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FEGS: Canary in the Coal Mine?

Release Date:

04/10/2015

... administrative costs and far too many government-dependent organizations are encouraged to and do both under-report and ... contracts. Recently, national online charity rating organizations have acknowledged...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Workforce Development

Related Organizations

Human Services Council of NYC

The New York Community Trust

Animal Groups Unite to Improve Post-Disaster Philanthropy

Release Date:

04/17/2015

... review process to streamline funding for animal welfare organizations during major disasters. These groups will ... a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the individual organizations participating in this...

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Insights

Funding Area

Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

08 Oct 2015

Making Space for Tinkering, Design-Thinking and Technology in Education

Thursday, October 8, 2015 -

8:45am to 10:30am

Over the past five years, the “maker movement” has generated significant buzz, and “makerspaces” are popping up in libraries, museums and schools.

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Panel

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

All Funders

Funding Area

Education

Children, Youth and Families

Location

New York City

12 Jul 2016

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what you need to know about the ins-and-outs — and what's licit and what's not — about using or funding advocacy to further your foundation’s work.

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Professional Development

Format

Audience

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Location

New York City

08 Oct 2015

Community Connections: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in Your Grantmaking - Webinar

Thursday, October 8, 2015 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... approach? And how can families learn together with the organizations and community they support – how can you get ... along with a leader from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations , who will present findings...

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Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

02 Nov 2015

Winning Ingredients: What Philanthropy Can Learn from the Marriage Equality Movement

Monday, November 2, 2015 -

12:45pm to 4:00pm

Join us for a conversation with key philanthropic leaders and advocates from the field who have worked to achieve the freedom to marry.

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18 Mar 2016

Learning from FEGS: Are Your Grantees at Risk?

Friday, March 18, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Prevent needless closures of nonprofit human service organizations Strengthen the financial health of nonprofit ...

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

American Express-Supported Awards Go to Michael Brown, CEO of City Year, and United We Dream’s Julieta Garibay

Release Date:

11/02/2015

... of Texas- Austin, one of the first undocumented youth-led organizations in the nation. She was also a founding board ...

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation Honored with Distinguished Service Award by American Academy of Ophthalmology

Release Date:

11/13/2015

The Distinguished Service Award honors an individual or organization for ongoing notable service and this year's recipient is Research to Prevent Blindness.

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Research to Prevent Blindness

Community-Development Conference -NeighborWorks Training Institute - Supported by JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Citi Foundation - Kicks Off

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... a professional-development program for senior leaders of organizations working to benefit communities. Prior to that, ... In addition to the training institute, NeighborWorks organizations work to serve the...

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Member News

Funding Area

Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Citi Foundation

Citi

14 Jan 2016

Discovering All of the Roles You (and Your Team) Play

Thursday, January 14, 2016 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Developing a personal work strategy is critical to achieving success in your job. Learn how to recraft your job into roles promoting leadership and confidence.

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Audience

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

19 Apr 2016

New York City Human Services Career Ladder Project

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us for a discussion with the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) and the Human Services Council (HSC) about an exciting new project to develop a sector-wide career ladder program for 80,000...

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All Funders

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Workforce Development

Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York Announces New Executive Director

Release Date:

05/09/2016

... said JWFNY President Miriam Caslow. “Jamie has served organizations in program, fundraising, executive, and ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Elluminate

Leadership Doesn’t Just Happen

Release Date:

05/12/2016

... encouraging and investing in people and the nonprofit organizations that develop them in communities across the ...

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Insights

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Related Organizations

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

16 Sep 2016

Philanthropy and the Sustainable Development Goals: Funding at Home and Abroad

Friday, September 16, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In September 2015, world leaders from all 193 United Nations member countries universally ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, representing a historic global consensus about the shared responsibility that all nations have in achieving global...

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Panel

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Human Services

International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

15 Nov 2016

School Discipline is Changing. For the Better?

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Kavitha Mediratta, Chief Strategy Advisor for Equality Initiatives and Human Capital Development at The Atlantic Philanthropies, just co-edited and published her latest book, Inequality in School Discipline , that addresses the profound and life-...

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16 Feb 2017

NYC Commission on Gender Equity: What Are Its Economic Opportunity, Health and Safety Priorities?

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York’s Funders for Gender Equity are pleased to welcome Azadeh Khalili , the Founding Executive Director of the Commission on Gender Equity . Most recently, she served as the New York City’s Executive Director of...

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Issue-Based

Format

Livestream

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Public Policy

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Public Policy

22 Jun 2017

Writing Workshop: Insights that Inspire Action

Thursday, June 22, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

With the proliferation of blogs, niche publications, social media channels and organizational self-publishing – as well as traditional media’s increasingly voracious consumption and dissemination of editorial content – getting your opinion piece...

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Event type

Professional Development

Format

Workshop

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Communications

11 Jul 2017

Writing Workshop: Insights that Inspire Action (Part 2)

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Participants will have prepared a draft opion piece and submitted it to the workshop leaders. Upon receiving permission from authors, we will workshop 3-4 opinion pieces with all the participants.