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Essential Skills and Strategies for Program Officers

... a strong foundation for their careers in philanthropy. We intentionally keep the class size small (25 participants) ... invited to reflect on our roles and the larger environment we operate in. PNY's...

If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

Release Date:

03/20/2017

... changing skill requirements and variety of specific human resources needs. This paid off: the low-income program ... [2] . This leads us to the age-old question: If we know what works, why hasn’t government...

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Funders for Gender Equity

... inequality by failing to account for women, girls, and LGBTQ people’s lack of access or opportunity, funders can ...

A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

Release Date:

07/22/2019

... free radicals - known as reactive oxygen species - also exist in marine ecosystems and are thought to degrade the ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Xavier de Souza Briggs as Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets

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11/01/2013

... and inclusive cities in the United States, Latin America, Africa , Asia and the Middle East. Briggs’s appointment ... the U.S. and other democracies — Brazil, India and South Africa — to lead change at the...

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United Hospital Fund Produces User-Friendly Data Sets to Advance Population Health in New York

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11/07/2014

... utilization of New York’s Medicaid beneficiaries. “ We created these data sets to fill a void we ’ve heard about time and again recently, especially from ... “While the data were already publicly available,...

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The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

... combination of tactics such as policy advocacy, grassroots organizing , litigation and communications that together are ... communications; and the ability to mobilize additional resources over the long term?...

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PNY Officially Endorses Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice

... Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice . We are now requesting member input on whether or not we should officially endorse these principles. PNY ...

Banks that Actually Serve Communities, What a Novel Idea

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07/08/2014

... all revolved around one common theme: community control. We posited that the problem with finance today is that it has ... by having greater community control over finance itself. We discussed a wide variety...

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Roosevelt Institute

Toyota Named Among of World’s Best Companies on Addressing Water Concerns

Release Date:

10/22/2015

... that are on the path to sustainably managing water resources . They are taking action to mitigate corporate ... Motor Company, (US) Harmony Gold Mining Co.Ltd, (South Africa ) Kumba Iron Ore, (South ...

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Toyota

Lorelle Espinosa to Join Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Director of Programs for Diversity in STEM Higher Education

Release Date:

06/11/2020

... mentoring, and networking and professional development resources aimed at helping graduate students from ... effective partnerships that result in real change. We are excited that she will be joining the Sloan...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

26 Jun 2024

Grantmaking Equity Hour: Deepening Your Practice - A New Series for Programming Staff

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... to the processes and communications that bring them to the resources they need. During this conversation, participants ... they approach the movement of monetary and non-monetary resources to grantseekers...

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Ford Foundation Provides $500 Thousand for Relief Efforts in Nepal

Release Date:

04/30/2015

... has supported development work for over 60 years. " We are deeply concerned for the well-being of millions of ... president of the Ford Foundation. "With these grants we express our solidarity with...

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Disaster Relief

International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

09 Jul 2014

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Managing Urgency in a 24/7 Work Environment

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 -

3:15pm to 5:00pm

... HR and operations professionals to share knowledge and resources , to test complex ideas with peers about ... or not it truly is. But this way of working means that we may not be putting our time, energy and...

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24 Sep 2014

Expanding Opportunities and Improving City Social Services Quality through a Career Ladder Approach

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy's Role? View resources from this program. The City of New York ... lower tier making inadequate wages. In this program, we will explore a unique opportunity to...

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UJA-Federation of New York Announces Additional $11 Million in Grants and Loans to Those Affected by COVID-19

Release Date:

03/31/2020

... engagement opportunities to New Yorkers. “Ten days ago, we allocated over $23 million in our first wave of emergency ... immediate assistance —are at risk of running out of resources in just a few months,”...

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Children, Youth and Families

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UJA-Federation of New York

Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?

Release Date:

07/15/2013

Community Food Funders, a philanthropic organizing project comprised of several PNY members, recently ... Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on local food systems and how we can increase the resiliency of our food...

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Surdna Foundation

Carnegie VP Named One of the Top 50 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education

Release Date:

10/01/2015

... of’ lists, not in order, not exhaustive, just people we appreciate doing innovative work. Today we are recognizing 50 thought leaders and changemakers ...

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

President of Peter G. Peterson Foundation on the New Budget Deal

Release Date:

02/09/2018

... debt — to an overextended American economy. He says: " We 've already entered a period where we have these structural deficits, and to answer that with a .....

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Women 4 Health Care: Helping Uninsured Women Get Covered

Release Date:

10/01/2013

... need. Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need (RWV) and the Ms. Foundation for Women are working ... . The Raising Women’s Voices website has some helpful resources , including fact sheets describing...

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