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Youth advocates from the Campaign for Children plan to rally at New York City Hall on June 11 to protest proposed cuts to summer camp programs. Zach Williams
Youth advocates are making another push to save summer camp funding in the upcoming New York City budget. They will rally outside City Hall at high noon today, June 11, according to a press release from Campaign for Children, a coalition of 150 early childhood education and after school advocacy and provider organizations.
They want Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council to reverse proposed cuts that the advocates say would affect 34,000 middle school children and after-school programs for 9,000 elementary school children, according to the press release. Making that funding permanent is also among their demands.
The Redlich Horwitz Foundation has a new report with recommendations on how New York Counties can meet the provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act. The new federal law has shaken up how the federal government approaches foster care by providing funds for preventative services with family unity as a priority.
William Gettman Jr., chief executive officer of Northern Rivers Family of Services and Jeremy Kohomban, president of The Children's Village, wrote about the issue in a recent op-ed in the Times Union.
The New York City Administration for Children’s Services has awarded a $600,000 contract to Connect Inc. The money will fund “Alternatives to Violent Encounters” programming, according to the City Record. The city Department for the Aging meanwhile has awarded contracts to several nonprofits for senior services:
- Homecrest Community Services ($190,330)
- Jewish Association for Services for the Aged ($253,000)
- Queens Community House ($356,000)
- Riseboro Community Partnership ($105,555)
- Sunset Park Health Council ($115,555)
- Union Settlement Association ($170,000)
Green-Wood Cemetery came alive on June 6 with the premiere of “The Rose Elf,” an opera by David Hertzberg. Guests also had the opportunity to take in some drinks, the Brooklyn sunset and a visit to the catacombs, which the performers leveraged to acoustic effect, WNYC reports.
The event was just the latest way that the historic cemetery has showed itself as a place for the living. President Richard Moylan, who rose through the ranks during his 45-year career there to lead the nonprofit organization, has made arts programming a priority during his tenure, as he tells NYN Media in an Insights podcast last fall.
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