Philanthropy As “Invisible Aid”
Release Date:
08/31/2009
... Walter Gifford meant at the time (he was President of AT&T and Chair of the Organization on Unemployment Relief in the early 1930s), foundations and their work remain...
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26
Mar
2012
Changing the System: Effective Strategies for Grassroots Activism to Make NYC More Fair, Just, and Compassionate
Monday, March 26, 2012 -
2:45pm to 5:00pm
... or unappreciated. Nonetheless, they have helped thousands of immigrant workers, protected the reproductive freedom of countless women, and kept people in their homes in a...
20
Feb
2019
Activating Philanthropy’s Power for Change: The Role of Self-Assessment and Honest Feedback
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 -
2:30pm to 5:00pm
... out for self-assessment and learning is an important part of the organizational cycle of planning, action and reflection. In the process, how can funders receive and make the most of...
SNF Temporarily Pauses Submission of New Grant Requests for Projects in Greece
Release Date:
12/11/2018
SNF Temporarily Pauses Submission of New Grant Requests for Projects in Greece The Stavros Niarchos Foundation ( SNF ) announced that temporarily pauses ...
Carnegie: How America’s Immigrant Source has Changed
Release Date:
10/22/2015
... has Changed Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States since 1965, making this nation the ... a nearly 2,000-mile border with the U.S., is the source of the largest wave of...
Rockefeller Family Fund Calls ExxonMobil’s Conduct ‘Morally Reprehensible’
Release Date:
11/29/2016
... Reprehensible’ David Kaiser, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, and Lee Wasserman, director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, wrote an article in the New York Review ...
Opinion from NY Community Trust: How Arts And Culture Make New York A Place For All Of Us
Release Date:
06/21/2017
... Trust: How Arts And Culture Make New York A Place For All Of Us Ask any New Yorker what makes this city a great place ... on proscenium stages to longstanding drumming circles in City parks, New York is home...
How to Build a Strong Local Food System
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... Communities fed themselves with whatever was produced in the region, with farmers selling directly to stores and customers. It was unheard of to truck vegetables from Florida or California all year ... feed...
LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That
Release Date:
09/06/2017
LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That Teachers sit at ... obituary in The New York Times, which avoids any mention of his sexual orientation. There are...
More Floods Are Coming And We're Making Them Worse
Release Date:
09/07/2017
... Making Them Worse When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its ... The now-sprawling metropolis, with 100 times the number of inhabitants as Tenochtitlán...
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88
Release Date:
09/14/2017
Edith Windsor, LGBTQ Advocate Who Fought The Defense Of Marriage Act, Dies At 88 Edith Windsor loved Thea Spyer. For nearly half a century , the two were partners and eventually were legally married as well. When...
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground
Release Date:
09/27/2017
Rezoning a Block in Harlem, Respecting an African Burial Ground For not quite two centuries starting in the mid-1660s, when a Dutch village was established under ... one for white parishioners, the other for...
What Business Can Learn From Buddhism
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... lessons from ancient spiritual teachings, such as those of Buddhism. The fourth largest religion in the world has been focused on attaining a higher meaning ... the path to moksha – liberation – since the...
General Motors Is Going All Electric
Release Date:
10/03/2017
General Motors Is Going All Electric After more than a century peddling vehicles that pollute the atmosphere, ... That product onslaught puts the company at the forefront of an increasingly large crowd of...
Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII
Release Date:
10/03/2017
Collector’s Heirs Praise Deal to Recover Art Seized in WWII The Geneva lawyer for the heirs of a Jewish woman whose art collection was seized by ... about a hard-won deal to recover from a Swiss town a 19th-...
Resilience Begins at Home
Release Date:
07/30/2013
... , Vice President , Global Communications, The Rockefeller Foundation Family, neighborhood and community are vital components of responding to shocks and stresses and bouncing back ... The...
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness Launch Low Vision Research Initiative
Release Date:
08/07/2015
... Partnerships with Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation and Lions Clubs International Foundation seek to ... a new research initiative to address urgent needs in understanding and...
The Term Impact Investing Needs to Be Better Understood
Release Date:
02/03/2016
... from PNY President Ronna Brown, published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost Monthly February 2016 edition. ... term “impact investing” has been an important point of discussion among...
Mellon Announces $125 Million "Creatives Rebuild New York" Initiative to Reactivate the State's Creative Economy and Provide Artists with the Critical Support They Need
Release Date:
06/03/2021
... (NEW YORK, NY — June 3, 2021) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today announced details for Creatives Rebuild ... New York State’s creative economy and secure the future of its artists. Part of...
07
Apr
2022
Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals
Thursday, April 7, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
The Program The PNY Core: Legal Series provides an overview of the legal and regulatory boundaries in a number of key legal topics. The series launches with ... both within and beyond grantmaking...