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16 Feb 2022

Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... the Haitian earthquake, and political, economic, and health crises in Haiti and South America sent nationals of ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Tides Names Judith Hill CFO

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04/01/2013

Judith Hill joins Tides as CFO effective May 1st, 2013. Hill, formerly the Chief Financial Officer at Envision Education Foundation, brings over 20 years of CFO experience in organizations that span both the public and the private sectors to the...

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Nadia Alia Appointed Manager, Grants and Communications at The Tow Foundation

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04/20/2015

... grant application and reporting process. She is the system administrator for the Foundation’s online ... “The Big Picture: Finding A Perfect Grants Management System ,” a series about the intersection of...

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... Climate change, inequality and a broken criminal justice system are the issues du jour, commanding headlines and ... climate change and reforming the criminal justice system . . . NYTimes Profiles Several PNY...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... aware of these protections. And many have chafed under a system whose fees and sometimes elaborate permission ... 18 years before his death in 2008, has been a part of this system . But after experiments over...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Glenn E. Martin, Founder of JustLeadershipUSA, Says He Met Some of America’s Best and Brightest While In Prison

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05/10/2016

... raised his powerful voice to show the injustice of the system as well as the obstacles those who are cycled through the system face when they try to leave it behend. “In my ...

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With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, This New Orleans Neighborhood Is Fighting Flooding By Welcoming It

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03/09/2017

... engineered systems . . . you have to have a more resilient system that has redundancy and multiple different flood ...

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A New MIT-Led Simons Foundation Collaboration Aims to Understand Basic Principles and Laws of Microbial Ecosystems

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05/30/2017

Model microorganisms grown in pure cultures have been the basis of biological research for many decades — open a cell biology textbook and almost everything you will find has been discovered in yeast or E. coli lab cultures. While this speaks to the...

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Focus on Food Waste Includes Food Summit and Pop-up at Blue Hill Restaurant Featuring Chef Dan Barber’s WastED Initiative

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08/09/2017

... on September 13, 2017, at 7:30pm with leading food system thinkers such as Ruth Reichl, Sam Kass, Danielle ... or un-coveted and inspiring new applications in our food system . . . Rockefeller Foundation’s...

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NYT Opinion: Darren Walker Reflects on Why Museums Need to Step Into the Future

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07/26/2019

... are trustees who benefit from a distorted economic system that protects and promotes inequality. Wealthy donors ... collections. On the other side are people whom the system excludes and exploits. An...

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PNY's Call to Action on Behalf of NYC's Nonprofits During COVID-19

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04/24/2020

... the needs of your constituents. We want to share several resources that can help you to pinpoint philanthropic funds ... Funds · Blue Meridian COVID Response Fund · Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ... support...

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15 May 2025

Philanthropy New York's 46th Annual Meeting: Philanthropy For Our Time

Thursday, May 15, 2025 -

1:00pm to 6:00pm

While the nonprofit sector is currently facing existential threats, foundations are grappling with the ways they can show up as reliable and trustworthy partners. Join your Philanthropy New York community in person for a half-day...

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Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?

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07/15/2013

Community Food Funders, a philanthropic organizing project comprised of several PNY members, recently held a three-part breakfast series to explore the effects of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the...

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Brooklynites' Greatest Hopes, Concerns Detailed in New Study by Brooklyn Community Foundation

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11/05/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation also did deep dives into three neighborhoods: Coney Island, East New York and Sunset Park.

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Ford's Walker Addresses a Solution for Inequality in CNN OpEd

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06/18/2015

The Ford Foundation president believes you need to attack inequality at the root.

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Jersey Water Works Initiative is a Powerful Collaboration

Release Date:

04/27/2016

... for 2016. Focus areas include improving water system efficiency and engaging community members in ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches YieldWise, a $130 Million Initiative to Halve Post-Harvest Loss

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05/26/2016

... to Halve Post-Harvest Loss The earth’s global food system is facing a quiet crisis—one-third of all food ...

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Food Systems

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Century Foundation Study Finds Explosion in the Number of School Districts Working on Integration

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10/14/2016

A study released Friday by the Century Foundation, a think tank focused on inequity, found that 100 school districts and charter schools across the country are currently pursuing socioeconomic diversity plans — a number that has more than doubled...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Writes About the Privilege of Being Privileged

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10/20/2016

... don’t create or sustain it. Focus instead on building a system that produces less of the stuff in the first place. ...

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