Pivotal Place: New York City
New York City has the potential to be a model 21st century sustainable urban community that cultivates civic life and the natural environment, encourages immigrant civic and political participation, supports individual achievement and artistic expression, and generates widely shared prosperity. The Fund’s New York City program aims to support the city’s efforts to be a force for positive change both within and beyond its borders.
Poet Kwoya Fagin reflects on her residency at The Pocantico Center. The impact of the time and setting were invaluable to her as an artist and as an individual, she says.
Nonprofit dance organizations are significant contributors to New York City's economy and residents' quality of life, according to a report published by Dance/NYC. The report also found that the city's dance organizations—particularly smaller groups—demonstrate a "strong start-up culture of dance," with a handful of staff producing high levels of new creations.
Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, New York City program director, reviews an extraordinary summer of arts and culture, and looks ahead to an exciting fall season of programming. But, he argues, none of it would be possible without support from enthusiastic audiences made up of New York City residents and tourists, as well as private donors.
On Thursday, April 21, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented an updated agenda with new goals for PlaNYC, the city's landmark effort to ensure long-term sustainability and improve all aspects of the city's environment. New initiatives include plans to install solar power plants on capped landfills, offer loans to businesses to help pay for energy-efficient upgrades, and launch a program to help buildings switch to cleaner heating fuels.
$60,000 for 1 year
For general support.
$200,000 for 1 year
To implement its strategic plan.
$50,000 for 1 year
For new choreography commissions.
$100,000 for 2 years
For its strategic plan's outreach and recruitment activities.
The Americas Society has released the first comparative white paper that examines the economic impact of immigration-related city policies on the local business environment. The paper, The Economic Impact of Immigrant-Related Local Ordinances, focuses on 53 cities that passed either restrictive or non-restrictive city ordinances between 2006 and 2008, and which were still being enforced through 2009.
In July 2008, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund undertook a review of its youth civic engagement grantmaking with the help of two consultants, Brigette Rouson and Hilary Binder-Aviles, from Mosaica: The Center for Nonprofit Development and Pluralism.
This report examines the role community organizing can play in shaping effective social policy. It looks at the case of community organizing for educational equity and school improvement in New York City, represented by a network of neighborhood and citywide collaboratives.
Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, speaks at the Council on Foundations conference in Toronto on April 27, 2004, where he accepts the Paul Ylivisaker Award.