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23 Jan 2020

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Program Officers

Thursday, January 23, 2020 (All day) to Friday, February 7, 2020 (All day)

... role in the social change ecosystem Identify legal and ethical issues Explore how program officers come to ... with grantees (Since PNY offers an extensive financial series , this course will not cover...

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Professional Development

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Workshop

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All Funders

Program Staff

Metlife Launches ‘The Financial Inclusion Challenge’ to Improve Financial Access in Asia

Release Date:

03/20/2015

The initiative will focus on programs in education, technology and products and services.

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Member News

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Workforce Development

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MetLife

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

Release Date:

07/15/2013

... several PNY members, recently held a three-part breakfast series to explore the effects of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy ... Funders Steering Committee, provide us with a recap of the series . Risk, Resiliency and...

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Insights

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Surdna Foundation

Putting Racism on the Table

Release Date:

02/07/2017

... Association of Grantmakers' Putting Racism on the Table series is a learning series for philanthropy. Learn more about this work, and .....

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Caught Our Attention

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Social Justice

United Hospital Fund and Members of Home Alone Alliance Support Videos for Family Caregivers

Release Date:

03/23/2017

... The Home Alone Alliance is pleased to release its first series of family caregiver instructional videos. Developed by ... and the U.S. Veterans Administration, this initial series – available in English and...

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Member News

Video

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

Why a 'Gender Transformative' Approach?

Release Date:

04/06/2015

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

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Insights

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Community Development

Health

LGBTQ

Gender Justice

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True Child

The Overbrook Foundation

The New York Women's Foundation

Come Help Me Be Less Racist

Release Date:

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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PNY News

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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Children, Youth and Families

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

Release Date:

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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Impact Investing

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Educational Foundation of America

Philanthropy Can Play a Role In Managing Student Debt Crisis

Release Date:

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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Insights

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

Diversity in Philanthropy: One Small Thing You Can Do

Release Date:

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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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The Joys and Frustrations of Managing Young People

Release Date:

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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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Leadership Development

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Public Policy

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?

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The Time is Now for Philanthropy to Talk about Healthcare

Release Date:

01/18/2017

Eighteen million people. That’s how many Americans will soon lose their health insurance with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and its replacement with plans previously advanced by Republican leaders in Congress.

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PNY News

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Health

Debate Your Philanthropic Philosophies

Release Date:

01/18/2017

Bianca D. Alston, Finance and Operations Assistant at Arcus Foundation, writes, "I strongly believe in general operating support. The flexible nature of core support grants enables grantees to pursue unforeseen opportunities, adapt to the times and...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arcus Foundation

15 Jun 2017

Trauma and Resilience Supporting Immigrant Children, Their Families, and Our Communities through Collaboration - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, June 15, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Immigrant and refugee children, as well as children of immigrants, face not only the common challenges of childhood, but many unique burdens.

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Issue-Based

Tools & Strategies

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Panel

Webinar/Teleconference

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Children, Youth and Families

Get to Know Your PHIL Talkers

Release Date:

05/17/2017

I predict that the PHIL Talks presenters at this year’s 38th Annual Meeting on June 16 will bring especially trenchant insights and unexpected revelations on the topic of “The Power of Participation: Democracy Building Now.”

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Let’s Examine the Underlying Tensions of Civic Engagement

Release Date:

04/18/2018

One of the most stimulating and satisfying elements of my job is conducting research and background interviews with experts on the topic of our Annual Meeting. Philanthropy New York’s Annual Meeting Committee decides in the Fall on the focus for our...

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PNY News

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Civic Engagement

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Philanthropy New York

A Sense of Urgency: Promoting Child and Family Well-being for Homeless Families

Release Date:

05/30/2018

Jennifer March, Ph.D., Executive Director, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York writes "The future health and well-being of the next generation of New Yorkers demands that we all do more to prevent homelessness in the first instance, and...

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Insights

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Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc.

10 Oct 2018

Beyond Islamophobia: How American Stories Transform Communities

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 -

8:30am to 1:30pm

Beyond Islamophobia: How American Stories are Transforming Communities aims to highlight fresh thinking from artists and activists who disrupt the noxious, bigoted cultural narrative to advance cross-community understanding and social cohesion for...