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Do You Promote or Impede Real Change?

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08/21/2017

... monopoly on giving; it is simply a choice. As this year’ s Black Philanthropy Month celebration approached, I reflected upon this year’ s theme, Giving Voice to Fuel Change , as well as my work ... and...

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What Now? From Outrage to Action

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08/28/2017

... are prevalent in the air. The Schott Foundation’ s work to achieve equitable educational results for children ... know that philanthropy must be on guard against our field' s tendency to wax hollow in the...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Kicks Off CityLab Paris Summit

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10/24/2017

... to address the most pressing issues facing the world’ s growing cities. In his opening remarks, Michael R. ... and the brighter our future will be – and that’ s what CityLab is all about. This is the fifth...

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Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2017: Data to Drive Decisions

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10/2017

... • Grants awarded by 1,000 of the largest U. S . foundations totaled $158.1 million in 2015, a 30 percent ... received the highest number of grants. • Large U. S . foundations distributed $26.6 million for complex ... for free at disasterphilanthropy.foundationcenter. org . Donors, foundations, corporations, journalists, NGOs, ...

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Disaster Relief

An Open Letter to the Hundreds of Millions of Americans Who Have Worked for, Volunteered for, Donated to, or Benefited from the Work of a Charitable Nonprofit: i.e., every living person in the USA.

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... of current and future generations by being America’ s conscience; take three minutes as soon as you finish ... and forge stronger community bonds every day. That’ s why it is so baffling and sad, frankly, to...

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The Nonprofit Quarterly

Ins and Outs of Forming Early Childhood Education Research-to-Practice and Policy Partnerships

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01/11/2018

Sara Vecchiotti, Chief Program Officer, Foundation for Child Development outlines key strategies for ECE and K-12 Funders.

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Foundation for Child Development

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Education

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Here's How to End the Culture of Sexual Harassment

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01/16/2018

Here' s how to end the culture of sexual harassment by Rachel ... Second, companies also need to do more to promote women’ s leadership roles in the workplace. In 2017, the number of ... will no longer be...

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Is the Help Helpful? Alternatives to Shelter for Families Headed by Domestic Violence Survivors

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01/31/2018

... a shelter system not designed for that purpose. FHTF’ s goal is to call attention to the needs of homeless ... of family homelessness in New York City. The City’ s primary answer to the problem for well over...

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Deutsche Bank (Corporate)

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Housing and Homelessness

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Federal Judge Sides With TCF Against DeVos's Education Department

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02/20/2018

Federal Judge Sides With TCF Against DeVos' s Education Department This morning, U. S . District Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul ... Crotty issued a temporary restraining order against the U...

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Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Show Commitment to Next Generation of Progressive Philanthropists

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02/20/2018

... Philanthropists Over a year into Donald Trump’ s presidency, it can be tempting to see recent progressive ... one part of the broader philanthropic ecosystem, but it’ s a highly politicized space that'...

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Beyond Equity as a Trend, Toward Real Change

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04/24/2018

... in 2013, whereas only 19 percent of Yancey Consulting’ s NYC-based sample did in 2017; One third of the ... Charitable Foundation and the New York Community Trust’ s programs to fund the arts are now taking...

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The New York Community Trust

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Doris Duke Foundation

Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP, Named President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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05/17/2018

... also has been elected a member of the Foundation’ s board. She will assume these roles on July 1, 2018. Announcing the board’ s decision, Macy board chairman William H. Wright said, ... ideally suited to...

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A Sense of Urgency: Promoting Child and Family Well-being for Homeless Families

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05/30/2018

... the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) and the city’ s domestic violence shelter system. In fact, homeless ... and their families comprise 70% of New York City’ s shelter system. The average length of stay...

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Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc.

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Lessons From Time Square

Release Date:

12/05/2018

... we wondered whether or not we would ever host a New Year’ s Party given our perch overlooking Times Square. The answer ... a resounding No! It turns out that throwing a New Year’ s Eve party in the middle of...

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President's Message

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Philanthropy New York

23 May 2019

Measuring What Matters: Funder Evaluation

Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 9:00am to Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 1:30pm

... funders to look internally at their foundation’ s values, practices and strategies in service of building a ... participants will begin by exploring their foundation’ s values and underlying mission elements...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, and The Whitman Institute Launch the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

Release Date:

01/22/2020

... others in adopting trust-based practices. The Project’ s Steering Committee—helmed by leaders from Durfee ... messy. But within the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project’ s community of grantmakers, there’ ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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What's the Secret to Responsive Grantmaking?

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01/28/2020

What' s the Secret to Responsive Grantmaking? By James Hirschfeld, ... Gilman Foundation At the risk of sounding so uncool, it’ s always been a guilty pleasure of mine to log onto Guidestar ... read through...

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Arts

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Howard Gilman Foundation

American Express and The New York Women's Foundation Partner Together on The Ambition Project

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02/11/2020

American Express and The New York Women' s Foundation Partner Together on The Ambition Project An open ... Express Executive Committee reflects on the company’ s progress, shares new commitments and programs...

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