd of Arabella Advisors, explore collaboration as a change-making tool.

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Trinity Wall Street Appoints Rev. Canon Benjamin Musoke-Lubega As Director Of Faith In Action

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06/03/2013

... program for those in need and advocacy for local public schools . “Benjamin realizes that essential truth: all that ...

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Sheldon H. Danziger Named New President of the Russell Sage Foundation

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02/01/2013

The Russell Sage Foundation, the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences, has announced the appointment of Sheldon H. Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at...

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09 May 2013

God Loves Uganda - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Thursday, May 9, 2013 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious ...

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Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

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08/06/2014

Tony Proscio writes that when The Atlantic Philanthropies makes its final round of grants, "they'll be bigger, in both size and the scope of their ambition, than in any comparable period before."

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Hurricane Season is Here, Sandy is Not Over

Release Date:

10/31/2014

... Sandy on his community in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Though schools were telling families that everything was back to ...

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Big Gaps in the Big Apple: Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

By Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors, Measure of America What does well-being and opportunity look like in the New York metropolitan area? The typical Asian-American resident of the New...

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