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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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January 15, 2026 Grantee Partner Spotlight: CARVE BUNNiES
In 2018, seventeen-year-old Chloe Kim stunned the world with a gold-medal performance in the Winter Olympics women’s halfpipe, making history as the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding medal. Yet as her achievement took center stage, much of the discourse that followed focused less on her technical mastery and more on her physical appearance–offering […]
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December 23, 2025 Youth Leadership in Action: A Citywide Movement for Civic Engagement
Across New York City, young people are leading. They’re organizing classmates, showing up at community meetings, turning school hallways, parks, and public housing courtyards into spaces for dialogue, healing, and action. With support from The Pinkerton Foundation, CitizensNYC is investing directly in that power through a new cohort of 15 Youth Leadership Councils and...
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October 27, 2025 All In For New York Fall Cocktail Honoree Aparna Yenamandra: A Belief in Opportunity—and the Courage to Pay It Forward
When Aparna Yenamandra talks about her work, she starts with gratitude. “My parents ingrained in me that they moved to a country with opportunity—and you owe that back. To whom much is given, much is expected.” That philosophy has guided her from her early days at law school to her current role as a partner […]
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October 27, 2025 All In For New York Fall Cocktail Honoree Jeffrey Finger: Finding Strength in the Toughest Moments
Jeffrey Finger didn’t plan on a career in restructuring. “I found it by accident,” he says with a laugh. “I was sent to New York for a meeting early in my career, and I remember thinking, why is everyone so unhappy? It turned out I’d walked into a restructuring.” That meeting changed the course of […]
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