The Mismeasure of Poverty
Release Date:
09/17/2013
... between 2011 and 2012, at about 15 percent. According to the official measure, poverty today is higher than it was in 1973, when it reached a historical low ...
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Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab
Release Date:
05/12/2015
... Island’s approximately 500,000 residents have access to comparatively fewer public services, yet experience ... supported the Staten Island Not-for-Profit Association - a network of diverse nonprofits –...
Responding to Change: A Look at Strategies Helping Wildlife and People Adapt to Shifting Climates
Release Date:
03/28/2018
Responding to Change: A Look at Strategies Helping Wildlife and People ... Forest Service—grantees of the Wildlife Conservation Society through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation ... the core concept DDCF...
Ford’s Walker Says ‘Unusual Coalition’ Won’t Be Last of its Kind
Release Date:
02/20/2015
... Foundation This piece was originally sent as an email to Ford Foundation staff prior to the official launch and ... and prevented from contributing to our democracy and society...
An Update on Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Limited Life
Release Date:
10/23/2018
... Life "Today Blue Meridian Partners is announcing plans to become an independent, (501(c)(3) enterprise. With this ... not yet complete. First, we will fulfill our commitments to longtime grantees in our...
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release Scaling Solutions toward Shifting Systems: Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change Report
Release Date:
07/22/2020
... complex, many philanthropic funders are reflecting on how to create more transformational impact. To help answer that question, the Scaling Solutions toward ... and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Our goal...
NYCHA Now
Release Date:
02/11/2021
... this is an extraordinary moment in time for New Yorkers to join together in unity to make an impact on our city through the “power of our ... in 2016, the Fund for Public Housing is a 501c3 devoted to...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Five New Proposals Funded through the Monuments Project
Release Date:
02/09/2021
... Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced five new projects to be funded through its monuments initiative. Launched in ... groundbreaking $250 million grantmaking effort to reimagine and transform...
Philanthropy New York Welcomes Two New Philanthropy Fellows, Ariane Cruz and Javon Robinson
Release Date:
07/13/2021
... Cruz and Javon Robinson Philanthropy New York is excited to welcome our new philanthropy fellows, Ariane Cruz and ... the Child Development Project at Bard College. Prior to graduate school, she was a member...
Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking
Release Date:
05/16/2013
... Program Manager, Health and Environmental Funders Network The word “fracking” has been all over the ... among many foundations that now are funding efforts to regulate or ban fracking. Why should you pay...
This New Tool Is The Latest Effort By The Gates Foundation To Bring Innovation to Payment Infrastructure
Release Date:
10/16/2017
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will release free and open source software to address the lack of interoperability between financial ... This New Tool Is The Latest Effort By The Gates Foundation ...
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How U.S. Funders Can Respond to the Current Global Refugee Crisis - Webinar
Thursday, September 17, 2015 -
4:00pm to 5:30pm
... borne of their desperation—from toddlers washed ashore to trucks full of corpses—have focused the world’s ... Refugee Assistance Project Maria Teresa Rojas, Director, Open Society...
Channeling the Power of Collaborative Funding for Good
Release Date:
03/29/2024
... is often over community leaders who require resources to pursue liberation and justice within a sector that is increasingly recognizing the need to incorporate more equitable and just grantmaking practices...
Debate Your Philanthropic Philosophies
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... two knowledgeable and passionate opponents; feel free to blame Sam Waterson’s portrayal of Jack McCoy in Law and ... and grant making organizations, allowing them to have open and honest...
Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue
Release Date:
03/22/2017
... Public Service Scholar This past January, I had the chance to study in Morocco. Morocco was on my travel list for a long ... The family code secured more rights and greater access to education...
Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition
Release Date:
01/23/2017
... Foundation, Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge Aims to Tackle Regions Toughest Infrastructure Needs The ... excited to implement this innovative challenge which will transform the...
Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board
Release Date:
11/02/2016
Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board Newman's Own today announced that Walter ... Advisory Board. Harrison is currently President of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT, where...
Advancing Racial Equity
... Racial Equity Philanthropy New York has been working to deepen our own learning, and that of our members, about ... conversations, and share resources that equip our members to adapt and transform...
The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation
Release Date:
10/23/2019
... I practiced all the time – piano, soccer, reading – to get better at whatever it was I was doing. I practiced. I ... and how will it inform our decisions? If we are really open to change,...
The Johnson Amendment, Nonprofit Political Activity
... In recent years, a few religious groups have sought to repeal the Johnson Amendment, asserting that it restricts ... places in the nonprofit sector is critically important to Philanthropy New York and our...