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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... identifying bad content, i.e. "fake news," and look at how misinformation propagates to learn from it and get ahead ... Jarvis. He gave a PHIL Talk that not only illustrated how these bad actors have...

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PhilTalks

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Communications/Media

Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

Release Date:

02/06/2018

... Steadies The Body New scientific research has revealed how a small part of the brain singlehandedly steadies the ... balance, while also offering insight into the mechanics of how animals stay upright when...

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Member News

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Science

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The Tow Foundation

New York Times Op-Ed "Good Leaders Make Good Schools" Cites Important Wallace-Commissioned Research Report

Release Date:

03/13/2018

... job of circulating them. For example, if you want to learn how to improve city schools, look how Washington, New Orleans and Chicago are already doing it. ... a neighborhood do not have to determine student...

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action

Release Date:

04/13/2018

... its focus to grantees who were studying research itself: how to improve it, how it’s incentivized, and most importantly, how to “increase routine and beneficial uses of research in ...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

New Report Funded by the Long Island Community Foundation Reveals the Economic Impact of Long Island's Opiod Crisis

Release Date:

09/04/2019

... revealed the economic impact of this health crisis and how the financial burden is borne by all of us: as taxpayers, ... of addiction have always been clear, the report shows just how significant the effect...

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Member News

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Community Development

Health

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Long Island Community Foundation

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... What we can strive for, in essence, is more inclusive philanthropy . Many foundations exhibit...

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Insights

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Funding Area

Disabilities

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

Release Date:

06/05/2017

Early-career biomedical scientists who explore mechanisms of memory, injury and immunity in the nervous system and beyond, are recognized as young leaders in science.

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Member News

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Health

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Rita Allen Foundation

Online Data Journalism Hub Funded by OSF Is Set To Launch

Release Date:

03/12/2018

The Global Editors Network (GEN), headquartered in Paris, aims to address this disparity by launching the Data Journalism Den, a hub devoted to all things data journalism.

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Member News

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Communications/Media

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Open Society Foundations

William T. Grant Foundation Awards Three Year Grant to Cornell University to Study Opioid Use in Rural Upstate New York

Release Date:

04/11/2018

... practices and programs. “This grant supports a true collaborative research-practice partnership that brings ...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

Release Date:

06/13/2018

The NoVo Foundation today announced $34 million—up from $20 million committed originally—in Radical Hope Fund grants to 19 organizations from among 1,000 applicants doing bold and transformative social justice work in the United States and around...

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Member News

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Social Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Grant to Critical Path Institute to Advance Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease

Release Date:

09/06/2018

In a continuing effort to spur advancements in treating and curing sickle cell anemia, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation today announced a grant to the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) to lay the groundwork for forming a collaboration of multiple...

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Doris Duke Foundation

Simons Foundation Gifts UC San Diego Funds to Operate Simons Observatory in Chile to Explore Early Universe

Release Date:

07/09/2019

Astrophysicists are trying to zoom in on massive clusters of galaxies which are difficult to see.

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Member News

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

COVID-19: Sharing Information

... we can make connections and amplify the work. developing collaborative funds engaging in advocacy work at the city or ...

01 Jun 2020

New York Environmental Funders Network Meeting - via Zoom (Week 2)

Monday, June 1, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... in terms of a response, and if there is interest in a collaborative response fund. Explore Unique challenges and ...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

13 Jul 2020

New York Environmental Funders Network Meeting - via Zoom

Monday, July 13, 2020 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... in terms of a response, and if there is interest in a collaborative response fund. This week's meeting will .....

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

Social Justice

PNY Smart Assets Blog Posts on Hurricane Sandy

Philanthropy New York members and colleagues shared opinions ... on our blog, Smart Assets . See the Storify: Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons 5 Questions for... ... PNY’s 34th Annual Meeting! 4...

Yi-Ching Lin

Yi-Ching Lin serves as the Vice President of Learning at Philanthropy New York, a trusted community of nearly 300 ... and advocacy to address the unique challenges of philanthropy and convenes funders to...

A New Agenda for a Post–Health Reform Landscape

Release Date:

09/12/2013

... Fund as the seventh president of the 95-year-old philanthropy . As Dr. Blumenthal explains in a blog post, "The ... in the worlds of policy, care delivery, academia, and philanthropy , to name just a few...

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Member News

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Public Policy

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Christine Rhee Joins the Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... in November 2013 and brings to the role experience in philanthropy , nonprofit arts administration and for-profit ... development. Rhee served for six years as Manager of Philanthropy at American Express ,...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arts

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American Express

In Memoriam: Edgar M. Bronfman

Release Date:

01/15/2014

... to be shaped and served by his vision." All of us at Philanthropy New York send our deepest condolences to the ... colleagues for their loss. Learn more about the life and philanthropy of Edgar M...