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Challenges and Opportunities with Organizational Structure
Publication date:
05/2013
At this Foundation Administrator's Network meeting, organization development consultant Martha Sherman will lead a conversation on challenges and opportunities related to organizational structure. Members identified the top challenges FAN members face. Sherman offered advice, based on her 20+ years of experience in organizational development, and members can broke out into small groups to discuss specific challenges in more depth, understand some of the different hats our colleagues wear, and connect with those who can continue to serve as a resource after the meeting.
PNY Strategic Outcomes
Publication date:
06/2025
4 Questions about Disaster Philanthropy for Bob Ottenhoff
Release Date:
04/23/2013
... Service providers may find themselves overworked and their resources stretched. And then there are the aspects of ... more global policy issues. What surprises donors you speak to most? They are relieved to...
Philanthropy Should Support Frontline Workers During Pandemic and Beyond - from Arabella Advisors
Release Date:
03/27/2020
... uncertainty. Their health, income, social networks, and communities all are under threat. They need urgent as well as ... our food, from farm to fork. We should also all consider local growers and ...
Despite the Pall of National Politics, We Are Bending Toward the Light of Justice
Release Date:
12/20/2017
... in 2017 for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities . While the nonprofit sector must reckon with the ... Justice Reform, the chief counsel to Gov. Cuomo, the Brooklyn D.A. and the director of the...
Ariane Cruz Represented Philanthropy New York with City Council Testimony on City Contracting
Release Date:
03/22/2024
... reductions, and closures – ultimately impacting the communities they serve: all New Yorkers. Read her ... (Julie Won, Chair, and Members: Erik D. Bottcher, Sandy Nurse, Althea V. Stevens and Inna Vernikov)...
PNY Joins Philanthropy Groups in Calling on Funders to Keep Equity at the Forefront of Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19
Release Date:
03/20/2020
... She encourages funders to pay specific attention to communities that are likely to suffer disproportionately ... are often the same people who do not have the financial resources or appropriate health...
How Evaluations Make Programs Stronger
Release Date:
08/21/2014
... that already have evidence that the people and communities being served are benefiting. But to do better ... Community Service (CNCS), that combines public and private resources to grow the impact of...
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.1 Million to 41 Theater Programs
Release Date:
07/06/2015
... of new plays, cultivate playwrights and other theater makers , experiment with new technologies and ... orgs focus primarily on social justice, or on artists and communities of color, women and people with...
A Pioneer of The Philanthropic Enterprise, Newman’s Own Leads the Way For Others
Release Date:
05/23/2017
... also in that city, which gives to a rotating menu of local charities addressing things like teenage homeless, or ... with its own community fund to feed the hungry, and Impact Makers , a management and...
Scanning the Landscape
Publication date:
04/2004
... a shift in strategy. Using learning networks, grant makers are starting to scan continuously, looking beyond the ... and fresh ideas. GrantCraft asked seven grant makers how they build networks to discover the unexpected in their fields and communities : Scanning the Landscape ...
Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Leadership in Government Fellows
Release Date:
05/21/2021
... senior public servants from federal, state, and local governments, who have dedicated their careers to ... The fellows have made their marks in diverse fields in communities across the country, and at all...
Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials
Release Date:
02/13/2013
... profile of Philanthropy New York’s “Money and Power in Post -Election America: Where Is Philanthropy?” conference. ... education, government officials told an audience of grant makers , nonprofit leaders, and...
Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity
Release Date:
12/12/2013
... subject to market norms. Markets prioritize return for the resources invested and use competition as the mechanism for ... winners and losers, but the work of philanthropy is not to guide the allocation of...
Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need
Release Date:
05/11/2017
... room for improvement. These disparities are apparent in communities where racial and ethnic minorities comprise the ... challenges from obesity to dental health continue to test local healthcare providers and...
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Fall 2021 Grantees and New Website
Release Date:
01/12/2022
... 49 organizations to support the vital work of artists in communities around the country. Grant recipients will be ... First time grantee Artistic Freedom Initiative ( Brooklyn , NY) protects and champions at-...
Ford Foundation Funds Expansion of REACT to Film Educationl Programs
Release Date:
10/08/2014
... issues around the world. “I want to be aware and take action as much as possible,” said Nathalie, a student at Achievement First Brooklyn High School. REACT to FILM’s educational programs, including its...
Young Leaders Breakfast Club
... a cohort of young leaders and mentors who represent the local community and the diversity of roles and types of ... of color, as well as from other underrepresented communities in philanthropy, including from...
Ford Foundation and Leading Thinkers Discuss A New Gospel of Philanthropy
Release Date:
08/10/2016
... like extreme poverty and hunger — but acquire their resources through forces that have arguably helped create ...