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Immigration

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Grantee Develops New Crowd-Sourced Initiative in the Disability Field

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05/22/2018

Oath, the National Disability Leadership Alliance and Getty Images are proud to announce The Disability Collection, a dedicated collection of images that break stereotypes and authentically portray people with disabilities in everyday life.

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5.4 Million to Help Standardize Clinical Data

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09/04/2018

... The grant will enable CDISC to create data standards for type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease research and build out .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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10 Oct 2024

The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Half-day Convening Focused on How Philanthropy Can Make All the Difference

Thursday, October 10, 2024 -

1:00pm to 5:30pm

Please join us for a half-day convening, in which we will explore how philanthropy can play a pivotal role in supporting the mental health of young people in NYC by fostering a thriving, interconnected youth mental health ecosystem. We will hear...

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Issue-Based

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

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07/22/2019

... report that the reactive oxygen species produced by one type of phytoplankton, the diatom Thalassiosira oceanica, ... for marine organisms and their chemical environment. The type of reactive oxygen species...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

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Ford Foundation

The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

... to the extent that going against their wishes requires special justification. By working in solidarity with affected ...

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More Nonprofits Seek to Improve Management Practices

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05/19/2014

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.

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PNY News

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The New York Community Trust

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The Building Blocks of Demonstrating Impact

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09/09/2013

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...

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Impact Investing

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The Future is Now: The Need for Health Information Exchange

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04/30/2012

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...

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Responding to 3/11: Helping with the Japan Disaster

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05/12/2011

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”...

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Responding to Haitian Devastation, At Home

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08/16/2010

By James R. Knickman President and Chief Executive Officer, New York State Health Foundation The devastating earthquake in Port au Prince in January has lately fallen off many people’s radar, for lots of reasons: six months is a...

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Equitable Recovery for All New Yorkers: The NY Stimulus Alliance

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08/09/2010

By Maria Mottola Executive Director, New York Foundation Construction sites are common enough around New York and unlikely to draw much attention—so it must have seemed unusual to see a large group on a guided tour of construction...

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Reducing Summer Learning Loss: Thoughts from Ron Fairchild

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03/09/2010

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...

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The Spend-Out/Perpetuity Distraction…and the Merger Option

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02/08/2010

By Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York There is renewed interest in the issue of lifespan for foundations (spend-out versus perpetuity). Nonetheless, these discussions seem like a distraction to me, for two...

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

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.

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Why U.S. Foundations Should Take the Global Sustainable Development Goals Seriously

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06/21/2016

Ed Cain of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation says the SDGs constitute the broadest, most ambitious development agenda for getting the world off of its self-destructive, unsustainable path.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Leading the Way for Food Equity

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07/28/2016

Laurie M. Tisch and Rick Luftglass of the Tisch Illumination Fund write that it's an immensely hopeful time for progress in the food landscape of New York City.

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Food Systems

Let's Fight Racial Bias in Voting Through Donor Collaboratives and Litigation

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09/08/2016

Gail Ablow, Carnegie Visiting Media Fellow, Democracy, writes about foundations that are funding the right—and the fight—to vote by working collaboratively to engage the next generation of leaders.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Civic Engagement

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Design Is Key to Expanding the 21st Century Neighborhood Library

Release Date:

12/13/2016

Julie Sandorf, president, Charles H. Revson Foundation, asks, "How might branches reutilize limited area to meet not only significantly increased demand but also diversified needs for space?"

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Arts

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12 Dec 2018

Stronger Together Part II: Building the Capacity of Social Movements – December Webinar Hosted by HRFN

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

This webinar will be an introduction to some of our latest thinking and approaches. The session will draw on the movement building work of the Management Assistance Group and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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