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22 Mar 2017

Harnessing the Power of Youth Organizing: Impact on Resiliency, Social-Emotional Development, and Academic & Career Success

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... DRUM Chitra Aiyer , Executive Director, Sadie Nash Leadership Project Eric Braxton , Executive Director, ... of DRUM Youth Representative of Sadie Nash Leadership Project Youth Representative of The Urban...

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Children, Youth and Families

Civic Engagement

Social Justice

Stephanie Bencivenga Joins Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... served as the Executive Director of the urban agriculture nonprofit Get Dirty NYC. Bencivenga is a graduate of Boston ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Donor-Advised-Fund Tool Sends Gifts Directly to Charities

Release Date:

04/09/2013

... widget, a simple application that can be placed on a nonprofit ’s website, was created by Fidelity Charitable in ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

09 Oct 2012

Service for Impact Working Group Breakfast

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

9:00am to 10:30pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... climate. A well-designed volunteer program can increase nonprofit productivity and effectiveness but it must be a ...

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To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked

Release Date:

09/19/2013

Four nonprofit leaders — including Gail B. Nayowith, founding ... Fund — respond to a recent SSIR article on how the nonprofit sector sets its goals and achieves impact. In their ...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Sandy support from institutions underwhelms

Release Date:

10/25/2013

... month, according to report by Philanthropy New York, a nonprofit comprised of leading grant makers. The amount pales ... Even so, it seems unlikely that the total will reach the $ 1 . 1...

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Disaster Relief

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North Star Fund

Bloomberg Spins Off Group That Spurs Volunteerism in Cities

Release Date:

01/30/2014

... will turn its Cities of Service program into a stand-alone nonprofit that will help mayors across the U.S. tackle ... off one of his foundation’s programs into a stand-alone nonprofit that will expand its...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

Release Date:

03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with The Andrew W. ... finances," said Sandi Clement McKinley, Vice President of Nonprofit Finance Fund. "Continued artistic excellence is .....

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Nonprofit Finance Fund

Arcus and Other Organizations Shift Focus to Stop LGBTQ Violence and Intolerance

Release Date:

10/02/2015

... mission accomplished for Freedom to Marry. The 12-year-old nonprofit , after all, had been founded with the singular goal ...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Asked and Answered, With Implications for Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... City leaders, the leaders of many of the city and state nonprofit advocacy organizations, the leaders of several ... of the philanthropic organizations that have focused on nonprofit health in our region to...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bank of America Announces $300k to Boost Workforce Skills Among Local Youth, Veterans and People With Disabilities

Release Date:

06/20/2016

Bank of America announced $300,000 in grants to be distributed to 12 nonprofits in the Long Island community.

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Member News

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Workforce Development

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

Release Date:

06/21/2016

For the past six years, Jarrett Lucas has been making his way, as he says, "up the non-profit stepping stool," working at Stonewall Foundation for the past six years.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Stonewall Community Foundation

Research Travel Grant on Offer: David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships

Release Date:

07/13/2016

Non-profit CEOs are invited to apply for a $US20,000 grant to visit and research best practice social innovation internationally.

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Macquarie Group Foundation

Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... loans on June 30, 2010, it left behind a dozen or so nonprofit intermediaries, known as guaranty agencies, that ...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... staples, canned goods and produce to help feed more than 1 million people each year — was troubling, representatives ...

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Food Systems

Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... they care about – but the class transforms their own understanding of issues in their community, and their role ... addition, Fresh Direct is relocating to the Bronx, adding 1 ,000 new jobs, and Fairway is...

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Insights

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Education

Food Systems

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

29 Sep 2015

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Pros & Cons of Performance Evaluations

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... HR and operations professionals to share knowledge and resources , to test complex ideas with peers about ... Cell Foundation, Inc Oscar De La Cruz , Manager, Human Resources & Benefits, The Andrew W...

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Network Building

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All Funders

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HR & Operations

Why the New Teachers’ Contract Is Great News for NYC’s Students

Release Date:

06/03/2014

Important for the future of the city’s public schools and the prospects for its students are the quite radical but largely overlooked contract provisions affecting how administrators and teachers will work with each other.