Author Archive
Personality
Connecting vulnerable Long Islanders to stable housing and specialized care
An Interview with Options for Community Living CEO Yolanda Robano-Gross
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
Keeping young people out of prison – and on a better path – for 45 Years
An interview with longtime Avenues for Justice executive director Angel Rodriguez
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Helping New Yorkers age with autonomy, dignity and community
An Interview with JASA CEO Kathryn Haslanger
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Empowering young uptowners to find their path, despite a tough start (like his)
An Interview with Lew Zuchman, executive director of SCAN-Harbor
Personality
Personality
Connecting young people in foster care with a mentor who will stick by them
An interview with Tracy Jenkins, co-executive director of Fair Futures
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
Helping New Yorkers in need of food
An interview with Jilly Stephens, CEO of City Harvest.
New York City
Personality
Building YIMBY support for affordable housing in NYC
A discussion with Annemarie Gray, executive director of the nonprofit Open New York.
Interviews & Profiles
Personality
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.
News
Christine Quinn on leading Win and helping New York's homeless people
The former New York City Council Speaker discusses her work at the nonprofit and answers whether she'd consider a run for public office again.
Nonprofits
News
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
Housing
News
Fighting for acceptance of New York City rental vouchers
How one nonprofit and others advocating for tenants are facing discrimination, bureaucratic delays and government incompetence head on.
Nonprofits
News
Nonprofit helps New Yorkers launch property management careers – with a public-health twist
Brooklyn Communities Collaborative has already certified 15 fellows and plans to do more.
Nonprofits
Special Report
News
NYS doesn’t pay nonprofits enough to do the jobs they’re contracted for: Report
The inaugural annual survey from New York Council of Nonprofits shows agencies struggling to hire new people, make payments on time.
News
New York nonprofits say they’re suffering the worst staffing shortage in years
Organizations blame the shortfall on post-COVID-19 upheaval, a wage rise in Starbucks-type jobs and not enough public funding to offer higher salaries.
Nonprofits
News
NYC lagging on vendor payments during critical time, housing service providers say
Providers claim that a cumbersome city-mandated rebid process is forcing them to draw from their own funds for things like food, medical and security services and holding them back from expanding to help address the city’s migrant shelter crisis.
Housing
News
Immigrant households disproportionately rent-burdened: Report
Nearly 434,000 children in New York City were in households with at least one immigrant parent and experienced rent burden in 2021, according to the Citizens’ Committee for Children analysis.
Special Report
News
With asylum seekers’ arrival in NYC, shelter advocates worry the city will cut legal corners
The mayor’s plan to temporarily house some arrivals outside the city shelter system, with its stringent criteria, has advocates on alert.
News
With inflation soaring, some lawmakers want to hike New York’s minimum wage rates next year
They also want to follow the lead of 16 states who annually index their minimum wage to inflation to keep up with the cost of living.
affordable housing
News