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29 Jan 2025

Using Philanthropic Assets beyond Grantmaking: Shareholder Engagement as a Tool to Drive Change

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 5:30pm

... PNY Members: To register yourself and/or a colleague at your organization, please log in and click the “Register ... you recieved an email invitation and are not a PNY member, we are happy to waive the...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Environment and Climate Change

Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?

Release Date:

07/15/2013

... Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the resiliency of our food distribution ... in the face of climate change and future disasters. We ’re pleased to have Amara Foster,...

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Surdna Foundation

Equitable Recovery for All New Yorkers: The NY Stimulus Alliance

Release Date:

08/09/2010

We recently held a program (presented by our Increasing ... maximize the impact of the stimulus for all New Yorkers. We are pleased to have Maria Mottola, Executive Director of ...

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New York Foundation

18 Jul 2012

Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC

... strategies that close racial opportunity gaps. We will involve you in a roundtable style conversation to ... lift up successful strategies and identify ways we can build transformative collective impact. This...

Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

... Are our grants structured to be successful? Are we efficient in our internal processes? Are we communicating effectively? Does our process strengthen and ...

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Grants Managers

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

Release Date:

03/13/2015

... for young children can be changed overnight, saying: “ We don’t have to fix the ‘unconscious bias’ they are raised with later on. We can fix it from the very beginning.” The Academy ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Carnegie VP Named One of the Top 50 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education

Release Date:

10/01/2015

... of’ lists, not in order, not exhaustive, just people we appreciate doing innovative work. Today we are recognizing 50 thought leaders and changemakers ...

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

NYCT’s Slutsky and United Way’s Wright Named ’25 Influencers You Need to Know’

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... estate and technology. In the coming weeks and months, we ’ll turn our attention to their counterparts in the other ... politically connected bankers on Wall Street, and more. We recognize their accomplishments...

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The New York Community Trust

President of Peter G. Peterson Foundation on the New Budget Deal

Release Date:

02/09/2018

... debt — to an overextended American economy. He says: " We 've already entered a period where we have these structural deficits, and to answer that with a .....

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Jordan Joseph

Jordan Joseph serves as the Learning Services Manager at Philanthropy New York.

MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion

Release Date:

10/28/2013

PND reported on the MetLife Foundation's five-year, $200 million campaign to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the United States.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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MetLife

Bill de Blasio Says He’ll Build Upon Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative

Release Date:

02/06/2014

Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he will build on Michael Bloomberg's and the Open Society Foundations' Young Men's Initiative supporting black and Latino men, reported The New York Observer.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Workforce Development

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Open Society Foundations

Applications Accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

Release Date:

03/13/2014

Applications are now being accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars Program, which supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines who are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.

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Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

Release Date:

05/22/2014

... landfill in the East River as part of a counter-intuitive plan to make the city more flood resistant. The idea, called ...

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Public Policy

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

Public Policy

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

Release Date:

06/13/2014

An article in Inside Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for championing climate change solutions, especially efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

Release Date:

06/17/2014

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular classes and schools that draw high achievers but have been criticized as shutting out low-income children.

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Education

Pennsylvania College Consortium Created With $800,000 From Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

07/03/2014

Ten liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania will use an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new consortium designed to help them save money and improve academic programs by collaborating across campuses.

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Mellon Foundation

Instead of Retiring, Many Seek 'Encore' Jobs

Release Date:

07/07/2014

A trend first spotted in a MetLife Foundation survey in 2011 seems to be on the rise as millions of Americans are making plans to work instead of retiring and with many opting for social sector jobs.

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Member News

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Aging

Workforce Development

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MetLife

Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

Release Date:

08/28/2014

The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how to respond to social justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the police response to the protests that...

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Member News

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

Release Date:

09/01/2014

With the backing of several leading foundations, Education Post, a new nonprofit group, will encourage respectful and fact-based dialogue on public education.

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Education

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

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