Angel Melendez
Angel Melendez joined Philanthropy New York in November of 2015. As the Guest Relations Associate he ...
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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2013 Jane Jacobs Medal
Release Date:
10/14/2013
The Medal is awarded annually to individuals whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City.
New Director of Anti-Human Trafficking Fund Announced at NEO Philanthropy
Release Date:
11/03/2016
... Esq., a Fulbright Scholar with extensive senior level work in fighting for the rights of sex workers and survivors of ... Philanthropy. It makes strategic grants to organizations working at the intersection of...
Introducing the Open Society Foundations’ New Communities Against Hate Initiative
Release Date:
12/05/2016
... accountable and open to the participation of all people. In the United States, the foundations’ work seeks to promote full participation in the nation’s civic, political, and economic ... and values, it has...
Employment Is Up in New York State, but Gains Are Uneven
Release Date:
09/05/2017
Employment Is Up in New York State, but Gains Are Uneven The number of ... state comptroller. More than 9.1 million New Yorkers were working in 2016—the most since 2008, according to the ... the...
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
Release Date:
10/08/2020
... advance racial equity. The firm will harness its expertise in business, policy and philanthropy and commit an additional $30 billion ... the Black and Latinx communities. Structural barriers in...
Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform?
Release Date:
05/28/2014
Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform? [Atlantic Philanthropies] A few foundations stand out as heroes in the saga of health reform. Remember when Atlantic ... coverage before the...
New Website Promotes Partnership and Investment for Girls of Color
Release Date:
07/01/2015
... forms of oppression that prevent their full participation in our country’s future. Yet new research is helping us to ... serves as an information resource for philanthropic funders , bringing together the...
Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers
Release Date:
12/21/2016
... collect data and deliver services at scale can align with funders ’ ability to provide money and technological ... $60 billion given to grantees across the United States in 2014, according to the Foundation...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School
Release Date:
01/18/2017
... With Columbia Journalism School At a press conference in Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) ... as more experienced journalists and journalism graduates in a program that is exclusively supported by...
Korean American Community Foundation Accepting Applications for 2017 Community Grants
Release Date:
02/22/2017
... Community Grants Grants of up to $75,000 will be awarded in support of programs that strengthen the economic security of low-income Korean Americans in the greater New York metropolitan area...
A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Among the partial ones: prescription drug monitoring programs , an approach highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’s Commission on ... has led every state but Missouri to establish one of these...
9 Million Kids Get Health Insurance Under CHIP. Congress Just Let It Expire.
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, ... of President Bill Clinton,...
Toshiba America Foundation Awards High School Students Grant to Support Yeast Experiment
Release Date:
02/16/2018
... their project will land at the International Space Station in June as part of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program ... to think critically about problems encountered by humans in space, from retaining...
We Shouldn’t Be Batting 1000
Release Date:
03/07/2016
... Executive Director, Arcus Foundation I am a sports nut. In a recent lunch with PNY’s Ronna Brown, a conversation ... in the government (as an Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education ), where...
Kristen-Lee Moolman Awarded the 2020 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers, Sponsored by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation
Release Date:
03/02/2020
... Samuel Rudin Family Foundation The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, has selected Kristin-Lee Moolman ... Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers. Established in 2012 and sponsored by the May...
Do Corporate Grantmakers Care More About the Poor Than Other Foundations?
Release Date:
06/30/2015
... are not known to be reliable benefactors of populations in greatest need. And yet, many of the nation’s most ... – increased dramatically from 2004 to 2012. Corporate funders now outspend their independent,...
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Backs Inclusive Innovation in a “Transitioning” Region
Release Date:
03/30/2018
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Backs Inclusive Innovation in a “Transitioning” Region The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. ... Since the 2016 election, as we’ve often observed, many funders have begun paying closer attention...
For Jobseekers: Facts About the Sector
Publication date:
04/2014
In your job quest, you may find it useful to become more ... designed to broaden your understanding of the sector but in no way offer a complete picture of the intricacies within ... don’t tell the whole story—the philanthropic sector is working hard to increase its diversity. Click here for more ...
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness Launch Low Vision Research Initiative
Release Date:
08/07/2015
... a new research initiative to address urgent needs in understanding and treating low vision. The $1.2 million, ... the NEI," says Hofland. "We are extremely pleased to be working together again to...