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What Philanthropy’s Response to Changes in Washington Means for Civic Engagement

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06/15/2017

... Engagement This pieces originally appeared on the website of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and is reposted with ... many foundation leaders have felt as we make sense of the swiftly changing context in...

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Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas

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08/08/2017

... an intern at the Edward W. Hazen Foundation and a Master of Public Affairs student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. In a recent New Yorker essay , ...

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Heads Up: These Tax Reform Proposals Could Help or Hurt Nonprofits

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08/16/2017

... This piece was originally published as the feature article of the August 2017 New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition ... to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate are...

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Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems

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09/06/2017

... information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study. Dubbed "voter ... theft" by study authors Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology...

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04 Jun 2018

Philanthropy New York’s 39th Annual Meeting - Democracy, Demographics & Destiny: All in the Details

Monday, June 4, 2018 -

1:00pm to 6:00pm

... Demographics & Destiny: All in the Details.” The focus of this half-day conference will be on fair representation and active participation of all Americans, especially those who face systematic ... We will...

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Listening for Bits of Truth in DC

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03/22/2018

Listening for Bits of Truth in DC By Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice ... ever spent a day or two pounding the hard terrazzo floors of the U.S. House and Senate office buildings talking with...

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Taking a Stand for New York

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04/12/2018

... have a focus on state-wide advocacy efforts as part of their agenda to drive towards systems-level change. Even ... more surprising, foundation leaders were often unaware of other regional initiatives similar...

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Best Conference EVER!: #ForumCon18

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07/25/2018

... Policy & Communications You may have read the construction of the headline above to mean that I think that this year’s ... for more than 25 years, so I have attended a lot of conferences! Here are a few...

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Infrastructure Design as Innovation

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04/02/2019

... into its operations, and focuses on the efficiency of its policies and processes, the more innovative it will ... can also be short sighted. In fact, it is the combination of both programmatic strategy and...

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04 Oct 2019

Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

Friday, October 4, 2019 -

9:00am to 5:00pm

... Are you interested in deepening your critical analysis of inequity and building more equitable models of practice? Race continues to play a defining role in our ... important that we build a shared...

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Reflections on Launching a Philanthropic Fund in Six Months

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09/19/2019

... Assefa Fund , a $30 million philanthropic initiative of World Education Services (WES), awarded over $1.2 million ... have. Along the way, I have captured and codified a few of the lessons I learned since we...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Bard-Brooklyn Public Library College Degree Program

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10/30/2019

... Andrew W. Mellon Foundation also funded the 2017 launch of Bard at BPL. “The Bard-Brooklyn Public Library ... Program Officer Eugene M. Tobin . “The practices of public libraries have much to offer as models...

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Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy

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03/24/2020

Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy By: Stephen Heintz, President and CEO, ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund In October 2019, the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund travelled to the U.S. South...

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A Letter from Surdna President Don Chen on Solidarity and Support to Grantees

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05/13/2020

... response, and offer our resolve for the years ahead. Many of the issues laid bare by the pandemic are the same urgent ones our grantees and communities of color across the United States have been addressing...

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To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

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06/23/2020

... that sponsored it. The Rauch Foundation presents Part 3 of their 3-part Insights series. Read Part 1: Could the ... to build an additional rail track on a critical segment of the Long Island Rail Road. The...

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Three Actions Philanthropic Funders Can Take to Advance Equity for Immigrant and Refugee Workers

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07/30/2020

... Senior Director, WES Mariam Assefa Fund Since the onset of COVID-19, immigrant women like Leonor Albarran, a janitor ... in Santa Monica, California, have acted as the front line of defense in the fight...

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... has awarded a $10 million gift to the City University of New York to drive change across 25 campuses and develop and expand a range of initiatives related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and ... of...

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Seeking Member Input into PNY's CEO Search

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07/20/2020

... lead the search, with an invitation to participate in one of two open conversations and/or to submit a survey with your ... the next CEO at Philanthropy New York. Given the context of the news and our world...

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