Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City
Release Date:
11/08/2013
... to manage farms or run markets and in the process provide job -readiness skills and employment opportunities for youth. ...
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The Business of Philanthropy: “Exit Interviews” with Former and Departing Foundation CEOs
Release Date:
06/30/2011
... the marketplace work—and which do not—in getting the job done. Rick Smith was appointed President of The ...
Albany Dysfunction: Is Change Possible?
Release Date:
07/30/2010
Philanthropy New York recently held a members briefing (sponsored by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation , The New York Community Trust , and The Clark Foundation ) focusing on the current climate in the New York State legislature, how it...
Random Reflections By A New Author
Release Date:
05/24/2010
... $350,000,000 in new grants. We have not done a good enough job in communicating to persons of wealth the many and varied ...
Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project
Release Date:
04/20/2010
... Service terms lack standard definitions (e.g., a “ job placement” might mean different things to different ...
Take Us To Your Leaders
Release Date:
03/10/2015
... had come to hold dear, but who were not doing the job that needed to be done. But the fact remains that ...
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Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Industry Partnerships - Current and Future Strategies
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 -
8:45am to 11:00am
New York City has made significant progress in the past ten years in developing a more employer-driven workforce system. The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the Workforce Funders have partnered on a number of sector-...
The New York Women’s Foundation Announces $3.25 Million in Grants to Address Needs of Women and Families in New York City
Release Date:
06/04/2015
... Health Pathway: Home Health Aide $60,000 Training and Job Placement United Community Centers East New York Farms!: ...
Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future
Release Date:
07/02/2015
Brooklyn Community Foundation Director of Community Leadership, Tynesha McHarris, outlines some of the foundation's youth development initiatives.
Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations
Release Date:
07/16/2015
Ford Foundation's Philanthropy Program Officer, Chris Cardona, examines the structure and capacity of philanthropic organizations.
Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street
Release Date:
01/19/2016
... my time at Carnegie Corporation, I have loved my job because my efforts have supported our program work to ...
Capital One-Funded Report: Women Entrepreneurs On the Rise in NYC
Release Date:
03/04/2016
The Center for an Urban Future found a dramatic surge in women entrepreneurs in New York City, showing that the number of women-owned businesses grew four times as fast as male-owned businesses during the past five years.
Numerous PNY Members Investing in New $31M Living Cities SIB Fund
Release Date:
03/31/2016
Living Cities launched the Blended Catalyst Fund, a $31 million impact investing debt fund that will test innovative approaches to solving urban problems. The Blended Catalyst Fund combines philanthropic and commercial debt under the premise that...
Three Ways the Arts are Advancing Equity in NYC
Release Date:
04/06/2016
... freedom of expression, and find paths into education and job training. By late summer, these groups (among other Fund ...
Every Experience Builds Expertise
Release Date:
08/16/2016
... is key. I definitely gained some insights of what the job market is like from my internship, and most of all built ...
Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs
Release Date:
09/15/2016
... with frustrated police officers who are simply doing their job in a broken system. It is the product of a five-year ...
Design High Schools for the 21st Century
Release Date:
10/12/2016
Laverne Evans Srinivasan and Saskia Levy Thompson of Carnegie Corporation of New York say it is increasingly apparent that the factory-style high school of the 20th century is not meeting the needs of young people.
As Funders of Equity and Education, Connect Research to Action for School Integration
Release Date:
11/21/2016
... He said that we cannot forget that the choir has a job to do; the choir must go back to their districts and ...
NY Women’s Foundation Projects Precarious Situation for Young Girls Dependent on Struggling Caregivers
Release Date:
12/01/2016
Report finds that tens of thousands of low-income girls in NYC lack strong, consistent nurturance from well-supported and well-prepared adults.
The Amida Care Fund at Stonewall Community Foundation Announces HIV/AIDS Initiatives
Release Date:
12/05/2016
... we’ve made toward ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic; but our job won’t be done until we reach the communities that are ...