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The Edward W. Hazen Foundation is a private foundation established in 1925, which seeks to assist young people, particularly minorities and those disadvantaged by poverty, to achieve their full potential as individuals and as active participants in a democratic society.

THE HAZEN FOUNDATION NO LONGER ACCEPTS UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS OR LETTERS OF INQUIRY; INSTEAD THE FOUNDATION WILL BI-ANNUALLY ISSUE REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS AND CALLS FOR LETTERS OF INQUIRY

The Hazen Foundation announces over $1.74 million in grants made to community organizations and youth organizing groups in 2008. Please visit our grantslist to view recent grants or our documents page to previous year grantlists.

Read and download case spotlights on Hazen grantees: CADRE, COHHIO, CCBG, Jovenes Unidos and New Settlement Apartments.

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Should Mayors Run Schools?

Thursday April 09, 2009

Mayoral control of public schools, now found in more than a dozen localities across the nation, has become part of the landscape of American urban education, even as the idea has played out differently from city to city.

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What Will It Take To Alter Makeup Of Top [NY] schools?

Wednesday April 08, 2009

When 80,000 eighth-graders recently learned about their high school placement for next fall, the news took a familiar shape. Despite the high priority the Department of Education has placed on closing the achievement gap between the races, the city's specialized, most competitive high school programs remain disproportionately Asian and white in a public school system that's 70 percent black and Hispanic.

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Students Speak Out on School Budget Cuts

Wednesday April 08, 2009

About 100 students attended a hearing on March 5 at English High School on McBride Street about how budget cuts will affect Boston Public Schools (BPS).