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Recording: Budget Decisions, Community Impact: Understanding New York’s Fiscal Landscape

Budget Decisions, Community Impact: Understanding New York’s Fiscal Landscape As New York’s budget negotiations unfold amid economic uncertainty and shifting federal policies, philanthropy has an important role to play in understanding the fiscal...

Laura Wolff Named Acting Director of Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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06/03/2013

Laura Wolff, currently the Senior Program Officer of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, has been named as Acting Director. She succeeds Margaret Ayers, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, who after 38 years of extraordinary...

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Katherine Bleich Joins American Express as Corporate Philanthropy Intern

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07/02/2012

Katherine Bleich has recently joined the staff of American Express, supporting their philanthropic initiatives as an intern. In addition to her role there, Bleich is a second-year Master of Public Administration candidate at NYU’s Wagner School of...

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27 Sep 2012

Mapping: Data visualization tools to convey knowledge and bring your foundation’s work to life

Thursday, September 27, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Webinar

Locating the most appropriate information, and managing it strategically, becomes a challenge when we are increasingly bombarded with seemingly limitless streams of data. This webinar series will help foundation staff navigate the information...

29 Nov 2012

Social Media: Promising techniques used by social media-savvy funders

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

31 Jan 2013

Knowledge Management: Strategies for making sector knowledge more accessible

Thursday, January 31, 2013 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

11 Feb 2013

Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where is Philanthropy?

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:00pm

Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NYC

At this conference post-2012 election, foundation executives, individual donors and civic leaders will come together to examine what philanthropy’s evolving relationship with public policy and government means in the context of the rapidly changing...

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01 May 2014

E-TEAM - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series

Thursday, May 1, 2014 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

Join us for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the documentary E-TEAM and a brief panel discussion. Anna, Ole, Fred and Peter are four members of the Emergencies Team — or E-Team — the boots on the ground division of a respected...

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Social Justice

More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that Simon Greer, who was hired to give the Nathan Cummings Foundation a more prominent profile, "was apparently fired just as he began to put in place a radical overhaul."

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Funders Teaming Up to Strengthen Voices of LGBTQ People of Color

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06/16/2014

The Ford Foundation is teaming with the Arcus Foundation and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, along with an anonymous donor, to create the first LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund to support new voices and leaders in communities of color.

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Arcus Foundation

Moira Flavin Named Program Officer At Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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06/27/2014

Moira Flavin has joined the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation as a program officer.

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Jacqueline Jones Named President of Foundation for Child Development

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07/01/2014

Jacqueline Jones, a national leader in the movement for high-quality early learning, has been named president of the Foundation for Child Development.

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Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies At 83

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07/08/2014

Claire Tow, who founded The Tow Foundation with her husband, Leonard, in 1988, died Monday at age 83, following a 14-year struggle with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS).

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

Children whose mothers have not graduated from high school lag on economic, education and health outcomes, compared with children of better educated mothers, according to a report from the Foundation for Child Development.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Foundation for Child Development

New York Community Trust Ranked Number Three In Total Assets

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07/15/2014

A new report that ranks community foundations by asset size finds that The New York Community Trust is number three in the nation with $2.4 billion.

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Chen, Kidvai Named First Paul Rapoport Law Fellows

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07/17/2014

Eugene Chen and R.M. Kidva, who have been named the first two Paul Rapoport Law Fellows, will be focusing on issues of asylum and housing discrimination against LGBTQ people of color.

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Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

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07/24/2014

Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...

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Kopp Joins Changing Our World As Managing Director

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08/12/2014

James Michael Kopp has joined Changing Our World as a managing director.

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How do we decide what topics to explore in these deeper dives? The short answer is: You.

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08/13/2014

A top priority for PNY is to expand its offerings of programs that provide a ‘deeper dive’ or ‘conference format.’ This goal is in direct response to the feedback we’ve heard from members at all stages of their careers who have told us that they...