Site Search

PNY News

Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

Release Date:

01/26/2022

... but also that they are a crucial tool in efforts to bring about meaningful progressive change in the world,” said ... and faculty at these 12 liberal arts colleges as they go about the good hard work of...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

Simons Foundation Supports CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education

Release Date:

02/09/2022

... fields, igniting the imaginations of many as they learn about it from television shows or news of space exploration. ...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Related Organizations

The Simons Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project Supports Williamsburg Bray School project

Release Date:

02/19/2022

... crucial voices have been missing from the stories we tell about William & Mary’s past — and that of our nation,” ... implementation of public programming to educate visitors about the school’s complicated...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Education

Related Organizations

Mellon Foundation

03 May 2022

Philanthropy New York's 43rd Annual Meeting - Purpose as Compass

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and how are these practices changing the ways we think about resource allocation? How does identifying the ... workings of racism and power? What are our assumptions about how to interpret data, in both its...

Find More By

Event type

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

State of Safety for Asian American and Pacific Islander Women in the US: New Report by The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, in Partnership With The Korean American Community Foundation &Asian American Foundation Forum

Release Date:

03/03/2022

... Research Director Dr. Drishti Pillai. When asked about their safety in public spaces, over half (51%) of East ... continues to bleed into our grim present.” When asked about elected officials’ responses, 36%...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Korean American Community Foundation

Related Organizations

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Public Charity Expands Project ACT to Provide At-Risk Communities Nationwide With Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests

Release Date:

06/29/2022

... shows both hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19 are about twice as high for Black and Latino Americans. Health ... Americans who need them most. We are incredibly optimistic about the potential of this...

Find More By

News type

The Rockefeller Foundation

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Health

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces the 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Awardees

Release Date:

08/09/2022

... Fibrosis in Treatment-resistance Rheumatoid Arthritis” About the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The mission ... diagnoses and treatments for human diseases. To learn more about the program, visit www.ddcf...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Health

Science

Related Organizations

Doris Duke Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative Launches New Racial Wealth Equity Database

Release Date:

09/15/2022

... equity data. It will also convene leaders and host events about the power of data to help drive solutions for racial ... at Cities for Financial Empowerment. To learn more about the Black Wealth Data Center...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Related Organizations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

To Achieve Equity, We Must Accurately Measure Need

Release Date:

10/06/2022

... City registered voters have the option of doing something about this. Beginning with early voting on October 29, 2022, ... Structural Racism , where I will be speaking more about the TCL and the two other...

Find More By

News type

Funding Area

Economic Security

Public Policy

What’s at Stake and What’s at Play: My Reckoning with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2022

... facing an inequitable system. We must think critically about the programs we fund and the landscapes they operate ... had the chance or weren’t given the opportunity. I think about what I’ve seen and been told...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Maverick Capital Foundation

Related Organizations

Me/We & Public Policy: A Journey from Foundations on the Hill to NYC to…

Release Date:

05/25/2023

... Once we sat down, both the staffers' and my expectations about how these meetings would go, were pleasantly ... , Stanford Social Innovation Review To learn more about Philanthropy New York’s public...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Appointments & Transitions

Public Policy

Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Three New Board Members

Release Date:

07/06/2023

... the Ms. Foundation board, please visit ForWomen.org/ about /our-board/ . Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Three ...

Find More By

News type

Related Organizations

Ms. Foundation for Women

PNY's Policy Corner: Following the Lead of our Partners by Supporting #WHY15 and #JustPay Campaigns:

Release Date:

02/02/2024

... to lift human services salaries. These campaigns are about more than the survival of the non-profit ecosystem; they're about ensuring that the people and communities who serve as a .....

Find More By

News type

PNY News

Topic(s)

Public Policy

04 Dec 2025

Reimagining Food in Prisons: Opportunities for Funders and Advocates - Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Thursday, December 4, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... with any questions. More about the presenting organizations Impact Justice advances ... honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. Their goal is to shift ...

Find More By

Event type

Issue-Based

Format

Panel

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Food Systems

Justice Reform

Philanthropy's Key Contributions to Society

Publication date:

08/2008

A compilation of well-known innovations that can be traced to foundation funding over the past 100 years.

Find More By

Resource type

Article

Topic(s)

Program Overview: Money and Power in Post-Election America

... level. What lessons do past philanthropic efforts tell us about how philanthropy might promote better health policy and ... Are there coalitions to be fostered? Can we finally talk about race and class? To...

Can Philanthropy Support the Transformation of Society?

Release Date:

03/06/2014

... pick 150 30-pound buckets of tomatoes every day, and earn about $11,000 a year in return. Today, however, the tomato ... over the last dozen years, we have learned a lot about what goes on in agriculture and...

Find More By

News type

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Funding Area

Food Systems

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

NoVo Foundation

NYSHealth Foundation Testimony on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in New York City

Release Date:

12/09/2020

... supported work to expand access to transparent information about maternal health care quality and outcomes. 14 NYSHealth ... New Yorkers to make informed and higher-value decisions about maternity care. This...

Find More By

News type

Children, Youth and Families

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Health

Related Organizations

New York Health Foundation

From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back: Philanthropy’s Role & Responsibility in Returning Stolen Land to Native Communities

Release Date:

02/03/2022

... are reciprocal and not transactional. It’s not about what the foundation can do to help Indigenous ... in the Five Boroughs. What started as a conversation about giving essentially a grant to the AICH has...

Find More By

News type

Topic(s)

Funding Area