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What Makes a Good CSR Leader?

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09/26/2013

... training and work experience someone who is interested in getting into CSR should have. There’s no good answer ... of short pieces under the heading “So, You Want a Job in Philanthropy?” on the Philanthropy...

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Leadership Development

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A New Funder Embrace for Workforce Development

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04/18/2012

... how they can tackle startling levels of unemployment. In New York City, funders are focused on developing new ... funding, leaving New York City behind many other cities in new demand-side workforce approaches...

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The Sky Really is Falling…Now What? A New Working Group for Funders

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04/03/2012

... levels until 2015. Closer to home for smaller foundations, in a report we recently helped produce in partnership with the Foundation Center, Diminishing ... trend of diminishing dollars for social justice is...

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03 Mar 2015

Summer Youth Employment Programs: Ensuring Greater Career Readiness

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 -

7:00am to 10:00am

... * Youth Employment rates have seen a decline of 20% in recent years. This decline has significantly affected ... development and a key predictor of consistent employment in adulthood. JPMorgan Chase recently...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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Seven Things Foundations Can Do to Shape Public Debate in the NYC Election Season

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02/21/2012

... upcoming New York City campaign season is the first one in more than a decade—and only the second since ... 1973—where there is no incumbent candidate for Mayor. In addition, at least 20 of the 52 Council...

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New Member Spotlight: The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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12/11/2009

... details about the organization and its latest initiatives in this Member Spotlight. What are your primary areas of focus? The Trust, established in 1999, is administered by five trustees. As a continuation...

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On the Occasion of the New York Foundation’s 100th Anniversary

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11/05/2009

... on October 7, 2009) The New York Foundation believes in the quaint idea that individuals, and people working together in communities, have the ability to identify the challenges ... to be successful, we would...

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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

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05/14/2009

... some office files recently, I came across a speech I gave in December 1990 at the annual meeting of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee (NPCC). In looking it over, I found that one of the things I said ... of...

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16 Mar 2015

Food Systems and Movements

Monday, March 16, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... leading to the highest levels of global inequality in economic history. The staggering social and environmental ... transition have hit people of color the hardest, reflected in the record levels of hunger and...

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New Thinking about Networks Makes the Field Better, Stronger, More Effective

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03/20/2015

... them. For as long as there have been foundations investing in worthy causes, there have also been critics rightfully ... organizations. Together we comprise the largest network in American philanthropy. With...

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CSR, the Arts, and the Double Bottom Line

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04/14/2015

... an extra or nice initiative to fund, though not essential in comparison to other charitable causes. Corporate Social ... as a strategy to achieve their CSR/CCI goals. Giving in Numbers , a report from CECP and...

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25 Jun 2015

Nailing It: Building A National Movement of Nail Salon Workers

Thursday, June 25, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... recording here . On virtually every street corner in the city sits a nail salon, a burgeoning industry that ... new rules governing the nail salon industry, what happens in NY should not stay in...

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Immigration

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Scaling Effectively: Create a Plan, Support the Vision and Manage the Risks

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06/17/2015

... “teams” representing two nonprofits engaged in scaling their impact. Representing the Sadie Nash ... The two organizations are at very different points in their scaling trajectories. PCHP, an early childhood...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... Ford Foundation This piece originally appeared in Chris' blog, Democratizing Philanthropy? Why does ... is structural. There are upwards of 100,000 foundations in the U.S. The vast majority of these are...

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03 Feb 2016

It’s PUBLIC Transit: Funders Look at New Initiatives to Connect NYC’s People & Places

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

We face a unique moment in the life of public transit in New York. After three decades of steadily improving ... eight million people riding the subway and bus every day in New York, declining...

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Citi Foundation Funds Book Which Explores Americans' Financial Well-Being

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12/11/2015

... health need to be integrated across all sectors and in all communities. What It’s Worth highlights innovative approaches already happening in communities across the country, such as the growing use of ... on...

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Children, Youth and Families

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NY Life Marks Fifth Year of Partnership to Provide Bereavement Services

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01/20/2016

... can receive the help they need to heal and grow.” “ In addition to providing the means to make services available ... million have been awarded since the program’s inception in 2011. The New York Life...

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JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

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03/24/2016

... Women Women account for only a third of positions in growing, middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as ... women workers, who now serve as the sole or co-breadwinner in half of American families. The...

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Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

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06/14/2016

Originally published by the Johnson Center . Written in collaboration with Kyle Caldwell (Johnson Center for ... and ask, “Why should I care?” After all, if you work in the nonprofit sector you’re likely working...

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