Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces 20 Finalists Selected for 2021-22 Spark Prize
Release Date:
10/21/2021
After being on pause last year, our Brooklyn Community Foundation $100,000 SPARK Prize has returned for 2021
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Nov
2021
Weaving Health and Social Care into a Comprehensive "Safety Net": Technology is Transformative, but not Enough
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Lack of effective coordination between healthcare systems and community-based social service organizations has emerged as an impediment to improving the social determinants of health and, therefore, to improving health outcomes particularly in...
The New York Women's Foundation Announces Five New Board Members
Release Date:
10/28/2021
NEW YORK, NY, October 28, 2021 -- The New York Women’s Foundation welcomes four new and one returning member to its Board of Directors. These Board members will provide strategic direction for continued growth around The Foundation...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Selects Ten Communities as 2020-2021 RWJF Culture of Health Prize Winners
Release Date:
10/26/2021
Celebrated for innovative efforts to create thriving, equitable communities.
The Rockefeller Foundation Invests to Prevent Future Pandemics and Calls for Greater Collaboration to Build a Global Early Warning System
Release Date:
10/25/2021
The Foundation also renewed its call for expanded collaboration to strengthen the global pandemic and epidemic intelligence ecosystem at the World Health Summit.
16
Nov
2021
Funder Briefing: What the Incoming NYC Administration Means for Criminal Legal and Policing Reform + How Philanthropy Can Respond
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 -
10:00am to 11:00am
As a new elected leadership – mayoral team and City Council – is sworn into City Hall, we are offered a unique opportunity to reflect on how philanthropy leverages its collective power to inform critical issues that will shape the future of NYC. In...
Arcus Foundation Shares Findings from the Grantee Perception Report Administered by the Center for Effective Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/26/2021
Arcus sought grantee feedback against four key performance goals.
Sheena Wright, United Way NYC President & CEO, named in City & State NY Power of Diversity: Black 100 List of 2021
Release Date:
10/18/2021
Today, a new generation of Black leaders is breaking through.
Building long-term partnerships with nonprofits to scale impact: Lessons from sustained funding relationships
Release Date:
10/25/2021
What are the elements of a strong and sustainable funder-grantee relationship that drive meaningful change and impact?
18
Nov
2021
Money, Money, Money – Beyond Philanthropy: What is the Role of Public Dollars? A Webinar Hosted by CDP
Thursday, November 18, 2021 -
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Join the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid in a webinar to highlight findings from the 2021 Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. The report is an annual publication by CDP and Candid that examines how much funding...
18
Nov
2021
Power! How to Fight it, Build it and Share it
Thursday, November 18, 2021 -
1:30pm to 3:00pm
Join this session for a conversation between leaders of coalitions in Louisiana and New York about building power and a just transition to a clean energy future.
Arcus Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind
Release Date:
10/15/2021
Conservation of endangered apes and their forest habitats cannot be achieved without careful consideration of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities who also live in and depend on these landscapes.
Hirokazu Yoshikawa Joins Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
10/20/2021
We’re pleased to announce that Hirokazu Yoshikawa has joined the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, effective October 2021.
Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected as a 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow
Release Date:
10/07/2021
Fellows use the full power of community to change learning, care, and economic systems to produce meaningful impact for families
Ford Foundation appoints Catherine Chinedum Aniagolu-Okoye as regional director for West Africa
Release Date:
10/07/2021
Aniagolu-Okoye to lead the foundation’s office of West Africa and oversee its grantmaking, external relations and local operations based in Lagos
08
Nov
2021
Building Infrastructure for the 2030 Census - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Monday, November 8, 2021 -
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Join GCIR for a discussion with researchers, funders, and census mobilizers to discuss the result of philanthropic investments during the 2020 census cycle and what steps can be taken to preserve the infrastructure developed and knowledge gained in...
Partnership Between The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The New York Community Trust Awards $3 Million to Performing Artists in Need
Release Date:
10/12/2021
Funding effort reveals the degree of continuing financial hardship experienced by performing artists during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides pivotal support so they can focus on their craft
An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations
Release Date:
10/21/2021
We all have a place in this work. But how we do the work matters. We will not get to a different destination by working in the same way.
04
Nov
2021
All the Tools in the Toolbox: Philanthropic Support for (C)4 Campaigns - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Thursday, November 4, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Join Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) for a discussion with Alliance for Justice and leading immigrant justice organizations to understand how philanthropy can fund in this space while also learning about active...
What does it mean for the Luce Foundation to support public knowledge?
Release Date:
10/21/2021
We have always believed that knowledge can make a difference in the world—and in order to do so, it must be in the world, in the hands of those who can make use of it. But we have also been prompted by our partners and by the work we’ve funded to...