Mayor Bill de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter and Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) Commissioner Bill Chong today announced Summer Rising, the City’s free, summer plan for any child in grades K-12 who wants to participate. For the first time ever, the City will use the Community Schools strategy to integrate the New York City Department of Education’s (NYCDOE’s) academic supports and DYCD’s school-based enrichment programming to create a comprehensive summer program during the most critical summer for New York City students. Summer Rising will be student-centered, experiential, academically rigorous and culturally responsive and sustaining.
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Before Dianne Morales secured her lane as an underdog, left-leaning candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, she was a longtime nonprofit executive leading organizations helping youth and families in the city. For former staff and nonprofit executives familiar with her, Morales was a well-respected leader with a passion for taking innovative approaches to helping underserved communities.
Her path into the nonprofit sector started while she spent a summer after her freshman year of college working at a residential camp, now known as Ramapo for Children, primarily serving inner-city kids. “I recognized … that a lot of the kids that we were working with came from my zip code,” Morales, who now sits on the board of the nonprofit, told City & State. “And I sort of had a moment where I thought, well, why them and not me.”
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Wes Moore to Step Down as CEO of Robin Hood Foundation
Robin Hood FoundationFebruary 8, 2021 GMT
Combat veteran, bestselling author, and social entrepreneur will depart in May 2021
Moore led the Robin Hood foundation to one of its strongest years in the anti-poverty group’s 33-year history in 2020 – raising over $230 million as the organization filled a critical role in response to the pandemic
Robin Hood is a 501(c)3 organization and not affiliated with any for-profit businesses that use a similar name
NEW YORK, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today, Wes Moore announced he will step down as CEO of the Robin Hood foundation in May of this year after a four-year tenure where under Moore’s leadership, the organization raised over $650 million, restructured and refocused the grantmaking portfolio, executed critical relief efforts in response to COVID-19, expanded the role of the o