Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces the Addition of Four New Staff and Six New Board Members
Release Date:
01/28/2015
... “As a community foundation committed to supporting local leaders , developing our own leadership is critical to our ...
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Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund
Release Date:
04/29/2010
... enabled a thinly capitalized grantee to fly community leaders to Washington on short notice for a high-level ...
Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know
Release Date:
09/10/2014
... Shift , Demos noted that “until about two decades ago, state funding ensured college tuition remained within reach ...
For Profound Change in America, Think Local
Release Date:
01/29/2014
... challenges as our neighborhoods transition. Federal and state funding cuts have left services, previously taken for ...
Reshaping the Business of Social Change
Release Date:
06/20/2013
by Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation As the Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate charity of the world’s leading source of news and information, I run an international, award-winning...
Reflections from Foundations on the Hill
Release Date:
03/24/2011
... our sector. For example, nearly 17 percent of New York State ’s total jobs are based in the nonprofit sector, and ...
Standby Letters of Credit: The Underdog of Charitable Financing
Release Date:
06/25/2009
At ACBP, our President has a top ten list that quotes Tom Peters. One item is, “Try easier, not harder.” As a foundation that invests in the next generation and is not afraid to take risks, we (with our partners) take innovative ideas and create...
School Choice and Privilege Are Inextricably Linked
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... public education can be expected to diminish. And if state budgets for education are any indication, that does ... a way to choose segregation; more than two thirds of the state ’s charter schools are highly...
JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women
Release Date:
03/24/2016
Women account for only a third of positions in growing, middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), supported by JPMorgan.
Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway
Release Date:
03/27/2017
Zeyba Rahman at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art writes, "I am convinced that the arts offer a common language with which to understand one another and to break through the substantial barriers dividing our country."
A Creative Approach to Advocacy: How One Foundation Tackles a Complex Issue, Part Two
Release Date:
11/08/2017
Judith Smith, Program Director and Erica Brody, Program Officer at The Poses Family Foundation deliver part two of their series on funding creatively.
New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance Open Competitive Grant Program to Help Middle School Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs
Release Date:
12/13/2018
Aim High is part of the New York Life Foundation’s ongoing investment in OST programs to help underserved 8th graders reach the 9th grade on time and prepared for high school level work. In 2019, 26 awards will go to afterschool, summer and expanded...
Convening Virtually: Embracing Change and Community
Release Date:
12/03/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink and readjust the way we do work. We have very quickly learned to adapt and be kinder to one another for the personal “intrusions” that come into our professional lives. And we’ve learned to welcome it!
A Crash Course in the Foundation World: Reflections on Philanthropy New York’s Philanthropy 101
Release Date:
09/23/2022
... differences like how our nations think about the welfare state . I began to appreciate these differences in 2021 when I ...
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2025
Understanding the Evolution of Birthright Citizenship and What Comes Next - A Webinar Hosted by AAPIP and GCIR
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
Join us for a conversation about the history of citizenship in this country, the ongoing debate about who gets to be an American, the impact of the Supreme Court decision on the broader fight to protect civil rights, and what comes next in the legal...
04
Mar
2019
The Landscape of Money and Politics - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, March 4, 2019 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
This program is hosted by our partner, Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* This discussion...
10
Feb
2015
The Conference Board's Business - Community Impact Symposium
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 8:00am to Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 5:00pm
... ESPN Lauren Mihajlov, Director of Communications, United Health Foundation Dalila Wilson-Scott, President, JPMorgan ...
Open Letter to Grantees from Social Justice Funders
Release Date:
03/19/2020
... level in ways that threaten the stability of many people's health , physical safety, food security, mobility, housing, .....
Insights from The Mechanics of Working Through Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - A Workshop Led by PRE
Release Date:
12/06/2022
What does it mean to use a racial justice lens in your grantmaking? And what internal barriers need to be dismantled to advance racial justice?
25
May
2021
Why the Time is Right for a Guaranteed Income with an Equity Lens - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
... us as we hear perspectives from a diverse group of thought leaders involved in GI initiatives including practitioners, ...