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01 Feb 2012

A Spike Lee Retrospective - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

... African-American filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the ‘ do it yourself’ school of filmmaking. Born in Atlanta, ...

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In Memoriam: Edgar M. Bronfman

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01/15/2014

Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr., the son of legendary Canadian liquor magnate Samuel Bronfman, who expanded his family's business internationally and served as President of the World Jewish Congress and the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, died on December 21 at...

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PNY News

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Social Justice

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Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response

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05/23/2014

... provocative article affirms, philanthropies should, and do , deploy a multiplicity of methods in both our work and our ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Executive Leadership

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Governance

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Ford Foundation

UJA-Federation Announces $50 Million Day School Challenge Fund

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06/09/2014

... will provide significant assistance in helping them do so. This is the first-ever New York-area effort of its ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

The Stanford Social Innovation Review blasts restricted funding as limiting and ineffective.

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Rita Allen Foundation Backs Innovative Biomedical Research

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01/27/2015

The Rita Allen Foundation Scholars program supports research in cancer, immunology and neuroscience.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

Students from Massachusetts, California and New York were honored with awards.

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HSBC Names Kelly W. Fisher Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability

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07/15/2015

... Kelly currently sits on the corporate advisory board of Do Something and has served on the executive board of ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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HSBC Bank USA

Inside HigherEd Examines New Book from Russell Sage Foundation

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08/04/2015

... of success for Asian Americans -- actually had little to do with it.... Inside HigherEd Examines New Book from Russell ...

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Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

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10/21/2015

... looking to start a project or join an existing one can do so at makeadifferenceday.com. The site has information on ...

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NY Observer Highlights Many PNY Members as Area’s Most Generous Companies

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10/28/2015

Pfizer, Johnson&Johnson, Goldman Sachs, and IBM named by New York Observer as region’s most generous companies.

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New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education

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12/07/2015

Well-targeted grants make a huge difference. It’s even more effective when a foundation like the New York Community Trust pools the gifts of generous neighbors, then joins other funders and government agencies to bring about change.

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Housing and Homelessness

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The New York Community Trust

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

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12/07/2015

... to families in need. “As much as those three food banks do , the need is huge and the problem is growing,” said Bob ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Food Systems

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

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02/11/2016

A new report from The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, shows an increase in the number of schools that have integrated socioeconomically and argues that more schools should be following suit. There is evidence for why racially...

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations Are Larger and in Urban Areas

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03/09/2016

... that include hospitals in their networks to those that do not finds hospitals that are in urban areas, are ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices

Release Date:

10/17/2016

... that those students most likely to default are those who do not graduate. At the same time—calling out areas of ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... people; I try to avoid crowds. It was important for me to do something.” The money to pay for the effort will come ...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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