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Application Period for New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Opens Today

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04/06/2016

Applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 20, 2016.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Three Ways the Arts are Advancing Equity in NYC

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04/06/2016

New York Community Trust Program Associate Salem Tsegaye says the arts can help sustain a vibrant, more equitable New York.

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05 May 2016

School Integration in NYC (Part 1 of 2): New Research, Changing Perspectives

Thursday, May 5, 2016 -

9:30am to 11:30am

A study released in 2014 by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that New York State’s schools are the most segregated schools in the country, more segregated than they were a decade ago. Between 1989 and 2010, the percentage of schools in the New...

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Four Projects Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC

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04/01/2016

While finding affordable real estate can be doubly tricky for artists who need to find affordable space in NYC to live and work, four new projects — all of which won grants recently from the New York Community Trust — aim to make it easier for...

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17 May 2016

Unlocking the Potential of Young People: Effective Strategies for Engaging Youth

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

We all want young people to thrive, make positive choices and reach their potential. But, engaging youth in any community can be challenging and requires all sectors to consider new ways of doing business.

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Is There an App for That? New Thinking on Kids and Digital Media

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03/10/2016

New York Community Trust Program Associate Leigh Ross says funders have a unique opportunity to influence the way that youth engage with digital media and the web.

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19 Apr 2016

New York City Human Services Career Ladder Project

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us for a discussion with the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) and the Human Services Council (HSC) about an exciting new project to develop a sector-wide career ladder program for 80,000...

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

WNYC's 'There Goes the Neighborhood' takes an in-depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral role that race plays in the process.

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Communications/Media

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Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

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02/23/2016

Salem Tsegaye of the New York Community Trust says that funders who support collaborative planning should consider this creative process for negotiating differences toward shared results.

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23 Mar 2016

Family Engagement: Partnering for Student Success

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Join us for this conversation which will explore and recognize the importance of developing successful partnerships among families, schools, and communities to support the development, learning, and success of our youth.

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Pinkerton, NYCT-Supported JobsFirstNYC Announces 4 Workforce Partnerships to Help Youth Gain Employment Training & Jobs

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02/19/2016

Out-of-school and out-of-work young adults in NYC will be helped to connect with stable jobs and careeer opportunities, thorough JobsFirstNYC's local initiative - the Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP).

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Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State

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02/05/2016

The media company, City & State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year's Corporate, Foundation and Family Philanthropy honorees.

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DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust

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02/04/2016

The lives of New York senior citizens are the subject of a year-long project called Exceeding Expectations, which is run by the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and led by journalist...

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NYS Health Foundation Releases Report on Uninsured Immigrants & Insurance Coverage

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02/01/2016

As many as 457,000 unauthorized, uninsured immigrant New Yorkers remain ineligible for health care coverage, a new report from the NYS Health Foundation finds.

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NPs Share Excellent Management Practices (New York Community Trust)

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01/19/2016

Attendees of The New York Community Trust’s 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Best Practices Workshop and Awards Presentation learned about ways to improve the management of their organizations, while supporting their missions.

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09 Mar 2016

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: NYSED Commissioner & Innovative Workforce Strategies for Youth and Young Adults at the National Level

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The March Quarterly meeting will feature a presentation by the Commissioner of New York State Department of Education and a panel presentation on Innovative Workforce Strategies for Youth and Young Adults at the National Level: The Implications for...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

New York should draw on approaches that help address homelessness--supportive housing, which offers job training, debt counseling, mental health care, and other crucial services to residents--to stop the revolving door of homelessness.

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Housing and Homelessness

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29 Jan 2016

School Funding: The Road to Equity for NYC

Friday, January 29, 2016 -

9:45am to 12:00pm

Nearly every conversation about improving New York City’s public schools includes a call for more funding.

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New York Community Trust Gives $5.1 million to 42 Nonprofits in the City, Nation

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12/11/2015

The New York Community Trust funded a total of $5.1 million worth of projects to make life better for all New Yorkers. This includes programs to develop a bionic eye using flat-screen technology; improve the State’s career and technical education...

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Environment and Climate Change

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