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New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the city’s first-ever Nonprofit Advisory Council. Comprised of leaders and experts in the nonprofit sector, the advisory council will work with the New York City Mayor’s Office of…

Nonprofit organizations and elected officials rallied in Albany Monday to push for legislation that would enact a higher cost-of-living adjustment for human services workers and also establish a wage board to address pay disparities between the…

Pushing for a cost-of-living adjustment for human services workers was the subject of a rally at the New York state Capitol on Monday.

Opened a little over a year ago to be a liaison between social-services providers and municipal bureaucracy, the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services doesn’t seem to have made things better.

Human Services Council Executive Director Michelle Jackson discusses the proposed 1.5% cost of living adjustment the governor has proposed for human services workers at non-profit organizations that contract with the state.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration would have you believe that we must choose between funding social services and assisting asylum seekers.

A coalition of organizers and the Human Services Council (HSC) spent a particularly chilly June night sleeping outside City Hall last week to demand “JustPay” for “underpaid, city-contracted essential workers.”

A New York City without human services workers would be a bleaker city. There would be nobody to staff our food pantries, nobody to help survivors at domestic violence shelters, nobody to watch children after school…

Homeless service providers stood outside the gate to New York City Hall on Thursday handing out flyers to City Council members reading, in large bold type: “DON’T ALLOW THE BUDGET TO CUT HOMELESS SERVICES.”