The End of Currents
Release Date:
06/11/2014
... in the June 2014 email edition of the Philanthropy New York Currents e-Newsletter. by Ronna Brown, President, Philanthropy New York This is the last Currents. No - this is...
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Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues
Release Date:
10/03/2016
On September 19th, Pinkett Smith joined Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin for the third edition of Insight Dialogues, touching on the many roles she balances in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women and youth empowerment and...
Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees
Release Date:
01/23/2017
A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...
MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour
Release Date:
02/21/2017
Ballet Hispánico en Familia is a 90-minute, fun-filled journey through Latin American dance and culture featuring Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro as host, excerpts from Ballet Hispánico's diverse repertory and a Q&A...
NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare
Release Date:
03/31/2017
On March 28, 2017, NYSHealth hosted a conversation with Sean Cavanaugh, one of the nation's leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in store for Medicare in this rapidly changing health care landscape.
Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!
Release Date:
07/19/2017
The Funders' Network is offering PLACES Fellowships, which are transformational leadership development experiences that gives professionals in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices needed to embed an equity lens into their work.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests
Release Date:
10/03/2017
... Interests book series, demographer and author William H . Frey stated, “I am convinced that the United States is ...
Photojournalist Documents Moments From the San Quentin State Prison Marathon on Open Society Foundations' Weekly Instagram Takeover
Release Date:
01/22/2018
Open Society Foundations enlists photojournalist Jianca Lazarus to give us a look inside the 2017 11th Annual San Quentin Marathon.
NYT Opinion: Darren Walker Reflects on Why Museums Need to Step Into the Future
Release Date:
07/26/2019
America’s museums are more than repositories of ancient Greek statues and Renaissance paintings. They are guardians of a fading social and demographic order. On Thursday, Warren Kanders resigned from the board of the Whitney Museum of Art, after...
Build Up Advisory Group Shares Podcast - Leveraging Systems for Sustainability and Opportunity with Jim Shelton
Release Date:
06/09/2021
Build Up Advisory Group Shares Podcast - Leveraging Systems for Sustainability and Opportunity with Jim Shelton This week on the Nonprofit Build Up, we’re talking Jim Shelton . Jim is the Chief Impact and Investment Officer at Blue...
Philanthropic Leaders Call for Protecting the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation
Release Date:
11/20/2018
Leaders of 42 major philanthropic organizations across the United States joined together to publicly call for the protection of the independence of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Census Funder Debrief: Supreme Court Citizenship Question Case - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, July 1, 2019 -
4:00pm to 5:00pm
In June 2019, the US Supreme Court issued a decision on the 2020 Census citizenship question case. Despite the outcome, funders, their partners, and grantees have more work to do to ensure a fair and accurate decennial count
Iris Chen Named Executive Director of The Fund for Public Schools
Release Date:
08/05/2014
... As executive director, Chen will focus on the New York Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña's priorities and ... As part of her work with the foundation, Chen developed new partnerships and...
Simons Foundation Launches Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem
Release Date:
03/03/2014
... a program focused on developing, implementing and applying new methods for determining the quantum mechanical behavior ... together scientists who have developed the most exciting new approaches. It addresses...
Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice
Release Date:
10/09/2014
... announced Oct. 8 receipt of a $104,400 grant to support a new initiative promoting LGBT inclusion and racial justice ... that promote LGBT equality around the world, will fund the new “Congregational...
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College
Release Date:
01/29/2015
... and will enroll students this fall for the first time. The new program will go beyond the traditional culinary classes ... elsewhere. Hostos’s program is intended to train a new generation of professionals in...
Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs
Release Date:
10/14/2015
... requirements of their health care are too much to handle, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research ... suggests. The findings are published in the October issue of the Journal of General...
JPB Foundation-Funded Research Examines Children’s Menu Choices
Release Date:
11/04/2015
... restaurants might seem like a pipe dream. But according to new research published today in the November issue of Health Affairs, customers at one restaurant chain ... to measure outcomes more than one and two...
De Blasio Searches for Corrections Chief as Rikers Resurfaces
Release Date:
08/30/2017
... Island, his administration appears no closer to finding a new corrections chief, with some critics worrying he will ... election. The mayor has been under pressure to find a new commissioner since May, when...
Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC
Release Date:
03/04/2016
... in NYC The Center for an Urban Future published a major new study that reveals a dramatic surge in women entrepreneurs in New York City, showing that the number of women-owned businesses .....