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Countering the Flight of Talent from AAPI Communities & Building Grassroots Capacity

Release Date:

06/09/2021

We are a community foundation tackling economic insecurity in the Korean and Asian American population in New York, and one of the key ways we try to achieve this goal has been to invest in our communities by attracting and developing Asian American...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Korean American Community Foundation

How Can We Be Better Funders? Let's Do the Homework

Release Date:

05/26/2021

I’ve spent most of my life as a bridge-builder and translator. As a nine-year-old, I translated for my immigrant Mom. Later I learned to speak the language of philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Financials

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TCC Group

One-Third of New Yorkers Don’t Have Internet Access. That Is an Issue for Funders

Release Date:

05/26/2021

What if we didn’t have access to Zoom? Or to the internet at all?

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Community Development

Technology

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The New York Community Trust

What It Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives

Release Date:

05/19/2021

By: Bipasha Ray, New Executives Fund Project Director, Open Society Fellowship Program, Open Society Foundations

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

Workforce Development

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Open Society Foundations

How Rapid Assessments Can Help the Shift from Response to Recovery

Release Date:

05/13/2021

As funders, our immediate response to the onset of a global pandemic early in 2020 was humanitarian: to increase our support and to provide it in more flexible ways.

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Community Development

Disaster Relief

Gender Justice

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EMPower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

Why New Yorkers should be proud of the 2020 Census Results

Release Date:

05/06/2021

The unprecedented coalition of New Yorkers who came together to get out the count for this census have much to be proud of

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Census 2020

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The New York Community Trust

As the Pandemic Pushes Women and Girls Further Behind, a Global Response to Gender Inequality Is Needed

Release Date:

05/05/2021

Commitments to gender equality mean little without the financial backing and accountability needed to make them happen.

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

Don’t Be A Stranger: Tips for Philanthropy on Distancing vs. Building Solidarity

Release Date:

04/27/2021

As in person visits continue to be put on pause, I worry that prolonged distancing might push philanthropy towards more individualism and isolationism, precisely at the moment when collectivity and solidarity are so desperately needed.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation

It’s Time to Fund Children’s Mental Health

Release Date:

04/15/2021

With exponential increases in depression and anxiety among children, it is clear that we need collective philanthropic efforts to support our next generation.