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20 Mar 2019

Collaborative Grantmaking for Early Childhood: The Raising Childcare Fund - A Webinar Hosted by the NY Funders Alliance

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... NY Funders Alliance, who has extended an invitation to PNY members . Space is limited and will be granted on a first ... funders. Registration is required by March 19th. Members and Non-Member Funders: Please...

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Issue-Based

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

All Funders

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

14 Apr 2022

Governance Practices for Better Decision Making - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 14, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... strategies and decisions, and appointing independent board members . Join us for a conversation on how to create an ... might explore before and after engaging independent board members The process of creating...

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Tools & Strategies

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Family Foundation

Topic(s)

Governance

12 May 2022

Designing Effective Board Meetings: Purpose, Outcomes, Process, and People - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, May 12, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... Board meetings serve as a touchpoint for engaged family members and decision-makers to come together in service of a ... will you learn? How to design meetings to engage family members about their giving How...

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Professional Development

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Family Foundation

Topic(s)

Governance

Partnerships Are Key to Our Programming

Release Date:

03/04/2015

... are among the Philanthropy New York services that members tell us they value most. Last year PNY produced well ... ground up, completely in house, but often, we work with members , as well as affinity and...

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President's Message

PNY News

02 Apr 2012

How Does History Inform Current Philanthropic Practice?

Monday, April 2, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

What can 21st-century practitioners learn from the annals of American philanthropy? As the Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford foundations celebrate 100, 99, and 75 years of service respectively, pausing to reflect upon the role and practice of...

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Issue-Based

25 Feb 2014

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium VIII: Re-Imagining Impact

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 -

7:00am to 12:00pm

Baruch College School of Public Affairs

... Foundation leaders, nonprofit executives and impact assessment experts will share insights about setting and ...

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Issue-Based

Audience

Executive Leadership

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

24 Apr 2014

The Future of Education for New Yorkers Without High School Diplomas

Thursday, April 24, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

An estimated 1.8 million New Yorkers do not have high school diplomas. Until December 31, 2013, the only way for these individuals to get vocational training, entry-level jobs, or enroll in college was to pass the General Education Development (GED...

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Issue-Based

Topic(s)

Public Policy

Funding Area

Education

Ford Foundation Appoints Rakesh Rajani as the New Director of Democratic Participation and Governance

Release Date:

10/21/2014

Rakesh Rajani will join Ford Foundation from Twaweza, an organization based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Community Development

Public Policy

Social Justice

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Dyson Foundation Names Jennifer Killian New Program Officer

Release Date:

11/09/2015

Jennifer Killian of the City of Poughkeepsie has been hired to serve as a program officer for the Millbrook-based Dyson Foundation.

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Dyson Foundation

Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

Release Date:

05/14/2019

A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp.

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Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Science

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Doris Duke Foundation

FORE Awards New Grants to Catalyze the Federal Response to the Opioid Crisis

Release Date:

05/31/2023

Today, FORE announced two new grants that build on recent federal policies and laws governing the nation’s response to the continuing opioid crisis.

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

Public Policy

Related Organizations

Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

5/20/2015 - Should we be Afraid? Scariest Trends in Philanthropy - Webinar Recording

Publication date:

05/2015

View materials and the recording of the webinar, "Should we be Afraid? Scariest Trends in Philanthropy."

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Audio/Video Recording

Program Presentation

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Kresge Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Launch $30 Million Detroit Revitalization Fund

Release Date:

09/18/2013

With support from MetLife and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, among others, the fund will provide long-term fixed-rate loans to mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented projects that promote density, diversity, vibrancy and...

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Member News

2012 NGen Fellows Project: Hacking the NGen Experience

Release Date:

09/29/2013

... Fellows also sought to identify the leadership development needs of mid-level nonprofit professionals and search for ...

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Member News

Topic(s)

Leadership Development

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American Express

Stonewall Community Foundation: Working Towards a Better Future Since 1990

Release Date:

06/18/2014

... Working Towards a Better Future Since 1990 The needs of New York City's LGBT community are so vast and ... people do. As the only public foundation focused on the needs of New York City's lesbian,...

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Member News

Funding Area

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Stonewall Community Foundation

Hunger-Relief Programs Receive Morgan Stanley Support To Feed More Children

Release Date:

07/09/2014

The Morgan Stanley Foundation is awarding more than $1 million in grants to local food banks and their hunger-relief programs that deliver nutritious meals to children and families in 27 cities and 17 states.

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Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Food Systems

Related Organizations

Morgan Stanley

Helmsley Charitable Trust and JPB Foundation Among Funders Fighting Type 1 Diabetes

Release Date:

10/10/2014

PNY member foundations are funding breakthrough Type 1 diabetes research.

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

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Freedom Together Foundation

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Rockefeller Foundation Leverages Federal Spending for Disaster Relief

Release Date:

12/04/2014

... hit New York next is a heatwave. Heat can be deadly. There needs to be a broader perspective on building resilience ... effort to do things differently. Rockefeller asks, “What needs to change, and how can we...