The latest about NYC contracts ... Advance Care Alliance of New York ... Met Gala and Corey Johnson

Manhattan-based New York Legal Assistance Group has won a $750,00 contract with the New York City Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration. The money will support the Legal Services for Low-Income New Yorkers Initiative, according to the City Record. Nonprofit Safe Horizon meanwhile won a $125,000, one-year contract to for Supportive Alternatives to Violent Encounters, the City Record also reported. And the Department for the Aging awarded discretionary funding to the Bergen Basin Comm Development Corporation/Millenium Development Corporation for $250,000 and to the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island and Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders for $279,891 and $657,587 respectively, according to another post.

There is a new chief operating officer at Advance Care Alliance of New York. A press release states that Mathew Smith has been named to that role at the five-year-old New York City nonprofit. He previously served as vice president of operations at Coordinated Behavioral Care.

Central Islip-based EAC Network is feeling the love again from Newsday Charities. The human services agency received a $40,000 grant from Newsday Charities, an offshoot of the McCormick Foundation Fund. This is the sixth year that the nonprofit has received such support, according to a press release.

... And there is this tidbit from sister publication City & State’s First Read newsletter:

While Eric Schneiderman’s political career came crashing down, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson was enjoying the perks of his new job at the Met Gala. Johnson attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser Monday night, and flouted the event’s usual social media ban by posting to Instagram from within the exclusive party. Tickets are $30,000 apiece, but Johnson’s spokeswoman Jennifer Fermino said he was given free admission in his capacity as speaker, and that his attendance was approved by the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board. Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito attended the gala in 2014, in her first year as speaker. City Council Cultural Affairs Committee Chairman Jimmy Van Bramer also went this year, as he has a number of times, and tweeted photos with Rihanna and former “Wonder Woman” actress Lynda Carter. Johnson shied away from posting party pictures on his personal Twitter account, but did share his official statement calling for Schneiderman’s resignation – apparently written and sent while Johnson was at the gala. In a message sent to City & State immediately before Madonna took the stage, Van Bramer said that Schneiderman’s accusations of abuse and his resignation were a big topic of conversation among the gala’s high-profile attendees.

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