Supporting Local &
National Causes

Our impact

We are actively involved in our community, advocating for important causes in New York City and beyond. Our commitment spans a broad range of sectors, including social impact and civic, governance and academia, and business and media. Beyond philanthropic giving, we commit time, energy, and pro-bono communications counsel to support non-profit organizations.

Social Impact & Civic

Citizen's Budget Commission

The Citizens Budget Commission is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization whose mission is to achieve constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government. They preserve public resources and focus on the well-being of future New Yorkers.

Cookies for Kids Cancer

Cookies for Kids Cancer funds cutting-edge research to develop new and improved treatments for pediatric cancers. They fund early research with the strongest scientific backing and the best chance of moving from a research lab to a child’s bedside in the shortest timeframe possible.

Exhale to Inhale

Exhale to Inhale uses trauma-informed yoga to empower survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault while providing communities with tools and knowledge to support them. Exhale to Inhale envisions a world where every survivor has access to the healing power of trauma-informed yoga.

Jeremiah Program

Jeremiah Program’s mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time. When a mother invests simultaneously in her personal and professional goals and the education of her children, she can re-author her family’s outcomes and act as a change agent within her community.

Student Sponsor Partners

Student Sponsor Partners provides scholarships, mentors, and holistic support to over 1,000 students in underserved communities in New York City. Student Sponsor Partners harnesses the power of quality education and mentorship to help New York City youth in underserved communities escape the cycle of poverty and reach their highest potential.

Teens for Food Justice

Teens for Food Justice is building a food-secure future through school-based, youth-led hydroponic farming, providing local, sustainably-grown produce to food desert communities and building health, education, and opportunity equity for all New Yorkers and beyond.

The LAGRANT Foundation

The LAGRANT Foundation’s mission is to increase representation in the fields of advertising, marketing, and public relations by providing scholarships, career opportunities such as internships / fellowships / co-ops / entry level roles, career and professional development workshops, and mentorship opportunities to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from historically underrepresented communities.

UJA Federation

UJA-Federation of New York works to support Jews and New Yorkers in need, respond to crises, and shape the Jewish future.

United Negro College Fund

UNCF envisions a nation where all Americans have equal access to a college education that prepares them for rich intellectual lives, competitive and fulfilling careers, engaged citizenship and service to our nation. UNCF’s mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practice in moving students to and through college.

Youth, INC

Youth INC is a nonprofit organization that supports and strengthens the organizations that help young people thrive in New York City. It offers 85+ nonprofit partners that deliver high-caliber programming in the form of grants, coaching, and connections to more than 250,000 young people.

Governance & Academia

Tulane Corporate Law Institute

Since the first Institute in 1988, the best and brightest M&A and securities practitioners, Delaware Supreme Court and Court of Chancery judiciary, leading corporate counsel and Wall Street investment bankers have gathered in New Orleans every spring for the Tulane Corporate Law Institute. Now recognized as one of the premier M&A, corporate and securities law conferences in the country, the Tulane Corporate Law Institute continues to deliver an unparalleled educational and networking experience in a fascinating city.

UC Berkeley Center for Law and Business

The Berkeley Center for Law and Business is dedicated to leveraging the power of business to help solve some of society’s most difficult challenges. We do this by convening business, government, civil society, and academia to create momentum and align priorities. We believe that business has a unique ability to scale solutions that are needed to create a more just and equitable society.

Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership

The mission of the Millstein Center is to positively shape and influence the future of the corporation in this new paradigm. Through engagement with business leaders, corporate boards, investors, the legal community and academics, the Center creates meaningful dialogue, while balancing conflicting points of view, to strengthen corporate governance and performance.

Rome Conference on AI, Ethics and Corporate Governance

The Annual Rome Conference on AI, Ethics, and Corporate Governance brings together executives from leading AI companies as well as large enterprises using AI with policymakers, scholars, ethicists and lawyers to consider in a holistic way the challenges facing the ethics and governance of AI, both for companies developing this revolutionary technology as well as the enterprises incorporating AI into their businesses.

Business & Media

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. They defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. CPJ protects the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever journalists are under threat.

Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)

Founded in 1961, The Columbia Journalism Review is an American magazine for professional journalists published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Its contents include news and media industry trends, analysis, professional ethics, and stories behind the news. CJR’s mission is to be the intellectual leader in the rapidly changing world of journalism. It is the most respected voice on press criticism, and it shapes the ideas that make media leaders and journalists smarter about their work.

Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at 
the Columbia Journalism School

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship offers experienced journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding of business and economics, finance and technology. Columbia Journalism School’s purpose is to educate students from all over the world to become conscientious, accomplished professional journalists. The school equips them to perform a vital and challenging function: through evidence-based reporting, to find out the truths of complicated situations, usually under time constraint, and communicate them to the public in a clear, engaging fashion.

The Milken Institute

A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable global progress in the areas of health, finance, and philanthropy.

New York Financial Writers' Association

The New York Financial Writers’ Association is dedicated to advancing the standards of financial journalism, fostering a community of journalists who cover business and finance with integrity, accuracy, and insight. Since 1938, NYFWA has supported journalists through networking, education, and professional development, empowering its members to chronicle the economic stories that shape our world.

New York Women in Communications

Established in 1929, New York Women in Communications is a leading non-profit organization connecting women leaders across the marketing and communications industry and empowering their success.

Exhale to Inhale

Gladstone Place Partners is proud to support Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit organization that empowers survivors of domestic and sexual violence through trauma-informed yoga. GPPers and friends of the firm attended the annual Celebration of Healing Gala, where our very own Vanessa Esparza, ETI Board President, was a gala co-chair. The evening featured an award ceremony honoring Dr. Wendy D’Andrea and Dr. Sarah Beranbaum for their groundbreaking trauma research, as well as Julie Fernandez, SEP, RYT, YACEP, ETI’s Director of Curriculum Development & Mentorship. We look forward to continuing our partnership with ETI as they advance their powerful mission.
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