Broadening Perspectives: Building Unexpected Leaders
When I began to challenge other organizations about who was represented on their board, the common response was “we can’t find anybody” or “we can’t keep them.” I began to ask myself, “What if we created a space where nonprofits could have access to people who don’t look like them? What if we provided a space for people to learn how to be effective board members?”
Hasan Stephens on Identity and Opportunity
In an exclusive interview, we sat down with the CEO of The Good Life Foundation to discuss youth programming, the challenges of concentrated poverty, and his latest project located in the Salt City Market.
Emergency Shelter Care for Seniors with Dementia
A new space at Menorah Park is designed to provide a safe haven for seniors with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease and guide them to a more supportive living situation. Opening soon, it will be the first of its kind in CNY.
Chadwick Residence: Housing as a Human Right
This Syracuse based nonprofit that provides supportive housing and supportive services for women and women with children experiencing homelessness. The right to housing should be guaranteed, says their Executive Director.
Their Own Key and Their Own Door
A Tiny Home For Good challenges many of the traditional assumptions about what affordable housing and housing for the homeless looks like.
Clean, Affordable, and Scarce: Rescue Mission Grapples with Lack of Affordable Housing
The Rescue Mission is a lifeline for many of CNY’s most vulnerable residents, but as the end of the eviction moratorium looms – concerns about the lack of accessible and affordable housing are growing.
Broadening Perspectives: What are our Housing Intentions?
Sheena Solomon, Executive Director of the Gifford Foundation, is inviting you to consider some difficult questions about housing and homelessness.
Broadening Perspectives: The Power That The Arts Hold
In 2018 I took a trip to Montgomery, Alabama to visit The National Memorial for Peace and Social Justice. It is partially dedicated to the 4,400 known victims of lynching in the United States and made national headlines when it first opened that same year. The other focus of the Memorial is mass incarceration: a system of control that serves as a modern form of the Jim Crow laws.
