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Mellon Foundation

Design Is Key to Expanding the 21st Century Neighborhood Library

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12/13/2016

... 1893 and 1919, Carnegie funded the construction of 1,687 public libraries across the United States, including ... major cultural institutions combined. New York City’s public library system comprises of three...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Arts

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Lies, Bots, and Coronavirus: Misinformation’s Deadly Impact on Health

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07/31/2020

... Foundation and Joseph Smyser, Chief Executive Officer, Public Good Projects. This article was originally published ... is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health, economic, and...

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New York Health Foundation

18 Feb 2025

"Sing Sing": A Special Film Screening & Conversation on Art, Incarceration, and Systemic Change

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 -

4:00pm to 7:00pm

... funders in grantmaking, criminal legal reform, arts, public policy , and related roles. What to expect: film screening (1 ...

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09 Sep 2025

The Youth Mental Health Crisis: Innovations and Updates from the Field

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 -

12:30pm to 5:30pm

Philanthropy New York

... Current landscape of youth mental health in NYC from a policy , direct service, and funding perspective Concrete ... the day: Panel 1: The Current Landscape - An Overview of Policy and Funding around Youth...

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Data Capacity as a Step Toward Nonprofit Sustainability

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02/14/2018

... a sustainable business model for the current era of scarce public resources. Initially, we hoped that our grantees ... to measure impact in terms of cost savings and other public benefits. Over four years,...

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The New York Community Trust

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The Scherman Foundation

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Two New Yorkers and Crisis-Response Foundation for Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care

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10/01/2018

... Health Care Leadership Award, recognizing four decades of public service tackling some of the metropolitan region’s ... most complex organizations, including New York’s vast public hospital network, the...

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United Hospital Fund

New Humanities in Place Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $15 Million to Organizations Doing Place-Based Work

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09/30/2021

... and media and conveners of cultural heritage and public experiences as spaces of learning, expression, and ... stories of our histories and communities are told across public experiences as varied as built...

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Mellon Foundation Grants Over $13M to the National Park Foundation to Support Thirty Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

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06/29/2022

... at national parks across the country and connect the public with interpretive and educational resources that ... materials and bridging the gap between academia and public -facing agencies like the National...

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Arts

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The Future of ‘Zipcode as Destiny': Three Scenarios

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01/14/2016

... minorities but rather further keeping them out of the public sphere. Access to the internet and computers is ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation Appoints Kavita N. Ramdas as Representative in New Delhi

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06/04/2012

... Development Fund USA. She also chairs the Women in Public Service Initiative, a joint effort by the U.S. State ... at Delhi University. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs with a focus on...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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PNY Members Named to Commission Examining Closures of Nonprofits

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03/10/2015

... Campbell of NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, former government official and nonprofit ... Gordon Campbell, NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Douglas Bauer,...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Revson and Niarchos Foundations Open Nominations for Library Awards

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11/19/2015

... The NYC Neighborhood Library Awards recognize and reward public libraries for being the unsung heroes of New York – ... and Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive Director for the DC Public Library, and former Chief...

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Children, Youth and Families

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02 Feb 2017

Invisible No More: Native Realities in a Post-Election Era

Thursday, February 2, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Access Pipeline at Standing Rock has attracted broad public attention with wider implications for the country as a ... President of Programs & Advocacy, Schott Foundation for Public Education Patricia Eng...

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Children, Youth and Families

Congress’ Tax Bill Message to Charitable Nonprofits: “We Don’t Care – You’re on Your Own”

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12/21/2017

... ‘justify’ spending cuts to programs on which the public depends. Simultaneously, it will block resources ... and $20 billion every year in funds dedicated to the public good. It is hypocritical for Congress to...

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National Council of Nonprofits

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Economic Security

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10 Apr 2018

Brooklyn DA Gonzalez Previews ‘Justice 2020’ Report, Talks Trends in Reform Movement

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... and with what. A culture of associating incarceration with public safety has led to a ballooning of our jail population ... racial disparities, increase transparency, and improve public safety in Brooklyn by...

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12 Dec 2018

Meet Chancellor Richard A. Carranza

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... join us for this program co-sponsored by the Fund for Public Schools and the Donor's Education Collaborative to ... priorities and his future plans for New York City's Public schools. Presenters...

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A Terrible Time for De Blasio to Cut Library Funding

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05/15/2019

... One key answer lies in another bedrock of our democracy: public libraries. Our libraries serve everybody—regardless ... at home. There is, as almost always, a catch. New York’s public libraries are facing an $...

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