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1 month ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Phenix Kim
In an effort to expedite this process, the New York Lawyers for Public Interest has partnered with BoardStrong to recruit volunteer attorneys to join various nonprofit boards. One of New York City’s most recognizable nonprofit legal brokers, the NYLPI has practiced in areas of disability justice, health justice and environmental justice through their “community lawyering” model for nearly 50 years.
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1 month ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Phenix Kim
Government heads joined cybersecurity experts at City & State’s 2025 Digital Summit Wednesday, a daylong event that featured discussions about progress made in rolling out artificial intelligence and digital services, the vulnerabilities of New York’s infrastructure, as well as its resilience to withstand cyber attacks.
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1 month ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Phenix Kim
Government heads joined cybersecurity experts at City & State’s 2025 Digital Summit Wednesday, a daylong event that featured discussions about progress made in rolling out artificial intelligence and digital services, the vulnerabilities of New York’s infrastructure, as well as its resilience to withstand cyber attacks.
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1 month ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Phenix Kim
Donald Trump has continued to rattle the nonprofit community - from a slew of grant freezes leading to a storm of nonprofit-led lawsuits to sweeping restructuring efforts to remove DEI language. As these gridlocks in recent weeks leave the future of many nonprofits at risk, experts of New York’s philanthropic community are moving to strengthen management efforts and board relationships.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
cityandstateny.com | Phenix Kim
While President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders have signaled an ominous end to green infrastructure and diversity, equity and Inclusion efforts – such rhetoric will do little in dismantling major sustainable infrastructure projects in the New York, New Jersey region, speakers at City and State’s 2025 Most Significant Infrastructure Projects Summit Thursday.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Phenix Kim |Mark Chiusano
Rev. Lea Matthews can often be seen racing around St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church trying to help visitors. On a snowy Monday earlier this month it was to offer a jacket to a Nicaraguan immigrant who was clad only in a hoodie. But not long ago her tasks were even more urgent — and may be again. During the first Trump administration, she once helped set up a room within four hours for a mother of two from Guatemala, before that woman sought sanctuary to avoid deportation.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Phenix Kim |Claudia Irizarry Aponte |Alyssa Katz
During his four-year tenure, President Joe Biden, living in the White House, would often walk by a painting of a Statue of Liberty upstairs. In 17 minutes on Wednesday night, Biden delivered his final most significant speech to date: his farewell address, centered on the painting. The Statue of Liberty is “an enduring symbol of the soul of our nation… . A nation of immigrants who came to build a better life.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Phenix Kim |Claudia Irizarry Aponte |Alyssa Katz
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Some immigrants are already leaving the U.S. in ‘self-deportations’ as Trump’s threats loom:A Nicaraguan woman staying legally in the United States has chosen to leave because of concern over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for mass deportations.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Claudia Irizarry Aponte |Ralph Joseph |Phenix Kim
In 1986, Pei Mei’s family of eight immigrated from China to a rent-stabilized one-bedroom in Chinatown. With a family consisting of Mei’s grandparents, parents, brother and her aunt’s family, Mei’s father divided the bedroom and living room of the tenement apartment into multiple sleeping areas. The apartment soon became the family’s income point.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
nynmedia.com | Phenix Kim
The must-read daily newsletter for NYN's political community. Get it in your inbox. email For 40 years, The HOPE program has equipped individuals from marginalized communities with the tools, self-assurance and support needed to secure meaningful employment. Having trained over 400 cohorts and thousands of graduates, HOPE empowers communities with disproportionately higher unemployment rates, with 90% of the program’s participants identifying as Black, indigenous and people of color.
