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Commonwealth Fund: Coverage Gains Among Lower-Income Blacks and Latinos Highlight ACA’s Successes & Areas for Improvement

Release Date:

08/21/2017

... Care Act coverage expansions went into effect, and 2016 , according to the latest Commonwealth Fund Biennial ... of four) — were also more likely to get needed care in 2016 . . . Commonwealth Fund: Coverage...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Employment Is Up in New York State, but Gains Are Uneven

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... More than 9.1 million New Yorkers were working in 2016 —the most since 2008, according to the report. All ... saw the unemployment rate drop sharply from 2011 to 2016 . But in half of the 10 regions studied in...

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Economic Security

12/15/2014 - Why We Can’t Wait: Lessons from Listening to Girls of Color - Live stream and Materials

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12/2014

View the materials and live stream recording of the program, "Why We Can’t Wait: Lessons from Listening to Girls of Color."

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Children, Youth and Families

Open Road Alliance - Roadblock Analysis Report

Roadblock Analysis Report In 2017, Open Road conducted an analysis of 102 applications from the past five years to assess trends in its portfolio. The analysis looked at multiple variables, including the size of the organization, project type, sector focus, geographic focus, legal status, and type of original funder. The analysis also coded each application under a taxonomy of “roadblocks” that describe 22 specific challenges that these organizations faced, divided into three broad categories: Organization Misfortune, Acts of God/Market Economics, and Funder-Created...

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Open Road Alliance

02 Nov 2017

Understanding NY City & State's Legislative Landscape: An Overview for Funders with the Advocacy Institute

Thursday, November 2, 2017 (All day) to Thursday, November 16, 2017 (All day)

... the operating environment in order to maximize their own resources . Ensuring real impact at the local and state level ... and professional development opportunities. This year , we are pleased to offer a...

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United Way of New York City Establishes the COVID-19 Community Fund

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03/26/2020

... reach their families and provide critical and ongoing resources like learning, food distribution and social work ... ABOUT THE COVID-19 COMMUNITY FUND In its over 80- year history, United Way of New York City...

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United Way of New York City

Accelerating Your Impact: On-Ramps to Effective Advocacy Funding

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10/24/2024

... new perspectives, share practices and challenges, exchange resources , and mentor and support to expand connections, ... work and peer-driven engagement. Allocate time and resources to activities like...

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TCC Group

Diahann Billings-Burford Named Executive Director, Corporate Responsibility at Time Warner Inc.

Release Date:

03/12/2014

... company-wide college internship program, the programs and resources they provide to stimulate and support employee ... as Deputy Executive Director of External Affairs for City Year New York, a national...

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Points of Pride from 2017

Release Date:

01/10/2018

... New York, Ronna Brown Before we get too far from last year , we thought it would be a good idea to draw your ... attention to some PNY highlights from 2017. While the last year was certainly tumultuous on the...

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President's Message

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All Funders

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Philanthropy New York

Pinkerton Honors a ‘New York Treasure,' Sister Paulette LoMonaco

Release Date:

12/17/2019

... for the 30,000 youth and families they serve each year . We are honored to recognize her legacy.” Sr. Paulette ... justice system or after years in foster care. Last year , the foundation made grants of $32...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Lessons Learned from a Journey to Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/13/2017

... a few program related investments (PRIs) the previous year , but in 2014 we began asking whether we could ... work more broadly. Surdna is celebrating its centennial year in 2017. Reaching this milestone has...

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PRIs and Effective Intermediaries

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06/30/2015

... fairly minimal. So when SeaChange approached us last year about combining resources with a few other like-minded foundations by ... to structure NYPRI as a “club fund” which pools PRI resources...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Altman Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation Along with National and Local Donors Join Collaborative Charged with Closing the Racial Wealth Gap on Long Island

Release Date:

02/27/2020

... Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative in 2018 to pool resources and develop a grantmaking strategy to address the ... The Collaborative’s work with Urban Institute included a review of the literature on the...

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Community Development

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Long Island Community Foundation

Pay Attention to Brownsville

Release Date:

06/15/2016

... originally published as the feature article of the June 2016 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. ... of countless programmatic interests to connect their resources to efforts that lead to...

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PNY News

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Health

PNY Core: Financial Series

... more, they help funders consider the role of financial review in the grantmaking process, and how to make that most ... insights on incorporating equity into your financial review process, strengthen...

Paul Connolly Joins Bessemer Trust

Release Date:

09/03/2013

... and has published articles in The Foundation Review , Stanford Social Innovation Review , Nonprofit World, The Grantsmanship Center Magazine, ...

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TCC Group

25 Jan 2018

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Thursday, January 25, 2018 (All day) to Friday, February 9, 2018 (All day)

... due diligence of potential grants (i.e., proposal review , site visits) Communicate funding recommendations and ... apply, you must meet all eligibility requirements. Please review these carefully. We will...

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Workshop

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Program Staff

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Centering Disability Justice

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... alternative-text descriptions, and changes in our human resources practices. We detail these and other efforts in a ... At the staff level, we’ve begun to support learning and resources that enable funder...