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North Star Fund Welcomes New Executive Director Jennifer Ching

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02/01/2017

Jenn has worked with communities directly affected by oppression and inequity to design and deliver solutions that change the daily realities they face.

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New York Community Trust Supports Program to Educate Parents and Families About LGBTQ Issues

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02/01/2017

By the time a homeless young person who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning arrives at the Hetrick-Martin Institute , it is often too late to mend their frayed family bonds, according to staff members at the 37-year-old...

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The New York Community Trust

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LGBTQ

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Immigration

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Episcopal Health Foundation Tells Angel’s Story on Healthy Homes to Treat Asthma

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01/31/2017

Angel's Story looks at the early success of a home-visit program at Northwest Assistance Ministries children's clinic in Houston funded by the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF).

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Episcopal Health Foundation

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Shatterproof Awarded $600,000 Grant by Helmsley Charitable Trust

Release Date:

01/31/2017

The Helmsley Charitable Trust began making active grants in 2008 to support a wide range of charitable causes, primarily including medical research and health institutions.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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01/31/2017

Catholic Charities Announces $800,000 Grant from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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New York Community Trust Supports Fellowship to Build Diversity in Arts Management

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01/31/2017

"We are tremendously grateful to New York City's Theater Subdistrict Council, the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts' Regional Economic Development Council Program (REDC) for...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Five More Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Autonomous Vehicles

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01/31/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute announced today that five cities have joined its global initiative to help city leaders plan and prepare for the emergence of autonomous vehicles.

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Three PNY Members Join GCIR Board

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01/30/2017

Luna Yasui of the Ford Foundation, Shawn Morehead of The New York Community Trust and Evan Bacalao of Open Society Foundations have joined the board of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees.

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The New York Community Trust

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UJA-Federation of New York Convenes Panel on Growing Poverty on Long Island

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01/30/2017

A Poverty forum hosted by the Mid-Island Y JCC and UJA-Federation of New York convened a panel of experts to examine the causes and possible supports to address growing poverty on Long Island, where there are an...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Economic Security

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What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

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01/30/2017

Prachi Patankar, senior program officer at Brooklyn Community Foundation, writes that many immigrant rights groups are now sharing stories similar to what communities felt almost two decades ago.

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Insights

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

27 Feb 2017

Making Philanthropy Count - Census 2020 - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, February 27, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Join us for a Funders' Committee for Civic Participation and Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers' co-hosted discussion with funders, and staff with organizations serving funders, about why philanthropy should care about the census and how...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Civic Engagement

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

06 Feb 2017

Democracy in the Era of Trump: How Grantmakers Should Adapt - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, February 6, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

With the potential of accelerating and emerging threats to our democracy, we must reflect on how our roles and practices may need to shift in order to adapt to the shifting political landscape.

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Social Justice

Taking the Long View on Health Care – A Note to Congress

Release Date:

01/30/2017

Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, writes a letter with three suggestions Congress should consider when debating next steps for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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TCC Group

TCC Group Publishes New Findings on Foundation Capacity

Release Date:

01/30/2017

What capacities are essential to advancing a foundation's own mission? How do these elements compare to the capacities their grantee partners need? How should capacity for foundations be framed?

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TCC Group

Foundations Need Capacity, Too: Initial Findings from the Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)

Publication date:

01/2017

The report shares aggregate results from 54 participating foundations that participated in taking the FCCAT in the spring of 2016. We believe the findings presented here offer an unprecedented look at how diverse foundations assess their foundation's capacity.

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Report

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TCC Group

NYS Health Foundation Offers Insights on Health Designs for Housing

Release Date:

01/30/2017

A substantial body of evidence links the design of the built environment with physical, social, and mental health outcomes.

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New York Health Foundation

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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women

Release Date:

01/27/2017

African-American women are more likely to be infected with HIV than other women, and many don’t know it. So public health officials and advocates are trying to get the word out about PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.

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MAC AIDS Fund, MAC Cosmetics

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The Century Foundation Releases New Report on Syrian Rebels' Lessons on Aleppo

Release Date:

01/27/2017

TCF fellow Sam Heller details why east Aleppo’s rebels fell and what lessons they can learn as they plan their next move.

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