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2014
Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 -
10:00am to 2:30pm
Join Grantmakers in Health and Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families as they present Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York . This meeting will give funders in...
Racial Equity Resource Guide
Publication date:
05/2014
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation offers an online racial equity resource guide. The ... and data on racial inequities, their impact on communities of color and the process for healing racial wounds so that ... been working to foster racial healing and racial equity in communities across the country. The practical resources ...
Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors
Release Date:
05/06/2014
... The conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, based in California, and the liberal Center for American Progress, based in Washington, are polar opposites in terms of...
Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making
Release Date:
05/22/2014
[Rockefeller Foundation ] Study Predicts Building in East River Could Pay for Itself and Then Some A team of architects and consultants is proposing to build a new ...
Ending Child Marriage in a Generation: What Research is Needed?
Release Date:
05/13/2014
... 18—the age the world has agreed upon as the beginning of adulthood under the UN Convention on the Rights of the ... independence are the same. Produced with support from the foundation ’s...
NYC Council members rip Walmart’s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’
Release Date:
06/04/2014
NYC Council members rip Walmart’s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’ More than half the members of the ... a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in charitable contributions to...
Why Do Banks Care About Youth Career Readiness in New York?
Release Date:
06/03/2014
Why Do Banks Care About Youth Career Readiness in New York? Five months ago, JP Morgan Chase announced its ... ever: a $250 million initiative to bolster the skills of workers, with a big focus on young people...
New York Botanical Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens
Release Date:
06/19/2014
... Garden Humanities Institute To Explore Social Impact of Gardens The newly formed New York Botanical Garden's ... possible by a $635,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , holds its first public...
No Stories Without Numbers; No Numbers Without Stories
Release Date:
08/04/2014
By Paul Connolly, Director of Philanthropic Advisory Services, Bessemer Trust As ... wealth management firm that supervises over $96 billion in assets for 2200 client families, over $4 billion of...
Simons Grantees Win Top Mathematics Honors
Release Date:
08/13/2014
... and the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize have been awarded to Simons Foundation grantees Manjul Bhargava, Maryam Mirzakhani and ... Subhash Khot, respectively. Considered the highest honor in the field of...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues
Release Date:
08/20/2014
... a new $45 million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life. The foundation will direct significant funding and other ... that has been...
Financing the Social Sector
Release Date:
09/15/2014
Financing the Social Sector Despite the huge success of this summer's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and various ... pie from its current 2 percent of GDP to 3 percent of GDP. In...
Collective Impact: From Concept to Reality
Release Date:
11/13/2014
by Pooja Joshi O'Hanlon, Executive Director, The Elmezzi Foundation Recently, funders and practitioners gathered at ... been aligned across programs, too many organizations work in silos to achieve their...
Sloan Teaching Awards Honor High School Math and Science Educators
Release Date:
12/04/2014
... study the East River, a mathematician teaching immigrants in the South Bronx and a teacher who raised test scores ... schools for at least five years, were chosen by a panel of scientists, mathematicians and...
See the Storify: Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons
Release Date:
10/29/2013
... Hurricane Sandy, our communities have made great progress in recovery. But so much more remains to be done. On October 25, Philanthropy New York and a group of funders and nonprofits who have been active...
All Investing is Impact Investing
Release Date:
01/12/2015
All Investing is Impact Investing In the United States, nearly $1 trillion is committed to philanthropy — sitting in foundations, donor-advised funds and elsewhere. Donors have transferred ownership of...
Microsoft Is Teaching Cybersecurity to Cities Around the World—For Free
Release Date:
01/16/2015
... feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on ... is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, free of charge, to select city governments...
Staten Island after Sandy: A Funder Update
Release Date:
04/10/2013
By Betsy Dubovsky, Executive Director, The Staten Island Foundation As a Philanthropy New York member, I’m ... with colleagues and reflect on what’s been happening in the wake of Hurricane Sandy...
J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants
Release Date:
01/29/2015
... The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation . In 2015 up to ten Prizes will be awarded to U.S.-based ...