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The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

Release Date:

11/17/2014

... for a NYC employee, including generous fringe benefits, is more than $100,000 a year. But figuring out how to achieve the goal is far more complex than endorsing it. At a panel discussion on this ... to assure...

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Citizens Budget Commission

Fiscal Sponsorship

... effort required to set up, establish, and administer new legal entities. Even after all the IRS filings to get things ... of a nonprofit necessitates the creation of financial, legal , and human resources...

Banks that Actually Serve Communities, What a Novel Idea

Release Date:

07/08/2014

... panel last month . My co-panelists and I put forth a series of ideas for fixing the financial sector that all ... discussed a wide variety of proposals including creating more public banks like the state-owned...

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Roosevelt Institute

Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far

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05/09/2017

... by both ongoing civil resistance and the acceleration of legal and social supports undertaken by organizations across ... subject to hate crimes. Undocumented immigrants who are more vulnerable to deportation...

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Brooklyn Org

The Rockefeller Foundation Names Erica Guyer as New General Counsel

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03/27/2023

... which oversees and advises members on a broad range of legal , ethical, and governance matters. “Erica is deeply ... continue to succeed in overseeing our organization’s legal , ethics, and governance functions...

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Uprooting Racism to Advance Health Equity

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01/04/2022

... Compared to White women, Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth, or within a year ... birth; Indigenous women face that prospect 2 to 3 times more often than Whites. Black and...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

PNY and Other Sector Leaders Respond to Callahan OpEd in NYTimes

Release Date:

06/05/2015

... by The Clinton Foundation to the activities of private grantmaking foundations. The philanthropic sector has ... not helpful. Frankly, we believe government should do more to encourage charitable giving...

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PNY News

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Council on Foundations

The Council of New Jersey Grantmakers

National Council of Nonprofit Associations

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Center for Effective Philanthropy

The Philanthropy Roundtable

A Letter from Ronna Brown

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05/28/2020

... real-time information, pool resources and coordinate work. More than 100 of you took part in our latest series , Humanizing Immigration. Hosting critical ... which we will keep doing in June with our Policy...

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Law & Order Politicians Don’t Care About Your Programmatic Silos

Release Date:

02/06/2017

... New York’s “ Ending the Criminalization of Poverty ” series is examining initiatives that cut across program silos ... nurture local reforms.Throughout the development of this series (the work that has...

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Justice Reform

Sample Job Descriptions: Communications Associate

Publication date:

10/2013

The following jobs descriptions for communications associate professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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HR & Operations Staff

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Fear, Hope, and Hunger: Inside the Crisis at the Southern Border

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10/03/2019

... Honduras was assigned #18,830. Within two days, 6,000+ more people were on the list crowding around a Mexican ... Customs and Border Protection in El Paso calling up no more than 3 to 10 asylum seekers per day...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Tides

Networks & Working Groups

... If you're ready to lend your voice and effort to one or more of our networks, please fill out this interest form . ... Focused on diverse issue areas like education, criminal legal reform, health equity,...

24 Jun 2015

Learning the Way: DACA, Educational Attainment and Philanthropy - Webinar

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Missed the session? View recording here . For more than two million youth and young adults in the United ... many of these barriers: it earns beneficiaries temporary legal status, eligibility for a work permit,...

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Children, Youth and Families

Sample Job Descriptions: Director of Human Resources

Publication date:

09/2013

The following jobs descriptions for senior director of human resources professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board. We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site.

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Three New Appointments at The Atlantic Philanthropies

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01/01/2013

... In her role, Sara Kay will oversee and manage Atlantic’s grantmaking to improve health care delivery models and ... her role, Naomi Post will oversee and manage Atlantic’s grantmaking related to Elev8, a full-...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

LaVerne Evans Srinivasan Named Vice President of Education Programs by Carnegie Corporation of New York

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12/09/2014

... on urban education, she will oversee the foundation’s grantmaking in developing effective standards and ... 1993, she joined BMG Entertainment as a Senior Director, Legal and Business Affairs, rising to Senior...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

How One Foundation Became The First (Trust-Based) Follower

Release Date:

01/06/2021

... will do what they say—and from that place, so much more is possible. That’s when you really honor the work and ... colleagues were dismissive, and said that wasn’t the way grantmaking was done. When I came to...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

07 Nov 2019

Redistricting in 2021: Will the Fair Map Movement Catch On?

Thursday, November 7, 2019 -

11:30am to 2:00pm

... political representation. This program will provide an overview of the national redistricting environment, including ... Vattamala , Director, Democracy Program, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund...

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Philanthropy's Key Contributions to Society

Publication date:

08/2008

A compilation of well-known innovations that can be traced to foundation funding over the past 100 years.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

13 Jul 2022

Funder Briefing with Jade Grieve, Chief of Student Pathways (NYC Department of Education)

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... Education. The Chief of Student Pathways will present an overview of plans for the upcoming school year (fall 2022), ... and the role of public/private partnership. This overview will be followed by a Q&A...