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NEW YORK TIMES—November 29, 2022—[…]Take Greg Smith, a reporter for a local nonprofit news organization in New York called The City, which I have donated to. At 5 p.m. on the Friday before Labor Day, he got a text from a source at New York’s public housing authority. The drinking water in a large public housing […]
73% of NYC high schools don’t have a newspaper. Efforts are growing to fill in the gaps.
CHALKBEAT NEW YORK—November 23, 2022—Emely Ou Feng dreams of being an investigative journalist one day. But the 16-year-old hasn’t had many opportunities to pursue that goal at school for a simple reason: Her Brooklyn campus doesn’t have a student newspaper. “Ever since I guess my freshman year I sort of knew that I want to […]
Local Foundations Need Solid Local Journalism if They Hope to Advance Their Missions
THE CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY — November 16, 2021 — First the good news: Philanthropy is starting to respond to the demise of local journalism with the urgency it deserves. In the past few years, major national efforts, such as the American Journalism Project, Report for America, and NewsMatch have generated well over $200 million in philanthropic giving to news organizations […]
Jewish chaplains: Leading where life happens
EJEWISH PHILANTHROPY — October 26, 2022 — The pandemic put chaplains before the public eye as the country’s “spiritual first responders.” Media reports shined light on their important work, more typically unseen, and on chaplaincy’s evolution into a vocation that is increasingly more religiously and racially diverse. Jewish chaplains were featured in many of these reports, […]
The Three Vs for Voter Engagement: Validators, Volunteers and Visibility
GOTHAM GAZETTE — August 26, 2022 — In this week’s late August primary, the second primary this summer in New York, voter turnout barely cracked ten percent in New York City. The first primary of the summer, in June, saw turnout drop by nearly half from four years ago. At the same time, nationally, concern about the future of democracy in […]
Settlement Houses GET OUT THE VOTE! 2021 Report
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES—August 17, 2022—United Neighborhood Houses of New York (UNH) is a policy and social change organization with a mission to promote and strengthen the settlement house movement’s neighborhood-based, multi-service approach to improving the lives of low- and moderate-income New Yorkers and the communities in which they live. UNH’s network today includes 45 settlement […]
Eli Evans, ‘poet laureate of Southern Jews’ and influential grant-maker, dies at 85
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY— July 28, 2022 — It was the landmark 1993 handshake between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israel prime minister Yitzchak Rabin that inspired Eli Evans to invest, for the third time, in “Sesame Street.” As an executive at the Carnegie Corporation in the 1960s, he had brokered the government support that helped […]
Eli N. Evans, z’l
The Trustees and staff of the Charles H. Revson Foundation mourn the passing of Eli N. Evans, its founding President. Through his great generosity of spirit, love of Israel and the Jewish People, profound belief in the promise of American Democracy, and philosophy of betting on audacious ideas and talented people, Eli contributed mightily to […]
Press Release: GoVoteNYC Funder Collaborative Announces $1.05 Million in Grants to Get Out the Vote
THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST— April 26, 2022 — The GoVoteNYC Fund in The New York Community Trust has announced $1.05 million in grants to 11 nonprofits for nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities. Targeting more than 2 million new and infrequent voters, these grants will draw attention to the importance of voting in the coming state and […]
Shaun Donovan Interview
ROTHSCHILD CADETS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT— March 31, 2022 — Shaun Donovan shares his experience developing affordable housing with students and practitioners in Israel. Watch the full interview here.