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CitizensNYC: LIVE CEO Summer Session #3
Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!
CitizensNYC: LIVE CEO Summer Session #2
8.09.22
Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!
CitizensNYC: LIVE CEO Summer Session #1
7.26.22
Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Free-ish
Join CitizensNYC to learn how to navigate local New York City government to protect the rights of all New Yorkers. Our special guest speaker, newly appointed Manhattan Community Board 1 member, Desi K. Robinson, will discuss how to mobilize our communities to understand and participate in hyper-local government to protect Black rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and Women’s rights.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Violence Will Not Make Us Safe!
What does public safety mean to your community? Public safety is programs or activities implemented by a public agency (directly or indirectly) for the safety, protection, law enforcement and criminal justice of the public. Included in this should be mental health.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Community Gardens: Fertile Ground for Environmental Justice
Community gardens and the gardeners who care for them contribute to the environmental sustainability, public health, and community resilience of their neighborhoods and cities.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
#WomenSupportWomen: Network Weaving to Build Your Dream
We don’t go far without each other. Want to launch a business, nonprofit, or other dream?
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Ideas Summit: All in for Community Health Watch Party
What is community health? It’s education. It’s access to food. It’s mental health. Community wealth. Civic engagement. It’s holistic, it’s about all of us and each of us. It’s our aim - for NYC to be in good health and have a quality of life.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
The New Yorkers for New York Campaign Showcase Rewatch Party!
Join us as the CitizensNYC staff rewatches our showcase and celebrates our grantee partners, as well as five extraordinary women who are working to rethink, rebuild, and reimagine New York City.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Responding to The City’s Needs: Entrepreneurship & Neighborhood Business
Join us in conversation about entrepreneurship and small businesses, and why both are vital to the fabric of our neighborhoods.
Citizens Committee for New York City Names Neuroscientist Turned CEO Frida Polli, Ph.D. as “New Yorker for New York” Honoree
The nonprofit is also offering $1M in grants to New Yorkers responding to COVID crisis
CitizensNYC: LIVE Neighborhood Chat 6/8/21
CitizensNYC: Live Neighborhood Chat with CEO Rahsaan Harris. Join us for a conversation on the capacity of storytelling. We will conduct oral history interviews with our fellow NYC community leaders. We will also discuss our updated Grantee Partner Social Media Toolkit and communications best practices.
CitizensNYC LIVE: Season 1, Episode 9
This month we are honoring TIME's Chief People Officer Sue Suh, as part of the organization The New Yorker for New York campaign.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
The Impact of Storytelling & Philanthropy on Grassroots Efforts
Join us in conversation on the role of philanthropy and journalism in creating change and supporting grassroots movements.
Citizens Committee for New York City Names TIME’s Chief People Officer Sue Suh “New Yorker for New York” Honoree
The nonprofit is also offering $1M in grants to New Yorkers responding to COVID crisis
CitizensNYC: LIVE Neighborhood Chat 5/11/21
CitizensNYC: Live Neighborhood Chat with CEO Rahsaan Harris. Join us in discussion on funding opportunities from CitizensNYC and share the work you're doing with other community organizers so we can discuss how we can work together to rebuild NYC.
CitizensNYC LIVE: Season 1, Episodes 7 and 8
New Yorkers for New York Honoree Rhina Valentin with 2 episodes!
CitizensNYC LIVE: Season 1, Episode 6
There are infinite stories of New York City. Father-daughter duo, Peter and Sandra Goldmark take on forty-one of those stories in their new book Haikus for New York City.
CitizensNYC: LIVE Rethink & Rebuild
Art and Activism: Art as a Tool for Social Change and Healing
Join us in conversation on how art and meditation can be used as vehicles for healing and social change.
CitizensNYC Honors Rhina Valentin, First Latina to be named “New Yorker for New York”
Nonprofit offering $1M in grants, available for New Yorkers responding to COVID crisis