Compiled by Phenix Kim Monday, January 27, 2025 |
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Advocating for workers in the construction industry
Elizabeth Crowley has been settling into her job as CEO of the Building Trades Employers’ Association for almost a couple of years since leaving public office. Fortunately, the former City Council member joined the BTEA, New York’s largest contractor organization also serving as an advocate for construction safety standards, already with on-the-job experience.
As a young single mother, Crowley got her start in construction as a decorative painter, working with District Council 9 on restoration work at Radio City Music Hall, Central Synagogue and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Crowley, who comes from a family heavily involved in public service, later served on the Council, representing the 30th District in Queens from 2009 to 2017. Her crowning achievement was co-founding the nonprofit 21 in 21, now known as The New Majority NYC, which brought gender parity to the governing body and led to the first female majority in its history. Her time on the council ended when Republican Robert Holden won her seat in 2017. She later left politics after two failed runs for Queens borough president and one for state Senate. Her cousin is former Rep. Joseph Crowley.
Read more here. – Ralph R. Ortega |
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Elizabeth Crowley, CEO of the Building Trades Employers’ Association (Image courtesy of the BTEA) |
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Last Wednesday, over 75 current and past nonprofit leaders, representatives from Department of Youth and Community Development and New York City Public Schools, funders, and afterschool supporters gathered at Interchurch Center to celebrate the release of “From Stumbling Blocks to Building Blocks: A History of Afterschool in New York City,” a report on the creation and evolution of the New York City afterschool system between the 1970s and 2020. Longtime youth advocates Jane Quinn and Sr. Paulette LoMonaco authored the report, with collaboration from the Partnership for After School Education and funding from the Pinkerton Foundation. The report highlights challenges and lessons learned from the establishment of the country’s largest municipal afterschool system. The report’s findings included the importance of translating theory into practice, the significance of school building access, the ongoing process of securing stable funding, and the role of establishing citywide systems to ensure equitable afterschool opportunities.
This Wednesday, City Year New York’s annual school beautification service day will take place at Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science. Nearly 600 City Year New York staff, AmeriCorps Members and corporate sponsors will join together for beautification projects throughout this East Harlem middle school. State Chief Service Officer Matt Shaffer and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado will be in attendance, alongside volunteers from corporate partners including Deloitte, Starbucks and NBCUniversal.
The Chinese-American Planning Council, the nation’s largest Asian American social services organization, along with over 400 staff members and community members, convened for CPC’s 7th Annual State Advocacy Day in Albany. CPC led a rally to outline its statewide policy priorities and continue its advocacy for the essential services it provides to Asian American Pacific Islander, immigrant, and low-income communities. A few of CPC’s priority issues this year include: fully funding human services, investing more than $54 million in AAPI organizations, establishing a permanent unemployment bridge program for undocumented workers and more.
SkillSpring, a workforce training program created by The New Jewish Home, celebrated the graduation of its young adult cohorts. Since its inception, SkillSpring has trained over a thousand individuals, fulfilling critical staffing needs in skilled nursing facilities throughout New York City. There were 43 participants recognized for completing the intensive three-month course, earning Certified Nursing Assistant credentials. The program connects young individuals with health care career opportunities at participating health care providers and offers them mentorship on workforce entry.
The CPW, formerly known as the Center for Photography in Woodstock, an arts non-profit dedicated to fostering conversation around critical issues in photography, unveiled its newly renovated space – a 40,000-square-foot former cigar factory in the midtown arts district of Kingston. The celebration attracted over 2,300 attendees and showcased CPW’s four inaugural exhibitions. The program included remarks from state Sen. Michelle Hinchey and Assembly Member Sarahana Shrestha, who each announced a $150,000 state-funded grant to CPW in honor of the opening.
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Education: The department awarded $1.1 million to the Center for Educational Innovation for community schools.
Small Business Services: The department awarded $977 million to the New York City Economic Development Corporation to provide certain city-wide economic development services to the city of New York without limitation, acting as the city’s consultant and representative.
Correction: The department awarded $23,525 to Voc Ed & Ext Board of The County of Suffolk for Suffolk County Fire Academy for Firefighter 1 Training Services. |
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* New York migrants fear expulsion after Trump expands deportation targets. Those who followed President Biden-era guidelines are dismayed that the rules have changed. An app that helped them enter the country now may make them targets, the New York Times reports.
* New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s proposal is enacted, that would finally change, City Limits reports.
* The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City will be hosting what it called the largest gathering of Holocaust survivors in the country today, with more than 200 expected to attend an event commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Gothamist reports.
* Trump DEI investigations could target large foundations. The president’s recent executive order targets nonprofit government contractors, universities with large endowments, and foundations with assets north of $500 million, Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.
* About 150 people from New York and New Jersey, who prosecutors said took part in the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted by President Donald Trump this week. They include retired NYPD officers, an MTA worker, a city Department of Sanitation worker, a Queens district leader and a former Marine, among many others, Gothamist reports.
* Freedom from medical debt could help millions of Americans – if Trump allows it. Medical bills can dramatically impact a family’s credit ranking, which can have serious knock-on effects for their housing stability and general financial wellbeing, Nonprofit Quarterly reports.
* In healthcare and social services, amid an aging population and an increased demand for care, there is a growing need for neutral – or at least quasi-neutral – honest brokers who can build trust and balance the conflicts of competing parties. For the nonprofit sector in particular, this can be key to resolving issues and creating more inclusive, fair, and effective systems through transparent decision-making, Nonprofit Quarterly reports.
* A Manhattan tech firm appears to be on the fast track for a lucrative contract to provide electric charging towers for the municipal vehicle fleet, after hiring the lobbying firm founded by one of Mayor Eric Adams’ closest advisors and raising big campaign donations for the mayor, The CITY reports. |
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* Born in the U.S.A. doesn’t mean what it used to. The American birthright is encompassing rather than exclusionary. It is, by definition, for all. Though the United States is hardly the only country to grant citizenship to those born within its borders, the practice has become an essential trait of our national character, The New York Times reports. |
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On Wednesday to Christie Bowers, former special events and campaign coordinator of Henry Street Settlement; on Thursday to Hon. Ronald A. Gregg, New York State Judge (Retired) and president of the Richmond County Black and Minority Chamber of Commerce; on Friday to Itzy Firestone, group sales manager of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; on Saturday to McGregor Smyth, executive director of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and on Sunday to Debra Allen, program director of Phoenix House.
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BronxWorks, welcomes new senior leaders Najma Ali as general counsel, Jennifer Anderson as Controller, Christopher Francis as the organization’s inaugural chief of staff and strategy, and Jerome Frierson as the inaugural vice president of legal services.
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In person: Jan. 27 – Anne Frank The Exhibition, The Center for Jewish History, Manhattan Jan. 28 – LiveOn NY’s 35th Annual Conference on Aging, New York Academy of Medicine, Manhattan
Feb. 2 – New York Workers Circle School Winter 2025 Manhattan Open House, Sixth Street Community Center, Manhattan Feb. 7 – Ember Charter Schools annual Black History Ball, Gotham Hall, Manhattan Feb. 7 – NPW Chief Financial Officers Affinity Group, Sam’s of Gedney Way, White Plains Feb. 11 – NPW Networking Breakfast, Hudson Grille, White Plains Feb. 25 – NPW’s Human Resources Professionals Affinity Group, Sam’s of Gedney Way, White Plains
Feb. 25 – Queens Centers for Progress' 29th Evening of Fine Food, Terrace on the Park, Queens Feb. 27 – Chinese-American Planning Council’s 60th Anniversary Gala, Cipriani Wall Street, Manhattan March 12 – Rising Ground Annual Gala, Tribeca Rooftop, Manhattan
April 29 – Fair Housing Justice Center’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, Trinity Church Wall Street, Manhattan Online:
Jan. 29 – Explore Lighthouse Guild Services Feb. 1 – Tuesday’s Children’s Resilient Futures: 8-Week Catalyst Series for Young Adults
Feb. 7 – First Fridays presented by the Workers Circle Feb. 11 – A Better Way to Get your Board to Fundraise
Feb. 13 – New York State Budget Analysis with Citizens Budget Commission Submit your event by sending a short description and a working link to editor@nynmedia.com.
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* Three strategies to bridge generational gaps for a better connected nonprofit board
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