Compiled by Phenix Kim
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Fighting for greater oversight of New York prisons following two fatal beatings
The fatal beatings in recent months of inmates Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by prison staff, as well as the March wildcat strike by thousands of corrections officers statewide, have shone a harsh light on systemic problems in the New York state prison system, known as the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Prison advocates say that the system, made up of 42 facilities housing more than 33,000 inmates, is unhealthy and dangerous for inmates and COs alike. By Tim Murphy Read more here. |
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Jennifer Scaife, right and CANY staff during a monitoring visit to Franklin Correctional Facility in Malone, New York in September 2024 | Courtesy of Jennifer Scaife |
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Tonight, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP New York State Conference, and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will host a mayoral forum where candidates will be asked about their positions on a variety of issues, including immigration, policing, economic justice, criminal legal system reform, privacy and surveillance, protest rights, education, and racial and gender justice. Taking place in the Great Hall at Cooper Union, mayoral candidates Selma Bartholomew, Michael Blake, Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie, Jessica Ramos and Scott Stringer are expected to attend. The event will be moderated by Ben Max, executive editor of Max Politics and program director of the New York Law School’s Center for New York City and state law.
Last week, Assembly Member Karines Reyes, along with New Yorkers for Inclusive Democracy and advocates, held a briefing on data that shows that more than 300,000 eligible Latino voters remain unregistered. They discussed how Enhanced Automatic Voter Registration could increase Latino voter participation while protecting immigrants, by automatically registering eligible voters at the DMV or Medicaid office, while requiring a citizenship pre-screen to ensure noncitizens do not inadvertently register. According to a recent report by CUNY Graduate Professor John Mollenkopf, estimates show that 1.4 million eligible New Yorkers are unregistered to vote – which includes more than 300,000 Latinos, or 1 in 4 total voting age Latino citizens.
Last Friday, The Urban Assembly partnered with Amplify & Elevate Innovation to host a symposium on responsible AI leadership in public education. The event gathered 75 forward-thinking district leaders from the tri-state area, to explore how AI can enhance equity, clarity and connection in public education. As a leader in implementing AI into the classroom to improve the quality of public education, the organization recently launched “Project Classroom Automated Feedback Environment,” to revolutionize instructional coaching, by making high quality, real time feedback accessible and scalable to educators. The tool uses AI to capture and analyze classroom interactions through video and audio, providing coaches with instant, research-backed insights to help improve their teaching skills.
The New Jewish Home celebrated its 10th annual “Eight Over Eighty Gala” at the Ziegfeld Ballroom last week, raising $1.1 million for the comprehensive nonprofit health care system for older New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities. The gala honored octogenarians including singer-songwriter Judy Collins; writer, film producer, and Broadway playwright Delia Ephron; author Judith Viorst and jazz legend Houston Person, among others. Graduates of SkillSpring – The New Jewish Home’s workforce development program for young adults from under-resourced communities, also shared how the program helped them transform their futures.
Queens Centers for Progress, which supports individuals with developmental disabilities, will celebrate its 75th Anniversary Gala on June 17th at Terrace on the Park. This event honors the nonprofit’s journey from its founding in 1950 to its position as a leader in advocacy, empowerment, and community inclusion for people with developmental disabilities. The gala will recognize three honorees for their commitment to the mission and the broader Queens community: Greg Bianco, chief executive officer of Metropolitan Recycling; Paul D. Schuldiner, executive vice president and chief lending officer of Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.; and Cindy Heller, director of children’s services at QCP.
Teens from the YMCA of Greater New York were joined by Council Member Gale Brewer at City Hall last week to present their own policy recommendations to improve the city through the YMCA’s Teens Take the City program. These young leaders addressed real issues in their communities, and expressed their willingness to engage in democratic processes, and hold elections among their peers. The YMCA’s Rockaway Branch also celebrated 10 years of service to 50,000 New Yorkers, honoring Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., Tampa Bay Buccaneer Christian Izien and his mother, Michelle Matthews.
Selfhelp Community Services hosted its annual gala at Pier 60 last week, raising more than $1.4 million for services benefitting the lives of Holocaust survivors, homebound older adults, affordable housing for formerly homeless older adults and services for vulnerable New Yorkers. More than 500 supporters attended, including Congress Member Jerry Nadler, Marilu Galvez of ABC7, acting commissioner Ahmed Tigani of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Commissioner Molly Wasow Park of the Department of Social Services, among others.
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Social Services: The department awarded $1.6 million to MDRC for New York City opportunity anti-poverty program evaluations and research.
Youth and Community Development: The department awarded $2.3 million to Woodside On The Move Inc. for its COMPASS program, $1.2 million to Boro Park Jewish Community Council Inc. and $3.7 million to BronxWorks Inc. for NDA Renewals for FY26.
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* Federal cuts in health care spending – projected at $715 billion over the next 10 years – could have a devastating impact, not just on the New Yorkers who will lose insurance, but also on the rural hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics that rely on Medicaid payments, New York Focus reports. * Now advancing to the Senate, the GOP tax bill passed by the House on May 22nd threatens to gut Medicaid and strip health coverage from millions of people in the U. S., further exacerbating the medical debt crisis, Nonprofit Quarterly reports. * The campaign pushing for the release of a Bronx high school student arrested by immigration authorities last week continued to escalate with a new legal petition challenging the validity of his detention, Chalkbeat reports.
* The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, blaming “a confluence of administrative errors,” The New York Times reports.
* U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres says that more than 300,000 residents in public housing and apartments privately rented with public aid could lose their homes under a Trump administration plan to set time limits on how long “able bodied” tenants can receive federal rental assistance, The CITY reports. * Laid off unionized workers at the immigration nonprofit Make the Road New York are speaking out against their employer as the federal government continues its heavy-handed migrant enforcement, The Queens Daily Eagle reports. * Tom Robbins, a journalistic bulldog who spent more than four decades exposing crooked politicians, ruthless landlords and violence in New York prisons for The Village Voice and who also worked for the Daily News and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn, The Times reports.
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* Deaths due to opioid overdoses declined sharply in 2024, but advocates concerned with the lack of clarity out of Washington, D.C. say a cohesive message and strategy on the drug crisis has yet to emerge from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Times Union reports. |
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* Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone and it’s what makes the Trump administration’s approach to rooting out waste, fraud and diversity, equity and inclusion so maddening and brutish, The Times reports.
* House Republicans have sent a bill to the Senate that would wreak particular havoc on the country’s energy policy and undermine America’s industrial strength, although the Senate can fix it, The Times reports.
* Some legislators and advocacy groups are pushing for the city to create its own bank – a public bank – that would prioritize investments in city needs, City Limits reports. |
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To Kevin Douglas, former co-director of policy & advocacy of the United Neighborhood Houses; tomorrow to Grace Calderone, former vice president healthcare management services and bridges to health of Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York; on Wednesday to Jeff Swansen, head of operations of the United War Veterans Council and to Carole Wacey, president and CEO of Women Creating Change; on Thursday to Carmen Sepulveda, director of communications and marketing at AARP New York; on Friday to Aliya Nelson, former executive director of The Black Institute, Marie C. Iammatteo, director of finance of Services for the UnderServed and to Giacinta Pace, social media strategist for the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; on Saturday to Alison Hughes-Kelsick, program director, education outreach program of Catholic Charities; and on Sunday to Anthony Maniscalco, director of the CUNY internship program in government and public affairs, Beth Finkel, state director, AARP New York, Karen Simmons, former executive director of the Children’s Law Center and Phil Andrews, president, Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce.
MOVING ON: Douglas Usiak, CEO of Western New York Independent Living is stepping down.
IN MEMORIAM: Retired Rep. Charles Rangel and Bernard Kerik, former New York City police commissioner.
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In person: May 28 – Selfhelp Community Services' 2025 Gala, Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, Manhattan May 31 – Chaia’s “Yiddish Electronic” Album Release Party, Public Records, Brooklyn
June 3 – Nonprofit Matters: Banks & Nonprofits Partnering for Good: The Community Reinvestment Act, Elmsford
June 4 – The Gala for Green-Wood: Honoring Richard J. Moylan, The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn June 6 – Cielo Gala 2025, Cipriani Wall Street, Manhattan June 8 – Museum of Jewish Heritage's Mishpachah Festival, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Manhattan
June 11 – Services for the UnderServed's Dinner for a Better New York, Tribeca Rooftop, Manhattan June 11- Roads to Success Annual Spring Benefit, Edison Ballroom, Manhattan June 12 - Encore Community Services: A Bite of New York, The Glasshouse Chelsea, Manhattan
June 12 - Museum of Jewish Heritage's Young Friends of the Museum Spring Mixer, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Manhattan
June 13 – NPW: Strategies for Nonprofit Resilience Amid the Current Federal Landscape, Westchester Library, Elmsford
June 17 - Queens Centers for Progress 75th Anniversary Gala Awards Dinner, Terrace on the Park, Corona
June 17 – NPW Human Resources Professionals Affinity Group: Adapting HR Strategies Amidst DEI and Other Federal Policy Changes, Sam's of Gedney Way, White Plains
June 18 – NPW Summer Celebration & Networking Party, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers June 18 - High-Impact Tutoring Showcase and Tutor Provider Fair, Jay Suites - Chelsea June 23 – Birch Family Services Fourth Annual Golf Classic, Muttontown Club, East Norwich
June 26 – Secure & Sound: Nonprofit Health Assessment - Cybersecurity & Risk Mitigation, Westchester Library System, Elmsford June 25 – NewYorkBIO’s upcoming Finance Summit, West End Labs, Manhattan
July 8 – NPW Nonprofit Executive Directors/CEOs Affinity Group, Sam’s of Gedney Way, White Plains
July 25 – Peer to Peer: An Affinity Group for Nonprofit Personnel of Color, Sam’s of Gedney Way, White Plains Nov. 13 – 50th Anniversary Soirée: annual gala,The Lighthouse Pier 61, Manhattan Online: June 6 – NPW: NY State Budget Analysis and Nonprofit Contracting Update
June 6 – The Workers Circle: First Fridays June 10 – Getting Started with Grants
June 16 – Virtual Small Nonprofits Affinity Group: Expanding Capacity and Impact Through Powerful Partnerships |
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