Strategic Plan for 2017-2021
Special Thanks! Thanks to the Strategic Planning Committee for their terrific guidance and hard work: Mike Pratt (Chair) ... Those services will remain the centerpiece of all we do , and we will build upon our...
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... with the PNY community As with any good editorial, keep it brief, speak to your audience in an authentic voice, and ... has been granted by the meeting participant, please do not use quotes that are attributed...
Exploring the Intersection of Arts and Culture and Other Funding Areas
Release Date:
09/10/2014
... of focus this year is arts and culture. Art is important for innumerable reasons, but our focus is for funders using art as a tool for another mission area. Many of the programs we will ...
Send Grad Students Our Way
Release Date:
02/18/2015
... This piece was originally published as the feature article for the February 2015 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost ... about and networking within the philanthropic sector. It is designed to increase our...
CEP Announces First Director of Advisory Services
Release Date:
02/24/2015
... First Director of Advisory Services The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) announced today that Mary ... practice responds to repeated requests from foundations for us to go deeper in our work with them,...
Partnerships Are Key to Our Programming
Release Date:
03/04/2015
... trafficking, Common Core, arts in grantmaking, services for vulnerable youth and immigrants’ rights, among others. ... programs with such a small staff, and I can honestly say it would be impossible without...
A Call to Men and NY Women’s Foundation Host Training Institute to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls
Release Date:
10/21/2015
... Family Services Department, New York Housing Authority. “ For real change to happen, we must first start within ... to end all forms of violence against women. I am grateful for the opportunity to come...
An Open Exchange of Insights, Ideas: What Philanthropy New York Embraces
Release Date:
11/04/2015
... 19 program “ Education Reform in Newark: Lessons for Philanthropy ” and how impressive the list of speakers ... panelists to participate in the discussion. As we so often do , we are striving to convene...
PNY Board Chair Phil Li Named President of Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Release Date:
01/13/2016
... months and identified leadership as the area in which to do its work. The Foundation, remaining committed to its work ... serves as a catalyst to equip and energize these leaders for the work ahead." said...
Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Principal Evaluation
Release Date:
01/27/2016
... the skills they need to improve student achievement. For example, a 2007 Vanderbilt study found that one-third of ... , documents efforts by six large school districts to do just that. The report, by Policy...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Divestment from Industries that Harm People of Color
Release Date:
11/03/2016
... of Color Brooklyn Community Foundation announced that it will formally divest from private prisons, gun ... it will hopefully serve as a call to other institutions to do the same.” Founded in...
A Recipe for Capacity Building
Release Date:
02/16/2017
A Recipe for Capacity Building By Heather Peeler, Vice President of ... trying a new recipe and sharing the results with friends. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, for many years, I was a .....
Third Wave Fund, New York Women's Foundation and Ms. Foundation Pen Open Letter to Foundations and Donors Calling for Increased Funding to People of Color
Release Date:
03/09/2017
... Pen Open Letter to Foundations and Donors Calling for Increased Funding to People of Color Prominent ... “intensifying xenophobia and white supremacy.” “ It ’s going to take all of us, working together in a...
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Up to $15 Million to Fill the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty
Release Date:
06/02/2017
... the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty Michael R. Bloomberg, the United ... bottom up – and there isn’t anything Washington can do to stop us.” Patricia Espinosa, the...
Carnegie Names Nine Philanthropists as Recipients of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
Release Date:
06/26/2017
... D. Wolfensohn U.S.A. and Australia; Wolfensohn Center for Development "The recipients of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy were selected for their distinguished and longstanding contributions to the...
Dianne S. Harris Appointed Senior Program Officer at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Release Date:
08/16/2017
... yet to plan." Mariët Westermann, executive vice president for programs and research, noted, "Dianne brings to the ... in and outside universities." Harris has been dean for the College of...
What Benefits One Might Benefit Us All
Release Date:
11/01/2017
... about how their concerns figure into other program areas. For example, Funders for Gender Equity has been producing programs for the four years that explore the intersections of gender ...
Brian Byrd, Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation Joins The 2020 Justice Launch Committee
Release Date:
01/31/2018
... justice system by ensuring fairness and equal justice for all . Justice 2020 will rely initially on a Launch ... creating a set of guidelines that will focus on those who do the most harm, while reducing...
How to Win the Lottery
Release Date:
02/27/2018
... Susan Olivo, Executive Director, Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation That’s what my colleague suggested ... that I title this short piece – because if I gave it a title more descriptive of its...
Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy
Release Date:
03/15/2018
... On the dark side of global philanthropy, bad things do happen. The accumulation of wealth and advanced ... Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation calls it a “knowledge hierarchy” where community...