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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

Release Date:

01/10/2017

The project will, among other things, help establish a state-of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation

Release Date:

01/10/2017

Sharon Ullman has been named Acting Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation following the announcement last week that Christy MacLear, who has led the Foundation staff since 2010, will be taking a position at Sotheby's.

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NY Women’s Foundation, NoVo and 15 Other PNY Members Support Leadership of Young Women of Color with $2.1M

Release Date:

01/10/2017

NYC non-profits advancing the well-being and leadership of young women of color as change agents received awards.

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Brooklyn Org

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Ms. Foundation for Women

The Scherman Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities

Release Date:

01/10/2017

Reminder to apply for NYSHealth funding opportunity: sponsoring conference participation in support of healthy communities.

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RFPs Etc

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New York Health Foundation

Native Americans in Philanthropy #GenIndigenous Response Fund Announces Call for Proposals

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01/10/2017

Native-led youth organizations responding to current movements through organizing and activism may be eligible to receive grants up to $5,000 from the #GenIndigenous Response Fund.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens

Release Date:

01/09/2017

GallopNYC had acquired the horse stables near Forest Park, Queens, operated for many years as Lynne's Riding School, in Forest Hills, N.Y. The stable will be known as GallopNYC (Forest Hills).

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Towards an Equitable NYC Cultural Policy in 2017: What We Can Learn from Seattle and Nashville

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01/09/2017

Michele Kumi Baer at The New York Community Trust asks, "How do we get the City to more deeply embrace the values of cultural equity, and enshrine those values in the plan?"

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

Supported by Doris Duke, The New England Foundation for the Arts Announces Program Design Changes

Release Date:

01/09/2017

The New England Foundation for the Arts announced a series of program design changes to the National Dance Project. These design changes are supported in part by a two-year renewed grant of $3,629,400 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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14 Feb 2017

Social and Emotional Intelligence: Insights on Creating Effective Learning Communities for Staff Who Work with Young People

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join the NYC Youth Funders in a discussion focused on how those who work with youth assess the social emotional learning objectives of their programs. The session will also explore staff efforts for continual improvement of their practices while...

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Children, Youth and Families

08 Feb 2017

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network - Breakfast Mixer

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 -

8:30am to 10:00am

Join us for our first meeting of 2017! Philanthropy New York is hosting a casual breakfast for members to network and prepare for PACNet’s exciting year ahead. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Network Building

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

Executive Support Staff

Topic(s)

Leadership Development

Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"

Release Date:

01/06/2017

President of the Ford Foundation Darren reflects, "for as much progress as we have made, America has yet to fully live up to its promise and founding aspiration to be a nation of liberty, dignity, and justice for all. Yet this noble vision remains...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Announces Hiring of George Suttles as Program Officer

Release Date:

01/06/2017

George Suttles, MPA, MA, joined The John A. Hartford Foundation as a new Program Officer, the Foundation announced.

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Aging

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

Release Date:

01/06/2017

Congress has another reason not to roll back Obamacare too quickly: New research suggests that repealing two major provisions of Obamacare without replacing them right away could cost the nation 3 million jobs and trigger negative economic impacts...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

Release Date:

01/06/2017

Kelly Henning, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health efforts, writes in Health Affairs about the foundation's progress and challenges with supporting tobacco control measures globally.

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Charles Feeney Gives Away the Last of His Fortune

Release Date:

01/06/2017

Last month, Mr. Feeney and Atlantic completed the sprint and made a final grant, $7 million to Cornell University, to support students doing community service work.

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Civic Engagement

International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Supported by Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Story Explores Trump's Immigration Policies on Turkish Communities

Release Date:

01/05/2017

Osman Altay, 56, a Turkish-American who has been living in Paterson, N.J., for 40 years, voted for Trump. He said that he thought the immigration policies of Trump during the election were just words.

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Rockefeller Foundation Picks Rajiv J. Shah, a Trustee, as President

Release Date:

01/05/2017

On Thursday, the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the country’s largest and most influential philanthropies, will name Mr. Shah to succeed Judith Rodin, who has been president for 12 years.

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Brian Byrd, Program Officer, New York State Health Foundation, Chats About the Intersection of Health & Justice

Release Date:

09/19/2016

Brian Byrd, program officer at the NY State Health Foundation, explains how he chose the panel for the PNY Program, "Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic."