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Puerto Rican Activism From NY To San Juan – And Beyond

February 14, 2020

Check out this Puffin-sponsored event at the Museum of the City of New York on February Read More

Puffin Cultural Forum Exhibit “Conversations, 2020”

February 14, 2020

A selection of images from Conversations, 2020 is now viewable virtually. Artists take an intersectional look at issues of discrimination that impact marginalized communities-at-large. Works on view speaks to issues of economic discrimination, inequities in the criminal justice system, environmental racism, health care racism, gun violence, and general political disenfranchisement. Read More

Foundation’s Partnership With PBS Independent Lens In The News

February 13, 2020

The Puffin Cultural Forum now premiers PBS Independent Lens documentaries. Jeremy Lentz, the Director of the Teaneck International Film Festival explains it all in this Read More

Three New Andrew Goodman Puffin Democracy Fellows Announced

February 6, 2020

These young activists will help educate their peers in this important election year. Press release here: https://andrewgoodman.org/news-list/the-andrew-goodman-foundation-announces-the-2020-2021-andrew-goodman-puffin-democracy-fellows/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7ebed474-4d6b-4121-8409-b6dd21c8eadd Upper Saddle River, NJ (December 11, 2019)—The Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) is pleased to announce it has accepted three emerging civic leaders to the second cohort of Andrew Goodman Puffin Democracy Fellows. The 2020-2021 Read More

Puffin Supports The Campus Election Engagement Project

January 2, 2020

With the caucuses and primaries fast approaching check out the Campus Election Engagement Project’s guides to the Presidential primaries and caucuses. Puffin is proud to support their work to educate & engage students in the political process across the country. Visit their Read More

How the Labor Movement Built New York

December 11, 2019

A great review that really deepens the reader’s understanding of the role organized labor has played in New York. Take a read about this Puffin Sponsored exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. Peter Hopkins’s Riot at Union Square, 1947. (Courtesy of the Museum of the City Read More

Happy Thanksgiving from Puffin

November 26, 2019

The Puffin Foundation & Cultural Forum wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving. We’re thankful for your continued supports of the arts and activism! Our offices will be closed for the weekend staring Thursday and reopening Read More

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How The Labor Movement Built New York

November 12, 2019

A great review that really deepens the reader’s understanding of the role organized labor has played in New York. Take a read about this Puffin Sponsored exhibit at the Museum of the City of New Read More

Younger Americans are getting a bad deal. How?

October 18, 2019

Read all about it in this NY Times article by Astra Taylor.  She’s a Puffin Foundation/Economic Hardship Reporting Project Fellow. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/18/opinion/old-age-president-2020.html Evan Hunt, 9, argued for lowering the voting age at a city council hearing in Hyattsville, Md., in 2015. Jabin Botsford/The New York Read More

Another Great Review of the Puffin-Supported Exhibit City of Workers at the Museum of the City of New York

September 17, 2019

The exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York, mounted at the Museum of the City of New York, does almost everything it needs to do in telling the story of a critical mass movement that microcosmically mirrors the large forces that have shaped the Read More