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03 Jun 2025

Making Reporting Work: Aligning Grantmaking with Learning & Change - Part 3 of a Three-Part Series

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... reporting reform in their organizations. We’ll discuss how to identify key entry points for change, engage internal ... overcoming resistance Tools for developing and sharing an Action Plan to support long-...

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23 Jan 2012

Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic Change

Monday, January 23, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:45am

... approach taken by some community lenders as they employ new models to alleviate poverty, develop social justice ... justice for communities that are often ignored. Jim King, President of FAHE, and Bill Bynum,...

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12 Nov 2019

Disability 101: Let’s Talk about the I in D.E.I.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... community, comprised of more than 1 million people, is New York City’s largest and most diverse minority group. ... and issues affecting the disability community, learn how foundations can encourage their...

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24 Jun 2015

Learning the Way: DACA, Educational Attainment and Philanthropy - Webinar

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... youth and young adults in the United States, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) offers first-time access ... can help unlock DACA’s long-term benefits—including new jobs, increased earnings, higher-...

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Children, Youth and Families

14 Oct 2020

Navigating Difficult Dialogues Across Difference – A Workshop

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

This program is a part of Philanthropy New York’s Power, Culture, and Difficult Conversations ... your organization. Specifically, the series will cover how to work with the range of dynamics that are present when...

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Learn Foundation Law

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04/2012

... to fund and engage in at a private foundation, including how lobbying laws apply to private foundations, who and what ... of grants private foundations are allowed to provide and how to fund projects when advocacy and lobbying are involved. ...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

... state of affairs in the United States requires immediate action and a clear strategy if we are to deal with the many social ills infecting our culture and outlook. The progressive think tank, The Century...

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Economic Security

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The Century Foundation

03 Oct 2011

Philanthropy, Women & Social Justice: a Breakfast Conversation with Sara K. Gould

Monday, October 3, 2011 -

8:30am to 10:30am

... Senior Fellow at the Foundation Center and former president & CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, to explore ... to connect philanthropy, women and social justice. Explore How funding women and girls, and...

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Darren Walker to Hamilton Graduates: Lead the Way Forward With Empathy, Courage, Compassion

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05/21/2018

... address at Hamilton’s commencement, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker urged graduates to embrace history ... Slaughter, president and CEO of the think tank New America. The Class of...

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Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Announce Grants for US 2050 Initiative

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08/21/2018

... wave of foreseeable demographic changes will create a new American tapestry. Social, economic, and technological ... will look very different by 2050. What isn't clear is how these shifting trends will...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology

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06/17/2015

Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology The Obama administration on Tuesday announced $4 billion in ... — and in many cases more than 10% — to investments in new energy over the next five years. These...

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Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices

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07/10/2017

... Leader in Child Safety Practices This March, former Obama administration official David Hansell took the helm of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges

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07/10/2019

... Challenges By Patricia Swann, Sr. Program Officer at The New York Community Trust, on behalf of the New York State ... census, this new threat means that important philanthropic ...

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We Need More Steel Pans in Policy

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05/30/2024

... Public Service Scholar, Hunter College and Philanthropy New York Blayne served as an Associate for Philanthropy New ... that it's about logistical work and not always grassroots action ...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... Social Change The Ford Foundation today announced 25 new Art of Change fellowships that will support visionary ... widening inequality, the arts have the power to transform how people see and understand each...

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Arts

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A Look At The Building Bridges Program, Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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04/10/2018

... for Islamic Art, which in turn is part of the larger, New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that also ... can’t prove them. So what is it they think they know? How does art change us? I set out to...

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Arts

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Inside Philanthropy Covers Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation’s Big Investment in City Parks

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10/30/2018

... finds itself facing a pretty remarkable question. How much can a philanthropy do for just two distinct regions, ... between parks and neighborhoods. It’s one of several new , high-dollar city parks projects...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pledges $250 Million to Reimagine US Monuments

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10/07/2020

... 50-year history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of ... as a rubric is, it’s really a way of asking, ‘ How do we say who we are? How do we...

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Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

21 May 2019

The Turmoil in Four-Year Private Colleges and Why Foundations Should Care

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -

3:30pm to 5:30pm

... unprecedented pressure. Hampshire College, the College of New Rochelle, Sweet Briar, Mount Ida and many others have ... nature of the challenges, the possible responses and how , if at all, funders interested...

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