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... imposed social distancing one week earlier than it did in March 2020, at least 36,000 fewer people would have died (Pei ... more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic . Since March 2020, these messages...

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New York Community Trust names Dominick Impemba as new chief operating and finance officer

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06/26/2023

... approximately $3.2 billion, will be a core function of the COO /CFO position, as well as guiding the investment in new ... largest and most storied community foundations. As the COO /CFO, which is a new position...

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Recording: Resilient Resolve: Supporting Justice in NYC's Nonprofit Crisis

Resilient Resolve: Supporting Justice in NYC's Nonprofit Crisis New York City's safety net is under immense strain. Nonprofits dedicated to serving those affected by the criminal legal system are grappling with overwhelming demand and the inability...

24 Sep 2014

Expanding Opportunities and Improving City Social Services Quality through a Career Ladder Approach

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 -

8:45am to 10:30am

The City of New York delivers most human services through $5 billion in annual contracts with non-profit providers. However, there are insufficient opportunities for lower-level social service case workers at these providers to acquire the education...

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Why a 'Gender Transformative' Approach?

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04/06/2015

TrueChild Executive Director, Riki Wilchins, examines the importance of utilizing a gender transformative approach in funding.

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Good Grantmaking Where Our Work is Not Always Welcome

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04/27/2015

Jim O'Sullivan, Israel Program Advisor at the Helmsley Charitable Trust, offers takeaways from the PNY program, "Philanthropy in Nations with Weak Civic Infrastructure."

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25 Sep 2015

Mergers: What is the True Cost of a Merger? (POSTPONED)

Friday, September 25, 2015 -

9:00am to 11:15am

This program dives into the “true cost” of merging. Hear from seasoned experts about their merger experiences – the impact on their organizations’ bottom lines and human capital - and other unforeseen implications.

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21 Jan 2016

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 8:00am to Friday, February 5, 2016 - 5:00pm

... Please hold the scheduled dates and snow dates on your calendar . Eligibility ESS is open to program officers and ...

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Come Help Me Be Less Racist

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10/21/2015

While the vast majority of those working in philanthropy are committed to ameliorating the effects of our unjust history, we are nonetheless subject to implicit bias in our lives and in our work. But even though implicit bias operates at a...

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09 Feb 2016

Campaign for Grade Level Reading: The Funder Action Series, Part 2 - Webinar

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Join us for the second webinar, of a four-part series, that will explore the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Initiative and its core community solution areas.

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05 May 2016

School Integration in NYC (Part 1 of 2): New Research, Changing Perspectives

Thursday, May 5, 2016 -

9:30am to 11:30am

A study released in 2014 by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that New York State’s schools are the most segregated schools in the country, more segregated than they were a decade ago. Between 1989 and 2010, the percentage of schools in the New...

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The Other 95 Percent: How Foundations Can Give All They’ve Got

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05/09/2016

Melissa Beck at the Educational Foundation of America says there are three reasons to divest: economics, ethics and alignment with grantmaking.

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Philanthropy Can Play a Role In Managing Student Debt Crisis

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06/27/2016

Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, CEO of the Edwin Gould Foundation, asks funders of college access and success programs to look carefully at whether the “college-or-bust” mentality encourages students to disregard the hardship in store for them when they...

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How Collaboration Can Spur Innovation and Spread Good Ideas (Part I)

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07/14/2016

Leigh Ross of the NY Community Trust identifies key predictors of success for education funders who want to collaborate.

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Diversity in Philanthropy: One Small Thing You Can Do

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09/22/2016

Our inaugural Public Policy Fellow, Stephanie Chrispin, now has more than a year of learning and activities under her belt, and our second Fellow, Shiza Pasha started her two-year tenure in August.

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The Joys and Frustrations of Managing Young People

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09/29/2016

Stephanie Chrispin, Public Policy Fellow at Philanthropy New York, reflects on the difficulties and rewards of managing the organization's first high school intern.

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18 Jan 2017

Peer Learning: A Key to Successful Capacity Building

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Spurring the momentum for sustained change within organizations is a challenging aspect of any capacity building effort. Peer learning can be an effective tool for enhancing organizational change by providing an opportunity for peers to share their...

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Impact Investing Is a Policy Issue

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10/20/2016

I try to attend as many policy-focused programs as possible, but I need to be strategic with my time commitments. So some might ask, “Why do we see you at every program on impact investing?”

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24 Jan 2017

Defending ACA and Making Progress at the Same Time. Is Philanthropy Ready?

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

What happens if Obamacare – the Affordable Care Act – is repealed? Will reforms stop in their tracks? Can we go backward and forward at the same time?