Sheena Wright of the United Way of NYC Talks About Removing Silos and Saving Lives
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11/22/2016
Sheena Wright is the first woman to lead the United Way of NYC, one of the oldest and largest United Ways in the country.
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Invest in Your Brand Endowment for Exponential Returns
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11/22/2016
Neill Coleman of Rockefeller and Stonewall Community Foundation says your organization's name, reputation, networks, connections and convening power can magnify the impact of your grant-making.
The New York Women’s Foundation and the YWCA of the City of New York Partner for Girls IGNITE! Grantmaking Fellowship
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11/22/2016
Unique grantmaking initiative allows young women to become funders.
Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust
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11/22/2016
The grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust extends the historic $42 million Helmsley gift made to the Salk Institute in 2013.
Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change
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11/22/2016
Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.
Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info
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11/22/2016
Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities (WWC) is a national initiative to help a hundred-plus mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA).
New York Women’s Foundation President Says Trans Women Need More Than Victim Remembrance
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11/21/2016
Later this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of bathroom rights for transgender people.
Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation Writes About the Syrian Civil War and Avoiding Trump’s First Big Mistake
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11/21/2016
With President-elect Donald Trump’s chaotic transition underway, the U.S. foreign policy establishment and the international community have begun contemplating the dangerous uncertainties created by this transition and the potential contours of...
Community Garden at Doris Duke’s Former NJ Estate Donates Tons of Organic Produce
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11/21/2016
Duke Farms, the 2,700-acre former estate of globe-trotting philanthropist Doris Duke, is one of the largest preserved properties in the state of New Jersey.
U.S. Trust Surveys 1,435 U.S. High Net Worth Households on Attitudes Toward Giving
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11/21/2016
Eighty-three percent of wealthy individuals plan to give as much (or more) over the next three years as they have in the past. These percentages are even higher among women, African-Americans and individuals age 50 or younger.
As Funders of Equity and Education, Connect Research to Action for School Integration
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11/21/2016
Gisela Alvarez, Esq., Coordinator, Donors’ Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust, says funders who believe in equity and the power of education must support the choir that is preaching about school integration.
Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project
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11/18/2016
The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.
The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition
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11/18/2016
With the election of Donald Trump, this warning is frighteningly close to becoming reality, as Trump has vowed to implement surveillance policies that “were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Obama’s last challenge will be to do everything in his...
Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism
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11/18/2016
Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."
PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program
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11/17/2016
The PIMCO Foundation has awarded the New York City Mission Society, a two-century-old nonprofit based in Harlem, 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work.
Pinkerton Foundation, Born of Detective Agency, Prefers to Work Unobserved
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11/17/2016
The Pinkerton Foundation, formed in 1966 by the family that made its fortune in private security, has quietly given more than 300 million dollars to children’s organizations in the city, the New York Times reports.
Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Gene-Editing Technology That Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals
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11/17/2016
Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the non-dividing cells that make up the majority of adult organs and tissues.
Century Foundation Releases Report on Finding Common Ground on International Tax Reform
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11/17/2016
Democrats and Republicans alike agree: the United States' international tax system is broken.
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Americans Cost Barrier Decreasing, But More Improvement Needed
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11/17/2016
A new survey of adults in the U.S. and 10 other high-income countries finds that fewer Americans are reporting that cost is a barrier to getting care.
Blast from the Past: Nonprofit Agencies Fearful on Reagan
Release Date:
11/17/2016
Philanthropy New York would like to thank TCC Group’s Richard Mittenthal for sharing with us this New York Times article from December 14, 1980. The fears were real, just as they are today. Many Philanthropy New York members are mentioned. Well...