Site Search

Funding Area

Human Services

Public Policy

Gender Justice

Workforce Development

From Katrina to the “Next Sandy”: Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Older Adults

Release Date:

04/04/2013

By Rachael N. Pine, J.D., Program Officer, Altman Foundation On February 27, Philanthropy New York hosted a session to zero in on the impact of disasters, like Hurricane Sandy, on vulnerable ... Commissioner...

Find More By

News type

Audience

Well-Told Stories Can Super-Power Social Change

Release Date:

05/17/2016

... Can Super-Power Social Change By Betsy Richards, Director of Creative Strategies and Public Programs, Opportunity ... strength of those webs of significance – whether it’ s...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Communications

Related Organizations

The Opportunity Agenda

Sloan Public Service Awards Honor Seven NYC Employees

Release Date:

06/03/2016

... ( June 1, 2016, New York, NY ) The Fund for the City of New York (FCNY) today announced the recipients of the 2016 ... have built long careers serving New Yorkers. This year’ s recipients—who...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Related Organizations

Getting Out of our Comfort Zone in Response to COVID-19

Release Date:

04/07/2020

Getting Out of our Comfort Zone in Response to COVID-19 By: Ivan Rosales, ... made in over 40 years of grantmaking. As a community foundation that is supported by individual donors committed .....

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Fundraising

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Economic Security

Related Organizations

North Star Fund

Grantee Financials - It's Not Just About the Numbers

Release Date:

04/14/2022

Grantee Financials - It' s Not Just About the Numbers By: Vanessa Rivera, Grants and Operations Associate Director, Solon E. Summerfield Foundation and Associate Director at Intentional Philanthropy ... New...

Find More By

News type

Finance & Asset Management

Topic(s)

22 Apr 2025

Protecting New York City’s Immigrant Small Business Ecosystem - An Event Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 -

10:30am to 12:00pm

... has extended an invitation to PNY members. Across the U. S ., immigrants establish businesses at significantly higher ... One study , co-authored by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, found that...

Find More By

Event type

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Immigration

04 Nov 2015

Sectoral Employment Strategies for Young Adults: Lessons for the New Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Programs

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... school or pursue post-secondary education. The quality of the second chance system has been questioned by many funders based on evaluations of these programs prior to 2000. However, the significant ... Rick...

Find More By

Event type

Issue-Based

Network Building

Format

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

Topic(s)

Public Policy

Funding Area

Workforce Development

Location

New York City

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

Release Date:

05/17/2018

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research By Betsy ... Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation More than 40 percent of young physicians with .....

Find More By

News type

Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Foundation

Integrating Health and Human Services

Official Statement of Philanthropy New York on: Integrating Health and Human ... and human services.” The report is the product of HSC’ s Commission on Value-Based Care (Philanthropy New York was...

John Ruskay, Ph.D., to Step Down in June 2014 as Executive Vice President and CEO of UJA-Federation of New York

Release Date:

05/01/2013

... down from his position as Executive Vice President and CEO of UJA-Federation of New York on June 30, 2014, concurrent ... we have built a stronger community." Under Dr. Ruskay' s...

Find More By

News type

Related Organizations

UJA-Federation of New York

J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces Open Call for Applications to 2019 Innovation Prize

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... J.M.K. Innovation Prize, which will award up to ten prizes of $175,000 each to catalytic social change organizations ... mission-driven for-profit organizations tackling America’ s most pressing challenges...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Finance & Asset Management

Related Organizations

The J.M. Kaplan Fund

18 Apr 2024

2024 Applied Financial Analysis for Program Officers: Two-Part Series

Thursday, April 18, 2024 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... a nonprofit to move from surviving to thriving? What kind of support can funders provide to meaningfully shift the ... analysis as a tool to assess and support an organization’ s financial health, and how...

Find More By

Event type

Professional Development

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Nonprofit Financials

Vali Nasr Becomes Opinion Contributor for The New York Times

Release Date:

10/17/2013

The New York Times has announced the addition of Vali Nasr , a Rockefeller Brothers Fund trustee, to its ... Advanced International Studies. He has served on the RBF board since 2007. Read the Poynter article,...

Find More By

News type

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Related Organizations

Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

Release Date:

08/06/2014

... Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’ s Sanford School of Public Policy A version of this post originally ... spending down.” In no time, a couple of old...

Find More By

News type

The Atlantic Philanthropies

Topic(s)

Governance

Related Organizations

Bold Stories For Big Challenges

Release Date:

12/17/2013

... Managing Director, Working Narratives Conscription of child soldiers. Mass incarceration. Environmental ... help grantmakers confront such huge challenges? That’ s the question that a group of...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

The Overbrook Foundation

10 Mar 2015

Supporting Grantee Capacity

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a...

Find More By

Format

Roundtable Discussion

Workshop

Livestream

Audience

Topic(s)

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Location

New York City

24 Mar 2015

Administrative Relief and Philanthropy Webinar Series - Making the Case for Immigrant-Related Grantmaking: A Funder Conversation on Messaging and Communication Strategies that Work

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... the case to support immigrant-related work within your foundation ? Wondering how other funders are connecting immigration issues—including implementation of the new executive actions—to diverse grantmaking...

Find More By

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Immigration

Workforce Development

Location

United States

Good Grantmaking Where Our Work is Not Always Welcome

Release Date:

04/27/2015

by Jim O'Sullivan, Program Director, IBD/Crohn’ s Disease & Sr. Advisor, Israel Program, The Leona M. and ... sector. On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, almost 40 members of Philanthropy New York’ s...

Find More By

News type

International/Foreign Affairs

Funding Area

Community Development

Related Organizations

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

NYCT Announces Finalists for 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards

Release Date:

10/13/2015

... was made by the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC), which created and manages the ... of The New York Community Trust, one of the region’ s leading funders...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area