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April 28, 2026 Corporate Partner Spotlight: Con Edison
What difference can a community garden really make in the face of climate change? It’s a fair question. Climate change is global, complex, and systemic. A single project can feel small against that scale. But across New York City, our grantee partners are proving that local action matters. They are advancing hyperlocal climate resilience through […]
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April 28, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Uptown & Boogie Healthy Project
As temperatures rise in New York City, residents, wildlife, urban infrastructure, food systems, and natural habitats all face the heat. But heat risk varies by neighborhood. Socioeconomic disparities and many years of disinvestment leave communities in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx among those at higher risk of heat-exacerbated deaths. Uptown & Boogie Healthy...
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April 28, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Cambria Heights Community Garden
With the impact of climate change accelerating, climate resilience strategies absorb the impact of long-standing greenhouse gas emissions and ensure that future generations can thrive on this planet. CitizensNYC is proud to stand behind Cambria Heights Community Garden as they build that future at the neighborhood level. Intended to transform underdeveloped farmland into...
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April 28, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: iDig2Learn
New Yorkers feel the impact of the urban heat island effect, where cities experience higher air temperatures than surrounding regions. The combination of heat-retaining surfaces like asphalt and concrete with limited tree coverage can drive temperatures up to 7℉ during the day and 22℉ at night. In a vicious cycle, communities straining to keep cool consume more energy...
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April 28, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Port Richmond North Shore Alliance
On Staten Island, the Port Richmond North Shore Alliance (PR-NSA) emphasizes the power of consistent and collective stewardship in building a healthier, more sustainable community. Recognizing that climate change is driven in part by the cumulative impact of harmful everyday behaviors, they apply the same principle to respond: mobilizing consistent, collective efforts to...
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April 28, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Westbrook Memorial Garden
Like New Yorkers themselves, native plantings have grown and changed with the lands that they inhabit. With more than 1,300 plant species native to the five boroughs of New York City, these plantings support pollinators, improve soil health, and require significantly less water and maintenance than ornamental or imported species. Native species have always carried...
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March 17, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Stoop Stories
How do we build community? According to a survey conducted on behalf of the American Psychological Association to identify and analyze a loneliness epidemic, more than 60% of adults living in the U.S. reported feeling isolated, left out, or lacking companionship often or some of the time. Nearly 70% of U.S. adults recorded a discrepancy […]
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March 12, 2026 CitizensNYC launches “Community Energy Project” in partnership with National Grid to expand access to address energy affordability.
Some of the most important work in New York happens close to home: neighbors sharing information, community leaders spotting a need before anyone else does, local organizations helping families navigate challenges that can feel bigger every year. That is what makes the Community Energy Project so meaningful. Through a new partnership between CitizensNYC and National...
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March 05, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: Empower My Hood
In 2024, the Nation’s Report Card scores indicated that fewer than a third of students nationwide were reading at the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Proficient level, a level that would demonstrate a consistent degree of understanding and interpretation of written text. The average reading scores for high school seniors fell to their lowest […]
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February 26, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: San Jeronimo Restaurant & Bakery
Nowadays, one can learn any trade online. With endless Reddit forums, step-by-step YouTube tutorials, and even more so with the advancement of artificial intelligence, our bounds are practically limitless. But despite the unrestricted access to information just beneath our fingertips, we seem to have lost the meaning of our craft. While we can replicate techniques...
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