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Excellence is the Best Strategy

Release Date:

12/10/2013

... suburbs. Here are a few lessons from each of the winning organizations : Children’s Village Children’s Vi ... — top-notch management practices allow the best-run organizations to help more New Yorkers. This...

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The New York Community Trust

What Makes a Good CSR Leader?

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09/26/2013

... Competency Model” are both available through these organizations ’ websites. There is also a terrific set of ... are quite a few good blogs and papers out there as well as organizations putting out thoughtful...

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American Express

From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss

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01/15/2015

Africa Region Associate Director, C.D. Glin examines how the Rockefeller Foundation is addressing food loss worldwide.

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Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now

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11/26/2012

... distributed; and in helping to sustain grassroots organizations working to forge a public and political ...

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Communications During a Disaster: Five Lessons Learned

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11/23/2012

... Governor’s InterAgency Coordinator for Not-for-Profit Organizations and a representative from the City’s Health ...

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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

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11/08/2013

... to support their work. Funders can seek out and support organizations doing racial justice trainings and gender ... community can provide resources and support to organizations that are playing a key role in...

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Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health Professions Education

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06/20/2012

... and others. We also have been working with professional organizations , government agencies and foundations to help ... require greater collaboration, such as accountable care organizations and patient-centered...

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Philanthropy New York’s Adventure Series: Version Red Hook

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07/28/2011

By Daniel Lilienthal, Associate for Social and Emotional Learning, NoVo Foundation On June 21st, Red Hook, Brooklyn, home of one of the largest public housing communities in the city, was host to a number of funders from New York’...

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The Business of Philanthropy: “Exit Interviews” with Former and Departing Foundation CEOs

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06/30/2011

... ones, voracious requests for numbers can swamp the very organizations a funder is trying to help. Then there’s the ...

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Start a Giving Circle This Summer

Release Date:

06/15/2011

... will have. As professionals in this field, we know of many organizations that could do so much with just a bit of extra ...

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Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project

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04/20/2010

... and families by enabling New York City’s nonprofit organizations to more easily and effectively manage data, ... and funders to make relative comparisons across organizations and learn from best practices;...

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Program Recap—American Journalism: Views on Reconstructing the Falling Industry

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03/19/2010

... calls on philanthropy to increase its support for news organizations and accountability reporting . In addition, ... controversial suggestion is that journalists, nonprofit organizations , and governments...

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Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity: Thoughts from Maya Wiley

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01/07/2010

On December 8th, 2009, Philanthropy New York hosted a program (presented by its Special Committee on Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy) with the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) and the Center for Social Inclusion on current...

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Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question

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08/05/2009

... and resource development assistance to nonprofit organizations . She is also a Founder and current Co-Chair of ...

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Three Prominent Foundation Leaders Join Foundation Center Board of Trustees

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04/20/2015

... designing and managing national initiatives and nonprofit organizations , is vice president for policy and senior ...

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Community Development

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W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

Release Date:

05/12/2015

... future of our community is at stake, we’ve worked across organizations and sectors to embed a collective impact ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Staten Island Foundation

NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education

Release Date:

07/30/2015

... can do more than simply give money to on-the-ground organizations . Foundations and donors can add value by ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Advancing Racial Equity in Arts and Culture, Part 2

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09/21/2015

... considered how they might make better choices at their organizations to advance racial justice in the cultural ... community members , which may include transparency around organizations ’ grant money...

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The New York Community Trust

03 Feb 2016

It’s PUBLIC Transit: Funders Look at New Initiatives to Connect NYC’s People & Places

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

We face a unique moment in the life of public transit in New York. After three decades of steadily improving service, quality indicators have started to decline. You see it every day: train cars break down more often, delays have gone up,...