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2025 Financial series - Intro to Financial Statements

The Program In this primer to the Financial Series, participants will get a peek into how a grantee assembles the financial statements and the stories they tell. This session will provide a foundational understanding of nonprofit financial...

Jeanie Reyes

Jeanie Reyes - headshot for ID.jpg Jeanie Reyes is Philanthropy New York’s Operations Manager, supporting finance and administrative business functions for the organization. A values-driven leader, Jeanie brings invaluable nonprofit experience and...

Food Funders Working Group

Community Food Funders (CFF) is a philanthropic organizing project that supports the growth of an equitable, ecologically sound, and economically robust food system in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. We provide information, resources, and...

New York Grantmakers in the Arts

New York Grantmakers in the Arts (NYGIA) is a peer network of grantmakers who fund arts-related organizations and programming in the New York metro area. Operating autonomously from Philanthropy New York, NYGIA is a member-driven group that ...

New York City Vision Funders Network

New York City Vision Funders Network is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the program area of blindness and vision rehabilitation services and eye care for people who are blind or visually impaired. Operating autonomously...

Workforce Funders Collaborative

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative meets quarterly, along with colleagues from City and State agencies, to share information about workforce development. A subset of the Workforce Funders makes grants to the collaborative fund to develop...

New York Foster Youth Funders Group

New York Foster Youth Funders Group operates autonomously from Philanthropy New York and is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New York. The purpose of the group is to keep our hand on the...

Networks & Working Groups

Philanthropy New York manages and supports several professional peer networks around role and interest and issue-based working groups around funding areas.

New York Age-Friendly Funders

The New York Age-Friendly Funders is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the program area of healthy aging and services for older adults. Operating autonomously from Philanthropy New York, the network’s aim is to advance...

A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Software

Publication date: 
05/2016
Completely updated in 2013, this free in-depth guide looks at the features and processes used by 28 grants management systems to help private foundations accept and review applications and track grants throughout their life cycles. It compares the strengths and weaknesses of the different grants management packages, showing how they stack up against 19 high-level categories, and then detailing the functionality of each for more than 180 specific criteria.

A Practical Guide to New York's Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act

Publication date: 
03/2011
Enacted in September 2010, the New York Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (NYPMIFA) makes important changes to the laws concerning the expenditure of charitable endowment funds. It also includes new provisions concerning the prudent management and investment of funds held by charities and the delegation of management and investment responsibilities to outside advisors, along with new protections for donors. This Guide summarizes key provisions of the Act and provides practical guidance in response to frequently asked questions.
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Finance & Asset Management
Public Policy

Are Foundation Leaders Using Social Media?

Publication date: 
09/2010
This report, which documents the usage of social media tools by foundation executives based on survey responses from members of the Center's Grantmaker Leadership Panel, finds that about one-third of foundation CEOs surveyed regularly use Facebook or read blogs, and that only six percent use Twitter. It also analyzes the perceived usefulness of Web 2.0 in philanthropic work, and highlights the social media activity of two "power users" in the field.

As the South Goes: Philanthropy and Social Justice in the US South

Publication date: 
02/2013
Grantmakers for Southern Progress commissioned this report exploring how Southern and national funders support social justice work in the South; how local, regional and national foundations think and talk about social justice work in the South; and the major barriers and facilitating factors for foundations to support social justice work in that region.
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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
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Social Justice

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