Simple and Fast City Contracting
Release Date:
07/17/2013
The HHS Accelerator is a new initiative designed to simplify how New York City does business with thousands of nonprofit health and human services providers.
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The Three Roads to Building Volunteer Value
Release Date:
07/17/2013
PNY Executive Coordinator Nur Ibrahim discusses the three themes of successful volunteerism that have emerged from regular meetings with our members, the Service for Impact working group and Reimagining Service.
Simple and Fast City Contracting: Introducing the Health and Human Services Accelerator
Release Date:
07/17/2013
by the HHS Accelerator Team The Health and Human Services (HHS) Accelerator is the latest initiative in a series of New York City management innovations aimed at improving how the City does business with thousands of nonprofit...
The Three Roads to Building Volunteer Value
Release Date:
07/16/2013
by Nur Ibrahim, Executive Coordinator, Philanthropy New York In early 2012, Philanthropy New York began working with Reimagining Service to bring its core mission and principles to our members, a mix of traditional grantmakers and...
Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?
Release Date:
07/15/2013
Community Food Funders, a philanthropic organizing project comprised of several PNY members, recently held a three-part breakfast series to explore the effects of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the...
Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?
Release Date:
07/15/2013
by Amara Foster Community Food Funders Steering Committee Senior Program Associate, Sustainable Environments, Surdna Foundation As it turns out, quite a bit. In August 2011, farmers upstate lost...
After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers
Release Date:
07/10/2013
We’re pleased to have Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, comment on the Supreme Court’s historic decision on marriage equality and examine the history of philanthropic...
After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers
Release Date:
07/10/2013
by Michael Seltzer, Trustee, EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation , and past President, Philanthropy New York Two days before the 44th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that occurred on the streets of my own neighborhood,...
5 Questions for...Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation
Release Date:
06/28/2013
PhilanTopic’s Laura Cronin talks with Kimberleigh Smith about the Rapoport Foundation’s decision to spend down by 2015, what they’ve learned about the spend down process and how they are helping their grantees navigate a difficult funding...
Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families
Release Date:
06/25/2013
Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...
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