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OCEAN HILL, Brooklyn – Students at an Ocean Hill school are getting their community better access to healthy food through their very own farm stand.

Brooklyn, NY--Dozens of workers from A&E Real Estate joined Seeds in the Middle at their student-run farm stand outside PS-IS 178 in Ocean Hill on Wednesday, prepping and serving healthy meals with free farm fresh produce as part of Hip2B Healthy Café Day.

We often think of a good leader as someone who goes first. A person who wouldn't ask her team to do anything she wouldn't do. But what happens when the one out in front doesn't have the crucial information to make good decisions? What if that information instead resides with the people around her?

Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC) today announced ‘All In for New York City’ Week, a series of events and volunteer opportunities taking place.

Last week, I was on Clubhouse in a conversation called “If Nonprofits Were Brutally Honest with Funders” (with colleagues Dr. Rahsaan Harris, Kris Putnam-Walkerly, and Julie Morris).

OPEN Host Daren Jaime sits down with the Director of Communications & Public Affairs at Citizens Committee for New York City, Paige Travis to discuss how the organization is actively responding to relief efforts around COVID-19 and hurricane Ida.

Brooklyn residents in the predominantly Black, working-class community of Flatbush are facing a scourge of illegal sidewalk dumping and booted cars that have impeded access to basic sanitation services—and they say the NYPD is to blame.

Dr. Rahsaan Harris, CEO of Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC), one of the nation’s oldest micro-granting organizations committed to helping New Yorkers improve their quality of life.