Personality
Interviews & Profiles
Helping kids post-COVID-19: A Q&A with Partnership With Children’s new CEO Wesner Pierre
The exec looks back at his own childhood and can relate to the challenges New York City’s youth face moving forward from the pandemic.
Interviews & Profiles
‘My private life mirrors my professional life:’ Union Settlement CEO on her devotion to public service
Darlene Williams sits down for a discussion with New York Nonprofit Media.
Interviews & Profiles
College admissions, post-affirmative action
PeerForward CEO Gary Linnen discusses his work helping students of color into higher education in an interview with New York Nonprofit Media.
Interviews & Profiles
Formerly incarcerated and fighting for prison reform
Jose Hamza Saldana, director of Release Aging People in Prison, in a conversation with New York Nonprofit Media, discusses how to effect change in the face of an Albany scared of seeming soft on crime.
New York City
How Murad Awawdeh has helped New York City asylum-seekers through the crisis
The New York Immigration Coalition leader talked about what the city, state and federal governments can do differently to best serve the immigrant population.
Interviews & Profiles
Nonprofit ESL program serving New Yorkers for more than half a century seeks financial help to continue
HANAC Director of Programs and Development Andrea Jerves spoke to New York Nonprofit Media about the services the organization is trying to save.
New York City
Antonio Reynoso wants to make Brooklyn the safest place to have a baby
The borough president focused on maternal health in his fiscal year 2023 capital budget.
New York City
Jennifer Raab says goodbye to Hunter College after nearly a quarter century
The exiting college president sat down with City & State to discuss her impact on the school and the legacy she leaves after more than 22 years of service.
Interviews & Profiles
Building a legacy of sports and love for community
An interview with Danielle Madden-Buck, executive director of America SCORES New York
New York City
You think this is hot?
Two climate experts weigh in on how New Yorkers can stay safe and healthy in our ever more scalding future
Personality
Promoting three pillars of prevention for animal welfare in NYC
Bideawee President and CEO Leslie Granger talks prevention, problem solving and the human-animal bond – and how it prevents animal abuse and homelessness.
New York State
Why did Catalina Cruz sponsor Clean Slate? ‘Believe it or not, it was being a survivor of a crime’
The Assembly member talked about what’s still left to do now that the law is on the governor’s desk.
Interviews & Profiles
Continuing a legacy of solving food insecurity
An interview with Leslie Gordon, president of Food Bank for New York City
Procurement
Interview: Conquering procurement reform
A discussion with Jennifer Geiling, former executive director of the Nonprofit Resiliency Committee formed in 2016 by Mayor Bill de Blasio
Nonprofits
2023 Nonprofit Trailblazers Awards honorees
These leaders have spent their careers improving New York City and state.
New York State
Slow cannabis market ‘the product of a choice’ says state weed czar
New York has been criticized for a sluggish licensing process, but Chris Alexander said that’s necessary to achieve equity.
Personality
What New York City bus routes should be free?
Check out this unscientific poll by New York Nonprofit Media’s sister news site City & State on where readers want the MTA to see fare-free bus routes, one in each borough, under new pilot program.
Personality
Denise Rosario Adusei is on a mission
The new executive director of the Bronx Children’s Museum in a Q&A talks about the institution’s top priorities under her leadership.
Interviews & Profiles
