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New York Community Trust Joins Redlich Horwitz Foundation and Tiger Foundation to Improve the Lives of Foster Children

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05/29/2018

They will fund five agencies to work with ACS’ Home Away from Home initiative, designed to increase placement of children in foster care with family members and friends (known as kinship caregivers) and improve foster parent recruitment, training,...

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New York Community Trust Central to Shaping the Mayor's Office of Strategic Partnerships

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05/15/2018

Soon after his first term as New York City mayor began in 2014, Bill de Blasio paid a visit to The New York Community Trust. The election was over but he had another campaign in mind.

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The New York Community Trust Issues A Request for Proposals (RFP) Focused on Programs Serving Immigrant Youth

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05/08/2018

The New York Community Trust Issues A Request for Proposals (RFP) Focused on Programs Serving Immigrant Youth The Trust invites local, immigrant-led nonprofits to submit proposals for grants to support programs that serve immigrants (and/or children...

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18 Jun 2018

No Place Like Home: Responding to the Unique Needs of Homeless Children and Their Families

Monday, June 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Almost 70% of homeless New Yorkers are children and their families. Homelessness is traumatic for both children and adults.

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Beyond Equity as a Trend, Toward Real Change

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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...

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Rachel Pardoe of The New York Community Trust is one of New York Non-Profit Media's 40 Under 40

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04/12/2018

The 2018 NYN Media 40 Under 40 awards honor a talented group of 20 and 30-somethings who are shaking up the New York nonprofit sector.

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An Old Idea is New Again: Tackling Large Complex Problems by Investing in Communities

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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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22 May 2018

Tipping Points: Philanthropy's Role in Changing the Narrative of Power

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The country is embroiled in heated conversations destined to change the fabric of this country, whether the starting point is race, immigration, climate change, or sexual harassment. While separate and distinct, these discussions converge most...

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NYCT's Patricia Swann and Kerry Mccarthy Write About the Power and Possibility of the ‘Black Panther’ Moment

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03/06/2018

"Black Panther” is being hailed as a watershed moment in cultural history for African Americans, and it’s easy to see why. It’s more than just a movie; it’s a celebration of black excellence.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The New York Community Trust, Commissioned A Report on what Cultural Institutions of Color Need to Thrive

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02/20/2018

Jointly commissioned by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The New York Community Trust, a report by Yancey Consulting shapes a conversation on how to do targeting funding for ALAANA-led organizations and questions whether sustainability is a...

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Data Capacity as a Step Toward Nonprofit Sustainability

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02/14/2018

Mike Pratt, President, Sherman Foundation and Pat Swann, Senior Program Officer, New York Community Trust on the importance of data capacity

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How The New York Community Trust Is Shaping K-12 Education in New York

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02/13/2018

The oldest collaborative fund housed at NYCT is a fund called the Donors’ Education Collaborative. Founded in 1995, it's dedicated to improving New York City's public schools through policy reform. We've written about it before, describing it as a...

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Small Victories in Affordable Housing? We'll Take it!

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01/19/2018

Patricia Swann, Senior Program Officer, Thriving Communities, New York Community Trust celebrates a few victories in tenant protection laws.

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

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01/16/2018

The $740,000 in new nonprofit grants by the Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust will help kick off education advocacy campaigns statewide.

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The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative

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01/05/2018

Lifetime Arts to lead major effort to advance Creative Aging movement in NYC.

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A New Map, Funded By The New York Community Trust Lets You Search Every NYC Landmark

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12/19/2017

Today the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) launched an enhanced version of its popular interactive landmarks map. If you’ve ever wondered whether the protected building you’re standing in front sports Richardsonian Romanesque or...

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Recognized At The 2017 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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12/04/2017

The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) held its 11th Annual New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Best Practices Workshop & Awards Presentation on Friday, December 1 to recognize the exceptional management...

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23 Jan 2018

Designing Programs to Maximize Impact - How Behavioral Science Can Help

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Humans can be quirky. Yet many foundations and nonprofits design interventions that assume humans will act “rationally,” which can undermine program effectiveness.

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New York Community Trust's Patricia Swann On Looking Past 'Get Out The Vote'

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11/08/2017

More New Yorkers watched the World Series than voted in yesterday’s election. Solving the turnout problem requires a new approach.

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Civic Engagement

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Get It Right, Right Now

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10/18/2017

It is no coincidence that the communities that are hardest to reach in the decennial census count are also those that are under-resourced and under-represented in federal, state and local government. Systematic undercounting of hard-to-reach...

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