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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research on Planetary Evolution

Release Date:

03/16/2017

... more than 13 million years old, compared with our solar system 's 4.6 billion years. "This is such a young star; we ... a snapshot of a baby star that just formed its planetary system - a rare peek at...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods

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09/12/2017

... three years ago to get a clearer picture of how well the system was working. What they learned about the system — which includes 952 churches, religious ...

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Food Systems

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Notes Ways Foundations Can Step Up to Scale Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals

Release Date:

09/25/2017

A new report released this week, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems, based on interviews with leading NGOs and grantmakers, seeks to offer some concrete recommendations and catalyze a conversation about how to change the industry with an eye...

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New Index to Help Investors Gauge Food Diversity

Release Date:

09/26/2017

An EU-funded index measuring biodiversity in food production is expected to be launched next year, giving investors a benchmark for assessing how companies and governments are making food systems more resilient to climate change.

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Food Systems

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... human nature, when the stakes rise, to want to game the system ,” said Phyllis Jordan of the Georgetown-based think ...

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Education

Policy Brief: NYC’s Looming Task of Property Tax Reform

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... one, however, denies that New York City’s property tax system is profoundly flawed. That consensus has not made it any easier to change the system , though. Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

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10/17/2017

Our food system produces more than enough to feed our entire global ... food insecure. The world can’t sustain a nourishing food system if the world doesn’t eat more of what it has. In ...

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Video

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

13 Oct 2021

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... strategies to strengthen the public workforce development system . How do we define a “ system ” as fragmented and complex as New York City’s? ... opportunities exist to shape a more coherent and effective...

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Workforce Development

Vision for 2025

... immigration detention, and an unfair bail and fee system . Shiza is conducting the primary outreach and ... can have a social impact using all of their financial resources . Participants have benefited from...

The Andy Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2021 Grants

Release Date:

06/30/2021

... histories. Connecting artists to local and national resources in order to produce multi-disciplinary, ... NY) innovative, non-centralized model distributes resources across outposts in five artist communities...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Don’t Forget the Small Guys

Release Date:

07/09/2010

... of organized philanthropy that for all our talk about transforming the world, most foundation directors and ... standards to our due diligence processes—yet funneling resources to known entities doesn’t...

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Virtual Employee Engagement through Virtual Conversational Leadership

Release Date:

01/20/2023

... discourse? As spoken and written language are the primary resources in the virtual world, with limited access to body ...

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Humanizing Immigration: A Three Part Conversation Recap

... Partner, WilmerHale ) categorized the U.S. immigration system 's goals into three different sets - humanitarian ... but actively trying to dismantle the legal immigration system . Rini Chakraborty (Senior...

PNY Joins Philanthropy Groups in Calling on Funders to Keep Equity at the Forefront of Philanthropy’s Response to COVID-19

Release Date:

03/20/2020

... are often the same people who do not have the financial resources or appropriate health insurance coverage to cope ... , hosted by Seattle Foundation, that will rapidly deploy resources to community-based...

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PNY Member Engagement Checklist

Publication date:

08/2015

Our members can use the Checklist to see how many ways they can take advantage of their PNY membership and its benefits.

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Benchmarks

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New Staff

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Philanthropy New York

Essential Skills and Strategies for Program Officers

... and proactive efforts to enhance the philanthropic system from within, was exactly what I needed to delve ... professional development experience for newer grantmakers. Resources from PNY’s Fund for 2025 made...

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Launch a Global Plan to Save Coral Reefs from Extinction

Release Date:

02/23/2017

... enough coral to ensure the re-establishment of coral reef resources in a climate-stable future. As the project unfolds ...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

14 Dec 2017

Funders Summit on Justice Reform: The Nation’s Eyes on Rikers

Thursday, December 14, 2017 -

9:00am to 3:30pm

... and many other elements of essential change in the system . With the #CLOSErikers movement, we have an excellent ... necessity of seeking community input – and the lack of resources dedicated to the task – to...