2021 Operational Reports
Publication date:
05/2021
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Resources for Racial Equity
Resources from Leaders in the Field A multitude of resources exists -- from recorded Philanthropy New York programming to articles to guide -- to support your racial equity learning. Thought Leadership Internal Operations ...
Impact Investing in Education: An Overview of the Current Landscape
Publication date:
01/2014
This study, conducted by D. Capital Partners, is part of the Open Society Education Support Program’s efforts to identify innovative financing mechanisms and approaches that can increase the availability and allocation of resources for education systems.
The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Half-day Convening Focused on How Philanthropy Can Make All the Difference Post-Convening Report – October 2024
Publication date:
05/2025
In October 2024, Philanthropy New York’s Youth and Education Funders Working Group convened over one hundred funders interested in learning more about the youth mental health crisis for a half-day convening focused on how philanthropy can make a difference in the youth mental health crisis.
Recording: Reimagining Justice: Global Lessons, Local Action & Featuring The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper
Reimagining Justice: Global Lessons, Local Action & Featuring The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper Access to justice remains a profound crisis in New York and across the U.S., where outcomes in the legal system too often hinge on income, race,...
Why the New Teachers’ Contract Is Great News for NYC’s Students
Release Date:
06/03/2014
Important for the future of the city’s public schools and the prospects for its students are the quite radical but largely overlooked contract provisions affecting how administrators and teachers will work with each other.
Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo
Release Date:
09/05/2014
Rachel Leifer and Denis Udall discuss how philanthropy can help educators find, create, and demand better options for students.
Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?
Release Date:
09/12/2013
Mertz Gilmore Foundation Vice President Lukas Haynes and DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin engage in a spirited conversation about risk-taking, funding nonprofits and measuring impact.
After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers
Release Date:
07/10/2013
by Michael Seltzer, Trustee, EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation , and past President, Philanthropy New York Two days before the 44th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that occurred on the streets of my own neighborhood,...
Movement Building and System Change
Release Date:
05/18/2012
By Mitch Nauffts, PhilanTopic (This post originally appeared on PhilanTopic, the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on May 14, 2012 and is reprinted with permission.) The bad old days of the ’70s and ’80s are a distant memory for many...
Engagement Snapshot: A Strategic Approach
Release Date:
11/28/2011
By Beeta Jahedi, Assistant Manager, Professional Education, Philanthropy New York and Robert Hyfler, EngAGEment Initiative Program Consultant, Philanthropy New York (This post originally appeared on the Forum’s Forum , the blog of...
Can We Still Improve Philanthropy?
Release Date:
07/17/2009
Being away from the day-to-day administration of a foundation has allowed me some time to think about how philanthropy can be improved.
Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard
Release Date:
06/12/2009
For a group of newspaper people, newspapers must be saved; for a group of Web people, newspapers must go; and there are a lot of compass points in between.
Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx
Release Date:
10/07/2015
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Executive Director, Rick Luftglass, outlines the foundation's commitment to food security through their support of the Hostos Community College Food Studies program.
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Launch a Global Plan to Save Coral Reefs from Extinction
Release Date:
02/23/2017
... Gil Jenkins, Ogilvy for 50 Reefs, gil.jenkins@ogilvy. com or +1 202-729-4127 Lorna Parry, The Ocean Agency, ...
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Fight Bias Against Muslims
Release Date:
03/30/2017
It is readily apparent that the need for such work is more urgent than ever before: A February 2017 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center cites a 197 percent surge in anti-Muslim hate groups in 2016.
The Weight of Privilege in Crisis
Release Date:
08/19/2020
The world has undergone a tectonic shift in the last six months and it's changing us.
As the Pandemic Pushes Women and Girls Further Behind, a Global Response to Gender Inequality Is Needed
Release Date:
05/05/2021
Commitments to gender equality mean little without the financial backing and accountability needed to make them happen.
Ford Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies Join Governments and Private Funders to Announce Historic Pledge at COP26 in support of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Release Date:
11/01/2021
UK, Norway, Germany, US, and the Netherlands, and 17 funders pledged to support Indigenous Peoples, local communities at COP26, citing their proven role in preventing deforestation that fuels climate change
Supporting Leaders of Color? Insights from “Showing Up to Share Power: A Conversation with Building Movement Project”
Release Date:
05/09/2022
Increasingly, nonprofit boards are actively recruiting leaders of color -- a move that often coincides with internal attempts to dismantle white power structures and welcome leadership that is more representative of the communities nonprofits serve.