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Travelers’ Philanthropy: A Growing Trend in Development Assistance

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07/02/2009

When we travel, we have the opportunity to leave the best of ourselves behind wherever we go. Today’s traveling grantmakers can choose to minimize their carbon footprint and contribute with time, talent, and treasure to enhance destination...

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Standby Letters of Credit: The Underdog of Charitable Financing

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06/25/2009

At ACBP, our President has a top ten list that quotes Tom Peters. One item is, “Try easier, not harder.” As a foundation that invests in the next generation and is not afraid to take risks, we (with our partners) take innovative ideas and create...

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Corporate Philanthropy: The Challenges and Opportunities

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06/19/2009

I often get the feeling that philanthropic professionals who work in private, family, or community foundations have a cynicism about the work done by those of us in the corporate sector.

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

For a group of newspaper people, newspapers must be saved; for a group of Web people, newspapers must go; and there are a lot of compass points in between.

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Capacity Building Begins At Home

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06/04/2009

Spending time and money on capacity building and technical assistance for grantees should be an important part of what foundations do. In fact, many nonprofits are handling the economic downturn precisely because they and their funders previously...

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New Member Spotlight: The Pilgrim Foundation

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05/29/2009

We recently welcomed The Pilgrim Foundation to Philanthropy New York. Suzanne Daniel, Director of the foundation, shares details about Pilgrim and its latest projects in this Member Spotlight.

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What’s “Best” in Philanthropy: A Debate Recap with Aaron Dorfman and Adam Meyerson

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05/19/2009

Philanthropy New York proudly hosted a recent debate between Aaron Dorfman (pictured left), Executive Director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) , and Adam Meyerson , President of The Philanthropy Roundtable , that focused...

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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

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05/14/2009

By Hildy J. Simmons While sorting through some office files recently, I came across a speech I gave in December 1990 at the annual meeting of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee (NPCC). In looking it over, I...

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New Member Spotlight: The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

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05/08/2009

We are delighted to feature one of Philanthropy New York’s newest members, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies (ACBP), in the first edition of our Member Spotlight. We asked Jeffrey R. Solomon , ACBP’s President, about...

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The Future of News

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05/08/2009

By Vincent Stehle Chair of the Board of Directors, Philanthropy New York Program Director for Nonprofit Sector Support, Surdna Foundation The future is bleak for daily newspapers. The combination of a severe economic downturn...

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Some Measure of Leadership

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04/23/2009

By Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York On April 6th, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Administration showed real leadership for the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, just as they did in 2006, when they...

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Welcome to Smart Assets!

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04/23/2009

Philanthropy New York is pleased to present Smart Assets , a forum for our members to discuss issues affecting our sector and the practice of philanthropy. Our first post is from Charles Hamilton, Philanthropy New York’s Senior Fellow and former...

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10 Mar 2015

Supporting Grantee Capacity

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a guide called Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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New York City

TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building

Release Date:

02/03/2015

Chris Cardona, Julie Simpson and Jared Raynor of TCC Group examine the concept of relational capacity.

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Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License

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02/04/2015

Open licensing will allow for transparency and accessibility.

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Technology

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Ford Foundation

NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial

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02/04/2015

Pamela Shifman co-authored an opinion piece detailing the critical need to end violence at home.

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Gender Justice

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Ask the Right Questions: Funders Toolkit

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02/2015

The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers as released two toolkits both designed for structured group reflection. The first is a self-assessment tool that can help affinity groups engaging in policy work determine how well they're set up for success. The second is a set of planning checklists that affinity groups can use to do policy work and regional associations can use to support that work.