Benchmarking Diversity: A First Look at New York City Foundations and Nonprofits
Release Date:
10/07/2009
... for action. We recognize that our results were generated from a self-selected pool of respondents, and that this may ...
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Workplace Flexibility
Publication date:
03/2011
Balancing work and home-life responsibilities is a challenge. Advancements in technology, legislative requirements, and employer mindsets have opened the door to the possibilities and challenges of workplace flexibility. At the this FAN meeting, communications consultant, Robin Hartman joined us to help answer: What is workplace flexibility? Why should my organization be thinking about workplace flexibility? What are our options, and which ones are right for my organization? In addition, FAN member Gail Pesyna, VP for Human Resources and Program Management at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,...
Ending Whack-a-Mole Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/08/2020
... “permanent exclusion” policies prevent many from returning to public housing following an arrest. In ... Rikers. Sometimes, this whack-a-mole approach may come from good intentions not fully thought through...
03
Apr
2014
Watchers of the Sky - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Film Series
Thursday, April 3, 2014 -
5:30pm to 8:30pm
... "genocide," and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem From Hell, Watchers of the Sky takes you on a...
04
Oct
2012
Measuring and Strengthening Advocacy Capacity: Tools and Strategies
Thursday, October 4, 2012 -
2:45pm to 5:00pm
As one funder offered, “Advocacy can be a murky business.” It can indeed be quite the challenge to select, support, strengthen and ultimately assess the effectiveness of advocacy efforts—yet taking deliberate steps at the onset to measure a...
06
Jan
2010
Nourishing Strong Communities: Access to Healthy Food as an Essential Ingredient of Community Building
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 -
7:30am to 11:00am
A Philanthropy New York MEMBERS BRIEFING , sponsored by the Elmezzi Foundation , Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation , and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund , WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Funders interested in community building,...
09
Jul
2018
Funding for Cultural Change: Creating and Meeting the Moment - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, July 9, 2018 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Over the last few years, we have seen several cultural moments, such as #MeToo and the response to police violence, take place that have raised social justice struggles to the national platform.
Protect Census 2020
... nonprofits and foundations – routinely rely on data from the census to allocate funding, define where services ... allocations. The final threat to Census 2020 comes from the proposed last-minute inclusion of...
Tow Foundation Founder to Serve on NP Board Taking Over Philadelphia’s Struggling Newspaper of Record
Release Date:
01/12/2016
... publications, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly. com , reported that they would become. Philly. com reported that owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest donated the ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions
Release Date:
09/19/2016
A short documentary series created by Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a behind- the-scenes look at how four cities are using temporary public art projects.
Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead
Release Date:
12/15/2016
For manifold reasons of background and ideology (and maybe some score-settling for the scuttling of his nomination 30 years ago as a federal judge), Jeff Sessions as attorney general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the...
Andrea Ritchie, Soros Justice Fellow and Co-author Talks About “Say Her Name”
Release Date:
05/10/2016
Andrea Ritchie coordinates the policing subgroup of the LGBT federal criminal justice working group. She gave a PHIL Talk that not only "said their names" and told their stories, but presented startling statistics on police brutality show gender and...
Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment to 500,000 Young People
Release Date:
02/23/2017
Pathways launched in 2014 with a $50 million effort that helped more than 100,000 young people across 10 U.S. cities become career-ready through first jobs, internships, and leadership and entrepreneurship training.
Sam Adler-Bell, Policy Associate at the Century Foundation, Spoke With WNYC About the Ongoing J20 Case
Release Date:
12/21/2017
Government Case Against Trump Protesters Could Set New Precedent
JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women
Release Date:
03/24/2016
Women account for only a third of positions in growing, middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), supported by JPMorgan.
Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together
Publication date:
02/2015
... investment approaches, appraisal of funding opportunities from the standpoints of opportunity assessment and funder ... power dynamics, and assessing impact. It blends data from interviews, focus groups, a survey, and a scan of ... by a curated collection of capacity-building resources from around the field. Supporting Grantee Capacity: ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Program Promotes Global Digital Education
Release Date:
05/13/2016
... Global Digital Education Twenty-five U.S. school districts from 16 states participated in a symposium on global digital ... Philanthropies. More than 20 of the school districts were from the largest school...
Century Foundation Report Finds Out Why High-Risk Insurance Pools Still Won't Work
Release Date:
03/01/2017
... Pools Still Won't Work Recently, leaked documents from House Republicans show plans to create high-risk pools ... in their own pool prevents their high costs from raising average premiums for others...
Puerto Rico's Governor Calls for Greater Federal Response to Hurricane Maria
Release Date:
09/25/2017
... resources to help the beleaguered island recover from “complete devastation” from Hurricane Maria. “We need more resources from the Department of Defense so we can get helicopters and ...