Author Archive

Greg Berman

is the Distinguished Fellow of Practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He previously served as the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation for 18 years. His most recent book is Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration (The New Press).

New York City

Opinion

Opinion: Is it possible to get the effort to close Rikers Island back on track?

The troubled jail’s closure has been cast adrift in a sea of half truths, bad ideas and polarized debate.

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

Leader to Leader: Nolvia Delgado

A discussion with the executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, an organization that she herself benefited from as an undergraduate

Personality

Leader to Leader: Nic Dawes on nonprofit newsrooms

The executive director of The City talks about covering local news and accountability journalism.

Personality

Leader to Leader: Chloe Breyer

The executive director of Interfaith Center of New York talks to New York Nonprofit Media about the challenges religious leaders face entering the public square and her work as an ordained Episcopal priest.

Nonprofits

Personality

Leader to Leader: Rich Leimsider

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

Opinion

Honesty and incremental reforms in the nonprofit sector may be the keys to solving difficult social issues

Poverty, ineffective education and violence have no easy solutions and many organizations over promise to achieve results.

Nonprofits

Personality

Leader to Leader: Nora McCarthy

The nonprofit leader discusses stepping down from Rise, the magazine she launched in 2005 for parents who are involved in the child welfare system, and moving on to start the Family Policy Project.