Expand Learning Time through School-Community Partnerships
For many kids, getting on track toward success in college and adulthood depends on getting more time and opportunities to learn right now, while they’re still in elementary or middle school. The U.S. lags behind other developed nations in the time we devote to school and multiple ways of learning.

WPA Report on Prison Nurseries
As families across the U.S. celebrated Mother’s Day, the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) released the first-ever national report on prison nursery programs.  While the number of prison-based nursery programs is growing, they are still relatively rare.  Only nine states have prison nursery programs in operation or under development.

The Healing Power of Work
Can you imagine being at the prime of your life, age 33, with a successful husband, a comfortable life style, a meaningful teaching career, two precious children and a beautiful co-op with an incredibly giving support system to complete this perfect picture?

Cut to the Bone Life Without Legislative Member Items
Why is this year different than any other?  Well, aside from continuing to struggle through the most serious economic crisis in close to a century, this will be the first time in living memory that New York State nonprofits will go without any legislative member item funding whatsoever, i.e. zero, nada, none.  For thousands of organizations that have come to rely on these grants as a way to fill gaps in other funding or to enhance or rationalize their services, the loss will hurt.  For many human service provider agencies – and the people they serve – it will hurt a great deal.

Hebrew Home for Aged Hit by Tornado
 

Weatherization Assistance Providers Get $55 Million
Twenty-four Weatherization Assistance providers around New York State will be receiving a total of $55.4 million in additional funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  The release of these funds by the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) is part of an incentive pool offered to providers that have completed or begun construction on 30% of the units they initially agreed to assist. These funds will make it possible to weatherize 7,700 homes and allow several large multi-family weatherization projects to move forward.Local agencies receiving the additional funding are:*    Association for Energy Affordability, Inc.: (serving part of Bronx County) $5,000,000*     Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Inc.: (serving part of Kings County) $3,700,000*     Bronx Shepherds Restoration Corporation: (serving part of Bronx County) $4,000,000*     Community Environmental Center, Inc.: (serving part of Kings County and part of Queens Count...

Raising Funds in the “New Normal”
Over the last two years in the nonprofit world, we all have undergone a series of cutbacks, and some organizations have experienced painful restructurings and even closings. Now the “new normal” has settled in. Donors have fewer resources to support nonprofits, and nonprofits have less staff time dedicated to fundraising. Only the strongest, smartest, and most strategic will survive.

Janice Tosto
Janice Tosto, MSEd, MS, NCC, CASAC is the Director of Vocational Services for Greenhope Services for Women, Inc. She has worked in the human services field, serving diverse client populations, for 21 years. Janice’s blog will focus on the work of helping formerly incarcerated women in recovery re-enter society.

The Bridge Mental Health and Housing Solutions
“People were being discharged with a bottle of medicine and an appointment slip for a follow-up visit in a few weeks,” explains Dr. Peter Beitchman.  A group of those patients, who had been together at Hillside Hospital in Queens, knew they needed more.

St. Dominic’s Raises Close to $1 million at Awards Dinner
The 29th Annual Friends of St. Dominic’s Business & Labor Awards Dinner raised more than $935,000 for the agency this year.   Over 1,090 leaders of business and labor/construction trade organizations turned out for the January 26th event which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.

What Are You Reading?
What are you reading?   NYNP is interested in publishing suggestions and reviews of books relating to nonprofit management, governance, fundraising, as well as human service programs, social work practices and more.  Share your thoughts and reactions with colleagues throughout the New York nonprofit human service community. You can email NYNP Editor Fred Scaglione at editor@nynp.biz or call 888-933-6967.    You can also post comments directly below.