NASA has been selected by the International Astronautical Federation to receive its 2024 “3G” Diversity Award, which recognizes organizations for their contributions to fostering geographic, generational, and gender diversity in the space sector. NASA’s Indigenous Community-Based Education (CBE) Program is a consortium of partnerships between NASA and numerous...
You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and mentoring, especially for women and girls in STEM, is something Danielle Koch always tries to say yes to. For decades, Koch has tutored students...
Puffin President & Executive Director Honored for work…
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April 1, 2014 On Tuesday, March 25, The ACLU of New Jersey hosted The Lights of Liberty Awards Dinner. They presented the Roger N. Baldwin Award to Perry Rosenstein and Gladys Miller-Rosenstein of The Puffin Foundation Ltd. for making social activism and human rights priorities in their philanthropy and the Honorable Virginia Long for outstanding work strengthening...
National Academy of Public Administrations Dan Blair and Linda Springer Honored by Blinded American Veterans Foundation Post Date: June 14, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) announced that Academy President and CEO Dan G. Blair and Academy Fellow and former Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Linda...
Puffin Foundation honored by NJ Peace Action as Peace Site of the Year
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June 13, 2017 Perry and Gladys Rosenstein, right, receive gifts from their grandchildren, Oskar and Fraya, as their son, Neal Rosenstein looks on. The occasion was a dinner honoring the Rosensteins on the 20th anniversary of Teaneck’s Puffin Cultural Forum, supported by the family’s Puffin Foundation. Photo courtesy of Rachel Banai “It started with a suggestion...
April 24, 2018 Colin Kaepernick, the former N.F.L. quarterback whose kneeling protest of racial injustice spurred a sports movement but may have cost him his job, was awarded Amnesty International’s Ambassador for Conscience Award on Saturday. “Radicalized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation– the effects of which can be seen in...
The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film celebrated its anniversary year at the 25th Chlotrudis Awards, held at the Brattle Theater this past Sunday. The big winner of the night was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s SHOPLIFTERS which won 4 Trudies, for Best Movie, Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. In addition, Chlotrudis made two special...