Nonprofits

Education

GED test center for people with disabilities opens in NYC

The Lower Manhattan facility operated by the nonprofit Institute for Career Development is equipped with both general and specific assistive technology.

Nonprofits

New York Blood Center welcomes newly eligible LGBTQ+ donors

The move comes after the Food and Drug Administration issued its final guidance on a screening process that is not based on sexual or gender identity.

Nonprofits

Nonprofit delivers books – and access to information – to those in prison

How a couple of public defenders and their seven-year-old organization joined other groups in sending thousands of titles to incarcerated individuals.

Nonprofits

How to achieve equity in the face of climate change and bridge the gap in New York's lower-income communities

It’s a moral imperative and strategic investment that provides a lifeline to improved health, resilience, and economic opportunities

Nonprofits

Mission-aligned nonprofits equals success, here’s how

Organizations that stray away from their overarching mission threaten to alienate donors and make decision-making difficult.

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.

Nonprofits

Providing BIPOC leaders a “Brilliant Transformation” into leadership roles

Here’s what a new study learned and recommended to help integrate leadership transitions successfully into our collective work.

Education

Combating chronic absence at NYC schools

Through its program, the Attendance Success Initiative, the YMCA of Greater New York is battling chronic absenteeism and seeing improvement in attendance.

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.

Nonprofits

LinkNYC to spotlight nonprofit PSAs

The internet kiosks will feature public service announcements from local providers

Nonprofits

We Stay/Nos Quedamos celebrates 30 years with its annual South Bronx event

The nonprofit’s We Are Melrose festival highlights the local community and its culture

Nonprofits

Nonprofit mission: 'A furnished apartment makes someone feel human'

How a used couch and other pieces of second-hand furniture have gone a long way for a nonprofit in helping those coming directly out of the prison and the shelter systems

Interviews & Profiles

Building a legacy of sports and love for community

An interview with Danielle Madden-Buck, executive director of America SCORES New York

Opinion

Opinion: Human services workers remain unseen and unheard in NYC budget

In the fiscal year 2024 budget, only $40 million was invested into the city’s human services workforce, failing to provide the sector’s call for a 6.5% cost-of-living increase.