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Eight Programs Receive Grants for Equitable Bike Share and Related Research Funded by the JPB Foundation

Release Date:

03/12/2018

... in grants to help increase access to bike share in communities of color, and to fund research related to bike ... accessible and available to people of color and low-income communities ," said Zoe Kircos,...

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Community Development

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Freedom Together Foundation

The Aetna Foundation Launches Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge to Empower Local Group Efforts

Release Date:

04/06/2018

... as part of its broader effort to improve the health of communities . We know that when it comes to health, place ...

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Health

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Aetna Foundation

Phil TV This Week April 14

Release Date:

04/14/2017

... of America, New Study Finds Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South Thousands of Nonprofits to ...

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PhilTV This Week

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

15 Apr 2025

The Art of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Collaborative Models for Nonprofits - Hosted by PNGP

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

** This session is offered to the Philanthropy New York community in partnership with Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia ** As part of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia's...

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Finance & Asset Management

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Nonprofit Financials

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Nudge Your Grantmaking: Applying Behavioral Science Insights to Enhance Program Impact

Release Date:

12/13/2017

... to Enhance Program Impact By Laura Wolff, Independent Philanthropy Consultant When the Nobel Committee awarded ... a wide variety of good programs even more effective. Philanthropy New York invites members to...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Helmsley Charitable Trust Increases Commitment to Environment of Madagascar

Release Date:

06/18/2015

... threats in ways that ensure the well-being of local communities while sustaining natural resources and protecting biodiversity. The Trust’s ... tremendous scientific, economic and cultural value for the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

In The Battle For Trans Equality In North Carolina, This Teen Is On The Front Lines

Release Date:

09/28/2017

“Trans people are actual people. We just want basic human rights.”

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Gender Justice

Newman's Own Foundation Forms Native American Nutrition Cohort

Release Date:

05/08/2018

... food access and nutrition education in Native American communities around the country. The first convening is May 8 ... and collaboration. The focus is on Native American communities , since food insecurity is...

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Food Systems

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Newman's Own Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grants $3.5M to South Arts to Launch "Jazz Road"

Release Date:

12/10/2018

... to expand jazz artists’ touring to a wide range of communities . This landmark re-granting program, once ... musicians to tour to the widest possible cross-section of communities , as well as maximize existing...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

United Way of New York City and NYU Langone Partner to Open New Food Pantry in Sunset Park

Release Date:

06/03/2019

The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone has debuted a new grocery store-like food pantry, called “The Table,” in Sunset Park.

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Food Systems

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United Way of New York City

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Prize Recipient

Release Date:

08/22/2018

... international jury has selected SHOFCO (Shining Hope for Communities ) to receive the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Prize. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, SHOFCO’s mission is to build urban promise from urban poverty...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Twenty Puerto Rican Writers Receive the Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship

Release Date:

11/16/2021

... in New York City. She is a product of the Puerto Rican communities on the island and in the South Bronx. The ... that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities...

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Mellon Foundation

University of Buffalo Receives $3 Million Mellon Grant in Support of Indigenous Studies

Release Date:

01/13/2020

The University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences has received a $3.174 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a new department of indigenous studies.

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Mellon Foundation

Arcus Foundation Names Annette Lanjouw and Jason McGill Co-Executive Directors

Release Date:

01/24/2017

... 2013. Before joining Arcus, he worked for nine years at Philanthropy New York, the primary membership association for ... McGill contributed key leadership in advancing Philanthropy New York's role as a...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arcus Foundation

16 Mar 2011

Foundations on the Hill

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -

8:30am to 12:30pm

L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Wash DC.

... may register by clicking on the link above. $95 fee. A Philanthropy New York COLLABORATIVE EVENT presented with the ... matters with the regional associations' expertise on local philanthropy and the...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

Release Date:

12/17/2015

... bighearted people, but I believe the purpose of our philanthropy must not only be generosity, but justice. The origins of formal philanthropy date from at least 1889, when the American ... of people around the...

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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

Release Date:

10/02/2017

The fight to compel landlords to return their properties to productive use is by no means a new one, but the discussion has a new urgency given the current severity of the homelessness crisis as well as the ongoing debates regarding the de Blasio...

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Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program

Release Date:

06/19/2018

... of experience working with and supporting marginalized communities , particularly at the intersections of race, ...

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Arcus Foundation

Wiliam T. Grant Foundation Announces Institutional Challenge Grant to Support Research-Practice Partnerships

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... grants program that encourages research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public ... two-year term. Research institutions will need to build the capacity of researchers to...