Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson
Impact100 Westchester is kicking off their Seventh Grant Cycle with their annual Nonprofit Information Session.
At this session, you will learn about their Grant Application process and important changes for this year. Registration required.
WHAT: Nonprofit Information Session
WHEN: Thursday, November 7, 2019, 10 am - noon
WHERE: Westchester County Center, 198 Central Avenue, White Plains, NY. (You will receive a complimentary parking pass a few days in advance of the event.)
Register online here.
Learn more about Impact100 Westchester and their grant program here
Note: Impact100 Westchester will also hold optional Project Pitch Days on December 3rd and 9th for your organization to receive feedback before submitting your initial proposal.
Association of Development Officers and Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson Present “Meet the Funders Panel Discussion.”
We have assembled a group of esteemed grant makers from the region who will voice their opinions about philanthropy, grant making, relationship building, evaluations, and more.
Topics to include:
Panelists include:
Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden: Executive Director, Westchester County Youth Bureau
Patti Horvath: Program Manager, Field Hall Foundation
Panel Moderator:
Alison Paul: Program Chair, Grant Professionals of Lower Hudson; Principal, Alison Paul Grantwriting and Consulting
Register here.
About Our Panelists
Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden, Executive Director of the Westchester County Youth Bureau
Dr. DaMia Harris-Madden is the Executive Director of the Westchester County Youth Bureau, the youth division under County Executive Latimer’s Office. The Westchester County Youth Bureau oversees 140+ programs and services to benefit children, youth and families throughout the County. In her first year of appointment, she secured a federal grant- the first for the department.
Prior to this, Dr. Harris-Madden served as the Executive Director of the City of Mount Vernon Youth Bureau. During her tenure, she assisted the city in securing close to 30 million in grant monies aimed to provide support to various programs, which expanded after-school, crime-prevention, workforce development, occupational skill academies and other social and emotional programs aimed to advance the City’s youth.
Dr. Harris-Madden has served as a federal and local grant reviewer, and an Evaluator for a state funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant. As the current President of the Hudson Valley Association of Youth Bureaus, she assists Youth Bureaus from Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester Counties, creating a larger presence for and understanding of how the Bureaus can help residents.
Patti Lavan Horvath, Program Manager, Field Hall Foundation
Ms. Horvath is the Program Officer for Field Hall Foundation, whose mission is to improve the health and lives of older adults and their caregivers. Prior, she was the Director of Corporate Compliance and Community Outreach for Fieldhome, a healthcare organization, and also worked in educational publishing. She is a board member of the Northern Westchester Geriatric Committee and a member of the Rotary Club of Yorktown.
Kathryn Luria, SVP, Community Affairs, Director of Philanthropy, Webster Bank
Kathy Luria serves as Senior Vice President of Community Affairs and Director of Philanthropy at the corporate headquarters of Webster Bank in Waterbury, CT. Previously, Kathy served the State of Connecticut as the Director of Continuing Education and Community Services, and then Director of Marketing at Naugatuck Valley Community College. With almost 20 years of employment with the College, and now over 12 years serving as Webster’s ambassador to the community, Luria remains a strong advocate and resource throughout the state and the region. Kathy currently serves as a Director and Assistant Vice President of the Harold Webster Smith Foundation. She is board chair of the CT Council for Philanthropy; sits on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, CT Working Cities Challenge Advisory Council; serves United Way of Greater Waterbury as a voting member; and is a United Way of Central and NE CT Women United Member.
Deena Schaffer: Program Officer, The Taft Foundation
Deena Schaffer is a Program Officer at The Taft Foundation, a $200M private foundation with a mission to improve the quality of life of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as children with serious medical conditions in the New York metropolitan area and South Florida. The Foundation’s portfolio includes 60+ grantees totaling $10M+ in active grants each year. Prior to joining The Taft Foundation, Deena worked in institutional advancement for PENCIL and The Posse Foundation, two youth development nonprofits working to improve access to college and career opportunities. She earned her MPA in Nonprofit Management and Finance from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, as well as her BA in Sociology and Hispanic Studies from Brandeis University.
Marcy Syms: Sy Syms Foundation
Marcy Syms is founding trustee and President of the Sy Syms Foundation, and since 2012, President of TPD Group LLC., a multi-generational succession planning company. She is the former Chair and CEO of SYMS, one of the first companies to offer designer and brand-name clothing at “off-price” rather than “regular price.” In 1983, when taking SYMS public, Marcy became the youngest female president of a New York Stock Exchange company. In 2009, SYMS acquired Filene's Basement and operated 50 stores under both names.
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From United Way of Westchester and Putnam:
The United Way of Westchester and Putnam is accepting applications for the Phase 36 (2019-2020) Emergency Food and Shelter Funds available through the Local Westchester Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) Board. This program provides federal funding which helps to extend currently available services for the hungry and homeless. The deadline for submission of completed applications is 4 p.m. on Monday, July 29, 2019.
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board, which is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced that Westchester County was awarded $466,615. United Way of Westchester and Putnam is the administrative agency of the Local Emergency Food and Shelter Programs in Westchester and Putnam counties........
Read the full article on the UWWP website.
From Philanthropy News Digest, Feb. 5, 2019
A majority of nonprofits (54 percent) raised more money in 2018 than they did in 2017, while slightly more than a quarter (28 percent) raised about the same, an annual year-end survey by the Association of Fundraising Professionals finds……
Read the article on Philanthropy News Digest.
From TheNonProfitTimes, Feb. 5, 2019
The Foundation Center and GuideStar, the two largest data and information nonprofit organizations in the United States, are merging in a deal that took about two years to consummate but was at least a decade in the making. The organizations will be rebranded as Candid. (with a period)……
Read the article on TheNonProfitTimes.
The Westchester Community Foundation website now provides “The Westchester Index,” a robust source of relevant and extremely useful statistics for Westchester County.
The Westchester Index includes over 200 indicators of demographic, economic, housing, health, and other data from the American Community Survey, with underlying links to the source of information, such as the Census Bureau, Centers For Disease Control and the NY State Education Department.
Information can be searched by zip code, school district, municipality, legislative and congressional districts.
Access this new handy resource here.
The following text is excerpted from a post on the daily forum of the Grant Professionals Association website. The author, who gave permission for us to share this, is a grant writer with 18 years of experience who specializes government grant writing. Her comments were in response to a question from another forum participant who asked about the effects of the government shutdown.
The writer’s opinion about the long term impacts, based on her experience and connections, gave us enough concern that we felt it was important to share:
Hi Betty,
The impacts of the shutdown will, in my opinion, be experienced for years to come. The immediate impacts of the shutdown include so many delays. Just think how much of a backlog you would have if you were suddenly gone from the office for more than a month, with no one to do your work! Now multiply that by hundreds of thousands of employees. Yes, it's that bleak. As one of my good friends who works for HUD put it...I was already so far behind that getting caught up was improbable...now it's a myth!
In addition to the delays grantees have experienced in payments, many are waiting for answers to questions, policy interpretations, approvals for changes in their program or grant budgets, etc. There has also been a delay in issuing RFPs that will just scrunch the calendar for the whole year (making grant professionals like us, lose our minds later in the year)!
My bigger concern is the brain drain. I used to work in DC and knew many of the program officers and higher level folks in several departments. Many left shortly after the inauguration. Others waited...holding on out of a sense of civic responsibility or just holding out for retirement. I'm now hearing rumblings that some of the program officers I deal with a lot are either actively looking (yes, a few have asked if they can use me as a reference) or have resigned. One of my dearest friends decided to go to the private sector where, as he put it, I'll earn more and likely have greater security in terms of getting a paycheck!
I also predict that the loss of institutional knowledge will impact programs for years to come in so many ways. For example, many of our program officers act as active advocates for their programs with Congress (through report writing, relationships with staff, subcommittee staff, etc.). Now imagine that person, with 20 years of knowledge as to how to get things done, is gone. That's the reality. Federal employees, who have been vilified by political extremists and reporting in the media, already had very low morale levels -- imagine how they must feel now, knowing that this whole shutdown mess might come back in 3 weeks, and then again later this year. Now, with the uncertainty of whether or not the politicians can govern, would you stay? If you knew that your paycheck was dependent on what many consider a dysfunctional mess in our country, would you stay?
Now consider that federal employees who leave will have to be replaced. How can they possibly recruit new, high qualified individuals? Don't we want the best and the brightest? Doesn't our country deserve the best and the brightest? Further, department heads are under pressure to reduce head count, which often means that more and more contractors are used. Knowing that contractors are not protected during shutdowns, would you want a federal contract? In the news today is a report of a small business that is likely going to go belly up because of not having any revenues for more than a month. Also, there's another piece about an employee of a contractor who lost her health insurance in the shutdown and how that's impacting her family (her husband has MS and was hospitalized without insurance). She's apparently worked for an agency as an employee of a contractor for more than 10 years in the Mine Safety and Health Administration. I know if I were her, I'd be looking for another job where my family's health insurance was stable.
The brain drain -- that's the really big impact that we will feel for years to come. Just my $0.02.
Karen L. Cassidy, GPC Governmental Grant Professionals, LLC
Karen@governmentalgrantspro.com
As a part of the grantseeking community, you know how important it is to stay on top of trends. The State of Grantseeking Survey from Grant Station spotlights recent developments in funding so that organizations can be more strategic in their grantseeking.
The resulting free reports, published in May and November, can serve as a valuable benchmark for organizations to review their grantseeking efforts, and will provide leading-edge information months earlier than other annual surveys.
View the Spring 2018 Reports here.
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