The Staten Island Advance reported on a recent event – hosted by our Strong Families & Communities Training Center – at our Staten Island office. This event brought together community partners to teach child CPR, disaster preparedness and child development to families in the area.
Read more at Staten Island Advance
“A new study shows that home health care workers and others who work in the human service fields are among some of the poorest state workers. It’s an issue that is statewide,” writes Spectrum News. “A CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance report highlights how 18% of social service workers in Orange, Rockland and Westchester area live in poverty.”
Their news report features Brian Bulluck, one of our Residence Managers in Rockland County, as well as Jennifer March, our Chief Advancement Officer, to speak about the impact of this issue and our BUMP Campaign.
Our CEO & President, Melanie Hartzog, appeared on Monsignor Kevin Sullivan’s radio show, JustLove, where she discussed her distinguished career shaping New York City’s social service landscape— including exciting Foundling initiatives such as our investment in Puerto Rico and our BUMP campaign to bring up minimum pay for human service workers.
Listen on JustLove (Mel’s segment starts at 34:20.)
Dr. Akeem Marsh, Medical Director of our Home for Integrated Behavioral Health and Vice President of the Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection, spoke to NBC News Daily on its Daily Heath segment to discuss how families can make the most of winter break.
Watch it below:
Our CEO & President, Melanie Hartzog, was named on City & State’s Women Power 100, along with the other leaders on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team:
“Hartzog, who leads the nonprofit human services provider The New York Foundling, played key roles at City Hall as deputy mayor for health and human services and director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget. She overlapped with Torres-Springer under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and also served as a deputy in the Bloomberg administration, bringing plenty of firsthand experience and insights into filling important posts.”
Melanie Hartzog, our CEO & President, recently appeared on PIX 11’s PIX on Politics Daily with Dan Mannarino to discuss and share insights regarding her new role as co-chair of the transition team for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. She also touches on the work The Foundling is doing to support our communities.
City & State reports on The Foundling’s service day in Puerto Rico – a volunteer event held in Cataño – near our newest Head Start & Early Head Start center – in conjunction with the annual Somos Conference:
“A tent was set up along the waterfront in the town 10 miles west of San Juan for a food and backpack giveaway hosted by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, in partnership with The New York Foundling. Members of 250 families lined up in the sun for the distribution and information on valuable social services. A discussion followed at Cataño’s town hall with a panel of social services experts calling for collaboration among nonprofits and governmental groups that help the neediest of Puerto Ricans.”
The New York Times reports on our CEO & President, Melanie Hartzog, being named to Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s transition team. She will utilize her expertise in city government and social services to help shape the new administration.
As they report:
“Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday.
The transition will be overseen by Maria Torres-Springer, who was first deputy mayor under the current, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams; Lina Khan, a progressive former F.T.C. chair; Grace Bonilla, the head of United Way of New York City; and Melanie Hartzog, a former deputy mayor for health and human services.”
As Patch reports, “On Wednesday, October 22 The New York Foundling celebrated the success of its 10th Annual Fall Fête, raising over $1 million, the second-highest fundraising total in the event’s history.”
Monica Morales, who hosted our recent Fall Fete, gave our event a shoutout on her PIX11 show, Monica Makes it Happen.