Changing The Conversation Around Mergers and Collaborations
Release Date:
06/13/2018
John MacIntosh, a partner at SeaChange Capital Partners looks back on six years of making deals with The New York Merger Acquisition and Collaboration Fund.
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A Sense of Urgency: Promoting Child and Family Well-being for Homeless Families
Release Date:
05/30/2018
Jennifer March, Ph.D., Executive Director, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York writes "The future health and well-being of the next generation of New Yorkers demands that we all do more to prevent homelessness in the first instance, and...
Philanthropy and the Interfaith Imperative
Release Date:
05/24/2018
Loni M. Bordoloi Pazich, Ph.D., Program Director, The Teagle Foundation and Tony Banout, Ph.D., Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Interfaith Youth Core write "Philanthropy works best when it advances solutions to that which seems...
The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research
Release Date:
05/17/2018
Betsy Myers, Ph.D., Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes, " More than 40 percent of young physicians with full-time faculty appointments at academic medical schools leave academics within 10 years. The...
Why Cultural Critics of Color Matter
Release Date:
05/15/2018
Elizabeth Mendez Berry, Director, Voice, Creativity and Culture at The Nathan Cummings Foundations writes "The Black Panther conversation is an example of what pop culture critics of color can do with resources and real estate. The coverage of Coco...
The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt
Release Date:
05/01/2018
Maya Winkelstein, Executive Director, Open Road Alliance writes "When is an organization no longer a ‘start-up’? Is it age, size, or some other acquired wisdom that moves it out of the ‘test and experiment’ stage into the ‘institutional’ one? When...
Beyond Equity as a Trend, Toward Real Change
Release Date:
04/24/2018
Maurine Knighton, Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Kerry McCarthy, Program Director for Thriving Communities at New York Community Trust write "The idea of equitable distribution of resources has again...
Nature and NYC Communities Can Thrive Together Through These 5 Goals
Release Date:
04/19/2018
Bram Gunther, Co-founder, Natural Areas Conservancy writes "One of the many ironies of modern New York City is that nature, whose functions enable us to enjoy healthy lives, has been neglected in municipal agendas and resource allocations. We take...
Taking a Stand for New York
Release Date:
04/12/2018
Lisa Fasolo Frishman, Engage New York writes "Wherever you focus your grantmaking in New York State, one fact is true for all of us - Albany is where fiscal resources are divvied up, and policies are set. Yet, few of us spend time there advocating...
An Old Idea is New Again: Tackling Large Complex Problems by Investing in Communities
Release Date:
04/10/2018
Gisela Alvarez, New York Community Trust writes "My years as a grantee taught me an important lesson: meaningful and lasting change must come from the communities most affected by the change. Now, in a funder capacity, as the Coordinator for the...
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