“We didn’t win,” New York City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, chairwoman of the Contracts Committee, said last week at a panel hosted by New York Nonprofit Media. It was one day after the mayor and City Council announced a framework deal for the fiscal year that begins next month. Human service nonprofits were disheartened after the city budget didn’t include a 2.5 percent line-item increase – amounting to $25 million – that they said would help them pay for non-staffing costs such as building repairs and technology upgrades…
