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Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... of working across NYC, we had a very good sense of who the community leaders and organizations were. We also knew they ... of low-income women in the wake of natural disasters, how community members and...

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Insights

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Disaster Relief

Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

JPB Foundation Vice President Donna Lawrence to Become President/CEO of I Have A Dream Foundation

Release Date:

06/18/2014

Lawrence will take up her position as President/CEO on July 1.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Freedom Together Foundation

Wallace Foundation Study Shows Significant Progress In Building Stronger Principal Pipelines

Release Date:

10/31/2016

The study especially noted direct benefits to novice school principals by raising the quality of their training, hiring, evaluations, mentoring and other support during their crucial first years on the job.

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Member News

Funding Area

Education

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The Wallace Foundation

15 Jul 2010

EarlyLearn NYC: New Opportunities for Innovative System-Building with Quality

Thursday, July 15, 2010 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... Children’s Services, through EarlyLearn NYC, will invest resources devoted to enhanced classroom quality and family ...

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Issue-Based

Wil Priester joins Arabella Advisors as CFO; Shelley Whelpton to Lead Arabella Advisors' Mid-Atlantic Practice

Release Date:

10/15/2013

Arabella Advisors has announced the appointments of Wil Priester as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Shelley Whelpton as a Managing Director. Both are based in Washington, DC.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arabella Advisors

Catherine Rick Named Senior Advisor for Nursing Leadership at the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... in health careers. She also worked with the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) on workforce ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

15 Oct 2014

Busting the Business of Trafficking Women and Children

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Human trafficking is often approached as a women and children’s human rights and social justice issue. Rightly so considering the U.S. State Department estimates 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year with...

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Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

18 Sep 2014

Inequality, Democracy and Corporate Power

Thursday, September 18, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

A series of Supreme Court decisions; Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, Shelby v FEC and McCutcheon v FEC, have expanded corporate constitutional rights and limited the ability of Congress and the states to protect voting rights and regulate campaign...

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09 Oct 2014

Mission and Impact Investing: Overcoming Resistance and Getting Started - Webinar

Thursday, October 9, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Family foundations and family offices are increasingly turning to mission (or impact) investing strategies as a key tool for aligning investments and operations with their mission and objectives. How can you engage your board in a thoughtful...

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Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

How Philanthropy Can Address the Needs of Our Veterans

Release Date:

11/05/2014

... problems veterans are experiencing and how best to deploy resources to address them. Veterans Day is just around ...

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President's Message

PNY News

Funding Area

Veterans

26 Feb 2015

What to Look for in a Nonprofit’s Financial Statement

Thursday, February 26, 2015 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

Learn how to analyze and evaluate nonprofit financial statements and know what questions to raise for further analysis.

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Professional Development

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Webinar/Teleconference

Workshop

Audience

All Funders

New Staff

12 Feb 2015

Key Traits of Phenomenal Foundation Executive Directors

Thursday, February 12, 2015 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

... questions. In collaboration with Exponent Philanthropy Resources The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner) about Bell Labs and ...

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Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

Release Date:

08/27/2012

By Nessa Rapoport and Emily Milder, Charles H. Revson Foundation A nation’s most valuable resource is the brainpower of its citizens. Today, in the knowledge-based economies of the West and, increasingly, of the globe, no country...

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Insights

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All Funders

10 Mar 2015

Supporting Grantee Capacity

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a guide called Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening...

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Roundtable Discussion

Workshop

Livestream

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Location

New York City

20 May 2015

Should we be afraid? Scariest Trends in Philanthropy - Webinar

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Missed the webinar? View recording here . In October 2014, David Callahan, editor of Inside Philanthropy, posted a blog called Be Afraid: The Five Scariest Trends in Philanthropy. Callahan’s ‘trends’ all relate to philanthropy in the US. Are these...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Location

International

For Women, the World Remains an Extremely Dangerous Place

Release Date:

03/11/2015

... United Nations, countries, and donors must invest far more resources and energy into tackling this odious scourge. ...

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Insights

Funding Area

Health

Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

16 Jul 2015

IT Security: Combat Advanced Persistent Threats

Thursday, July 16, 2015 -

11:30am to 1:00pm

View presentation here . Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) is a set of continuous computer hacking processes, often conducted by a group such as a government with the capability and intent to persistently and effectively target a specific entity...

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Information Technology

Good Grantmaking Where Our Work is Not Always Welcome

Release Date:

04/27/2015

Jim O'Sullivan, Israel Program Advisor at the Helmsley Charitable Trust, offers takeaways from the PNY program, "Philanthropy in Nations with Weak Civic Infrastructure."