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Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

Publication date:

07/2005

Grantmakers tend to be cautious about funding advocacy, and for good reason - ... advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation' s mission. In this guide, contributors explain that advocacy includes a lot of opportunities to improve public policy through work that is well within the .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes

Publication date:

01/2011

... often use grantee reporting and evaluation processes to gauge the effectiveness of their work. At the same time, many funders seek to simplify reporting and evaluation processes for grantees ... What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve them? Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and ...

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Nonprofit Community Health Clinics Receive $1.9 Million in Grants From Hartford Foundation

Release Date:

05/27/2013

... from the Corporation for National and Community Service' s Social Innovation Fund. To improve care for depression - one of the most common and .....

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Health

Deadline approaching: NYSHealth's 10th Anniversary Awards Program Nominations/Applications

Release Date:

06/01/2016

Deadline approaching: NYSHealth' s 10th Anniversary Awards Program Nominations/Applications To mark its 10th anniversary in 2016, the New York State ... of ten influential organizations and/or leaders working...

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RFPs Etc

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Pledges $197 Million for Fellowship and Institute

Release Date:

06/01/2016

... in people and in their vision, opportunity and ability to realize a better world. Two major initiatives will deepen and extend Atlantic’ s legacy of supporting new generations of leaders who will ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Weinberg Foundation Sues Over Building Sale, Citing Concern For Reputation

Release Date:

06/21/2016

... the sale of a west side building the foundation helped to renovate. In a lawsuit, the Weinberg Foundation calls the sale of the building by Communities Organized to Improve Life a "...

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Community Development

Macquarie Announces 2016 David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships

Release Date:

11/15/2016

Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, today announced the 2016 winners of its four David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships.

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Macquarie Group Foundation

20 May 2014

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 -

10:00am to 2:30pm

... will give funders in and around New York the opportunity to discuss their grantmaking strategies related to children' s health. Presented by Grantmakers in Health Grantmakers for .....

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

18 Apr 2019

Through the Eyes of Children - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... and Refugees (GCIR), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a ... by our government. The impacts of this failed and cruel U. S . policy to deter...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Immigration

Member Input on Official Statements on Indirect Costs

Philanthropy New York’ s Public Policy Committee has voted to recommend that our organization formally approve two ... failure to pay nonprofits adequate indirect costs for years...

Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Two New Board Members

Release Date:

10/14/2020

... inclusion, engagement, criminal justice reform, and more to the board of the nation’ s oldest women’ s foundation. “As we navigate this ... restorative justice system in the United States...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Ms. Foundation for Women

14 Nov 2016

International Grantmakers Network: Brown Bag Lunch

Monday, November 14, 2016 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 1500 Broadway, 7th Floor, NYC

... all funders with interest in international grantmaking to an informal brown-bag lunch (bring your own lunch!) for ... by the IGN Steering Committee. This is an opportunity to network with fellow international...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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International/Foreign Affairs

The TransitCenter Shares New Video: The Legacy of Racism in Transit - How We Got Here and What to Do About It

Release Date:

10/06/2021

... The Legacy of Racism in Transit - How We Got Here and What to Do About It Good transit is a powerful tool to make cities ... are making transit more equitable. TransitCenter’ s Mary Buchanan...

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Member News

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Public Policy

Social Justice

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TransitCenter

Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... large and small. Starting in January, 2014, George Soros’ s global organization announced that all of its 800 employees ... percent pay — with tons of flexibility of how they chose to use it. This benefit...

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Are Getting Old In the United States, we love to group people into generations. Today, most adult Americans ... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation...

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Sector News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

With Support From The Rockefeller Foundation, NRDC Releases Report: What, Where and How Much Food Is Wasted in Cities

Release Date:

10/25/2017

... in Cities Food is the largest component of what we send to landfills in the U. S ., representing nearly 22% of disposed municipal solid ... distributing, and storing that food. Many cities are adopting...

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Member News

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Arcus Winter Grantees Work for LGBTQ Equality Across the Globe

Release Date:

01/05/2018

... From working with transgender and intersex groups to faith leaders and regional organizations, organizations continue to fight to raise awareness and combat discrimination against the ...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Foundation

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing

Release Date:

06/25/2018

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MIT To Conduct an Environmental Scan of Open Source Publishing ... the award of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis and...

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Member News

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation

What It Means To Be A Philanthropist -- Gen Xers and Millennials Weigh In

Release Date:

04/01/2013

... and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy’ s Michael Moody discuss their recent report on the ... vision of the next generation of donors. $100 million to Newark schools . $200...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

To Be a True Practitioner of Democracy

Release Date:

05/22/2013

... New York President Vartan Gregorian delivered this address to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University’ s class of 2013 on Sunday, May 19. In 1831, Alexis de ... he called it...

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Member News

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Public Policy

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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