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NAACP Head Ben Jealous Wins 2012 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
November 19, 2012
Benjamin Todd Jealous Announced as Winner of the 2012 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship Prize Recognizes NAACP’s Leadership In Civil and Human Rights Movement; Efforts to “Rebrand” Civil Rights for a New Era November 15, 2012 (New York, NY): The Nation Institute and The Puffin Foundation announced today that Benjamin Read More
2012 Benjamin Todd Jealous
Winner of the 2012 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). Prize Recognizes NAACP’s Leadership In Civil and Human Rights Movement; Efforts to “Rebrand” Civil Rights for a New Era The Nation Institute and The Puffin Foundation announced today that Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and Read More
TIFF Opening Night Gala
November 11, 2012
Gladys Miller Rosenstein (Executive Director, Puffin Foundation, Ltd.), Jeremy Lentz (Executive Director of TIFF) and Perry Rosenstein (President, Puffin Foundation, Ltd.) at the opening night gala of the Teaneck International Film Festival, a project of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Photo by Jeremy Smith via Read More
Special Peace Train Youth Summit – Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
November 8, 2012
International Performers Visit Teaneck & Englewood Sharon Katz & The Peace Train – South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors November 29th & 30th, 2012 give workshops to students in our schools AND Special Peace Train Youth Summit 7pm Friday November 30th at Puffin Cultural Forum Sharon Katz, founder of The Peace Train Read More
Lifetime Achievement Award Dinner For Perry & Gladys Rosenstein
October 11, 2012
In the spirit of community, we have postponed the Bergen Museum of Art & Science Lifetime Achievement Award dinner so that our guests and supporters can recover from the recent storm with their families and friends. New Date : Wednesday, Nov 28th, 2012 at the Il Villaggio in Carlstadt, NJ Read More
Puffin President & Executive Director Honored for work…
September 27, 2012
The Bergen Museum of Art & Science 2012 Life Time Achievement Award in the Arts recipients are Perry Rosenstein and Gladys Rosenstein in recognition of their accomplishments fostering the arts and culture in Bergen County. The award commemorates and acknowledges the Rosenstein’s life time body of work enriching the community Read More
Int’l Day of Peace Celebration
September 14, 2012
Dear Friends: You are invited to join us and other members of the Teaneck community who are lovers of Peace, on Friday, September 21st at 4P.M.as we walk 2 miles from the Puffin Foundation Ltd in Teaneck to the United Methodist Church in Leonia. The program at the Puffin Foundation Read More
Brian Lehrer Show Looks for Your Input on Activist New York
July 5, 2012
The Brian Lehrer Show is featuring photos from the Activist NY exhibit and looking for your comments. The exhibit is in the new Puffin Foundation Gallery at the Museum of the City of NY. Take a look. The Museum of the City of New York has a new exhibit, “Activist Read More
ALBA-Puffin Human Rights Award for 2012: New Yorker
June 18, 2012
Check out an excerpt from The New Yorker about 2012 Puffin ALBA Award winner Kate Doyle. June 9, 2012 The Documents and the Murderers Posted by Peter Canby How do you bring tolerance and democracy to a country in which a murderous military, which over the years killed some two Read More
Activist New York: In These Times
June 18, 2012
Two strikers from the Ladies Tailors union stand on the picket line during the 1910 “Uprising of the 20,000” garment workers strike in New York City. (Bain News Service/Library of Congress) Culture » June 14, 2012 Archivists as Activists Curating social movements. BY Sady Doyle ‘Activist New York’ does not Read More