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Brooklyn Community Foundation President & CEO, Cecilia Clarke, Announces Departure

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03/17/2021

... we have accomplished everything—and more—that I set out to do when I arrived at the Foundation. The organization ... the Foundation, as we all look ahead to the next phase of growth and new leadership. To find...

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David Spergel Takes the Helm as President of the Simons Foundation

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07/01/2021

... are confident in his leadership and anticipate a future of growth and new opportunity.” As for his own vision, “The ... science are drawn from a narrow community, we’re missing out on tremendous talent.” As...

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Building Our Equity Muscles

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12/08/2021

... conflict-avoidant tendencies and use conflict as a tool of growth and change. Learning requires that I give up the ... terrain together. Leadership demands that this team seek out wisdom along the way from the...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

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12/10/2014

... bring broadband to their citizens, whether that's figuring out how to build out Internet connections to historic buildings or passing ... idea that cities will the battlegrounds for the playing ...

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Technology

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PNY Public Policy Strategy

Publication date:

04/2025

This document identifies and summarizes current public policy issues and updates for Philanthropy New York's collective membership and the Public Policy Committee of the Board. The issues included represent issues that are aligned with our vision and values and where peers have identified the continued need for advocacy in the coming year.

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College and Career Readiness: Are We Measuring What Matters?

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06/11/2013

We recently held two programs — organized by PNY’s Education Working Group and the New York City Youth Funders Network — that explored how educators, policymakers and nonprofits are rethinking and supporting student readiness for college and the...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap About Grantmaking for People with Disabilities

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11/04/2010

... latest blog post, Laura Cronin, Director of the Toshiba America Foundation, provides us with a recap of that program ...

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Disabilities

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Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

... Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors at Measure of America , described how their American Human Development Index ...

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Community Development

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Responding to 3/11: Helping with the Japan Disaster

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05/12/2011

... New York, the Mizuho USA Foundation, and the Toshiba America Foundation—which focused on the extraordinary ...

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Disaster Relief

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Big Banks Are Too Stingy, Says Watchdog

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01/03/2013

The philanthropic track record at Bank of America , Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo is ...

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Corporate Funders

Philanthropy Must Do More to Influence Policy, Say Government Officials

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02/13/2013

... New York’s “Money and Power in Post-Election America : Where Is Philanthropy?” conference. Philanthropy ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Health

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Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web

Release Date:

06/16/2013

... of high-speed Internet in nearly every public school in America in five years. It was a bold and needed pronouncement ...

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Education

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Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers

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08/06/2013

... and rapidly proliferating municipal bankruptcies to America 's cities. So this week, the city of Richmond, Calif., .....

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In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity

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08/28/2013

... on the generosity of businesses, including Target, Bank of America , Delta Air Lines and the New York Yankees. Toyota was ...

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The Mismeasure of Poverty

Release Date:

09/17/2013

... Census Bureau reported yesterday that the poverty rate in America held stable between 2011 and 2012, at about 15 ...

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Economic Security

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Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other PNY members highlighted in Corporate Giving Infographic

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08/19/2014

... are PNY members Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Target.... Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other PNY ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Environment Program Featured in New Podcast Series

Release Date:

05/03/2016

... the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign is working to end America ’s reliance on coal and shifting the U.S. power ...

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Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors

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01/04/2017

... are good that the number of huge gifts to nonprofits in America will continue to climb. If Congress... Bessemer ...

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