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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... is dedicated to ensuring others don’t have to undergo what she experienced. But she also participated in some real ... throughout the five boroughs—both efforts to count the city ’s vacant buildings and lots...

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Housing and Homelessness

Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... soon thanks to a new crowdfunding effort by the New York City Housing Authority. Most of the Rockaways was a food ... community garden, right across the street from one of the city ’s largest public housing...

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

Housing and Homelessness

Century Foundation Report Reveals NY’s For-Profit Colleges Leave Students with Debt and Little Impact on Earning Potential

Release Date:

03/26/2018

... by The Century Foundation. The foundation, a New York City -based public policy think tank, compared student ... report’s author, foundation fellow Yan Cao, said having data that stretches across 12-years...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

Release Date:

06/14/2016

... the question for all of us, “Who pays how much and for what ?” It could be easy to just throw up our hands and ask, ... in the tax code to support those contributed resources . But that is exactly the point—...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association Receives an Outstanding Rating for its Community Reinvestment Initiatives

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... in support of innovative development programs that expand what we and our community partners can accomplish ... several significant initiatives, including: New York City Distressed Housing. Morgan Stanley was...

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Member News

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Housing and Homelessness

Community Development

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Morgan Stanley [Corporate]

J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards $2 Million in 2015 to Nonprofits Empowering Borough’s Vulnerable Youth

Release Date:

11/23/2015

... The Foundation, the first and only dedicated to New York City ’s largest borough, launched Invest in Youth in May ... year—a four-year pilot partnership with the New York City Department of Education and the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Org

The J.M Kaplan Fund Announces the 2023 J.M.K Innovation Prize

Release Date:

02/09/2023

... – and their many promising initiatives – with resources and opportunities. As part of this effort, the Fund ... innovation field. We designed the Prize to fill this gap in philanthropy, nurturing ideas that...

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

Social Justice

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

New Member Spotlight: Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Release Date:

09/11/2009

... Manager, about the foundation and its latest initiatives. What are your primary areas of focus? Reader’s Digest ... Large Type” currently has almost 100,000 subscribers. What current projects or initiatives...

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Insights

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All Funders

Pfizer and the Avon Foundation for Women Support Patients Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Release Date:

01/21/2015

... services, support, financial, and legal support Distribute resources and services available to vulnerable populations Share educational resources with the public focusing on metastatic disease, ... Charlotte...

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Member News

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Health

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Pfizer

Avon Foundation

From the Ground Up

Release Date:

09/08/2017

From the Ground Up Top-down development doesn't work. What 's needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, ... models often reduce India’s poor to a set of abstract data . Along with...

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International/Foreign Affairs

27 Jun 2024

Service for Impact: Creating Volunteer Opportunities that Advance Social Impact Strategies

Thursday, June 27, 2024 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... on creating meaningful employee volunteer experiences. What will you learn? Strategies for aligning business goals ... attend? Corporate funders and CECP-affiliated companies. What to expect: panel followed by...

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Network Building

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Breakout Discussion

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

Corporate Funders

Topic(s)

Volunteerism

11/25/2014 - Understanding the President's Executive Actions on Immigration - Presentation

Publication date:

11/2014

View presentation from the program, "Understanding the President's Executive Actions on Immigration."

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Workforce Development

25 Jun 2015

Nailing It: Building A National Movement of Nail Salon Workers

Thursday, June 25, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... here . On virtually every street corner in the city sits a nail salon, a burgeoning industry that glamorizes the fingertips of half the City ’s residents. And behind the glam are women who most ... leading to...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Immigration

Gender Justice

Workforce Development

With Support from NoVo Foundation, Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/22/2018

... operates similarly to The Working World , a New York City -based nonprofit which has been federally certified ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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NoVo Foundation

06 Jun 2012

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Innovative Approaches to Better Serve Youth and Young Adults

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... learn from presentations by JobsFirstNYC and the New York City Department of Education about new initiatives to better ... New York Collaborative Program with the New York City Workforce Funders . Presenters...

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Issue-Based

Former VP for Grants at the New York Community Trust and Beloved PNY Member, Joyce Bove, Has Passed Away

Release Date:

08/16/2018

... Has Passed Away Joyce Marie Bove, age 67, of New York City , formerly of Stoneham, MA passed away on August 15, 2018 ... at the Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York City after a long and...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

JPMorgan Spreads its Urban Development Money to Paris

Release Date:

11/05/2018

... Paris only by an extremely congested highway circling the city . The area was in the center of the riots that devastated ... The Paris effort is part of JPMorgan’s “Advancing Cities ” program, which builds on...

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Member News

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International/Foreign Affairs

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs

Release Date:

02/01/2019

... 2019 . In close to 15 years of public service with the City of New York, Torres-Springer has led three agencies with ... in annual operating budgets, addressing some of the city ’s most significant challenges...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation, Prudential Launch New OZ Initiative in Newark

Release Date:

05/28/2019

... of a $5.5 million initiative that would help six U.S. cities , including Newark , reap the benefits from ... investment” by distributing funds across the half-dozen cities in designated OZ tracts. Newark alone...

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Member News

Funding Area

Community Development

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Prudential Financial (Non Member)

The Rockefeller Foundation

12 May 2021

Children’s Aid Recovery Labs: Lessons Learned and Implications for this Summer and Beyond

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 -

12:00pm to 12:45pm

... we feared the ongoing crisis would have on New York City ’s most vulnerable young people in summer and fall ... While the impetus was to respond immediately to what we hoped would be a temporary set of...