Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

14 Jul 2015

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 -
2:45pm to 4:30pm
True or false: It’s permissible for your foundation to make grants that are used for public policy or legal advocacy Your foundation grants cannot fund nonprofits that advocate or lobby A 501 (h) election allows your foundation to...
13 Jul 2015

How Does Climate Change Affect Peace and Security? - Webinar

Monday, July 13, 2015 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
In what ways do climate change and other environmental issues affect peace and security risks? How direct is the relationship between the two? Should climate security risks be a foreign policy priority? Join PSFG and EGA for a webinar to discuss the...
08 Jun 2015

Philanthropy New York's 36th Annual Meeting, with Eliasson, Gbowee and Kristof

Monday, June 8, 2015 -
1:30pm to 6:00pm
Global Perspectives, Universal Connections A half-day conference focusing on inspirational stories and practical learning that all grantmakers can apply to their work.

New York State Grantmakers for Census Equity

Publication date: 
07/2018
In 2017, a small group of funders came together to create a learning community about the upcoming 2020 census, and to consider ways in which philanthropy could play a role in ensuring a fair and accurate census count.That group became PNY's 2020 Census Work Group . Working with the membership of PNY's upstate sister organization New York Funders Alliance , an expanded group of funders and philanthropic member associations established New York State Grantmakers for Census Equity , a collaboration through which funders can coordinate the allocation of resources towards census-...

Giving While Living

Publication date: 
09/2017
The common quest of all who seek to achieve lasting improvements in our communities and in our world—whether we are individual donors, foundations, nonprofits or government agencies—is to make the highest and best use of our resources. It requires us to ask questions like: What are our best opportunities to make a difference? What impact can we have and how do we know what impact our grants are having? What are grantee organizations accomplishing? What’s working… what’s not? Or, as Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, never hesitated to ask, starting with the foundation’s...
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Frameworks for Private Foundations: A New Model for Impact

Publication date: 
07/2017
This GrantCraft leadership series paper produced in partnership with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), explores the core frameworks that shape private foundations, and offers a roadmap for funders interested in reflecting on these frameworks to better align purpose, public benefit, and action.
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Race to Lead; Confronting the Racial Leadership Gap

Publication date: 
06/2017
The Building Movement Project released "Race to Lead; Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap." This new report, the first in the Race to Lead series, is based on our survey of over 4,000 nonprofit professionals. The report explores why people of color are still under-represented in nonprofit CEO/Executive Director positions.
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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy

Publication date: 
04/2017
Can limiting a foundation's life increase its ability to have impact? In “Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy,” Tony Proscio of the Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society tackles that question by applying a theory of time and value in philanthropy to three real cases that show what’s possible.
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