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17 Jun 2025

Content, Content, Content. A Persuasive Writing Workshop for Influencers

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

Compelling, shareable content is key to engaging and motivating peer funders, nonprofit partners, and other stakeholders. Foundation staff have access to rich data, innovative ideas, ... ...

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Program Overview: Money and Power in Post-Election America

... Americans from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to passionately contribute to both philanthropy and politics? ... or not and what they intend to do differently in light of...

30 Oct 2025

Journalism and Democracy: A Convening on Philanthropy's Role in Strengthening the Press

Thursday, October 30, 2025 -

2:00pm to 5:30pm

Watch the Recording Journalism is essential to democracy and civic life. Beyond delivering facts and ... access to reliable information, especially during times of crisis. Yet with significant...

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Civic Engagement

Environment and Climate Change

The New York Community Trust Gives $6 Million for Legal Aid to Detained Immigrants, Climate Resilience, and More

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12/08/2017

The New York Community Trust Gives $6 Million for Legal Aid to Detained Immigrants, Climate Resilience, and More The New York Community Trust, the region's community foundation , recently made 44 grants...

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Immigration

Insights from “A Fireside Chat on the ‘True Costs’ of Nonprofits”

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08/03/2022

Insights from “A Fireside Chat on the ‘True Costs’ of Nonprofits” true cost.png Have you heard of the “ nonprofit starvation cycle "? According to The Bridgespan Group , this term refers...

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The Affordable Care Act: Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball

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10/24/2013

... Commonwealth Fund With a 24-hour news cycle that tends to highlight only the latest story, it will be challenging to ... provisions need to be modified? Without critical metrics of...

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The Commonwealth Fund

"Unveiling the Illusion: How DEI Roles Echo the 'Magical Negro’ trope in Philanthropy

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03/01/2024

... Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work across the board reflects the deeply ingrained racial stereotypes ... Mister Charlie or a helpless Miss Ann standing next to them. Magical Negroes cannot exist...

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04 Dec 2025

Reimagining Justice: Global Lessons, Local Action & Featuring The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

Access to justice remains a profound crisis in New York and across ... Public defenders face overwhelming caseloads, and millions of low-income Americans lack access to civil legal support...

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Justice Reform

A Road Less Traveled….

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11/01/2011

... trips often fall into two categories—those who want to get to their destination in the quickest time and those ... and show results in a timely manner. This summer, a group of foundations...

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Learning What Worked to Support Women After the 2008 Recession

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06/23/2016

Learning What Worked to Support Women After the 2008 Recession By Erin McDonald & Elizabeth James, New York Women’s Foundation Reprinted with permission from the National ... hardship. The burden was amplified...

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11 May 2023

“No Justice Without Love” & Community: A Roundtable Discussion on Criminal (In)Justice in NYC and How to Disrupt the System

Thursday, May 11, 2023 -

2:00pm to 4:30pm

... was newly stepping into office, PNY hosted a series of programs that identified several dimensions of criminal ... change. A year later, we are creating an opportunity to reconvene, re-ground...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Communications/Media

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Social Justice

Our Journey: Celebrating the Eighth Year of Philanthropy 101 and Sharing What's to Come

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09/13/2023

Our Journey: Celebrating the Eighth Year of Philanthropy 101 and Sharing What's to Come This is part 1 of Philanthropy New York’s ‘Our ... of material from a historical...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Documentary Film Series

In partnership with Ford Foundation 's JustFilms initiative. Philanthropy New York created the Documentary Film Series to encourage members to think about alternative avenues for .....

Program Officers as Champions

... years now and you increasingly recognize the complexity of your role. You’ve developed relationships within the foundation , with grantees and with fellow funders in your ... grantmaking program and more. You...

25 Apr 2012

Power to the People: Participatory Budgeting as a New Model of Civic Engagement in NYC

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... over real money. Community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process has the potential to ... sponsored by The New York Community Trust , the New York ...

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14 Sep 2012

Social Justice on the Streets: New Developments Around "Stop-and-Frisk" and Discriminatory Policing

Friday, September 14, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:30am

... New York Police Department conducted over 685,000 stops of New Yorkers—equivalent to 78 stops an hour and an over 600% increase in the number ... or Latino New Yorkers. This group was also more likely ...

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25 Oct 2012

Based on Faith: Community Partnership Supporting Youth & Families in Child Welfare

Thursday, October 25, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... pastors coordinated through the intermediary Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA). According to a recently released State of the Field report on ... Briefing sponsored by Casey...

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14 Dec 2010

A Conversation with Jonathan Mintz, NYC Commissioner of Consumer Affairs

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

... New York City adults have no bank accounts and have to rely on check cashers (who charge a fee) to cash their pay ... with bank accounts? And did you know that the Department of Consumer...

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