Applications for the 2014 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards up by 25 percent overall – three times the number of Long Island organizations apply; Applications from Brooklyn and Queens double.
Recently, Philanthropy New York hosted a conversation on the best ways for funders to measure and demonstrate the impact of their charitable work. We’re pleased to have two of the presenters at that program, the Citi Foundation’s Hui Wen Chan and...
(Laura Cronin’s interview with Kimberleigh J. Smith originally appeared on PhilanTopic , the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on June 12, 2012 and is reprinted with permission.) Philanthropy News Digest : As a founder of two of the...
By Sarah C. Shih, MPH, Executive Director, Program Evaluation and Planning, Primary Care Information Project It was a great privilege to take part in a recent Philanthropy New York session on New York State’s overall health...
By James Gannon Executive Director, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) In Japan, a few terms have become commonplace when speaking about the string of disasters that struck two months ago. Many now just say “3/11”...
By James O’Sullivan Director, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors On November 16th, 55 Philanthropy New York members participated in a members briefing featuring a keynote address by the Honorable Mitch Landrieu, Mayor of New...
By Laura Cronin Director, Toshiba America Foundation (This post originally appeared on PhilanTopic , the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on October 27, 2010 and is reprinted with permission.) Every funder can, and should, be a...
On January 26th, Philanthropy New York hosted a members briefing sponsored by the Daphne Foundation , the New York Foundation , and the Open Society Institute , with our Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy and Philanthropy Connects special...
On February 4th, Philanthropy New York hosted a members briefing (presented by the Altman Foundation , The Wallace Foundation , and The New York Community Trust , with the New York City Youth Funders Network) that explored how funders can better...
For a group of newspaper people, newspapers must be saved; for a group of Web people, newspapers must go; and there are a lot of compass points in between.
Recipients receive $200,000 in funding per year for up to three years, for a total of $600,000, to support explorative, high-risk/high-reward cancer research. The awards will be presented on May 24.
Oral and alternate reporting (OAR) is an emergent practice that strives to rebalance power between funders and their grantees, drive insight and collaborative engagement around “wicked” problems and make efficient use of limited resources. Sounds...