Nonprofits

Opinion

Real Talk: A New Year’s check in on New York City contract delays

While there is continued improvement, an analysis finds that much remains to do for nonprofits waiting to get paid.

Nonprofits

News

Advocates call for the passage of Daniel’s Law in Albany

The legislation if passed would remove police officers as first responders to mental health crises.

Advocacy groups

News

Will Hochul come around on supervised injection sites?

The governor didn’t talk much about addiction services in her State of the State, but advocates are pushing her to allow more facilities for medically supervised injection of illegal drugs.

Nonprofits

News

Survey: Asian American community members want diverse and integrated schools

A Coalition for Asian American Children and Families report found positive interest in school integration within the AAPI community.

Nonprofits

News

Housing Works opens New York’s first recreational marijuana dispensary

Proceeds go towards helping the nonprofit fulfill its mission. Here’s everything you need to know.

Nonprofits

Funding

MWBE lender takes community-based approach

Lendistry, the sole administrator of the New York State COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program, focuses on closing the wealth gap created by barriers and lack of access to small business financing.

Nonprofits

Opinion

Commentary: With rising premiums on the horizon, should nonprofits go self-insured?

Some organizations are paying for individual employee health claims out of pocket instead of through a monthly, fixed premium to a health insurance carrier.

Housing

News

Tenants’ rights advocates and lawmakers tout legislative agenda

Activists, elected officials and tenants rallied outside the governor’s Manhattan office to launch their legislative campaign to protect renters.

Nonprofits

Personality

Leader to Leader: Rich Leimsider

The PSLF.nyc and PSLF.us founder and campaign director speaks to New York Nonprofit Media.

Nonprofits

Opinion

Opinion: Funding safety net hospitals must be a priority in next legislative session

With budget season approaching, Albany should prioritize creating a sustainable and equitable payment structure for these institutions.

Nonprofits

Personality

JCC of Mid-Westchester gets a new chief executive officer

Elise Dowell comes with two decades of communications and operations experience.

Nonprofits

News

New York City’s first safe injection sites avert 633 drug overdoses on anniversary

OnPoint NYC’s two overdose prevention centers have served more than 2,100 people in their first year.

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.

Nonprofits

News

2022 NYN Media Tech Con explores innovation

Key issues discussed at the event included nonprofits’ adoption of automated services, addressing technology resistance and data collection.

Nonprofits

Funding

SCAN-Harbor event raises more than $1 million

The 2022 Fall Gala celebrated the organization’s youth and families under the theme, “Better Together.”

Courts

Opinion

Editor’s Note: Adult Survivors Act needs all the attention it can get

The law opens a one-year lookback window for survivors to come forward with legal claims against their alleged abusers.

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.

Nonprofits

Funding

MacKenzie Scott award goes to Chinese-American Planning Council

CPC is one of 343 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant from the author and philanthropist this year.