Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast
Release Date:
05/09/2016
... Kitchen will then use these ingredients to prepare lunch for 5,000 event attendees in Union Square, and will provide ...
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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond
Release Date:
07/07/2016
... sector nationwide regarding the many benefits of building for resilience. Through the New York Community Trust grant, ...
Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)
Release Date:
08/10/2016
Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT) ... largest poverty-fighting organization, has issued a call for applications for...
New York Community Trust Weighs in on Distribution of Post-Trump Donations to Nonprofits
Release Date:
02/06/2017
... In January, the New York Community Trust, issued a call for proposals for a new fund addressing “hate crimes and New York City ... arrest, and poverty.” Pat Jenny, vice president for grants...
NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls
Release Date:
02/28/2017
NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls A study released last ... NY Women’s Foundation’s Oliveira Offers Blueprint for Investing in Vulnerable Young Girls ...
JPMorgan Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs
Release Date:
05/05/2017
... Chase Announces $6 Million to Prepare South Bronx Youth for High-Demand Jobs JPMorgan Chase & Co. today announced a ... the unemployment rate in the Bronx is below six percent for the first time, more than...
Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices
Release Date:
07/10/2017
... Hansell took the helm of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), an agency that had found ... last year. In one of the deaths, case workers had searched for two days for...
No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes
Release Date:
08/29/2017
No Room on a Bike Rack? Not a Problem for These Smart Bikes It promised a new way of bike riding in ... New York City — GPS-tracked smart bikes that would rent for as little as $1 and did not have to be picked up...
As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored
Release Date:
08/29/2017
As Texas mobilizes in response to the unprecedented floods of Hurricane Harvey, Staten Island Borough President James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources
Release Date:
08/29/2017
The city’s top cop recently overturned a guilty verdict against an officer in a department misconduct trial. Then the NYPD and the Civilian Complaint Review Board — citing a state law protecting police disciplinary records — wouldn’t say what the...
Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot
Release Date:
08/31/2017
... in the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio often seems to hunger for a brighter spotlight. He tried to shape the debate in the ... during a meeting of world leaders, only to be criticized for leaving New York hours...
NYN Media Homeless Shelter Tracker
Release Date:
09/11/2017
In response to historic criticism that shelters had opened overnight with little community oversight, the de Blasio administration has pledged to increase transparency into the process.
Standing Up For Housing Equality
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Standing Up For Housing Equality The racial debate raged 367 miles away ... members and supporters of the New York Communities for Change (NYCC) were on their third and final day of their ... committed to social...
Commentary from The Century Foundation: Women’s Underrepresentation in Politics: No, It’s Not Just an Ambition Gap
Release Date:
09/25/2017
The United States champions itself as a beacon of democracy, yet nearly a century after granting its women citizens the right to vote, it clocks in behind ninety-eight other countries with regard to women’s participation as representatives in...
Open Society Research Looks at New Technology Predicting Recidivism Without Being Racist
Release Date:
09/25/2017
A tool to help predict whether someone who’s been arrested will reoffend does not factor in race. But it could consider convictions.
Report Finds Gaps in Access to Opioid Addiction Help on Staten Island
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... The approach revealed a severe treatment gap for addicts on Staten Island. Ms. Brennan contacted Columbia ... Program, which pairs graduate students with “clients” for research projects. Ms. Brennan’s office...
Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers
Release Date:
09/26/2017
... I am a NYCHA resident who has spent my career advocating for our public housing communities – and I can tell you why ... workers, including those living in public housing. For months, I have been working with...
Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... chaplain and community organizer was chronically homeless for several years as a result of family issues and poor ... efforts to count the city’s vacant buildings and lots. For over a decade, Dickerson has...
New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty
Release Date:
10/02/2017
... census figures show significant drops in the poverty rates for children, African-Americans and Latino residents. The ... the lowest rate since at least 2010. The poverty rate for minority groups remains higher...
David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall
Release Date:
10/05/2017
David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall The media mogul David Geffen, one of the ... philanthropists, attacked wealthy New Yorkers on Wednesday for what he called a “shameful” record of...