Simple and Fast City Contracting
Release Date:
07/17/2013
The HHS Accelerator is a new initiative designed to simplify how New York City does business with thousands of nonprofit health and human services providers.
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers
Release Date:
07/10/2013
We’re pleased to have Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, comment on the Supreme Court’s historic decision on marriage equality and examine the history of philanthropic...
5 Questions for...Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation
Release Date:
06/28/2013
PhilanTopic’s Laura Cronin talks with Kimberleigh Smith about the Rapoport Foundation’s decision to spend down by 2015, what they’ve learned about the spend down process and how they are helping their grantees navigate a difficult funding...
Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families
Release Date:
06/25/2013
Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...
Your Foundation in Crisis: Will You Be Ready?
Release Date:
06/18/2013
Temin and Company CEO Davia Temin recently led our members through an interactive “crisis case” seminar where they could gauge their own reactions and share experiences and feedback with their peers. She talks about that session and the lessons...
Donor Collaborations: Size Matters Less Than You Think
Release Date:
05/24/2013
SeaChange Capital Partners’ John MacIntosh responds to a recent SSIR article on high stakes donor collaborations, using the New York Merger, Acquisition, and Collaboration Fund (NYMAC) as a case study.
Funders Give and Get Advice From NYC Teens
Release Date:
05/02/2013
The Opportunity Network recently invited a group of philanthropists to talk about their careers and their professional journeys with New York City students. We’re pleased to have Opportunity Network Founder and Executive Director Jessica Pliska and...
Donor-Advised-Fund Tool Sends Gifts Directly to Charities
Release Date:
04/09/2013
The DAF Direct widget, a simple application that can be placed on a nonprofit’s website, was created by Fidelity Charitable in collaboration with other donor-advised funds and 10 charities that have piloted the application.
The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown
Release Date:
03/28/2013
An op-ed by Elizabeth Good Christopherson, President and CEO of the Rita Allen Foundation, in anticipation of the May 2013 Ashoka Future Forum in Washington, D.C.
The Grantmaking Formula for the New Normal
Release Date:
03/25/2013
An op-ed by Douglas Bauer, Executive Director of the Clark Foundation.
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