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2022

• ‘We are the alternative’: A growing movement aims to disrupt violence by connecting incarcerated youth with mentors
  CNN | September 04, 2022
• Mayor Adams Wants to End Agency Silos; Five City Initiatives Have Been Doing It
  New York Times | January 12, 2022

2021

• Taking Mental Health Care in New York City to the Next Level
  Gotham Gazette | December 13, 2021
• Seeding Accounts for Kindergartners and Hoping to Grow College Graduates
  New York Times | October 12, 2021
• New Poverty Data Shows Effects of Federal Relief, Prompts Calls for Continued Aid
  Gotham Gazette | September 21, 2021
• New York to Give Homeless Youth 'No Strings' Cash for Two Years
  Newsweek | June 18, 2021
• New York City Study Will Give Cash Payments to Homeless Young Adults
  Bloomberg | June 17, 2021
• Congress Has the Opportunity to Help College Students Graduate On Time With a Degree
  The Hill | May 19, 2021
• How a Bold Program is Working to Increase Diversity Among NYC Educators
  SI Live | April 13, 2021
• Mayor's Fund Provides $62 Million in Relief to Immigrants, Food to Health Care Workers
  Gotham Gazette | March 3, 2021
• NYC Launches Website to Highlight Social Equity Outcomes
  City and State | February 23, 2021
• Biden Wants to Boost the EITC for Workers Without Dependent Children — What Does the Research Say?
  The Hill | February 11, 2021
• Queens Councilman Promotes City Program to Help Small Businesses
  QNS.com | February 11, 2021
• New York City Unveils Campaign to Support Young Adults
  Governing | January 20, 2021

2020

• City Council Examines De Blasio Administration's Effort to Combat Unemployment
  Gotham Gazette | December 19, 2020
• NYC Teaching Force Has Grown Less White — but Still Doesn’t Match Student Body, City Data Shows
  New York Daily News | December 11, 2020
• Agile 50: The World's 50 Most Influential People Revolutionising Government
  Apolitical | December 9, 2020
• Stringer Proposes Free Tuition at CUNY Community Colleges as Part of Workforce Development Plan
  amNY | October 14, 2020
• City’s Supervised Release Program Has Positive Impacts Without Increases in Missed Court Appearances or Rearrest Rates
  Gotham Gazette | September 24, 2020
• City Launches Mentorship Initiative to Help Students of Color Navigate Academic Challenges During COVID-19
  amNY| September 21, 2020
• Top NYC Restauranteurs Back Reopening Plan With Focus on Eliminating the Tipped Minimum Wage
  Eater | August 6, 2020
• Goodwill program helps NYCHA residents find employment
  News 12 | July 18, 2020
• Toward Co-Designing a Better Criminal Justice System
  Stanford Social Innovation Review | June 16, 2020
• Multi-Million Dollar NYC Program Aims to Help Restaurants Impacted by COVID-19
  NBC New York | June 11, 2020
• Can Schools Outside of New York City Replicate the CUNY ASAP Program?
  MDRC | June 2020
• City University of New York Wins Harvard’s Innovations in American Government Award
  Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School | April 21, 2020
• Mayor Announces ‘Fun at Home,’ New Platform to Engage Youth in Fun, Safe Activities
  news12 | April 8, 2020
• Community Schools Have Been a Success for NYC Students
  NY Metro Parents | February 3, 2020
• Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Middle Class Strategies
  Forbes | February 3, 2020
• What LAUSD can learn from the New York City Community Schools Initiative
  LA Times (Op-Ed) | January 28, 2020

2019

• Reporting for Work Where You Once Reported for Probation
  The Atlantic | December 13, 2019
• Amazon names City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge Winners
  Smart Cities World | December 5, 2019
• New York City Poverty Rate Falls to Historic Lows
  The Wall Street Journal (Paywall) | September 30, 2019
• Nudge in the City: Using Science to Improve Public Services
  Government Executive | September 18, 2019
• How to Cut College Dropout Rates
  New York Times Op-Ed | August 28, 2019
• New York’s Stronger Safety Net Will Magnify Trump’s New Public Charge Rule
  City and State | August 20, 2019
• NYC Targets Homelessness with New Data Initiatives
  State Scoop | June 25, 2019
• City to Launch 5 Cross-Agency Projects to Fight Poverty-Related Challenges
  Gotham Gazette | June 21, 2019
• NYC Poverty Falls to Lowest Rate Since Before the Crash
  Crain's New York Business | June 7, 2019
• More Than 100 Moms Will Get Paid $12K for Poverty Study
  New York Post | May 8, 2019
• National Anti-Poverty Study Will Pay New NYC Moms $4,000 a Year
  THE CITY | April 29, 2019
• Can an Extra $333 a Month Improve a Baby’s Brain? A Research Team Wants to Know.
  The Wall Street Journal | April 29, 2019
• New York City Releases API to Clear Up Social Service Eligibility
  Smart Cities Dive | April 17, 2019
• New York City Unveils Benefits Screening API
  State Scoop | April 16, 2019
• New York City Demystifies Social Service Benefits Screening
  Government Technology | April 15, 2019
• Credible Messengers Help Turn Former Convicts Into Leaders
  Nation Swell | March 21, 2019
• In New York City, a New Model for Bringing Design to the Public sSector
  Apolitical | March 20, 2019
• Big Lessons from the Big Apple: The LA i-team Reflects on the NYC’s Service Design Studio
  Designmatters | March 19, 2019
• Students Engage in Service Scenario Prototyping for the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity
  School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation | March 18, 2019
• Growing Up NYC Shares Process to Creating an Award-Winning Mobile-First Website
  Adobe Blog | March 18, 2019
• These 10 Governments Are Leading the World in Behavioural Science
  Apolitical | March 1, 2019
• The Community School Comes of Age
  New York Times Op-Ed | January 10, 2019

2018

• At CUNY, Spending Money Can Actually Save It
  Crain's New York Business | December 17, 2018
• 3 Ohio Community Colleges Doubled Graduation Rates with CUNY ASAP Program
  Education Dive | December 14, 2018
• We Were Looking for a Team That Was Design Ready and Hungry to Try Something New
  We Are Commons | November 14, 2018
• It’s Not About the Technology
  New America | October 16, 2018
• Getting the Work Done: What Government Innovation Really Looks Like
  New America | October 16, 2018
• Strategies for Improving Community College Completion
  The Brookings Institution | October 11, 2018
• 5 Ways to Boost Community College Completion Rates
  The Brookings Institution | October 8, 2018
• A Tax Credit Encourages Work. But What Is That Worth?
  Bloomberg Opinion | October 4, 2018
• How the User Experience (UX) Can Build Greater Trust in Local Government
  Manhattan Institute | September 30, 2018
• Can The U.S. Afford A Massive Wage Subsidy? A Macroeconomic Simulation
  Forbes | September 30, 2018
• How to Cut Poverty Now
  New York Times Op-Ed | September 25, 2018
• A New Study Shows What’s Possible for Improving 2-year College Outcomes
  The American Express Institute | August 15, 2018
• Skyline College Awarded Major Grant to Expand Promise Scholars Program to Five California Colleges
  Markets Insider | August 9, 2018
• Next Up for Men of Color? A Place at the Front of the Classroom
  The Christian Science Monitor | June 29, 2018
• Launched by Bloomberg, City’s Anti-Poverty Lab Works Quietly Under de Blasio
  City Limits | June 27, 2018
• Enhanced Case Study: New York City’s Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity
  Centre for Public Impact | June 6, 2018
• CityViews: As Mayor & Council Clash Over Fares, CUNY MetroCards Offer a Compromise
  City Limits | June 6, 2018
• A Class Debates the Importance of Having Male Teachers
  WNYC | May 29, 2018
• Approach to Preventive Services Gets ACS Some Recognition
  New York Nonprofit Media | May 17, 2018
• Everything You Know About Innovation Is Wrong
  Fast Company | May 14, 2018
• Designers in NYC Are Growing — And More Are Tackling Civic Problems
  Next City | May 4, 2018
• Demonstrating Impact with St. Nicks Alliance and Change Capital Fund
  New York Nonprofit Media | May 3, 2018
• Is User-Centered Government Really Attainable?
  Government Technology | May 2, 2018
• These Ex-cons are Keeping New York Safe
  Crain's New York Business | May 2, 2018
• Increasing Accessibility to City Services Through Design-Thinking
  GovEx | April 24, 2018
• Here is How City Agencies and Nonprofits Can Communicate During the Procurement Process
  New York Nonprofit Media | April 14, 2018
• New York City Poverty Rate Hits Lowest Level Since Great Recession
  Observer | April 13, 2018
• Report Shows Minor Drop in NYC’s Poverty Rate
  New York Post | April 13, 2018
• NYC Poverty Rate Drops
  Metro | April 13, 2018
• Fewer People Were in Poverty in New York City in 2016
  Politico | April 13, 2018
• Start Spreading the News: How NYC is Reducing Poverty and Inequality
  Center for Public Impact | April 11, 2018
• Change-Makers: Reconnecting Bed-Stuy Men to Good Jobs
  WNYC | April 3, 2018
• How 'Service Design' Is Changing the Way Cities Work
  Governing | April 1, 2018
• Urban Food Policy Forum: Gentrification and the Local Food Environment
  Urban Food Policy Forum | March 29, 2018
• How ‘Service Design’ Is Changing the Way Cities Work
  Governing | March 26, 2018
• The Growing College Graduation Gap
  NYT | March 25, 2018
• After Recent Success, NYC Wants to Embed Behavioral Design in More Projects
  StateScoop | March 23, 2018
• Targeted Evaluations Can Help Policymakers Set Priorities
  Pew Trusts | March 9, 2018
• City Program for Youth on Probation Successfully Reduces Recidivism: Study
  Times Ledger | March 2, 2018
• 69% Less Recidivism in NY Community Mentoring Program, Report Finds
  Juvenile Justice Information Exchange | February 22, 2018
• Building a Design Culture Inside Government
  UT Austin School of Design and Creative Technology | February 20, 2018
• Public Service Design Brings Fresh Eyes to Old Problems
  NextCity | February 20, 2018
• Postsecondary Pathways Out of Poverty: City University of New York Accelerated Study in Associate Programs and the Case for National Policy
  The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences | February 19, 2018
• Rebuilding ACCESS NYC with Blue State Digital
  Torque | February 14, 2018
• Programs that Increase College Attendance and Completion by Low-Income Students: Recent RCT findings
  Straight Talk on Evidence | January 31, 2018

2017

• Roundabout's Entire Theatrical Workforce Development Program Cohort Lands Jobs
  Broadway World | Decemeber 13, 2017
• NYC Opportunity's CUNY ASAP
  Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien | November 25, 2017
• Building a Design Culture Inside Government
  The University of Texas at Austin: School of Design and Creative Technologies | November 25, 2017
• De Blasio's Record on Poverty and Inequality
  Gotham Gazette | November 1, 2017
• Conversations on Transformation and Creativity
  Change Lab Podcast | October 30, 2017
• A Tax Proposal That Could Lift Millions Out of Poverty
  The Atlantic | October 17, 2017
• Five takeaways from a new study of New York City’s massive ‘community schools’ program
  Chalkbeat | October 11, 2017
• How NYC is Using Digital to Build Equity for Children & Families
  Velocitize | October 10, 2017
• This Simple Tax Policy Change Could Boost The Cash, Credit, And Well-Being Of The Working Poor
  FastCompany | October 9, 2017
• Best of New York Awards 2017 - Winners Announced
  Center for Digital Government | September 22, 2017
• Designing for Policy Change – Ariel Kennan on applying design to New York City’s homeless problem
  Diginomica/government | June 9, 2017
• Fighting the Cycle of Poverty in New York City: A Conversation with Matt Klein of New York City Center for Economic Opportunity
  Blackbaud | May 30, 2017
• Trump budget proposes 40% cut to job training programs
  CNN Money | May 24, 2017
• In Trump Country, Shock at Trump Budget Cuts, but Still Loyalty
  New York Times | April 1, 2017
• Fighting Poverty with Data
  NationSwell | May 17, 2017
• How Ariel Kennan Solves NYC’s Most Intractable Design Problems
  FastCo Design | January 1, 2017

2016

• An Organization Paves a Path Out of Rikers Island and Into the Job Market
  New York Times | Decemeber 11, 2016
• Fulfilling the promise of community college: The ASAP demonstrations
  The Brookings Institution | Decemeber 1, 2016
• Growing Up NYC: Blueprint for an Equitable City
  Equity for Children - The New School | November 22, 2016
• Mayor de Blasio, Commissioner Menin and Newly Created Nonprofit "NYC Kids RISE" Announce Child Savings Account Program to Help Public School Students Save for College
  Mayor’s Office Press Release | November 22, 2016
• Mayor de Blasio Announces New Nonprofit Resiliency Committee
  Mayor’s Office Press Release | September 28, 2016
• First Comprehensive, Independent Evaluation of Nation’s Largest Municipal ID Program Shows IDNYC Necessity for New Yorkers
  Mayor’s Office Press Release | August 18, 2016
• Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City Selects 14 Community-Based Organizations Citywide to Join $30 Million Connections to Care Partnership
  Mayor’s Office Press Release | March 11, 2016

2015

• Mayor de Blasio Announces Home-Stat At ABNY Breakfast
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | December 17, 2015
• Mayor's Office Launches Redesigned NYC.gov/nonprofits, Website Devoted to New York City's Nonprofit Organizations
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | August 25, 2015
• Mayor's Fund To Advance New York City And Corporation For National And Community Service Announce $30 Million Partnership To Support Mental Health Services
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | July 30, 2015
• Mayor de Blasio Announces the Next Phase of NYC's Young Men's Initiative, Opening New Doors for Young Men of Color
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | January 30, 2015

2014

• Mayor de Blasio Announces The New York City Children's Cabinet
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | April 7, 2014
• How New York City Will Grade Universal Pre-K
  Mayor’s Office Press Releas | April 7, 2014