Sentences with phrase «american education philanthropy»

Let's consider one of the greatest accomplishments in American education philanthropy.

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Pattie began her career in philanthropy at the American Express Foundation in education and child care, attended Syracuse and Pace Universities (NY), and served as a board member of several state and national nonprofit organizations.

The lowdown: Documentary portrait of Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish - American head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., whose philanthropy gave a boost to African - American education and culture in the first half of the 20th century.

SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau; Jay Greene, «Buckets into the Sea: Why Philanthropy Isn't Changing Schools, and How It Could,» prepared for American Enterprise Institute conference, «With the Best of Intentions: Lessons Learned in K — 12 Education Philanthropy,» April 25, 2005, Washington, D.C.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

In a very interesting and ambitious project, last year Forbes magazine challenged experts in business and education philanthropy to single out five big ideas over the next 20 years that could make American students the most highly achieving in the world and had research and modeling specialists with no stake in the outcome analyze the -LSB-...]

Kyle A. Long wrote a great review of my book, Unequal Partners: American Foundations and Higher Education Development in Africa in the recently - launched journal, Philanthropy & Education, put together by Professor Noah Drezner of Columbia University, Indiana University Press and Teachers College.

Dr. Brownlee is honored to serve on several boards including: Single Seed Enrichment School of San Antonio, African American Philanthropy in Action, and the Southwest Education Research Association (SERA).

To raise awareness and challenge the philanthropic community to better resource movements to support healthy living and learning for Native children and youth, the Schott Foundation and Nike's N7 Fund, in partnership with Native Americans in Philanthropy, convened a group of Native education, health care, and human services experts along with several foundations in Washington, DC, in late June.

The Schott Foundation for Public Education, in partnership with Native Americans in Philanthropy, with support from Nike N7, recently released a set of recommendations for helping Native youth live healthy lives.

Backed by a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit education reform philanthropy, the group has accumulated about 60 articles for its history platform on topics ranging from ancient China to the American Revolution.

WAIF subscribes to the Donor Bill of Rights created by the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel (AAFRC), Association of Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP), the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

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Our mother was a formidable woman in her own right, serving as an inspiration not only to us, but to a large community of Asian Americans who witnessed her dedication to education, history and philanthropy.