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Fund for Public Housing Receives $3.2 Million from Helmsley Charitable Trust to Launch Green Space Connections for 14,000 NYCHA Residents in Brooklyn and the Bronx

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11/02/2022

... quality of life and create more opportunities to make our NYC neighborhoods healthier and happier.” “NYCHA is ... “I would like to thank the partners that we are working with on this project to improve green...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Community Development

Housing and Homelessness

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13 Sep 2012

--POSTPONED-- Innovative Action: Promising New Initiatives to Stop HIV Transmission

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... receive timely medical care and related support. The NYC Health Department and its community partners have ... successes over the past year, there is still a role for funders to play. Experts will provide an...

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Westchester Community Foundation Awards Grants to 16 Nonprofits

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07/13/2022

... development professionals, environmental advocacy, youth leadership, and environmental and sustainability ... group of youth -serving workforce development organizations working...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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Heavy Hitters Debate School Achievement Gap

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10/15/2013

The Education Funders Research Initiative’s recent Education Forum conversation on the achievement gap in New ...

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Education

The Three Roads to Building Volunteer Value

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07/16/2013

... New York In early 2012, Philanthropy New York began working with Reimagining Service to bring its core mission ... to guarantee success. We’ve all heard of the volunteer group that needs a specific project,...

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Mellon and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Letras Boricuas - A New Fellowship Aimed at Supporting Puerto Rican Writers Across Genres

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05/12/2021

... 106 arts organizations including museums, theaters, arts education programs, and concert venues to maintain the ... a Letras Boricuas Fellowship Nominations Committee, and a group of semi-finalists will be...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

16 Jun 2021

Bracing Ourselves for the Mental Health Wave of the Pandemic - Are We Prepared?

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... public health crisis.” Philanthropy New York’s Health Funders Working Group invites you to join us virtually as we seek to better ...

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Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now

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09/09/2021

... a safety net for low-income families, specifically around education . Families rely on these highly credible ... trusting relationships with students and families. As funders , we seek to support organizations...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Children, Youth and Families

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Human Services

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

Building a Bigger Tent for Effective Philanthropy

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07/07/2015

... and Civil Society symposium considered how and why more funders have not adopted strategic philanthropy practices. ... because they don’t have adequate time, energy, or resources to understand the complexities...

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Bessemer Trust

05 Nov 2014

Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy’s Role?

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... wage (aka “Living Wage”). At a Philanthropy New York funders briefing on September 24, sponsored by The New York ... Foundation and PNY’s Funders of Women and Girl s working group...

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

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09/08/2016

... are funding the right—and the fight—to vote, working collaboratively to engage the next generation of ... foundations, hosted a briefing on voting rights for funders titled, " Will Philanthropy Join In...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York Foundation and New York Community Trust Create New Fund Aimed At Supporting A Fair and Accurate Census

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07/02/2018

... Census The New York Community Trust has joined with other funders in the state to create the New York State Grantmakers ... administered by The New York Community Trust and support education and outreach...

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The New York Community Trust

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The Westchester Community Foundation

As the White House Changes Hands, Philanthropy Must Change Too

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01/26/2017

... a path toward freedom. If you know the nonprofits you’re working with, skip the reporting requirements. Sit down for a ... Orleans, for instance, local nonprofits like the Grow Dat Youth Farm have a taste of...

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The Cricket Island Foundation

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Citi Community Development and The Poses Family Foundation Support New Initiative Aimed at Building the Financial Security of People with Disabilities

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01/29/2018

... Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) and the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Office of Financial ... Compounding these challenges, more than 46 percent of working -age households with...

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A Key to Getting Corporate Money? Find Employees to Champion Your Cause

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09/19/2017

... gender, sexual orientation) or interests (animal welfare, education ) — can be great conduits between companies with ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

... will work with NPS to create interpretive and educational resources while pursuing research relevant to their own ...

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Lauren Perkins Joins Westchester Community Foundation

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03/30/2023

... grantmaking programs in the areas of early childhood education , Native American youth , access to legal services, basic human needs and ... joins the Community Foundation at a time when our resources...

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Foundations and Peer Review: Time to Reconsider the Process?

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05/02/2017

... Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Funders of biomedical research, such as our foundation, have ... a research proposal than to solicit the perspectives of a group of experts in the same...

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