New York City

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Will NYC’s nonprofit procurement process ever be functional?

New York City spends 35% of its procurement budget on nonprofit contractors, but payment delays continue to vex vendors.

New York City

Personality

What brings Nicole Malliotakis together with Justin Brannan? A senior center in Bay Ridge

The Bay Ridge Center raised $5 million and secured a major grant to go from operating out of a church basement for nearly half a century to occupying a newly renovated 21,000 square foot building.

Nonprofits

Opinion

Commentary: Parenting from behind bars

How a nonprofit helps incarcerated women continue being mothers

Nonprofits

News

What it takes to get a disorder recognized

How a nonprofit was created to build a community for children with Non-Verbal Learning Disability

Nonprofits

Opinion

More severe weather in NYC could have hidden dire effects, here’s how we can build resilience

A collaboration of government and nonprofit institutions could mitigate the economic and social effects of climate change.

Opinion

Opinion

Are nonprofits the permanent government of New York City?

Current and former executives, as well as others in high-ranking positions in philanthropy and government, weigh in on the question, holding organizations accountable and more.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Helping kids post-COVID-19: A Q&A with Partnership With Children’s new CEO Wesner Pierre

The exec looks back at his own childhood and can relate to the challenges New York City’s youth face moving forward from the pandemic.

Education

News

GED test center for people with disabilities opens in NYC

The Lower Manhattan facility operated by the nonprofit Institute for Career Development is equipped with both general and specific assistive technology.

Nonprofits

News

New York Blood Center welcomes newly eligible LGBTQ+ donors

The move comes after the Food and Drug Administration issued its final guidance on a screening process that is not based on sexual or gender identity.

Nonprofits

News

Nonprofit delivers books – and access to information – to those in prison

How a couple of public defenders and their seven-year-old organization joined other groups in sending thousands of titles to incarcerated individuals.

Nonprofits

Trade Tips

How to achieve equity in the face of climate change and bridge the gap in New York's lower-income communities

It’s a moral imperative and strategic investment that provides a lifeline to improved health, resilience, and economic opportunities

Nonprofits

Trade Tips

Mission-aligned nonprofits equals success, here’s how

Organizations that stray away from their overarching mission threaten to alienate donors and make decision-making difficult.

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.

Nonprofits

Trade Tips

Providing BIPOC leaders a “Brilliant Transformation” into leadership roles

Here’s what a new study learned and recommended to help integrate leadership transitions successfully into our collective work.

Education

News

Combating chronic absence at NYC schools

Through its program, the Attendance Success Initiative, the YMCA of Greater New York is battling chronic absenteeism and seeing improvement in attendance.

Interviews & Profiles

Personality

Nonprofit ESL program serving New Yorkers for more than half a century seeks financial help to continue

HANAC Director of Programs and Development Andrea Jerves spoke to New York Nonprofit Media about the services the organization is trying to save.

Nonprofits

Opinion

LinkNYC to spotlight nonprofit PSAs

The internet kiosks will feature public service announcements from local providers