As its director of events (at WeWorks), Karly Giaramita’s main goal is to encourage connection among company members and staff through memorable live experiences. Giaramita also makes sure that new events speak to the company’s ideology. As an alternative to the typical office holiday party, the company hosted its first “giving back” days in December, in which each WeWork location hosted a holiday-theme event for a local nonprofit. In New York, staff hosted New York Foundling foster children and their families for a day of gift- wrapping, arts and crafts, and a performance by a cappella group the Maccabeats. Click here to read more.

Child Success New York City, an innovative program launched by New York City and implemented by several foster care agencies, aims to improve those children’s lives, by providing greater stability while they’re in foster care and a greater likelihood that they’ll be able to return to their natural families. To date, this program has shown very promising results and could prove to be a model for the future. Click here to read more.

While April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, our obligation to help children should be year-round. All of us should be conscious about the children around us – our neighbors, our own children’s classmates – and be sufficiently aware of the telltale signs of abuse so that we can report it when we see it. Click here to continue reading.

Child Success NYC (CSNYC) is a program that uses evidence-based practices to provide biological and foster parents the skills they need to help reduce challenges in the home. The Foundling is one of the largest agencies to pilot CSNYC. Read more here.

“The Foundling’s Crisis Nursery is an emergency haven for the children of families in dire need, aiming to prevent them from going into foster care. ‘If we could keep them out of foster care and just work on with what’s going on with the family at home, that could change this child’s life,’ says Fanny Duran-Pena, crisis nursery director of The Foundling.” Watch the video