FPWA in the News

Policy, Advocacy & Research:

• January 30, 2012 - NY Daily News, City's welfare agency hiring to give out benefits
  
• January 13,2012 -NYNP, Bloomberg's State of City Draws Mixed Reviews from Human Service Advocates pdf (175413 bytes)
  
• September 29, 2011 - IPS, 15 Years On, Still No Agreement on Welfare Reform's Impact
• September 13, 2011 - IPS, U.S. Residents Poorer, Earning Less, and Less Insured in 2010
  
• July 12, 2011 - City Limits News, Anxiety at Public Daycare Centers as System Overhaul Gears Up
  
• July 18, 2011 - Gotham Schools, Anxiety at Public Daycare Centers as System Overhaul Gears Up
  
• June 10, 2011 - Epoch Times, 30,000 Petitions Sent to Mayor Bloomberg, as Funding for Subsidized Child Care has not Been Fully Restored pdf (452962 bytes); Article in Chinese
  
• June 9, 2011 - Queens Chronicle, Queens Fight For Homebound Seniors
  
• June 7, 2011 - SinovisionNet, Parents and Children Protest Against Mayor’s Cut to Funding for Daycare
  
• June 7, 2011 - New York NonProfit Press (NYNP), Innovative Legislation to Preserve Child Care Subsidies
  
• May 19, 2011 - The After-School Corporation (TASC), New York City Council Members join citizens to fight for kids
  
• May 9, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, Advocates React with Concern to Mayor’s Executive Budget
  
• May 9, 2011 - Gotham Gazette, Council Starts to Manuever on Budget
  
• May 4, 2011 - Downtown Express, Mayor's Budget Cuts Threaten Day Care Services
  
• April 26, 2010 - NY 1, Advocates Continue Fight Against Day Care Cuts
  
• April 15, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, Aging Service Advocates Protest Case Management Cut
  
• April 14, 2011 - El Diario, Vecindarios al borde de perder guarderías
  
• April 14, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, "Where There Is No Care"; Emergency Coalition Reports on Impact of Child Care Cuts
  
• April 13, 2011 - NY 1, Advocates Protest Proposed City Child Care Cuts
  
• March 30, 2011 - City Limits News, What Cuts Will Cost: Children's Learning, Parents' Work
  
• March 23, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, Advocates Propose Solution to Preserve Child Care for Working Families
  
• March 23, 2011 - City Limits News, Senate, Assembly Resist Cuomo Cuts To Services
  
• March 19, 2011 - City Watch WBAI 99.5 FM Radio, Nicole Lavan discusses FPWA’s Youth Education & Employment Campaign (audio file)
  
• March 15, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, State Legislative Budget Bills Offer Hopes and Disappointments
  
• March 14, 2011 - Legislativegazette.com, Religious leaders stress importance of job programs for NY's youth
  
• March 12, 2011 - City Watch WBAI 99.5 FM Radio, Liz Accles discusses state budget proposal’s impacting low-income families (audio file)
  
• March 4, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, DFTA Lists 105 Senior Centers to Be Closed
  
• January 25, 2011 - City Limits News, Documents Reveal Gaps In City Welfare Data

Other News:

• November 6, 2011 - The New York Times, Evening Hours, The New York Times Neediest Cases
  
• January 6, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, Lee-Cunningham to Retire from FPWA
  
• January 6, 2011 - New York Nonprofit Press, Gibson Named Director of FPWA Member and Faith Based Services Department
  
• May 5, 2010 - New York Nonprofit Press, FPWA Awarded $90K in Grants for Access to Assistance Campaign
  
• April 17, 2010 - New York Nonprofit Press, FPWA Conference Explores Real Life Collaborations in the Nonprofit World

2011-2012 The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund:

• January 30, 2012 - Amid Ailments and Loss, a Mother Forges Ahead
  
• January 26, 2012 - Trying to Escape a Path of Violence for the Sake of Her Daughters
  
• January 18,2012 - From an Attempted Suicide to Salvation, Then to Helping Others
  
• January 13,2012 - For a Lover of Traveling and Languages, Only One Place Can Be Called Home
  
• December 29,2011 - An Ill Young Woman and the Aunt Always by Her Side
  
• December 15, 2011 - After Stints in Hospital,a Struggle With Bills
  
• December 9, 2011 - Still Active, With a Little Help
  
• December 4, 2011 - Music United Couple; Now It Helps Surviving Spouse Cope
  
• November 26, 2011 - Out of Work, and Trying to Stay Positive
  
• November 19, 2011 - The New York Times, A Parent’s Determination and an Unbreakable Bond
  
• November 18, 2011 - The New York Times, A Computer Brings the World to a Reclusive Woman
  
• November 10, 2011 - The New York Times, After Downfall, Veteran Finds New Purpose

2010-2011 The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund:

• January 22, 2011 - The New York Times, A Bond Lasting Decades Is Challenged by Illness
  
• January 19, 2011 - The New York Times, Ambitions of Going Abroad, but Bills to Pay at Home
  
• January 7, 2011 - The New York Times, Leaving Gangs and Drugs to Earn a Living Honestly
  
• January 4, 2011 - The New York Times, First, Accident. Then the Landlord. Finally, Bedbugs.
  
• January 2, 2011 - The New York Times, The Bedbugs Are Gone, but So Is All She Owned

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