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Share Your Thoughts: PNY’s 34th Annual Meeting!
Thank you to everyone who attended our 34th Annual Meeting or watched the proceedings via our livestream broadcast! And special thanks again to the Ford Foundation for their generosity as our hosts. We...
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Six Months Later
By Lauren Linville, Communications Associate, Health and Environmental Funders Network It seems much longer than six months ago that Hurricane Sandy turned into Superstorm Sandy and devastated parts of...
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Preparing Vulnerable Populations for Crisis: What We’ve Learned and Funding...
By Sister Paulette LoMonaco, Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services This blog post is adapted from Sister LoMonaco’s remarks during one of the member engagement sessions at Philanthropy New York’s...
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Post-Sandy Assistance Needed for Long Term
by Nina Stack, President, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers It is difficult to be patient when lives, and indeed entire communities, have been torn apart. So when Gov. Chris Christie famously declared...
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The Storm Surge and Impact of Sandy on Communities in Northern New Jersey
by Elizabeth Murphy, Consultant, Post-Sandy Recovery Coordination, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers On May 20, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers (CNJG) offered an educational Site Visit Bus Tour...
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Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’s Food Got To Do With It?
by Amara FosterCommunity Food Funders Steering Committee Senior Program Associate, Sustainable Environments, Surdna Foundation As it turns out, quite a bit. In August 2011, farmers upstate lost...
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5 Questions for…Sheena Wright, President and CEO, United Way of New York City
This interview with Sheena Wright originally appeared on PhilanTopic, the Philanthropy News Digest blog, on July 11, 2013 and is reprinted with permission. Philanthropy News Digest: You joined UWNYC as...
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See the Storify: Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons
One year after Hurricane Sandy, our communities have made great progress in recovery. But so much more remains to be done. On October 25, Philanthropy New York and a group of funders and nonprofits who...
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In the Aftermath: How to Help in the Philippines
by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors In the early days following a disaster, philanthropists naturally want to take action. With communities broken and people suffering, the call to give is compelling....
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Why Helping Pets Helps People
by Michael Barrett, Vice President of Grants Management, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) The bond between pets and humans goes way beyond simple obligation and...
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