United Way of New York City has announced that Sheena Wright will be the new President and CEO, effective mid-November. Wright has served as the President and CEO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation since 2002 and is a former Board member of...
By Samantha Beinhacker , Managing Director, Arabella Advisors Last March, in celebration of Women’s History Month, Arabella hosted a webinar panel on “ Women and Philanthropy ” to dig into the ways that women are making a...
By Eric Kessler , Founder, Principal and Managing Director, Arabella Advisors In an earlier post, I urged the philanthropic community to put aside its misgivings and get involved in political giving. On September...
Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, explores the history of social justice and grantmaking and explains how foundations can effectively practice social justice philanthropy.
By Michael Seltzer, Trustee, EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation , and past President, Philanthropy New York Social Justice—A New Phenomenon? No. As early as 1972, in an internal memo to John H. Knowles, the...
Ahead of the Council on Foundations' Fall Conference for Community Foundations, TCC Group Senior Partner and Chief Client Services Officer Paul Connolly asked: How can community foundations balance quick responses to critical issues with carefully...
By Paul Connolly , Senior Partner and Chief Client Services Officer, TCC Group In recent years, I’ve witnessed two interesting trends in philanthropy that are particularly resonant with community foundations...
Deanna Lee has been appointed the Chief Communications and Digital Strategies Officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Ms. Lee is an award-winning communications strategist and former broadcast news producer, with deep experience in...