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Insights from “2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence”

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06/16/2025

... For some funders, this may entail a shift in how you think about financial due diligence – from something undertaken ... that enables a productive dialogue with the grantee about their challenges and goals...

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15 Jul 2025

Fostering Citizen Engagement and Trust, 21st-Century Style - A Webinar Hosted by Democracy Funders Network

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... by DFN’s Democracy Innovation Project, we’ll hear about promising initiatives at the state and local level ... Imagination Project will discuss BG2050 , an initiative about the future of Bowling Green, KY that...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Program Assistant

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09/2013

The following jobs descriptions for program assistant professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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On The Foundation Freeway: Entering And Exiting Priority Areas With Caution

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08/02/2016

... shaped our thinking. We had difficult choices to make about potential exits and new priority areas to enter. ... and support they need to make informed decisions about their health care. Finally, we could see...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Day Of The Girl: A Worldwide Reminder That Gender Parity Awaits

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10/25/2016

... and girls – by 2030, we need to make a move now. Just about one year ago, McKinsey & Company released a report ... together. At SHE , we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to get women into jobs...

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Gender Justice

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PIMCO Foundation

How We Can Advance Support for Racial Equity and Racial Justice Funding

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03/03/2022

... result, there is a lack of understanding across the field about how the work of grants management directly relates to ... lens has four key features: Analyzes data and information about race and ethnicity...

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Social Justice

17 Mar 2015

The Promise of Community Schools in NYC

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 -

8:30am to 1:30pm

... please email: register@philanthropynewyork.org * Join us to explore critical issues around New York City's ... support innovation and incubation and achieve results . Join leaders from various City...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Asian American Leaders In A Moment Of Pride And Peril - Featuring Don Chen, Surdna Foundation and Taryn Higashi, Unbound Philanthropy

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06/30/2020

Asian American leaders in philanthropy dicscuss anti-Asian bigotry and xenophobia, their foundation's response to the COVID-19 crisis, and philanthropy's role in promoting people of color into executive roles.

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Dana Foundation Appoints Two New Board Members

Release Date:

07/18/2023

... the aspirations of all people.” Kerger and Manji will join the following Dana Foundation board members: Steven E. ...

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01 May 2024

Turning the Tide: (Re)Claiming Belonging & Power for People of Color in Philanthropy

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 -

10:00am to 11:00am

Virtual Meeting - Register by 4/30

... lived experience in driving change within philanthropy. Join us for a meaningful discussion that explores how ...

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Looking at IRS 990 Forms

Publication date:

03/2012

Participants learned what information can be gleaned from the 990 form and what has changed within the form since prior years.

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Close the Divide Between Education and Work

Release Date:

01/21/2016

... That said, like most education organizations that talk about career readiness, our focus was on making sure students ... skills gap, I was exposed to a whole new way of thinking about career readiness. While...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Vice President of Programs

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11/2013

The following jobs descriptions for senior vice president of programs professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees

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04/2013

Learn how the IRS Form 990 and financial statements can best be used together to interpret the financial status of an organization.

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More Nonprofits Seek to Improve Management Practices

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05/19/2014

... development. The size of organizations varied as well— about a quarter reported budgets of less than $1 million ... receive a 360-degree review with detailed feedback about their organization's management...

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The New York Community Trust

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To Build Community, Start with a Question

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11/19/2014

... and the opportunities for change. We wanted to hear about their experiences, the services and resources they need ... by asking participants to share one insight they have about Brooklyn in 2014. We then moved...

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Community Development

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Three Education Ideas for NYC’s New Mayor

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10/15/2013

Century Foundation Policy Associate Halley Potter reports from our Education Funders Research Initiative launch and shares three proposals from the event that she found particularly compelling.

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... I remember making pens filled with shredded money to learn about entrepreneurship from Junior Achievement. In college, I ... ironies of organized philanthropy that for all our talk about transforming the world...

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After We Say Goodbye

Release Date:

01/29/2010

... and gender inequities on a regular basis. I think about the story one grantee told of an elderly client—a ... of over 28 years to breast cancer—but how could she talk about this to a support group of...

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