Words Matter: Changing from Funders of Women and Girls to Funders for Gender Equity
Release Date:
01/04/2017
... girls have been left out. Though there has been a rise in giving toward/to women and girls by the broader foundation ...
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Wallace Foundation Names Gigi Antoni New Director of Learning and Enrichment
Release Date:
02/28/2017
... summer learning, and social and emotional learning, giving her a valuable perspective on the foundation’s ...
Third Wave Fund, New York Women's Foundation and Ms. Foundation Pen Open Letter to Foundations and Donors Calling for Increased Funding to People of Color
Release Date:
03/09/2017
... is in this moment a profound moral imperative to increase giving to local and state-level efforts led by people of ...
United Hospital Fund Report Examines Hospital Patients’ Refusal of Home Care Services & the Impact on Readmissions and Outcomes
Release Date:
05/15/2017
United Hospital Fund and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation analyzed the issue of patients who refuse home health care services when they are discharged from inpatient care. Such refusals can lead to higher rates of readmission to...
Mike Bloomberg Offers to 'Match Every Donation' to Fight Gun Violence
Release Date:
10/05/2017
On Wednesday afternoon, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took to Twitter to announce that he will match donations given to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control that he founded in 2014.
ASPCA Weighs In On The Surprising Argument for Extending Food Stamps to Pets
Release Date:
01/23/2018
Advocates say a food-stamp program that includes pet food would address a little-discussed gap in the social safety net: Currently, there is no federal program that helps low-income people care for their pets.
ABNY Releases The Second Season of ABNY Talks
Release Date:
01/23/2018
This education series delivered by experts gives New Yorkers insight into how and why policy decisions get made.
Poses Family Foundation and Citi Behind New Public-Private Partnership to Pull People With Disabilities Out of Poverty
Release Date:
02/08/2018
... been very involved in New York City philanthropy lately, giving $1 million toward the first city-wide community land ...
23
May
2018
Social Impact Exchange: 2018 Conference on Scaling Impact Together
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 8:30am to Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 2:45pm
The Social Impact Exchange 2018 conference theme is How Philanthropy Can Help Lead an Era of Cross-Sector Collaboration . Responding to the urgent need for cross-sector collaboration for exponential impact, this year’s convening...
04
Apr
2018
Private Funders Meeting with Dr. Mitchell Katz
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... eliminating unnecessary expensive hospital care and giving the patients the dignity of their own home. Dr. Katz ...
Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy
Release Date:
03/15/2018
... focus on the impact of white privilege in philanthropic giving . “Most people that are in leadership have had a very ...
Supported By The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Alliance for Audition Support Looks to Increase Diversity in Orchestras
Release Date:
04/18/2018
The new initiative — created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony and the League of American Orchestras — will train musicians for auditions, pair them with mentors, showcase their work in concerts and give them stipends to travel to...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Organizations Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint and Improve Health
Release Date:
04/20/2018
If the U.S. health care system were a separate country, its $3.3 trillion GDP would give it the fifth-largest economy in the world. It is also the world’s seventh-largest producer of carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to air pollution.
Easy to Say and Hard to Do Well
Release Date:
05/02/2018
Philanthropy New York President Ronna Brown gives gives her take on 'Four Essentials for Foundation Effectiveness' presented by Center for Effective Philanthorpy President Phil Buchanan.
08
Nov
2018
Service For Impact – The Nonprofit Perspective: Building Volunteering Partnerships for Greater Impact
Thursday, November 8, 2018 -
8:45am to 11:00am
The Service for Impact Working Group, rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , provides an opportunity for both corporate grantmakers and corporate volunteer leaders to foster a peer network, share successes and challenges...
13
Dec
2018
Interested in Working in Corporate Philanthropy?
Thursday, December 13, 2018 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm
... as they discuss career path experiences in the corporate giving sector. Philanthropy New York members who receive ...
11
Dec
2018
Impact Investing in the Arts 101: Building Your Funding Tool Box
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Many philanthropic institutions and individuals are considering impact investing as a tool to complement their grantmaking activities. Despite its increasing popularity, however, institutions that support the arts have been slow to add impact...
Practices That Put Your Expertise Into Play
Release Date:
10/16/2018
... Expertise Into Play By Jan Jaffe, Senior Partner of The Giving Practice Learning how practitioners work well when ...
A Terrible Time for De Blasio to Cut Library Funding
Release Date:
05/15/2019
... as centers of information and knowledge about the census, giving people access to the technology needed to participate. ...
Census 2020: Focus on the Real Work in Communities, Not the Legal/Political Morass
Release Date:
07/11/2019
The two weeks following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling that the controversial citizenship question cannot be added to the 2020 census questionnaire has been a wild rollercoaster ride for anyone trying to track what’s been happening.