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Tisch Education Center at Whitney Museum Profiled in Education Update

Release Date:

12/01/2015

... Update article, Joan Baum spotlights the Whitney’s new Laurie M. Tisch Education Center, prominently situated on the third floor of the museum’s new downtown home. Dr. Baum describes the Tisch Center ...

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Arts

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Tow Foundation Gives $25M to Barnard for Tech Center

Release Date:

02/01/2016

... the Columbia University affiliate will use to build a new teaching center in New York City. The Tow Foundation, overseen by Leonard Tow ... teaching center which Barnard says will serve as a...

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Education

Technology

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Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology At the Central New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp held in ... subject matter, since digital humanities is a relatively new and rapidly...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

NYS Health Foundation Leads to Financially Sustainable Care Model For Resettled Refugees

Release Date:

05/05/2016

... Currently, 97 percent of refugees resettling in New York State are located upstate, particularly the greater ... decade, this influx of newly resettled people in upstate New York has forced several nonprofit...

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Simons Foundation Gives $40M for Astronomy Facility in Chile

Release Date:

05/12/2016

... Simons Foundation has given $38.4 million to establish a new astronomy facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert, adding new telescopes and new detectors to existing instruments in order to boost ...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

Release Date:

06/30/2016

... like a parent’s nightmare. Roughly two dozen children at New York City schools were hit, kicked, and bullied by fellow ... shows a clear and undeniable escalation of violence in New York City schools,” said...

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Education

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Brooklyn Org

Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'

Release Date:

11/16/2016

... Into 'Women's Building' Finding affordable real estate in New York City can take forever. Just ask Gloria Steinem and ... co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972. "There was just nothing. New York...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Former Capital One Foundation President Forms Consulting Practice to Strengthen Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships

Release Date:

12/02/2016

... communications professional Carrie Fox to form a new consulting practice geared toward helping nonprofits form ... more productive relationships with corporations. The new company will officially launch Jan. 1...

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Member News

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

Release Date:

05/15/2017

... federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’s still possible to take meaningful steps ... locally. Several weeks ago, the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and...

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Member News

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... Rockaway plan is only the second one to pass. Some 3,000 new apartments are expected to be built under the deal — ... mall, which will be redeveloped for housing and new stores. The city is set to spend $288...

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Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit? The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio ... is how much credit he deserves for it. The percentage of New Yorkers living in poverty...

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Economic Security

De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... on Wednesday rolled out a $10 million plan to install as many as 1,000 new electric-car charging stations throughout the city by ...

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

NYCHA Plans Market-Rate Brooklyn Units

Release Date:

10/02/2017

NYCHA Plans Market-Rate Brooklyn Units The New York City Housing Authority is planning a new development that would include market-rate housing on the ... Brooklyn neighborhood of East Williamsburg. The ...

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Housing and Homelessness

28 Apr 2025

Fighting Exclusion and Expulsion: Protecting the Freedom to Move and to Stay - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Monday, April 28, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... States their home. Speakers Lillian Aponte , Executive Director , Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Erika Pinheiro , Executive Director , Al Otro Lado Fatima Saidi , Director , We...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Funding Area

Immigration

20 Jan 2015

The Power of Microaggressions & Microaffirmations

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 -

8:00am to 11:15am

... Competence Coach and Consultant Susan Olivo , Executive Director , Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation ... any questions. In collaboration with Philanthropy New York's Increasing Diversity...

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Workshop

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Board & Trustees

Executive Leadership

HR & Operations Staff

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Location

United States

Virtual Employee Engagement through Virtual Conversational Leadership

Release Date:

01/20/2023

... Menane, Senior Manager, Capgemini, Donita Volkwijn, Senior Director Member Engagement, Philanthropy New York, and John Hovell, Co-Founder, STRATactical ... were engaging with their employees virtually, but...

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Insights

Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

Release Date:

11/20/2017

... Dana K. Bezerra will assume the role of President at Heron as of December 31, 2017, the Heron Foundation announced ... steering committee for Mission Investors’ Exchange, and as a reviewer for the Bill...

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Appointments & Transitions

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F.B. Heron Foundation

01 Feb 2018

Supporting Local Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Foundations - Webinar

Thursday, February 1, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Join PSFG and the Human Rights Funders Network for a funders-only discussion on the challenges to “locally-led” grantmaking and recommendations for how to overcome them.

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire

Release Date:

08/09/2018

... considered the second-largest wildfire in state history as of Monday. Responders from both agencies are checking ...

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Member News

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

The Ford Foundation Takes Another Stand On Census

Release Date:

10/19/2018

... United States. This decennial census tells us who we are as a country: where we live and how we live, where we’ve ... who our neighbors are and what our communities look like. As we approach 2020, there are...