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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

Release Date:

11/13/2018

... a key focus of many Spanish botanical expeditions to South America , including those by Hipólito Ruiz López and José ... who succeeded in obtaining seeds and seedlings from South America by stealth. Britain...

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Science

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Mellon Foundation

Mariko Silver Named Next President and CEO of Luce Foundation

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04/22/2019

... with a particular emphasis on East Asia, India, and North America , as well as across Latin America ... Mariko Silver Named Next President and CEO of Luce ...

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The Henry Luce Foundation

12 Nov 2019

Service for Impact

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 -

9:00am to 10:30am

Strategic volunteerism is a critical component of how corporations harness the time and talent of employees at all levels to support nonprofit partners and meet community needs. The Service for Impact working group, rooted in the principles of...

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14 Sep 2022

BBB® Forum on Corporate Responsibility XV: Business Integrity in an Age of Disruption

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

Join the Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York as they present the "BBB Forum on Corporate Responsibility XV: Business Integrity in an Age of Disruption". During the 2022 Forum, we will explore the...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Getting Started with Philanthropy New York

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: Partnership for Healthy Cities Launches Online Platform to Support City Leaders Responding to COVID-19

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04/15/2020

... Response Center includes the latest tools and technical resources geared toward urban challenges, ranging from ... to provide city leaders with important tools and technical resources to take on the crisis and...

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Civic Engagement

Community Development

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

12 Mar 2012

Conversations for Grantmakers: Hydrofracking Plus and Minus

Monday, March 12, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us for a discussion about the effects natural gas drilling has on community infrastructure. Amy Panek from the Park Foundation and Marilyn Bok from the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers will also talk about their work to educate the...

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Issue-Based

09 Oct 2012

Engaging Stakeholders for Impact: Involving Grantees and Others in Your Grantmaking

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

All New York State funders are invited to participate in this special event at the Grantmakers Forum of New York's annual meeting. To solve complex community problems, grantmakers must work more closely with their grantees, community leaders and...

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Network Building

29 Nov 2012

Social Media: Promising techniques used by social media-savvy funders

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

Locating the most appropriate information, and managing it strategically, becomes a challenge when we are increasingly bombarded with seemingly limitless streams of data. This webinar series will help foundation staff navigate the information...

04 Feb 2013

Grantmaking as a Career? One Program Officer’s Personal Experience, with Molly Schultz Hafid, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program, Shelter Rock

Monday, February 4, 2013 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

Learn about the field of philanthropy from one grantmaker's personal perspective. Philanthropy New York members who receive requests for informational interviews from jobseekers may refer those individuals to us for this session. Explore The...

The End of Currents

Release Date:

06/11/2014

As we mentioned a few weeks ago when we launched our new website, we are rebranding our e-news distributions and letting you get our content in variety of ways.

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Mellon Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts to Help with "Grand Bargain"

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06/11/2014

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pledging $10 million to the Detroit Institute of Arts to support a "Grand Bargain" designed to prevent the sale of art to cover the city's financial woes.

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Engaging Teens Through "Hunger Games" and Skateboarding Culture

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06/25/2014

Grants totaling $663,000 from The New York Community Trust to boost digital media learning will provide NYC teens the opportunity to remix music on wired steel drums, play a Hunger Games-inspired video game and create digital maps and videos of...

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The New York Community Trust

Foundations Join Together to Create New Philanthropy Feedback Opportunities

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09/04/2014

The Fund for Shared Insight will work to seek new ways for nonprofits to receive feedback to improve their programs and services.

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Communications/Media

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Ford Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The Haitian Earthquake: Response, Relief & Recovery

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01/14/2010

Philanthropy New York is currently working to coordinate and list our members’ support efforts and we will continue to track relief and recovery in the wake of the tragedy in Haiti.

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Insights

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All Funders

Carnegie Corporation of New York Backs Commission on the Future of Higher Education

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11/04/2015

The commission, which will be financed with a $2.2-million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will examine the future of higher education.

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

16 Mar 2016

Campaign for Grade Level Reading: The Funder Action Series, Part 3 - Webinar

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Join us for the third webinar, of a four-part series, that will explore the Campaign for Grade Level Reading Initiative and its core community solution areas.

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Education

Children, Youth and Families

UJA-Federation of New York Seeks $40M From Bankrupt FEGS

Release Date:

02/09/2016

The biggest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy case of the massive social service charity FEGS Health & Human Services are seeking tens of millions of dollars for a joint retirement plan serving thousands who work for New York Jewish...

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Jewish Interests

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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UJA-Federation of New York

Four Projects Supported by NY Community Trust Making Real Estate Cheaper for Artists To Live & Work in NYC

Release Date:

04/01/2016

While finding affordable real estate can be doubly tricky for artists who need to find affordable space in NYC to live and work, four new projects — all of which won grants recently from the New York Community Trust — aim to make it easier for...