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Are Social Impact Bonds the future of social change financing? Many of us in the sector have heard about them. The City of New York, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg Philanthropies, recently announced a major initiative to reduce...

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27 Feb 2013

Vulnerable Populations & Disaster: Lessons from Katrina and a Sandy Update

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

Jenny Campbell, Commissioner Lilliam Barrios Paoli, and Ruth Finkelstein will each share their unique and expert vantage points on the elderly population as an especially vulnerable one during disasters. They will collectively cover the topics of...

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15 Jul 2013

Justice Delayed – An Examination of the Ken Burns Film The Central Park Five

Monday, July 15, 2013 -

3:45pm to 7:00pm

... and The Atlantic Philanthropies ; co-sponsored by the NYC Youth Funders and New York Juvenile Justice Initiative ...

01 Dec 2011

Don’t Cut Kids: An Update on the Federal Budget and Children

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -

7:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF), and NYC Youth Funders for a thought-provoking forum that will ...

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03 Nov 2011

Lifelong Learning: Targeting Your Education Dollars to Create, Sustain, and Serve Learners of All Ages

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... older even faster than much of the rest of world. In some NYC neighborhoods, more than 20% of the population is already ...

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06 Jan 2010

Nourishing Strong Communities: Access to Healthy Food as an Essential Ingredient of Community Building

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

A Philanthropy New York MEMBERS BRIEFING , sponsored by the Elmezzi Foundation , Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation , and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund , WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Funders interested in community building,...

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20 Sep 2011

School Transformations III: Practices and Programs that Are Transforming Schools & Policies that Support Them

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

This is the third session of a series designed to inform grantmakers about realistic options for significantly improving and even transforming low-performing public schools. The first session noted the tremendous challenges involved in turning...

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01 Apr 2014

Advocacy and Policy Communications: Where Does Social Media Fit In?

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Action,” co-sponsored by Public Policy Communicators NYC . This program is " Partially Open ." Presenters Isaiah .....

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24 Apr 2014

The Future of Education for New Yorkers Without High School Diplomas

Thursday, April 24, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

An estimated 1.8 million New Yorkers do not have high school diplomas. Until December 31, 2013, the only way for these individuals to get vocational training, entry-level jobs, or enroll in college was to pass the General Education Development (GED...

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Education

04 Jun 2014

The de Blasio Administration’s Workforce Development Strategy

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

This Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders will feature a presentation from Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen on the de Blasio Administration’s Workforce Development Strategy and a panel of national experts discussing innovative employer-...

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Workforce Development

20 May 2014

Philanthropic Advisors Network

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 -

8:15am to 10:00am

... network last fall to create a peer-learning community for NYC -based philanthropic advisors. The network aims to ...

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Network Building

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Philanthropic Consultants/Advisors

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Communications

Ford Foundation Appoints John W. Bernstein as Chief Operating Officer

Release Date:

11/07/2014

... He is the longtime president of Ping Chong and Company, a NYC theatre company and is a member of the Rockefeller ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Leon Levy Foundation

Ford Foundation

Musicians Foundation Celebrates Centennial Anniversary

Release Date:

12/18/2014

... as the Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC . Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez are the ...

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Arts

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Musicians Foundation

15 Jan 2015

Getting Better at Getting Better: Using Data to Improve Student Social-Emotional Learning

Thursday, January 15, 2015 -

8:00am to 11:00am

The session will focus on the use of data and measurement tools to help young people set goals for themselves and build social-emotional competencies (SEL) essential for academic and life success.

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All Funders

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Leadership Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Human Services

Children, Youth and Families

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United States

The Future is Now: The Need for Health Information Exchange

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04/30/2012

... using the EHRs they have adopted. We already oversee the NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health , which ...

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All Funders

Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

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05/03/2010

... Karp Resources is the technical support provider for the NYC Green Cart Initiative , funded by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund . NYC Green Carts is an example of how business, government, ...

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24 Sep 2015

Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits

Thursday, September 24, 2015 -

9:00am to 12:15pm

... you were invited. (no fee) Public Policy Communicators- NYC members : THIS PROGRAM IS FREE to all nonprofit ... professionals who are regular attendees of PPC- NYC programs. Non-Member Funders: Please email...