Interviews & Profiles
Interviews & Profiles
Advocating for the closure of Rikers Island and criminal justice reform
A Q&A with Jonathan Monsalve, president and CEO of Osborne Association.
Personality
A spotlight on community schools, as migrant students join their cohorts
A conversation with City Year New York’s Annie Kessler, former AmeriCorps member and now executive director of the nonprofit.
Interviews & Profiles
How will Biden’s executive action on undocumented spouses of US citizens impact New York?
An interview with New York Immigration Coalition CEO Murad Awawdeh.
Personality
Making history as the ‘right person at the right time’
A Q&A with Charles Gibbs, the incoming president of the Metropolitan College of New York.
Nonprofits
Bringing a new look to affordable housing
A Q&A with Jeremy Kohomban of The Children’s Village on the nonprofit’s latest development.
New York City
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.
New York City
Jennifer Raab’s journey from academia to ‘rustic, cowboy things’ and stem cell research
The former Hunter College president is now leading the New York Stem Cell Foundation.
Interviews & Profiles
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
Interviews & Profiles
How nonprofits benefit from Donor Advised Funds
With giving on a slow-down going into 2024, Sam Marks of FJC weighs in on how nonprofits can stay creative while attracting long-term investors
Nonprofits
HeadCount celebrates 20 years with new leadership
Lucille Wenegieme, the nonprofit’s new executive director, takes on voter registration.
Interviews & Profiles
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
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
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.
Interviews & Profiles
Helping New Yorkers age with autonomy, dignity and community
An Interview with JASA CEO Kathryn Haslanger
Interviews & Profiles
“Literary Science” preps high school students for social ventures that address local challenges
New York Nonprofit Media interviews Chidi Asoluka, founder and CEO of the community design studio NewComm.
Interviews & Profiles
How misinformation hinders the early identification of child human trafficking victims
Budy Garcia-Whitfield, assistant vice president of behavioral health and wellness for Westchester programs at JCCA, weighs-in on what is being done to help youth subjected to sexual trauma and abuse.
New York State
Social equity has been the biggest success of New York’s cannabis rollout
A Q&A with Tremaine Wright, chair of the state Cannabis Control Board.
New York State
New York’s equity provisions for cannabis continue to lead the country
A Q&A with state Sen. Liz Krueger on what other states are learning from New York.
Interviews & Profiles
Is climate resilience an issue of equity?
An interview with Cortney Koenig Worrall, CEO and president of the Waterfront Alliance, discussing its Climate Informed Communities initiative and protecting New York’s most vulnerable regions.
Interviews & Profiles
Empowering young uptowners to find their path, despite a tough start (like his)
An Interview with Lew Zuchman, executive director of SCAN-Harbor
