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6 Apr 2017
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A $100 Million Investment in Quality Job Creation

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBankSF) and the New World Foundation (NWF) are excited to announce the Quality Jobs Fund (QJF), a $100 million initiative to support quality job growth in underserved communities primarily in the bank’s three-state region of California, Arizona, and Nevada, and several other states across the country. The fund...

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17 Feb 2012
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“Broken Windows” School Reform

At the New World Foundation we continue to think about schools and that public education is a critical component of any serious effort to establish strong equality. Increasingly, reform efforts are making schools less and less open to the diverse population of students, unresponsive to learning styles and punitive in approach. As the country gets...

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21 Aug 2011
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The Hidden Costs of Higher Ed

This post was originally published in the New York Times Opinion Pages.  It can viewed here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/opinion/the-hidden-costs-of-higher-ed.html?_r=0 OVER the next few weeks, millions of Americans will be heading off to college, and despite the promise of need-blind admissions, more of them than ever will be struggling to pay for it. It’s not just the economy’s...

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19 Jul 2011
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Creating a Forum for Community Integration for First-Generation College Students

A strategic goal of NWF’s COIN initiative is to increase community capacity, create a new pipeline of well-educated local leaders who are active citizens, and stabilize community leaders as strong anchors for development in low-income communities. COIN has laid the foundation for six exploratory pilot projects linking community-based organizations (CBO’s) to high school students in five...

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