From Katrina to the “Next Sandy”: Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Older Adults
Release Date:
04/03/2013
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Preparing Vulnerable Populations for Crisis: What We’ve Learned and Funding for the Future
Release Date:
05/09/2013
... Vulnerable Populations for Crisis, talk about her experiences from the storm and offer suggestions for how ...
Responding to Haitian Devastation, At Home
Release Date:
08/13/2010
In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) worked to find a way to help victims of the disaster—and at the same time follow its mission to improve the health of New Yorkers.
Capacity Building Across Borders: Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers Network
Release Date:
02/07/2012
... in an international context and to learn about the experiences of funders and grantees in Africa. James ...
Communications During a Disaster: Five Lessons Learned
Release Date:
11/13/2012
Like many New Yorkers, Philanthropy New York’s staff learned during Hurricane Sandy that even the best of plans won’t cover everything that can go wrong.
Grantmaking with a Gender Lens: Using a Gender Analysis
Publication date:
05/2004
In this GrantCraft guide, grantmakers and grantees describe the experience of using a "gender lens" in their work. They explain what gender analysis is and isn't - and why it can help shape more effective programs and organizations. The guide also takes a closer look at how gender analysis has led to new thinking in fields as diverse as public health, international development, juvenile justice, and youth services. And it offers additional insights and special advice on issues ranging from "What about Men and Boys" to "Uncovering Gender Assumptions."
Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens: Using a Racial Equity Analysis
Publication date:
11/2007
A focus on racial equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grantmaking process. Blending experience and candid advice from grantmakers, this guide explores how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation.
Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes
Publication date:
01/2011
Foundations often use grantee reporting and evaluation processes to gauge the effectiveness of their work. At the same time, many funders seek to simplify reporting and evaluation processes for grantees so that these nonprofits can spend more time doing their work. How do grantees experience reporting and evaluation processes? What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve them?
More Than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant
Publication date:
12/2008
Most of foundations’ efforts to contribute ‘beyond the money’ has little beneficial impact on grantees. More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant reveals that only when foundation staff provide assistance beyond the grant in one of two ways do grantees report a substantially more positive experience with their funders. Three exemplary foundations are profiled: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Winter Park Health Foundation, and the Wallace Foundation.
Simons Foundation Supports Collaboration of Libraries in Digital Era
Release Date:
10/17/2016
... years, ensuring that students continue to have positive experiences at Yale’s libraries is an immediate concern for ...
Pinkerton Foundation Publishes New Paper for Workforce Practitioners and Funders
Release Date:
02/23/2017
The Pinkerton Foundation has published Steven Dawson’s fourth Pinkerton Paper in his Job Quality Series, this one on Social Enterprise: Proceed, with Caution.
Elliott S. Fisher Joins Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Board
Release Date:
03/01/2012
... Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice. Perhaps best-known as a Principal Investigator on the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care , Dr. Fisher’s research focuses on...
Anti-Poverty Research Study Launched in NY
Release Date:
05/18/2014
... jobs; senior and disability tax credits; increased child care subsidies and supplements for low-wage workers. After ...
Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs
Release Date:
10/14/2015
... four in 10 older adults say that managing their health care needs is difficult for them or their families, that ... get done, or that all of the requirements of their health care are too much to handle, new...
Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds People May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan
Release Date:
11/06/2015
... — premiums, deductibles, PPOs, HMOs, POS. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, added new elements that ... the Commonwealth Fund have identified is that some health care shoppers are unaware of...
Commonwealth Fund Offers Guidance on the Creation of a High-Performance Health System for the Sickest and Frailest
Release Date:
11/10/2015
... Eric Schneider, M.D., lay out six principles for improving care for this population—and all patients—starting with ...
Hilton, Tow, Surdna and Edna McConnell Clark Noted as Important Funders for Foster Youth
Release Date:
01/08/2016
... Important Funders for Foster Youth Aging out of foster care can be a difficult process. With little community ... to support this process and give kids aging out of foster care the same kinds of opportunities...
Research to Prevent Blindness Supports Study Finding 1 In 4 ER Visits for Eye Problems Aren’t Actually Emergencies
Release Date:
02/15/2017
... finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have mild conditions, and recommends ... ways to help those patients get the right level of care . The national study, led by...
ASPCA Assists Nearly 600 Animals Displaced by Hurricane Michael
Release Date:
10/30/2018
... has assisted Florida SARC and local agencies in providing care for nearly 600 animals displaced by the storm. “When ... essential that animal welfare agencies collaborate to care for displaced animals,” said...
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