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20 May 2025

Investing in the Future We Want: Leading Transformation in Uncertain Times - A Panel Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 -
1:00pm to 2:45pm
... please email Paula Dworek at paula@assetfunders. org . Members and Non-Member Funders: Please click on the ... development programs. Please email register@ philanthropynewyork . org with any...
25 Feb 2013

It Ain’t Over – Understanding What’s at Stake in the Charitable Deduction Debate

Monday, February 25, 2013 -
10:45am to 2:00pm
Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC
After the intensity of the “fiscal cliff” negotiations and the passage of The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, many breathed a sigh of relief that the legislation did not include major changes in the charitable deduction. But recently,...

Funders Give and Get Advice From NYC Teens

Release Date: 
05/02/2013
By Jessica Pliska , Founder and Executive Director, The Opportunity Network and April Hawkins, Director of MetLife Foundation ’s Civic Affairs Program On most days, the job of philanthropy executives involves reviewing proposals,...
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All Funders

Ford Foundation announces five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers

Release Date: 
11/16/2021
Social and labor protections for world’s informal workers — who represent 60% of all the world’s workforce — seen as crucial to equitable global economic recovery
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Gender Justice
International/Foreign Affairs
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Giving While Living

Publication date: 
09/2017
The common quest of all who seek to achieve lasting improvements in our communities and in our world—whether we are individual donors, foundations, nonprofits or government agencies—is to make the highest and best use of our resources. It requires us to ask questions like: What are our best opportunities to make a difference? What impact can we have and how do we know what impact our grants are having? What are grantee organizations accomplishing? What’s working… what’s not? Or, as Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, never hesitated to ask, starting with the foundation’s...
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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Ford, Rockefeller Offer Templates for Guiding CEO Transitions at Big Foundations

Release Date: 
03/07/2017
In a relatively short period of time, there have been some high-level changes at important philanthropy organizations, leading to questions of both why this is occurring, and what’s involved today with managing a CEO or president transition at a...
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Ford Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
09 Oct 2012

College and Career Ready: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -
2:45pm to 5:00pm
Thousands of young New York City immigrants -- many of them high school students -- waited on line on August 15 to begin the process of applying for deportation deferrals under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While...
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10 Jan 2013

The First Year: How to Hire, Inspire and Empower a New Family Foundation CEO

Thursday, January 10, 2013 -
11:00am to 1:00pm
Webinar
Hiring a new CEO is one of the most important transitions that any family foundation must go through. The role of a family foundation chief executive is unique—running a philanthropic enterprise in partnership with a family. This webinar, based on...
19 Jul 2010

College-Ready or Not? Preparing High School Students for Success

Monday, July 19, 2010 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC
A Philanthropy Connects program presented by the Donors’ Education Collaborative (DEC) and the Public Education Grantmakers Network (PEGNET). WHO SHOULD ATTEND : This session is for all funders who are interested...
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