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For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

Release Date:

02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Member News

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Immigration

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

Release Date:

07/25/2017

The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

Release Date:

08/01/2017

... program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing . Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the ...

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Overbrook Foundation

Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

Release Date:

09/13/2017

The clock is ticking. Community Boards 4, 5 and 7 have until October 30 to vote on the de Blasio administration’s proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue in the western Bronx. It’s the first stage of the seven-month Uniform Land Use Review Procedure...

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Community Development

How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... critical electoral importance.' The fund has invested $ 1 million this year and will spend an additional $2 million .....

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Member News

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Civic Engagement

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Propel Capital

Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

Release Date:

03/16/2018

Open Society Foundations, in partnership with a group of other philanthropy organizations, funded a Cleveland State University report, Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans, which highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Ohio'...

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Member News

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

Release Date:

11/29/2018

... Count, the latest effort led by the foundation, is investing in research to hear directly from teens about what ...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

The New York Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... beyond news cycles and hashtags. The Fund is focused on investing in organizations led by and for survivors of sexual ... leaders who are building transformational movements and investing in community-led...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

Release Date:

02/21/2019

... and asset classes, Van Fleet’s broad knowledge of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High ...

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Member News

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Education

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SIFMA Foundation

UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

Release Date:

05/20/2019

UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new endowment dollars for participating Jewish day schools and yeshivot in New York.

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Member News

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Education

Religion

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UJA-Federation of New York

26 Jun 2020

What's Next for DACA? - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Friday, June 26, 2020 -

2:30pm to 3:30pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), ... Kevin Douglas (Moderator), Director of National Programs, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Education

Immigration

Public Policy

09 Sep 2021

COVID-19’s Long Tail: Developing a Mental Health Strategy for Recovery - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, September 9, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Philanthropy (CDP) is hosting a webinar to explore how grantmakers can approach trauma and grief resulting from the ... Philanthropy (CDP) is hosting a webinar to explore how grantmakers can approach trauma...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Health

Give Generously—You Can’t Help It!

Release Date:

12/18/2009

... the Executive Branch and as the head of an international nonprofit organization. He was the Minority Staff Director on ...

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Insights

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All Funders

Angela Romualdez

Angela comes to Philanthropy New York with a demonstrated history of working in the arts and cultural sector, most recently at Bonhams auctioneers.

Movement Building and System Change

Release Date:

05/17/2012

This spring, we hosted a members briefing (co-sponsored by the North Star Fund, The New York Women's Foundation, The Daphne Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund) that focused on strategies that funders can pursue to help community-based...