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Message from PNY Board Chair on Leadership Transition

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06/25/2020

... Announcement A Letter From Kyung Yoon Dear Members, As Philanthropy New York’s Board Chair, I write regarding ... shared yesterday about her plans to step down as PNY’s president at the end...

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Sir Alok Sharma Joins The Rockefeller Foundation to Advance Global Development and Climate Action Goals

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05/22/2023

... today that the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, current Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom and former President of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), has...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Twenty Puerto Rican Writers Receive the Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship

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11/16/2021

... word through their work,” says Elizabeth Alexander, President of the Mellon Foundation. “We at Mellon are ... Mellon Foundation,” says Carlos Rodríguez Silvestre, Executive Director ...

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Arts

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How Groundswell is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis

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03/30/2020

... Our team is here and standing strong with our grantees as they play indispensable roles in their communities during ... been working to transform it for decades. For millions of people however, the current...

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Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

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08/01/2012

As the North Star Fund's Food and Environment Program ... July 2006 electric power outage. Youngblood has ten years of experience working on food systems issues. Before joining ... is an abiding commitment to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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21 Nov 2013

Education Funders Research Initiative - Building Better Schools

Thursday, November 21, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation

... Funders Research Initiative (EdFunders) is a project of Philanthropy New York supported by 16 funding ... make sure the policies set at the top are implemented as anticipated — and with the anticipated impact...

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Ford Foundation Announces Four Promotions

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04/03/2014

... Foundation has appointed four team members to the role of senior program officer.  Fred Frelow , in New York, ... government, communities and civil society organizations as a means for combating poverty in...

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Finance & Asset Management

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12 Nov 2015

I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With a Family Foundation

Thursday, November 12, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... programs on November 12th, we decided to make a day of it! Join Philanthropy New York staff and family foundation ... focus on what family foundations can’t do. Yet tens of thousands of...

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News Junkies Wanted for Editorial Board

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09/16/2015

... & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article for the September 2015 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. You may ... Food Systems, Workforce Development,...

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13 Oct 2016

Why is Wage Theft on the Rise as the Minimum Wage Increases to $15?

Thursday, October 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... a year is stolen from workers' wages, affecting workers of all types of industries, including low-wage immigrants, ... Democracy Carmela Huang , Supervising Attorney, Urban Justice...

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Pay Attention to Brownsville

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06/15/2016

... & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article of the June 2016 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy ... development, housing, youth development,...

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Schott and Arcus Foundations Partner to Empower Trans Students with Super Powers

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06/17/2016

... country and the international community in mourning all of the lives lost and injured during the recent shootings in ... country that is inclusive of students who also identify as LGBTQ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Individual Giving, Forgotten No More

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11/07/2016

... Fund In 2014, individuals accounted for 72 percent of more than $358 billion in charitable giving. I found this ... and current job, in philanthropy one month ago. However, as I reflected on our country’s...

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The New Parameters of Our Policy Work

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12/15/2016

The New Parameters of Our Policy Work by Michael Hamill Remaley, SVP, Public ... & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article of the December 2016 issue...

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Children, Youth and Families

27 Jun 2018

Where Are the Children? Family Separation Becomes U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... hundreds who are under four years old—from their parents as they arrive on our southern border seeking refuge. ... old. This so-called “zero-tolerance” approach is part of a slate of policies...

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14 Nov 2018

Postponed Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York found that over 80% of the City’s elementary schools were not fully ... (Moderator), Program Director, Education & Human Justice...

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Monument to Commemorate Destroyed African American Land in Central Park Funded by Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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10/20/2019

... New York’s landscape, honoring the Lyons family, is part of the de Blasio administration’s push to diversify the ... running a boardinghouse for black sailors that doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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The New York Women’s Foundation Invests in Six Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and Non-Binary (TGNCNB) Organizations in Recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance

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12/05/2019

... and Non-Binary (TGNCNB) Organizations in Recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance In recognition of ... this current political crisis, bring a racial and gender justice...

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