Disaster Relief

Salesforce Announces Work.com For Schools and $20 Million to Help Schools Reopen Safely and Support Student Learning Anywhere

Release Date:

08/11/2020

Technology helps schools make smart decisions on when it’s safe to return to campus, monitor the health of students and teachers, and better support those who are learning remotely

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Education

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Salesforce

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Emergency Grants to Prison Education Programs as COVID Crisis Continues

Release Date:

08/06/2020

The grants will allow incarcerated students across the nation to continue learning while in-person instruction is paused as part of ongoing efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.

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Mellon Foundation

The New York Forward Loan Fund Receives Philanthropic Commitment from Citi, Ford, and Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundations

Release Date:

08/05/2020

More than $2.3 million has been awarded to support 61 businesses and residential landlords with COVID-19 related costs and expenses through the New York Forward Loan Fund.

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Public Policy

Workforce Development

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Citi Foundation

Ford Foundation

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

Westchester Community Foundation Met $2 Million Goal and has Distributed $861,500 in COVID-19 Grants to Date

Release Date:

08/03/2020

Over $1 million will be directed to longer-term recovery phase.

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The Westchester Community Foundation

Lies, Bots, and Coronavirus: Misinformation’s Deadly Impact on Health

Release Date:

07/31/2020

Misinformation, the circulation of misleading and false information, deepened the crisis by delaying authoritative response to the pandemic by weeks, if not months.

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New York Health Foundation

NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Has Issued Over $110 Million in Emergency Funds to New York City-Based Nonprofits

Release Date:

07/29/2020

768 critical arts and social service nonprofits across the five buroughs received support to weather onset of pandemic.

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Arts

Community Development

Disaster Relief

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The New York Community Trust

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Doris Duke Foundation

Ford Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

The Estée Lauder Companies

Mellon Foundation

Charles H. Revson Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

UJA-Federation of New York

Philanthropy New York Signs Letter to Governor Cuomo for Prompt Contracting and Payment of Nonprofits

Release Date:

07/29/2020

700 nonprofits have signed a letter to Governor Cuomo calling for more attention on the immediate and long-term financial effects of the pandemic on nonprofit contracting and payment.

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PNY News

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Disaster Relief

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The Rockefeller Foundation Calls for Transformation of the U.S. Food System to Address the Hunger and Nutrition Crisis

Release Date:

07/28/2020

With levels of hunger and nutrition insecurity exploding during the pandemic and resulting economic downturn, The Rockefeller Foundation issued a call to action to transform the U.S. food system.

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Disaster Relief

Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

How Can Philanthropy Elevate Entrepreneurialism Through Crisis?

Release Date:

07/22/2020

In order for foundations to harness our collective capacity to respond to the life-threatening coronavirus pandemic and the humanitarian issues that have become more acute because of it, we must elevate entrepreneurship, multi-sectoral collaboration...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Health

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Grace Farms Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Shares New Approaches to Summer Youth Employment Programs in Response to COVID-19

Release Date:

07/08/2020

JPMorgan Chase is helping more than 20 U.S. cities prepare thousands of young people for the future of work through new approaches to Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEP) in response to the COVID-19 crisis and this moment of change in the U.S.