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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards its First Resident-Led Grants to Projects in Crown Heights

Release Date:

12/15/2015

... 2015-16 Crown Heights Grant Program, which include a focus on supporting organizations addressing tenants’ rights & ... Heights’ diverse communities. Initially focused on Crown Heights, this is Brooklyn...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Justice Reform

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Connecticut Seventh-Grader Wins SIFMA Foundation’s National InvestWrite ® Essay Competition

Release Date:

04/26/2019

... well as economics and personal finance. InvestWrite builds on what students learn in The Stock Market Game to further ... and news, conduct research online, and develop investment recommendations . Where they...

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Member News

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Education

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SIFMA Foundation

Philanthropy New York's By-Laws

Publication date:

04/2015

Governing by-laws for Philanthropy New York.

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Board/Committee Materials

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HR & Operations Staff

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Governance

HR & Operations

11 May 2023

“No Justice Without Love” & Community: A Roundtable Discussion on Criminal (In)Justice in NYC and How to Disrupt the System

Thursday, May 11, 2023 -

2:00pm to 4:30pm

... conversation with nonprofit and philanthropic leaders on key criminal legal issues including youth justice, ... Without Love” & Community: A Roundtable Discussion on Criminal (In)Justice in NYC and How to...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Justice Reform

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Social Justice

Partnership Between The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The New York Community Trust Awards $3 Million to Performing Artists in Need

Release Date:

10/12/2021

... funding to help them pay their bills, get back on their feet and continue to create.” The grant program, ... hundreds of applications received from across the nation offer a window into the struggles of...

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Member News

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

The New York Community Trust

Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

Release Date:

05/10/2012

How can we measure well-being, access and opportunity in the New York metropolitan area? At a recent Philanthropy New York session, Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors at Measure of America, described how their American Human...

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Insights

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Community Development

Human Services

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Philanthropy New York

How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.

Release Date:

08/23/2010

In our latest blog post, Lisa Turngren, President of the Frank and Ruth E. Caruso Foundation, offers a unique way of looking at one of our most pervasive social issues—one which suffered a recent funding setback here in New York—and suggests that a...

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

Publication date:

07/2005

Grantmakers tend to be cautious about funding advocacy, and for good reason - yet 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 limits of the law. Whether your purpose is to advance an idea, argue a position, or enrich the policy debate, the guide offers resources and strategies for planning your work, reaching your audience, assessing impact, and more.

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Report

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Legal Issues

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Grantmaking with a Gender Lens: Using a Gender Analysis

Publication date:

05/2004

... And it offers additional insights and special advice on issues ranging from "What about Men and Boys" to .....

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

Health

International/Foreign Affairs

Gender Justice

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Investment Policy

Publication date:

04/2011

Innovative strategies and new investment opportunities can be used to align investment practices with mission objectives to sustain the public good. Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation offers a look at their investment policy which can be used as a template for others.

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Sample Document/Template

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Executive Leadership

Finance Staff

Topic(s)

Finance & Asset Management

Impact Investing

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

A New Guide Helps Foundations Become More Transparent

Publication date:

04/2014

... resources to grant makers. The guide offers concrete steps on how foundations should decide what information to share ...

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Article

Topic(s)

Evaluation

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

UJA-Federation of New York Grant Supports Financial Sustainability Training in Prague to Jewish Activists

Release Date:

09/13/2016

Thanks to a new grant from UJA-Federation of New York, Limmud for the first time offered financial sustainability training in Prague to Jewish activists from 19 communities spanning Europe, 8-11 September 2016.

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Member News

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Economic Security

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UJA-Federation of New York

TCC Group Publishes New Findings on Foundation Capacity

Release Date:

01/30/2017

TCC Group Publishes New Findings on Foundation Capacity The report shares aggregate results ... the spring of 2016. We believe the findings presented here offer an unprecedented look at how diverse foundations...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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TCC Group

Columbus Statue May Get An ‘Explanation’ Plaque

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... in Columbus Circle — Mayor de Blasio went to Plan B on Monday. For the first time, the mayor said that instead of ... the heave-ho, contested monuments might get plaques that offer explanations of the...

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Sector News

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Community Development

22 Jul 2014

The Rollback on Reproductive Rights and Justice

Tuesday, July 22, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... to Fight Back Part of Philanthropy New York's " Spotlight On Women and Girls " Series. Missed the program? You can view ... us for a discussion among community and foundation leaders on the...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Children, Youth and Families

Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding

Release Date:

01/25/2018

... Wing of the White House. Recently, our work brought me on my first trip to a prison. The mission of the Teagle ... mean to be human?’ Can you answer that?” As they went on to recount their classroom discussion...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Teagle Foundation

Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Leadership Development and Managing Director of Mission Real Estate Development

Release Date:

07/29/2019

... ongoing financial support for mission work. He will build on existing Trinity partnerships as well as develop new ... for a major life insurance company and spent 10 years on Wall Street in real estate...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

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

Release Date:

01/22/2020

... network of more than a dozen foundations that have signed on to publicly share their experiences with the approach and ... grantmaking organization that named the approach based on feedback from grantee...