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With office space at a premium and many nonprofits working with thin margins, one New York City partnership is aiming to serve as a model for helping nonprofits handle one of their most taxing overhead line items: rent. The New York Foundling recently “adopted” fledgling nonprofit She’s the First in a partnership dubbed Adopt a Cause that hopes to match larger organizations with smaller ones that need affordable space in New York City’s costly real estate market. READ MORE

The Bubble Foundation and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Victor Ochi celebrated family health and wellness at the New York Foundling’s Mott Haven Academy Charter School on Wednesday, March 1. The commemorative event, in the schools where the Bubble Foundation piloted its Family Meal program, celebrated the importance of eating together as a family as students and their families enjoyed a healthy family-style meal. READ MORE

Michael Zink, Director of Educational Services at The Foundling discusses ways to improve access to technology among foster youth in New York City. READ MORE

New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray reads from the book “Love Is” to a group of children during a baby shower at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden in April 2016 presented by the First Lady and one of the largest and oldest NYC nonprofits, The New York Foundling, as part of the NYC Children’s Cabinet Talk to Your Baby Campaign Saturday, April 2, 2016. READ MORE

“If they haven’t already, many agencies may be forced to decide between paying the rent or the utility bill. Unfortunately, it’s the city’s most vulnerable children and families who will end up paying the price,” writes The New York Foundling’s CEO and President Bill Baccaglini. READ MORE

How does a company recruit top talent with the tenacity to get the job done and the diversity to bring new and valued perspectives to their work? These days, this is a ubiquitous question being asked by hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. The answer is not straight forward, but as one of New York’s largest social services nonprofits with nearly 2,000 employees and constant hiring needs, at The New York Foundling, we know that merely posting on job boards and culling for pedigreed resumes isn’t working. READ MORE

The New York Foundling’s charter school Mott Haven Academy in the South Bronx is beginning its middle school expansion in fall 2017. “The idea, explained the Foundling’s president and CEO Bill Baccaglini, grew out of wanting to keep existing students in a stable environment for as long as possible,” Chalkbeat reports. READ MORE

New York City volunteers worked at a Harlem elementary school on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The volunteers did everything from painting lockers to making up care packages. One group of volunteers made “dozens of baby blankets” to donate to The New York Foundling. READ MORE

The New York Foundling’s Families Rising program was featured in a Juvenile Justice Information Exchange article. The outlet reports, “The New York Foundling has been operating evidence-based Functional Family Therapy (FFT) programs for adolescent offenders since 2007, with excellent results, reducing costs dramatically and producing far better outcomes. Over the past four years, these programs have expanded to include Families Rising, which focuses on older adolescents who appear before courts in the adult criminal justice system.” READ MORE

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded one million dollars in grant money to the New York Foundling for its Road to Success program, which supports foster youth from eighth grade through college. READ MORE

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