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Tow Foundation Commits $2 Million to Multiple Myeloma Research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Release Date:

04/27/2022

... up until now it has focused its philanthropic efforts in New York and Connecticut, where it is based. The decision to ... of great hope and promise for cancer patients and their families . In...

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We Could Not Accomplish All We Do Without Our Board of Directors

Release Date:

06/03/2015

... PNY President Ronna Brown, published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost Monthly June 2015 edition. In just a ... New York Board of Directors for the last six years or...

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President's Message

PNY News

08 Nov 2017

Social Impact Means Investing in Leadership: Successful Models featuring Echoing Green and King Baudouin Foundation’s 2017 African Development Prize Winners

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Please note that Philanthropy New York is waiving the registration fee for non-member funders. ... Green Fellows, we will also have an opportunity to learn more about Echoing Green’s deep...

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Tools & Strategies

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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International/Foreign Affairs

Morehouse College, Prairie View A&M University & Spelman College Receive Grants from Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller Foundations to Support Faculty Development

Release Date:

11/19/2019

... of $3 million in grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York , The Rockefeller Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon ... decade or so, however, despite the growing need to educate more...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

10 Apr 2025

2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence

Thursday, April 10, 2025 -

9:30am to 12:30pm

... supports organizations may need as they navigate these new challenges. Incorporating considerations for equity, we will also explore building an approach to assessing a grantee's financial health that is...

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Professional Development

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Finance & Asset Management

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

Release Date:

06/09/2015

... communities. The loans they make benefit low-income families , women , the environment, and small businesses, to name a few. ...

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MetLife

Revson Fellowship Produces Research on Female Face of Genocide

Release Date:

03/16/2016

... Foundation Fellowship, Cushman researched the lives of women at the Birkenau concentration camp. . . Revson ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Gender Justice

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

Cuban-American Artist Garcia Ferraz Exhibits Latest Works Supported by Ford Foundation Grant in Media Arts

Release Date:

04/14/2016

... known as Project Space 1785) features “Six Men, Two Women , Eight Views on Photography.” Co-curated by Garcia ...

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Video: Rockefeller Features Jada Pinkett Smith in Latest Insight Dialogues

Release Date:

10/03/2016

... career in Hollywood, her vocal advocacy for girls and women worldwide and her work in youth empowerment and ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Newman's Own Awards Donates $200,000 to Five Military Non-Profits

Release Date:

10/05/2018

... reward ingenuity for programs that benefit service men and women and their families . As the event commenced,General Joseph Dunford, ...

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02 Apr 2026

Birthright Citizenship: A Constitutional Guarantee Under Assault - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 2, 2026 -

12:45pm to 2:00pm

... rights of formerly enslaved people, and Black Americans more broadly, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th ... (see slide 49 of our Citizenship Timeline to learn more ). This 1898 decision has been the...

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Issue-Based

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Immigration

17 Mar 2016

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Optimizing a Multigenerational Workplace

Thursday, March 17, 2016 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... HR and operations professionals to share knowledge and resources , to test complex ideas with peers about ... for foundation administration, including human resources and operations. Registration 8 :45-9:00 AM...

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Network Building

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HR & Operations Staff

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HR & Operations

The House and Senate Tax Bills Are Terrible for Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve

Release Date:

12/06/2017

... They Serve By Ronna Brown, President, Philanthropy New York and Mike Pratt, President, Scherman Foundation and Board ... National Council on Nonprofits has said, “For more than 60 years, [the...

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Economic Security

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The Scherman Foundation

Education Tech Nonprofit Launches with Gates, Carnegie Support

Release Date:

02/06/2013

The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have provided startup funding for the new nonprofit, inBloom, which aims “to make personalized ...

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Technology

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Release Date:

07/12/2017

... of interprofessional education in which students of two or more health professions learn about, from and with each other ... the Macy Foundation also has supported the introduction of new content (such as...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation Welcomes Lauren Supplee as Senior Program Officer

Release Date:

09/08/2020

... Officer We are pleased to welcome Lauren Supplee as our new Senior Program Officer, effective September 8, 2020. In ... nonpartisan research center focused on children and their families . Her research focuses...

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Arabella Advisors Director to Speak at 2nd Annual Food Tank Summit

Release Date:

04/18/2016

... April 20–21, 2016. This two-day event will feature more than 75 different speakers from the food and agriculture ... urban agriculture, family farmers, farm workers, and more . Food Tank recently had the...

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Food Systems

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Arabella Advisors

Simons Foundation Initiative Includes World’s Largest Study on Autism and Genes

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... in the condition. Some estimate that a total of 350 or more could be involved. The long-term study involves researchers from more than 21 medical institutions, including Boston ...

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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

Release Date:

05/24/2017

... a bat's social network, females who previously built up more friendships with non-relatives cope better with their loss. They score more food than do female bats who only invest in close kin. . .....