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Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... from residents—including many young people especially— about how we could best support lasting community-led change. ... are not in school and not working. Boroughwide, one in ten youth have an arrest record...

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Insights

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Workforce Development

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Brooklyn Org

2023 Operational Reports

Publication date:

05/2023

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Board/Committee Materials

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Board & Trustees

On Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn: Start With Existing Community Assets

Release Date:

03/16/2017

... for years. Vital Brooklyn will bring more attention and resources to Brownsville, one of the six neighborhoods across ... for the last several years, I’ve learned two important lessons as a funder: Engaging...

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Insights

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Sample Job Descriptions: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / Executive Director / President

Publication date:

10/2013

... on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job .....

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HR & Operations Staff

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HR & Operations

Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question

Release Date:

08/05/2009

... ago, the Beldon Fund closed its doors, completing the ten -year intentional spend out envisioned by our chair and ... chooses to spend out, there are helpful individuals and resources at the ready. The Beldon...

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Insights

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All Funders

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

Release Date:

10/15/2015

... arrests are often young people’s first brush with the criminal justice system. But shouldn’t our schools should ... schools in all five boroughs and manage all community resources and support...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Social Justice

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Brooklyn Org

How Should Philanthropy Respond to Obama’s Speech on Black Men and Boys?

Release Date:

08/15/2013

... the fierce urgency of now.” I’ve watched more than ten times now President Obama’s speech responding to ... Americans of all races who have devoted their time and resources to improving the life outcomes of...

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Insights

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All Funders

Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

02/17/2017

... Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the ... His powerful 2012 TED talk, We Need to Talk About an Injustice , illuminates his lifelong...

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Philanthropy’s Best

Appointments & Transitions

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Ford Foundation

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

... roles and are more likely to report frustrations about inadequate and inequitable salaries. BMP’s call to ...

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Report

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Funding Area

Gender Justice

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Thanu Yakupitiyage Appointed Program Officer, Sustainable Environments at the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

04/27/2023

... grant portfolio that advances the Foundation’s social justice mission with a focus on environmental, climate, and ... within the climate justice movement, I am eager to shift resources to...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Surdna Foundation

7/30/2014 - Capacity Building in Isolated Neighborhoods Program - Reports

Publication date:

07/2014

View materials presented during the program "Building Capacity in Isolated Neighborhoods."

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Report

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All Funders

Funding Area

Economic Security

Ford Foundation Appoints Innocent Chukwuma to Lead Its West Africa Office

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... good governance as well as a leading scholar on police and criminal justice reform in West Africa. Most recently, he founded and ... throughout the region, and I am incredibly optimistic about...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Ford Foundation

Sample Job Descriptions: Program Director

Publication date:

09/2013

... on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job .....

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HR & Operations Staff

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Schott Foundation, Race Forward, and NYU's Metro Center Announces First Grants to Support Anti-Racist, Culturally Responsive Schools and Defend Against Attacks on Public Education

Release Date:

04/06/2022

... and invest in a proactive, offensive strategy for racial justice reform in our public education system.  The Invest ... doesn’t stop at the school door. Foundations that care about democracy should ensure that...

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Member News

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Education

Social Justice

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies

Now Hear This: The Wisdom of Trans Voices

Release Date:

09/19/2018

... More and more funders are devoting serious time and resources to increasing equity and inclusion in their work ... mental health treatment. TGNC people have solid proposals about how to improve the health...

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PNY News

Funding Area

Gender Justice

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Philanthropy New York

Proteus Fund and Proteus Action League Elect Three New Board Members

Release Date:

07/08/2015

... program manager for two national philanthropies for nearly ten years: the Open Society Foundation and the JEHT ... organizing and policy advocacy, specifically in the criminal justice reform...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

Human Services

LGBTQ

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Meet Nakia Wallace, the new Program Associate of the Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis Philanthropy

Release Date:

04/13/2022

... Nakia is a proud native Detroiter who is passionate about eradicating systemic inequality, fighting alongside ... with the Michigan Justice Fund, where she worked to divert resources from law...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Borealis Philanthropy

Our Listening Imperative and the Urgency of Understanding

Release Date:

08/03/2016

... We have seen so many killed: people of color going about their day or driving down a road, cops on the beat ... from across the nation, the web of issues linking racial justice , gun violence and ...

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President's Message

PNY News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

It’s Time to Fund Children’s Mental Health

Release Date:

04/15/2021

... cost of mental health disorders in Americans under 24 is about $250 billion annually. For individuals, untreated ... That’s why we launched the Alliance – to combine the resources of the Morgan Stanley...