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Post-Sandy Assistance Needed for Long Term

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05/22/2013

by Nina Stack, President, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers It is difficult to be patient when lives, and indeed entire communities, have been torn apart. So when Gov. Chris Christie famously declared “Shame on Congress” and...

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Funders Give and Get Advice From NYC Teens

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05/02/2013

By Jessica Pliska , Founder and Executive Director, The Opportunity Network and April Hawkins, Director of MetLife Foundation ’s Civic Affairs Program On most days, the job of philanthropy executives involves reviewing proposals,...

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We Can Make Changes to the Charitable Deduction that Benefit Nonprofits With No Loss or Even an Increase in Revenues

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03/08/2013

By C. Eugene Steuerle Richard B. Fisher Chair and Institute Fellow, The Urban Institute Co-Founder, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy I...

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Mission Possible: Supporting Returning Veterans (No Matter What Your Mission)

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01/10/2013

By James R. Knickman President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation During the recent Philanthropy New York conference on resources for returning veterans , it struck me that very few of the funders in the...

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Which Nonprofits Are Most Ready for Capacity Building?

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07/19/2012

By Alice Hill , Senior Consultant, TCC Group (This post originally appeared on PhilanTopic , the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on June 20, 2012 and is reprinted with permission.) With funds limited, foundations must constantly...

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From the Macy Foundation: AAMC’s Marc Nivet On Developing LGBTI Competencies

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05/31/2012

(This conversation between the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and Dr. Marc Nivet , Chief Diversity Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) , appeared on the Foundation’s blog on May 1, 2012 and is reprinted with...

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14 May 2015

Earning Stories for Good – Big Rewards for Your CSR Programs

Thursday, May 14, 2015 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... of Organizers : Please email register@philanthropynewyork. org with your name, title, organizational affiliation, ... Funders: Please email register@philanthropynewyork. org ($150 fee) In Collaboration with...

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13 Nov 2015

Countering Violent Extremism: Programming and Evaluation - Webinar

Friday, November 13, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... above. Please email register@philanthropynewyork. org with any questions. In Collaboration with ...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Evaluation

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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International/Foreign Affairs

Youth Leaders are Changing the Conversation on College Access

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06/30/2016

... in New York City, visit CARA online at www.caranyc. org . And a special shout-out goes to the Urban Youth ...

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Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Celebrating Black Philanthropy Month and Our Collective History

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08/09/2016

Yvonne L. Moore of Moore Philanthropy says she and Black colleagues share the deeply frustrating experience of having decisions, grant recommendations and analyses consistently questioned, unjustly critiqued and sometimes even undermined.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Moore Philanthropy

Diversity in Philanthropy: One Small Thing You Can Do

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09/22/2016

Our inaugural Public Policy Fellow, Stephanie Chrispin, now has more than a year of learning and activities under her belt, and our second Fellow, Shiza Pasha started her two-year tenure in August.

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

United Hospital Fund Report Examines Impact of ACA on New York's Insurance Markets

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10/18/2016

... a research assistant at UHF. It is available at www.uhfnyc. org /publications/881161 . Over the past several months, UHF ... All are available from UHF’s website, www.uhfnyc. org . United Hospital Fund Report...

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United Hospital Fund

Towards an Equitable NYC Cultural Policy in 2017: What We Can Learn from Seattle and Nashville

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01/09/2017

Michele Kumi Baer at The New York Community Trust asks, "How do we get the City to more deeply embrace the values of cultural equity, and enshrine those values in the plan?"

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The New York Community Trust

Watch this New Series Showing the Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives of Muslim New Yorkers

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02/23/2017

Clare Church of the New York Community Trust writes about a new web series that has been attracting hundreds of thousands viewers on YouTube since just before the presidential election.

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Video

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Social Justice

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The New York Community Trust

Meeting My Philanthropy Peers in This Incredibly Small, Incredibly Big World of Ours

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03/07/2017

David Biemesderfer of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers writes about WINGSForum 2017, which brought together about 300 participants who work for philanthropy associations, networks and support organizations from more than 40...

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Get to Know Your PHIL Talkers

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05/17/2017

I predict that the PHIL Talks presenters at this year’s 38th Annual Meeting on June 16 will bring especially trenchant insights and unexpected revelations on the topic of “The Power of Participation: Democracy Building Now.”

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PNY News

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Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO

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08/16/2017

... Manager, Grantmakers in the Arts, monica@giarts. org www.giarts. org Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO ...

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25 Jan 2018

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Thursday, January 25, 2018 (All day) to Friday, February 9, 2018 (All day)

ESS orients new program officers and directors to their role as funders. This three-day intensive course helps philanthropy newcomers build a framework for understanding and implementing ethical and effective grantmaking.