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07 Jan 2014

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 7:00am to Friday, January 10, 2014 - 6:00pm

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers (ESS) provides an introduction to grantmaking and philanthropy for program officers with less than two years of experience in the philanthropic sector.

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20 Nov 2013

Power of Giving Arts Forum: Arts and the Millennial Generation

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 -

7:30am to 10:30am

Con Edison Headquarters

Widespread cuts to arts education over the past decade now mean we have an entire generation of young people with little exposure to the arts. Fewer members of the millennial generation go to the theater, concerts, dance performances, or operas. How...

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15 Nov 2013

Reflections on Young Males of Color in New York City: Changing the Narrative about Black and Latino Young Men Through Media

Friday, November 15, 2013 -

7:30am to 10:30am

We invite you to join us for the second discussion in this two-part briefing. This session will focus on: The impact of media in developing and changing images of Young Black and Latino Males Curricula which have been developed by programs to convey...

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14 Nov 2013

The Affordable Care Act: Essential Implications for Women & the Uninsured

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York

There has been much talk in the news over the past several months about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what its implementation will mean for Americans. Women will be particularly affected by these changes because they are the biggest consumers of...

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14 Nov 2013

A Quantum Leap Forward: How Funders Can Go from Building “Capacity” to Building “Resilience” in Their Grantees and the Nonprofit Sector

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York

Please join us for an important conversation that will explore how funders can help both their grantees and the broader nonprofit sector become more resilient. Philanthropy New York has convened a number of its member foundations during the last...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

August 2013 Working Group Updates

Release Date:

08/28/2013

Read the latest updates on these Issue-Based Working Groups: Community Food Funders and the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative.

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

September 2013 Working Group Updates

Release Date:

09/25/2013

Read the latest updates on these Issue-Based Working Groups: Community Food Funders, the Education Working Group, the Health Policy Working Group, the New York City Human Services Data Project and the Service for Impact Working Group.

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Surdna Foundation

October 2013 Working Group Updates

Release Date:

10/23/2013

Read the latest updates on these Issue-Based Working Groups: Community Food Funders, the Education Working Group, Funders of Women and Girls and the Health Policy Working Group.

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09 May 2012

Citizenship: New Pathways to Economic Opportunity, Civic Participation, and Immigrant Integration

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 11:00am

Carnegie Corporation of New York

In the United States, an estimated 8.2 million immigrants are currently eligible for citizenship. After California (2.5 million), New York is home to the second largest naturalization-eligible population in the United States (950,000).* Immigrants...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Finance & Asset Management

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Immigration

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28 Mar 2013

Looking at the 990 Part I (March 28) and Part II (April 4)

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 8:45am to Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 8:45am

Philanthropy New York

The IRS Form 990 is used by funders as a tool to track and scrutinize the finances, governance, and accomplishments of grant applicants and recipients. What information can be gleaned from the form? What has changed within the form since prior years...

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Professional Development

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Public Policy

15 Sep 2011

New York's Diverse Muslim Community: Building Civic Engagement and Responsive Social Services - Learning Tour

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 8:00am

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The events of September 11, 2001 had a profound effect on all New Yorkers who still recall a deep sense of loss and dislocation. Also vivid ten years later are memories of coming together. People across the city formed strong networks of mutual...

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Community Development

Religion

Hartford Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $6 Million to Improve Geriatric Care

Release Date:

09/19/2013

The three grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation include an award of more than $5 million to the Gerontological Society of America to create the Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative, and a grant to Community Catalyst, Inc. which augments an award...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Ford Foundation Awards $6 Million to Strengthen International Human Rights Movement

Release Date:

09/20/2013

The grants were to seven leading human rights organizations operating in many countries and international forums.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Human Services

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $4.5 Million for Conservation Scholars Program

Release Date:

09/20/2013

The University of Washington, Northern Arizona University and the University of Florida will each receive $1.5 million to provide undergraduates with opportunities to participate in mentored research activities in conservation biology and other...

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Education

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Carnegie UK Trust Announces 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy Honorees

Release Date:

09/24/2013

The Medals of Philanthropy are awarded every two years to families and individuals around the world who, like Andrew Carnegie, have dedicated their private wealth to the public good. (Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian is...

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Be Our Guest: New York City lags far behind other cities in investing in its public libraries

Release Date:

09/25/2013

An op-ed by Julie Sandorf, President of the Charles H. Revson Foundation.

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked

Release Date:

09/19/2013

Four nonprofit leaders — including Gail B. Nayowith, founding Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund — respond to a recent SSIR article on how the nonprofit sector sets its goals and achieves impact.

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Knight Foundation Invests $3.6 Million in Black Male Engagement Network

Release Date:

09/22/2013

The project, in partnership with the Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement and the Heinz Endowments, has worked over the last two years to recognize black male leaders from all walks of life.

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JPMorgan Joins Gates Foundation, Drugmakers in Fund

Release Date:

09/23/2013

The Global Health Investment Fund, which will back late-stage development of technologies to fight diseases including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, as well as maternal and infant mortality, in low-income countries.

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