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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... Governor, Andrew Cuomo, took office in January 2011. His first budget proposal was entirely directed at achieving the ... are tracking projections; this can be seen as a big first step toward Ravitch’s...

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Capacity Building Begins At Home

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06/04/2009

... of funding practices…” (emphasis added). The first step is to identify what foundations should do to ... true when we are talking about our own practice. Thus, the first two steps could be: Survey grantees...

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Some Measure of Leadership

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04/23/2009

... progress, they struck me and others as no more than first steps, given the importance of the sector (in his ... help too. The Mayor’s speech raises two larger issues. First , it simply isn’t clear from the...

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Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

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10/07/2015

... of a new interdisciplinary food studies program – the first in the US at a community college. The food studies ... program was two years in the making, and last month, the first official class of students...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants

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11/20/2017

... have been awarded a combined total of $1,000,000, the first recipients of Resiliency-NYC grants from The New ... provides support for NALP leadership programs that prepare first and second-generation women to...

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Gender Justice

UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges

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07/10/2019

... the power to make a difference on this critical issue. First , funders concerned about the census can feel ... for those community-based GOTC efforts. The Fund’s first grant was to the Rockefeller Institute of...

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Native Wisdom: A Review Of Edgar Villanueva’s Decolonizing Wealth

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09/24/2019

... both a grant maker and a member of the continent’s first tribes. Drawing on Native American wisdom, he presents ... own experience as a member of the Lumbee tribe, the very first people on the North American...

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How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

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12/05/2019

... serve as a vehicle for justice? We believe that the first step is recognizing that philanthropy has a problem, ... are the people, families, and communities that have first -hand experience with the problems we...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting

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02/19/2020

... competition Climate-change efforts are putting people first . Some of the most powerful environmental work are those ... grant makers do that, the J.M. Kaplan Fund is, for the first time, opening up our trove...

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Philanthropy New York Signs Letter to Governor Cuomo for Prompt Contracting and Payment of Nonprofits

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07/29/2020

... law. State agencies should pay any interest due with the first payment under a contract to help NFPs avoid cash flow ... do not impose retroactive cuts. Nonprofits put mission first and often continue to...

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PNY News

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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

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06/10/2021

... impact (including in the 2020 elections) received their first grants, and their most consistent and flexible funding, ... with extraction and gentrification by doing two things: first , sapping the precious...

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Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

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01/27/2023

... social inequality that made their wealth possible in the first place has not invited, welcomed, or appreciated the ... skills, and experience. To change this system, the first step is for fundraisers to name...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Elevating Feminist Leadership and Thought on International Women's Day

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03/08/2023

... Brothers Fund. March 8 is International Women’s Day. First recognized by the United Nations in 1977, this global ... intersectional. The Combahee Woman’s Collective for the first time really understood...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Gender Justice

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Breaking Down Barriers: Meet the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's "Open Call" Grantees

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10/25/2023

... from Tanuja Dehne In May 2023, we announced our first -ever Open Call for racial justice organizations, ... announce the ten organizations we are supporting from our first -ever Open Call process. We have been...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Cricket Island Foundation: A Case Study of a Small Foundation’s Impact Assessment

Cricket Island Foundation: A Case Study of a Small Foundation’s Impact Assessment Read about how a small foundation, with limited resources for assessment and impact evaluation, approached the challenge of evaluating their overall impact.

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18 Oct 2022

Putting Equity at the Heart of Government: 3 Ballot Proposals to Dismantle Structural Racism

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... The New York Community Trust Recording Co-Sponsored By PNY 's Public Policy Committee Putting Equity at the Heart of .....

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30 Sep 2024

Deciding NYC's Future: The Latest Charter Revision Commission and November Referendum

Monday, September 30, 2024 -

10:00am to 11:30am

Virtual Meeting - Register by 9/27

... York In Collaboration With GoVoteNYC New York Foundation PNY 's Public Policy Committee Deciding NYC's Future: The .....

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