Last month, 22 national nonprofit organizations that work with philanthropists came together with a single statement and a joint commitment to work together more collaboratively.
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the school-to-prison-pipeline to Wall Street divestment from the “prison-industrial-complex,” many streams of public dialogue are coming together to undergird our discussion on “Rethinking American Justice.”
Philanthropy New York’s Board of Directors is one of the most highly engaged boards with which I have ever worked. Not only do they show up (!) but they attend their quarterly board meetings well prepared and ready to explore complicated membership...
People love to read the results of a good survey, but hardly anyone loves completing a survey. Well-crafted surveys take organizations time and require resources. Add all that up and it means that no organization embarks on a survey effort casually...
Some funders are way out front on impact investing. Some foundations have been trying to ensure their investments are ethical for many years. Still others are initiating conversations with trustees about the possibilities of impact investing and...
Listening to our members, we’ve developed a legal series on grants to individuals, international grantmaking, and family foundations that PNY will be presenting in 2016 and will be added to the set of PNY Core programs in future years.
Just a little over a year ago, we shared our Vision for 2025, developed with the Board and members, with all of PNY. With your support – it has been a year of amazing progress.
"Education Reform in Newark: Lessons for Philanthropy" is an upcoming program which represents the mission of Philanthropy New York. A distinguished panel of individuals with unique perspectives will engage in an open exchange with the goal of...
This will be a program that moves past the headlines and searches for the real and very complex answers to questions that a wide variety of funders are asking about what philanthropy can really accomplish.