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New Foundation and Forum Websites Launch
March 12, 2020
We’re excited to announce that we’ve got a new look! Our sites officially launched today, March 12. Over the next week or so we’ll be working out any final bugs so please be patient as we make the site work flawlessly for you! If you happen to catch something we Read More

All Cultural Forum Events Postponed
March 11, 2020
Dear Puffin Friends, In light of the developing COVID-19 outbreak and out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to cancel all events for the month of March. This includes the Teaneck Community Chorus on March 14th, Violinist Kersten Stevens on March 21st, Exhibition Opening for “Conversations 2020” on Read More

2019 The Sunrise Movement
Remarks of Neal RosensteinVice President, The Puffin FoundationThe Puffin Prize for Creative CitizenshipType Media GalaDecember 10, 2019 On behalf of Perry & Gladys Rosenstein & the Puffin Foundation I’d like to say it’s truly a pleasure to be here tonight in this wonderful locale, in support of the vital work Read More

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