Personality

Putting food on the table and a roof overhead for needy New Yorkers

An interview with Peter Endriss, executive director of Community Help in Park Slope

Personality

How peer-led support can change mental health outcomes

An interview with Baltic Street Wellness Solutions CEO Taina Laing

Personality

Changing children’s lives for almost half a century

Arlene Goldsmith of New Alternatives for Children talks about her decades of leadership at the organization and her next move in an interview with New York Nonprofit Media.

Personality

Responding to food insecurity during Ramadan

How City Harvest is responding to the needs of New York’s Muslim community.

Personality

Making college readiness accessible after the end of affirmative action

A look at how The Opportunity Network advises students without the legal mandate.

New York City

Personality

Expanding the clubhouse model and community based therapy

Fountain House CEO Ken Zimmerman discusses how the New York City nonprofit is helping people with serious mental illness.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Aiming to turn a longtime women’s organization into an advocacy force

An Interview with Na’ilah Amaru, Women Creating Change’s new head of policy, advocacy and government relations

Personality

Fighting to save the state’s Health Home program

Matthew Lesieur, executive director of iHealth, discusses how the coalition of twenty-one community-based organizations providing specialized care management services is taking action.

Nonprofits

Personality

HeadCount celebrates 20 years with new leadership

Lucille Wenegieme, the nonprofit’s new executive director, takes on voter registration.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Amidst the city’s affordable housing crisis, nonprofit developers step up to help

IMPACCT Brooklyn’s Bernell Grier challenges following the end of pandemic-era concessions, and the organization’s support of MWBE business owners.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Battling homelessness while looking for solutions

An interview with Catherine Trapani, assistant vice president of public policy at Volunteers of America of Greater New York

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Helping young students understand the urgency of climate change

An interview with Lindsay Rosoff, a seasoned teacher and Fordham University Graduate School of Education student who pivoted her focus to protecting the planet, and who wants to help other educators do the same.

Nonprofits

Personality

Living a testament to humane, criminal justice reform efforts

An interview with Stanley Richards, a formerly incarcerated man of color now leading the Fortune Society.

Immigration

Personality

Gale Brewer calls for supporting asylum-seekers at City and State’s 50 over 50 celebration

The New York City Council member was among several Icon Award winners at the event honoring “age disruptors” at the Manhattan Penthouse.