Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens
Release Date:
06/01/2014
... The Pinkerton Foundation has announced the launch of a neighborhood literacy initiative in South Jamaica, Queens, ...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners
Release Date:
06/29/2015
... prevention efforts, police-community partnership, and neighborhood camaraderie; and Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, ...
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Works to Build a Better South Bronx
Release Date:
07/10/2015
The foundation is partnering with the New York Restoration Project on community development and health initiatives to improve the quality of life for Bronx residents.
Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty
Release Date:
08/12/2015
... out the door of a family's home and occupies the entire neighborhood around it, touching the streets, the schools, ... is much more likely than a poor white one to live in a neighborhood where many other...
Bank of America Backs Community Development and Housing Projects
Release Date:
09/21/2015
... community development and housing services, including neighborhood revitalization, economic development projects, ...
William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans
Release Date:
09/19/2016
A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects.
City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs
Release Date:
09/08/2017
... new stores. The city is set to spend $288 million in the neighborhood — building a new park, a library branch, and ...
New NYSHealth Video: "Building a Healthier Brownsville"
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... the rest of New York City, Brownsville is a high-poverty neighborhood that has endeavored to overcome years of ...
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017
Release Date:
11/28/2017
... as well as the recipients of this year’s Bank of America Neighborhood Builder® Awards. In Miami, 2017 Neighborhood Builders Camillus House and PACE Center for ...
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2013
Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons: Main Convening
Friday, October 25, 2013 -
8:00am to 1:00pm
... This half-day conference will provide an opportunity for funders with a variety of programmatic interests to join with ... Leaders from three of the biggest New Year area Sandy funders , alongside those from...
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2015
Service for Impact
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 -
8:30am to 11:00am
... partners and meet true community needs. This working group , rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , ... volunteerism. In the first of our three working group meetings this year, which we’ll focus on...
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Oct
2016
Service for Impact
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 -
8:45am to 11:00am
... partners and meet true community needs. This working group , rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , ... through volunteerism. In the first of our three working group meetings this year, we will...
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Nov
2017
Service For Impact – Our History, Practice, and Program Management Challenges
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... into practice? Join the next Service For Impact Working Group quarterly meeting where we’ll review effective ... working with vendors – that can help inform our future group discussions. The Service for Impact...
International Grantmakers Unite: Grappling with the State of the World
Release Date:
11/06/2019
... State of the World By Buff Kavelman, President, Kavelman Group Philanthropic Advisors and Patricia Moore Nicholas, ... is on the rise, we work better when we work as a group . What’s that age-old proverb? If...
Time To Revisit Reporting
Release Date:
10/04/2017
... reporting seemed to be the least of our concerns. Since funders spend the most time and energy finding and selecting ... for streamlining. The most urgent problem at the time was funders unintentionally or...
PNY and Other Sector Leaders Respond to Callahan OpEd in NYTimes
Release Date:
06/05/2015
... and encouraging a focus on strengthening traditional neighborhood public schools? It depends, of course, on your ... Council of Nonprofits. State and regional associations of funders and nonprofits also...
Purpose as a Compass: Grant Reporting - What is the Purpose? Linking Values, Vision, and Practice
Release Date:
04/25/2023
... contributes very little to their ongoing growth. And for funders , instead of a launch pad for iteration and ... by reciprocal relationships between grant recipients and funders is not particularly...
Insights from “Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations and Building a Culture of Racial Repair”
Release Date:
06/13/2024
... to catch up. 1 To affect change for racial equity, funders must build a culture of repair and recognize ... democracy. On February 14th , we heard from leaders and funders at the forefront of the movement for...
Building a Bigger Tent for Effective Philanthropy
Release Date:
07/07/2015
... and Civil Society symposium considered how and why more funders have not adopted strategic philanthropy practices. ... The forum participants also proposed ideas to help prompt funders to do so. (Read the...