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A new report from the New York City Independent Budget Office examines where a student comes from affects their academic opportunities. The report looks at the roles that median household income; educational attainment of adults in a community; and violent crime play in academic success. Here are three main takeaways, taken verbatim from the report:
- Students in the city’s public middle schools tended to come from neighborhoods with lower median household incomes, lower rates of educational attainment, and higher rates of violent felonies than neighborhoods in the city as a whole.
- More than half of the city’s students who came from neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status were concentrated in just 25 percent of the city’s public middle schools.
- Nearly one-third of middle schools had enrollments in which 85 percent to 99 percent of students resided in low-socioeconomic status neighborhoods.
Wild Apricot has released a list of 46 nonprofit-related webinars in the upcoming month. Offerings in September include crash courses in writing grants, strategies for dealing with harassment claims, tips on leveraging social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how executive directors can avoid the six biggest mistakes their peers make – and it’s not too early to take in some advice on how to handle the 2018 #GivingTuesday. See the full list here.
There’s a new chief development officer at Sheltering Arms. Susan Magazine will assume that role after serving most recently in that same role as the Anti-Defamation League. Before that she worked as the executive director of New Yorkers for Children for 13 years, according to an Aug. 29 press release. The New York City-based child welfare nonprofit is currently developing a new strategic vision, which will incorporate significant input from Magazine.
The New York City Department for the Aging has given a $2.8 million contract to Meals on Wheels on Staten Island. The City Record states that the funds will go towards home delivered meals. Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center also received a $103,980 contract to deliver senior services on behalf of the department.
Two New York nonprofits highlighted their support for the national prison strike. Here's an explanation of the strike – and here's a tweet making the rounds:
We stand with partners across the country in the call for prison reform and the prioritization of people over policy #PrisonStrike #decarcerate pic.twitter.com/n6PlCT0Eh8
— The Legal Aid Society (@LegalAidNYC) August 29, 2018
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