How Many People of Color Serve on Your Organization’s Board?

According to this press release, New York City foundations and the nonprofit organizations they support tend to have racially diverse staffs, but this diversity decreases at higher levels of seniority.
Sound familiar?
Philanthropy New York and the Foundation Center conducted a major study this year and produced a new report called Benchmarking Diversity: A First Look at [...]

Graphic Designers + Public Policy Advocates = Win

The Center for Urban Pedagogy recently unveiled this year’s collaborators in their quarterly project Making Policy Public, which produces “a series of foldout posters that use graphic design to explore and explain public policy.”
According to the website:
This series aims to make information on policy truly public: accessible, meaningful, and shared. We aim to add vitality [...]

Volunteers Create Ghost Bike Memorials Around NYC

Founded in 2007 and run entirely by volunteers, the Street Memorial Project honors cyclists and pedestrians that have been killed on New York City’s streets. According to the website, the Project was inspired by similar groups in Pittsburgh and St. Louis, and continues the work of many groups and volunteers who have created similar memorials [...]

Social Work in an Era of Change

On September 18, activists who want to confront structural injustice and social workers at all stages of their careers are invited to attend a conference called RISE: Social Work in an Era of Change.
From the website:
RISE  is an all-day conference serving to empower social work students and emerging professionals to become effective agents of social [...]

Queens Plaza to Transform into a Lush Urban Canopy?

If you think the High Line is cool, check out the plans for the new Queens Plaza. From Urban Omnibus:
The Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Landscape Improvement Project transforms the tangle of urban infrastructure cutting through Long Island City from a harsh, disorienting industrial maze into a lush, navigable landscape, a gateway to Long Island [...]

The World at the Y: NGO Leaders from Abroad Gather in NYC

In what looks like a pretty impressive cross-sector, cross-continent, and cross-NYC collaboration,  18 leaders from NGOs in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Israel, Latvia, Liberia, and Uruguay recently landed here for three weeks of “intensive training in nonprofit management and building civil societies.”
According to a press release from the 92nd Street Y, the Ford Motor Company [...]

The Lady Next to You on the Subway? She Just Might Be a Mushroom Hunter

I’ve only been here a few months, but I already catch myself going through the ritual of my commute on autopilot. Sometimes I put my newspaper down and look around the subway car and it hits me: I live in a city with eight million other people. These aren’t just faces on a Guess Who [...]

Fly a Kite to Benefit Architecture for Humanity

Between the summer-blue sky and the “Air Force One photo op,” I’ve been directing my gaze up at the skyline more often these days. On May 9, I’ll be even more excited to crane my neck: an international kite design competition is coming to Riverside Park!
FlyNY invites architects, engineers, artists, designers, and children to construct [...]

NYCStat Stimulus Tracker: Where’s the Money Going?

Back in March, we shared some information about how you can track the spending of economic stimulus money in New York. Since then, the NYT City Room blog has posted more. From City Hall Invites You to Track the Stimulus (March 30):
Want to know which local transportation projects are getting a piece of the $261 [...]

Get Out and Eat: Take a Local Food Tour

On a dreary day like today, the excursions offered by Food for Thought Tours sound like a belly-filling and soul-warming way to usher in springtime. And as a relative newcomer to New York, they strike me as a delicious way to learn a lot about the agriculture and economy of my new state.
Trips, scavenger hunts, [...]