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Hurricane Irma Relief: Here's What Big Companies Are Donating To The Effort

Release Date:

09/18/2017

Hurricane Irma Relief: Here's What Big Companies Are Donating To The Effort The damage wrought by Hurricane ... . . Hurricane Irma Relief: Here's What Big Companies Are Donating To The Effort .....

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The MoMA Goes to Paris

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10/04/2017

On October 11, 200 works from New York City’s MoMA go on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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Five Essential Tips for Setting Up a Social Enterprise

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10/04/2017

You've got a great idea. It might help the world. Or it might just help some people. Either way, you want to do good and make a living. So where do you start?

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PhilTV This Week Dec 1 Features Ford, Rockefeller, Pershing Square, Bloomberg, Open Society Foundations and More

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12/01/2016

... for Shifting Philanthropy Forward Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms PhilTV This Week Dec 1 ...

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Transparency in Philanthropy: An Analysis of Accountability, Fallacy, and Volunteerism

Publication date:

04/2013

The latest in a series of guidebooks on topics of interest within the philanthropic community, this new book by John Tyler, General Counsel of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is designed to help philanthropic organizations plan and think about what information they will release to the public and how they will do it.

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Staten Island after Sandy: A Funder Update

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04/10/2013

... Sandy and what her foundation and other organizations are doing to help with that community’s recovery. Staten ...

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Marion Nestle Challenges Funders to Be More Strategic and Political

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08/08/2013

The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation’s Jenny Rempel shares the details of Community Food Funders’ second annual gathering, where the evening’s keynote speaker, New York University professor Marion Nestle, encouraged attendees to work together to build...

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Food Systems

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Black Philanthropy Month: We All Have Something to Give

Release Date:

08/21/2013

Community Investment Network Executive Director Chad Jones talks about the Black Philanthropy Month campaign, which celebrates and promotes philanthropic giving by African Americans and those of African descent, as well as how important it is to...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

12 Mar 2012

Conversations for Grantmakers: Hydrofracking Plus and Minus

Monday, March 12, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us for a discussion about the effects natural gas drilling has on community infrastructure. Amy Panek from the Park Foundation and Marilyn Bok from the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers will also talk about their work to educate the...

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The 2013 Nonprofit Excellence Award Winners

Release Date:

11/21/2013

... productive and socially responsible members of their communities , received the $30,000 Gold Prize for Overall ...

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The New York Community Trust

Hurricane Sandy Relief and Recovery

Publication date:

02/2014

This special edition of Family Giving News features advice and perspectives on how to support Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.

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Toya Williford Joins the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City as Director of Programs and Policy

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05/29/2014

The Brooklyn Community Foundation announced that the Foundation’s Program Director Toya Williford will be joining the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City as the Director of Programs and Policy, starting June 9.

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Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

Hurricane Sandy Activism Report

Publication date:

07/2014

Drawing on interviews with its grantee partners involved in Hurricane Sandy recovery work, this report from the North Star Fund presents the largely unacknowledged role that community-based organizations—especially activist groups—played in the immediate aftermath of the storm and includes recommendations and priorities for moving forward with recovery and building long-term resiliency.

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North Star Fund

Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities

Release Date:

05/18/2016

... Progress Makers Fund supports community organizations that are leading urban transformation efforts that create economic opportunities for low-income households and communities . The 40 organizations work in...

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NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker

Release Date:

09/11/2017

In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

Release Date:

11/07/2018

... at aquariums, and the new study shows that some bacterial communities there emulate those in oceans surprisingly well. ... and principal investigator of the study. “The microbial communities are...

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Environment and Climate Change

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

Release Date:

07/15/2013

Community Food Funders, a philanthropic organizing project comprised of several PNY members, recently held a three-part breakfast series to explore the effects of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the...

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Surdna Foundation

Report About NYC’s Libraries Sparks New Proposal from Speaker Quinn

Release Date:

04/05/2013

... the important role that public libraries play in communities across New York City. In April 2013, City Council ... important role that the city’s public libraries are playing in communities...