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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... Fund is making efforts to preserve more land in Northampton and Monroe counties. The fund has preserved ... Service for public use. Funding for the 2019 transfer is in place, according to Kyle Shenk, the state...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S.

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09/03/2020

... Commits $100 Million to Help Increase Number of Black Doctors in the U.S. NEW YORK, NY – Mike Bloomberg today announced ... $100 million to help increase the number of Black doctors ...

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Workforce Development

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26 Feb 2020

Advancing Equity through Employee Ownership Models

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... across the country as ways to build and share wealth in low income communities and to address economic inequality. These models of employee ownership offer promising opportunities to build ... at the community...

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Seeking Member Input into PNY's CEO Search

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07/20/2020

... Chair, I am writing to share the Committee's interest in hearing your thoughts about what we need in our next CEO. ... lead the search, with an invitation to participate in one ...

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PNY News

08 Mar 2018

Immigrant Families in America Today: How Fear and Toxic Stress Are Affecting Daily Life, Well-Being, and Health - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, March 8, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Living in an Immigrant Family in America: How Fear and Toxic Stress ... held in eight cities across four states with a total of...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Immigration

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17 Jul 2014

Pulitzer Winner Barton Gellman on Philanthropy’s Role in Better Balancing Competing Demands on Civil Liberties and National Security

Thursday, July 17, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

In the wake of 9/11, government actions have led to an ongoing national ... balance between civil liberties and national security in the U.S. From the swift enactment of the USA...

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25 Mar 2015

Beyond Gender Equity: How Philanthropy is Taking Gender Norms into Account

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Is your grantmaking responding to new understandings of the importance of addressing gender norms along with age, ... the importance of addressing gender norms and implications in...

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12 Mar 2015

Difret - Film Screening

Thursday, March 12, 2015 -

5:00pm to 9:00pm

... for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the film Difret and a brief panel discussion. ( Having trouble viewing the trailer? ) In Difret , a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl is abducted by a group...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Children, Youth and Families

02 Oct 2019

Youth Voice: What it is and Why it Matters

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... for a session that will offer a framework and overview of different types of "youth voice" programs and methods. Panelists will share how participating in authentic youth engagement...

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Children, Youth and Families

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03 Aug 2017

VR For The Real World: New Tools To Make The World Better

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... are finding themselves more and more at the nexus of empathy and advocacy. Their goal? To create immersive ... VR works for social change, and what’s coming up next in this fast-moving field. Across the Line...

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12 Sep 2012

Pathways to Economic Mobility: How Can Philanthropists Help the Poor Build Wealth?

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -

9:00am to 4:00pm

Philanthropy New York, in collaboration with The Philanthropy Roundtable, will host ... financial services industry will discuss the importance of assets in low-income financial portfolios and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Surdna, Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation Sign Joint Statement Defending NEA Against Proposed Trump Budget

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03/01/2018

... , which, among other things, called for the dissolution of the National Endowment for the Arts. This week, the heads ... and McKnight Foundation — signed a joint statement in opposition to the proposed funding...

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12 Sep 2019

Always in Season - Documentary Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Jacqueline Olive

Thursday, September 12, 2019 -

5:30pm to 9:00pm

In partnership with Ford Foundation’s Just Films, we invite ... you to join us for the New York premiere and discussion of the Sundance award-winning film Always in Season . In...

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09 Jun 2025

On Hope in a Time of Maximum Fear: A Conversation with Norma Wong - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Monday, June 9, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... has been described as a polycrisis - a “larger kind of instability… or ... disequilibrium” caused by ... unpredictable future shocks of greater intensity.” In her book, When No Thing Works: A...

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Susan L. Solomon, Co-Founder of New York Stem Cell Foundation, is on a Quest

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02/23/2016

Susan L. Solomon, Co-Founder of New York Stem Cell Foundation, is on a Quest One day last week, at a lab in New York City, a heart cell was beating in a petri dish ... finance and then became the...

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08 Jun 2022

New York Medicaid’s Proposed “Investments to Address the Health Disparities Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... “integrating social care and health care into the fabric of the NYS Medicaid program.” The request envisions new ... million over five years to develop programs and workflows in coordination with delivery...

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The New York Community Trust

Get It Right, Right Now

Release Date:

10/18/2017

... This is a topic PNY and Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York have agreed to work on together over the coming ... Mottola , New York Foundation; Sol Marie Alfonso-Jones , Long Island Community...

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PNY Community Poem

... Girmay invited us to listen to the quiet details of our lives and the lives around us through her poem “You ... She then guided the Philanthropy New York community in creating our own “You are who I love…”...

29 Jan 2016

School Funding: The Road to Equity for NYC

Friday, January 29, 2016 -

9:45am to 12:00pm

... rarely discuss where the funding comes from, the history of advocacy for more funding for New York City schools, where we are now in terms of school financing, and next steps toward funding...

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