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Public Policy

The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

Release Date:

11/17/2014

... 35,000 in New York City, many of them part-time – are paid less than $15.00 an hour. In contrast, the average ... to assure that this source of funding is guaranteed in the event of a fiscal squeeze or change...

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Citizens Budget Commission

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Workforce Development

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Beyond the Glass Cliff: Redefining Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector

Release Date:

06/28/2024

... are often masters at “workarounds” or innovative ways to rewire or connect pathways that have traditionally ... end, our organizations must embody the very equity and justice we seek for...

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Leadership Development

What Is Effective Philanthropy?

Release Date:

06/05/2019

... operational systems, impact evaluation, and communications are often under-resourced. We design grants that explicitly ... community, we recognize that the things that make us different from our peers (...

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Technology

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Siegel Family Endowment

Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

Release Date:

04/18/2017

... By Steven Pacheco, inaugural John Jay College of Criminal Justice /David Rockefeller Fund Fellow Steven attended the ... to section 361 of the German Criminal Code , in the event that a person seeking shelter...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Housing and Homelessness

Justice Reform

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Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

Release Date:

08/01/2012

... many foundations, not just one. And we have to explore ways of working beyond the philanthropic community, and also ... process that draws on the knowledge of people with so many different perspectives and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Why Helping Pets Helps People

Release Date:

12/05/2013

... Extreme and subtle displays of the human-animal bond are commonplace — perhaps even in your own life — and ... for all people — but especially people at risk — pets are an antidote to isolation, a gateway to...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Animal Welfare

Disaster Relief

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ASPCA

03 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Weekly PNY Member Webinars - Centering Equity in Funder Responses

Friday, April 3, 2020 -

2:30pm to 3:30pm

... forms. From health to workforce, education to juvenile justice , housing to food access, funders across all issue ... to the epidemic and future grantmaking. Learn about the ways that centering equity can...

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Issue-Based

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Livestream

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Health

Human Services

06 Jun 2018

Stronger Together: New Frontiers in Funders Supporting Social Movements - June Webinar Hosted by HRFN

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Human Rights Funders Network, who has extended an invitation to PNY ... Measuring the capacity of social movements May 2 – Are we making smart investments in social...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

Benchmarking Foundation Governance

On a typical foundation board, what are its members’ most common areas of expertise? How common ... or a family member — to sit on a board? To what extent are board members involved in grantmaking? There are lots of questions out there about foundation governance. ...

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Report

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Puerto Rico Youth Fellows

Release Date:

01/13/2021

... support young Puerto Rican leaders working to elevate justice , promote human rights , and help underserved communities in Puerto Rico. The fellowship program, now in ...

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Community Development

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Open Society Foundations

09 Apr 2014

Shaping the Nature of Work in the New Economy

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 2:45pm

... further from their real employers, and they and local communities will have even less input into development and ... work schedules, and guaranteed protection and expansion of rights , as well as with...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

With Support from Citi Foundation, City Accelerator Expands to Five More U.S. Cities

Release Date:

08/02/2018

... businesses and the creation of additional jobs in their communities . Local initiatives range from ensuring ... an online portal for residents returning from the criminal justice system to access services and...

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Community Development

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Citi Foundation

Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/15/2018

... Sins of Philanthropy Merriam-Webster defines sin in three ways —“as an offense against religious or moral law; an ... of how to respectfully support social change in communities . Whether these transgressions...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Ford Foundation

Tides Announces Janiece Evans-Page as New Chief Executive Officer

Release Date:

10/23/2020

... that Evans-Page’s lifelong passion for social and racial justice and her track record of transformational leadership ... ecosystem to bring about the change and justice that our communities...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Tides

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

Release Date:

05/09/2016

... we agreed that it can be done, and what follows are the key themes that emerged from that discussion. The ... (and counting) in the Divest-Invest movement, there are three reasons to divest: economics, ethics...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Impact Investing

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The Educational Foundation of America

18 Jan 2017

Peer Learning: A Key to Successful Capacity Building

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Building strategies , featuring the experiences of several different grantees, this program will invite a panel of ...

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Professional Development

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Panel

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

HR & Operations

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

Release Date:

09/02/2014

... in the United States. Support for groups that take civil- rights grievances to the courts has paid limited dividends in ... Instead, the foundation is likely to push for racial justice in other ways...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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