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Frank Morano discusses some of the hottest topics and gives his opinion. Frank talks about the Daniel Penny case and then Frank talks about the NYC Dept.Of Educations refusal to give proper services for special needs students. Frank talks about the Bedstuy Aquarium being gone and then Frank talks about Councilman Yusef Salaam facing recent criticism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Send us a Text Message.Dr. Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD is the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ( https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/about-doh/the-commissioner.page ).Dr. Vasan is a primary care physician, epidemiologist and public health expert with nearly 20 years of experience working to improve physical and mental health, social welfare and public policy for marginalized populations here in New York City, nationally and globally. Since 2014 he has served on the faculty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he continues to see patients as a primary care internist in the Division of General Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.Dr. Vasan most recently served as the President and CEO of Fountain House, a national nonprofit fighting to improve health, increase opportunity, and end social and economic isolation for people most impacted by mental illness. During his tenure, he grew the organization from a New York-based community mental health organization to a national network across eight markets, and grew the budget by nearly $20 million annually. He helped navigate the organization through COVID-19 by driving new telehealth and digital mental health programs while its physical locations closed, as well as developing new community-based outreach and accompaniment programs. Further, Dr. Vasan led the creation of a national policy office in Washington, D.C., working to change national mental health policy on the issues of crisis response services and funding for and quality of community-based mental health services.From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Vasan served as the founding Executive Director of the Health Access Equity Unit at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which focused on the intersection of clinical and social services for the care of people involved in the justice system and other vulnerable populations — a first-of-its-kind government program in the nation. Under his leadership the team launched the NYC Health Justice Network — an innovative partnership between community-based primary care providers, criminal legal system reentry organizations, the Health Department and the Fund for Public Health — to embed tech-enabled, peer community health workers to promote health and wellness of people reentering the community from incarceration, and their families. Early in his career, Dr. Vasan spent nearly a decade at the intersection of global health, HIV and primary care, working with the nonprofit Partners In Health (PIH) in Rwanda, Lesotho and Boston, and at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Uganda and Geneva. At PIH, he led efforts to improve integrated primary care and HIV care delivery using WHO Integrated Management guidelines and training. Dr. Vasan worked as a Technical Officer under Dr. Jim Yong Kim on the WHO/UNAIDS "3by5 Initiative" to expand HIV treatment access in the developing world, focusing on pricing and access to HIV medications, and on health worker training and education.Dr. Vasan received his BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles; his ScM in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health; his MD from the University of Michigan; and his PhD in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine-primary care at New York Presbyterian Hospital.#NewYorkCity #AshwinVasan #Commissioner #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #HIV #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #MentalHealth #PaulFarmer #ColumbiaUniversity #Aging #Healthspan #ProgressPotentialAndPossibilities #IraPastor #Podcast #Podcaster #ViralPodcast Support the Show.

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more Threads turns 1 Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo. Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board The White House will host a conference for social media creators Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers llama.ttf Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76 Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened Perplexity's grand theft AI Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI Tim Wu Is Out Of Control Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch This week's news on human cells 110 new languages are coming to Google Translate Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram Calculus Advice Poem The Material Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Introduction Marc Kadushin started his emergency service career by volunteering with the Salvation Army Disaster Services and through career progression rose to the position of Assistant Commissioner of Emergency Response and Communications for the New York City Department of Transportation. Key Positions Assistant Commissioner of Emergency Response and Communications, NYC Dept. of Transportation Executive Assistant to the Chairman and First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Assistant to the Director of NYC-EMS for Investigations and Complaints Facilitate Emergency response scenarios for surface transit employees for FEMA through- Rutgers University Volunteer Salvation Army Disaster Services Partner in a NYC Police and Fire spot news coverage service EMT St. Clare's Hospital / Beekman Downtown Hospital Police Officer MTA Police/Penn Central Railroad NYPD Auxiliary Rescue Unit Member Honorary Deputy Chief FDNY working with officer from Rescue1 for Burn Center Projects New York City Dept. of Transportation Liaison with Emergencies Services YouTube Videos: 5th Ave Water Main Break https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ngkgfHqxY&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nRDoy64gQ  Contact Information marckadushin@yahoo.com

This week's Learning Nugget comes from an episode with Stephanie Dua.It's all about developing a bias toward action, nurturing latent passions for learning, and creating professional environments for humans to thrive.Stephanie is the Co-Founder and President of Begin, an early-learning company with products like HOMER, the only learning program proven to increase reading scores with just 15 minutes a day.Beyond her expertise in learning, education, and entrepreneurship, she has an extensive background in public service:Former CEO of NYC Dept. of Education's fund for public schoolsWorked in various non-profit roles with the Carnegie Corporation, Robin Hood FoundationSenior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationShe's also a wife and a mother. So much of our conversation (and her inspiration for HOMER) draws on Stephanie's career experiences, her upbringing, and her everyday life.Tune in to learn about:Stephanie's decision-making confidence and how to hone your own.How to use headwinds and obstacles as inspiration.Effective time management and the unsustainability of sprinting.The qualities of a successful public servantIntegrating "work" and "life," not "balancing."Sit back, relax, and enjoy this Learning Nugget episode with Stephanie Dua!Stephanie's LinkedInAndrew's LinkedIn

We interview Libby Hikind, CEO and founder of GrantWatch.com and GratnWriterTeam.com about what nonprofits need to know about applying for grants.   About Libby Hikind Find on LinkedIn Libby Hikind is the Founder and CEO of GrantWatch.com, the leading grant funding search engine for nonprofits, businesses, and individuals. Libby holds a post master's degree in Educational Administration and Supervision and is a wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.    Libby is often referred to as the "Queen of Grants." Libby opened GrantWatch in 2010 after retiring from her 29+ years as a teacher with the New York City Department of Education. While teaching, Libby wrote grants for her special education classroom, mainstream education and business careers, computers, and entrepreneurship classroom. For two years, Libby worked as a grant writer for an NYC Dept of Ed Brooklyn school district raising $11 million.   After which time, Libby returned to teaching and opened her own grant writing agency in 1994. Libby Hikind is a national grants expert. From 1999 to 2001, Libby created NYCGrantWatch, a faxed grant newsletter publication for her nonprofit client organizations. Libby took a sabbatical to run for city council and is well known for her successful primary election campaign for New York's City Council (2001) for which she received an endorsement from The New York Times. Following September 11th, Libby volunteered at Ground Zero, where she gained recognition as a FEMA Project Liberty Crisis Counselor and Team Leader. Libby is credited for more than 46,000 children receiving health insurance, as a result of her coalition building of nonprofits and writing the first Staten Island Child Health Plus proposal.                Rough Transcript: [00:00:00] Well, this week on the podcast we have Libby hn, the C e o and Founder at Grant Watch and grant writer team. So Grant watch and grant writer team, and I came across them because frankly, , you have to, if you are looking in and around the grant world, you run into, uh, these organizations. And Libby, thank you for taking the time to sit down with us and just talk to us about all things grant writing, grant trends, because even though it says nonprofits at the head of everyone's organization, we care a lot about profits when it comes to making money. [00:01:02] And grants are a big funding source. Thank you for joining. Thank you for inviting me. Appreciate it. Well, maybe in your own words, can you explain what Grant Watch does? Well, grant Watch is a grant search engine that lists the grants that are available for non-profits, municipalities, businesses, and individuals. [00:01:30] We have over 60 categories of grant. That the way we categorize grants on, on the right side of the website, you can use a keyword search and find them as well. And we add new grants every week and we archive the grants as they come do. So really Grant watch is all about currently available grants and that's great. [00:01:53] And you, um, looks like founded it in 2010. So you have . Successfully survived over a decade of operation, which is rare air and certainly has my respect for anyone who can, uh, build for that long. Thank you. We've been through many economies. [00:02:11] I think that's important too, because I think if you have a short timeframe, you're like, oh, times have only been good. And then you have covid and you're like, times have only been bad, and you're like, times are gonna do what times do. I'm curious though, you're, you're mentioning, you know, what's going on in the economy. [00:02:26] How do you see that impacting the grant market in general? Well, I think more and more people are gonna be looking for grants. Uh, they're gonna be looking for funding. And with what happened over the weekend with the, the banks, uh, I got a lot of notices that some good funders had their money in that bank in, well, s s uh, Silicon Valley, right? [00:02:53] And yeah, svb, right? So that's, you know, that would've affected a lot. And now it seems like, uh, everything's gonna be paid. Let's just hope it doesn't happen, you know, to many more. . Yeah. Well, you know, something like that is pretty terrifying. Haven't seen that since 2008, where you've got actual depositors losing their funds. [00:03:13] But more importantly, like you said, that has a direct impact on funders, grant makers. Right? They, that's, if that's where their funding is, then they're not gonna be able to be give, they're not gonna be able to give it out. So that's, that's a big issue at a larger level. I wonder if you see when markets kind of get scared. [00:03:34] You see something like, oh, the Dow is down, whatever that actually means. Does that, as far as you see impact folks that are writing checks, or is that money already sort of allocated into the, the grants at least that, that you all list and find for nonprofits? Well, first of all, the government grants, once they're announced, the money's. [00:03:57] So that's there. Mm-hmm. , uh, what happens is when we see new bills being passed and then there's new initiatives, so then there's new funding from the government, and then you have from state and local as well. The same thing when it comes to the foundations that can affect it, of course, if their money's tied up somewhere else. [00:04:17] But once they've announced the grant, they generally come. . So I don't, I don't see that impact. We may see less grants being announced from foundations if something like that happens, but you have to understand that a foundation has to spend a certain, they have to give out a certain amount of their money over, uh, certain period of years. [00:04:40] That's how that money goes into the foundation. So it, it doesn't impact it as much. What we did find over covid. That as soon as money was announced, it got used up very quickly. [00:04:54] Yeah. And maybe, I guess, do you get data, uh, year over year? So right now we're, we're sitting here and we're in the spring of 2023. Do you ever look at saying like, oh, we are, you know, up 10% for a number of grants being issued, or, Amount of of dollars being put out or is it does not work that way? ? Well, I could tell you that as far as grant watch goes, in 2019, I remember having a, a meeting and we had 3,500 grants on the website, and now we have hit 8,500 at different times. [00:05:32] Uh, right now we're about, I think 7,300 and we will be moving upward every time we do a new initiative on grant. , it takes the staff's energy and puts it into the new initiative. And so we slow down a little bit. It's like, you know, the bunny hop one step forward, two steps back, , you know, we're always juggling like that. [00:05:53] Uh, but we believe that we will, uh, be back up to 8,500 and the goal is 9,000, uh, in a short time. , and I know you have a lot of different types of grants. You know what percent, roughly speaking are government versus private foundations say, oh, well, that we keep right there on the front on the homepage of the website. [00:06:18] Uh, so how many are, so we know that we. , four nonprofit organizations. We have right now, 5,700 for individuals. We have close to 1900. Mm-hmm. and for small businesses, 1100. And that it, these numbers change every single day, and sometimes a grant is available for all three of these. Now as far as where the grants come from, you know, what percent or foundation grants, I mean, that's also something that changes, but, uh, at this moment, 5,000 of our grants happen to be foundation grants. [00:06:56] And that is Oh, that's interesting. Currently available. Yeah. Well, I mean, you can on, on the navigation bar, on grant watch, all the way to the right it says grants by type. And you can click that and then there's a total number that lets you know, and that's, you know, it's super helpful to see, I wanna come back in and, you know, it's actually nice to see that you haven't, haven't seen a, oh my gosh, we're at like, half the amount of grants have stopped. [00:07:24] You know, cuz I think we are, like you said, coming down off of a very high period. grant making in the aftermath of Covid and that money. I think, you know, when we were talking about private foundations, the fact that they have that, as you mentioned, 5% mandatory must be distributed in a 12 month timeframe. [00:07:43] Uh, it can be tough when maybe your overall endowment or, you know, frankly, holdings have decreased because the overall market's going down. But it doesn't seem like that, at least from grant watches standpoint. Uh, Affected the number of grants available to organizations, which, good thing, yeah, we, goodness, we don't see that we, we see us chasing it all the time. [00:08:06] I mean, we can't keep up with it. Some days it's just coming in nonstop. Mm-hmm. , I wanna pivot a little bit because I know you also have the grant writer team. Service, which has, you know, it pretty, pretty clear in the url saying like, Hey, do you need some help writing an actual grant? I have, I guess like a, maybe a, a personal assumption based on my own experience writing grants, that if I'm writing a grant but I have not talked to the issuing organization or somebody on that team there, my chances of winning that grant are, you know, kind of like snowball's chance on a beach situ. [00:08:47] Well, so this, remember I just mentioned we have a new initiative. So on grant watch right now, when you look at a grant, if you're a paid subscriber, you'll see, uh, if it's a foundation grant, most of them, uh, because we're getting the data, constantly getting new data have a, a button that says C view nine 90 report. [00:09:10] Now, when you click that, you get to. The nine 90 report that they filed with the IRS and all the data. So if we have an XML of it, uh, which is like an ex, it's like all coding, right? And we've taken that and we've put it into pie charts and graphs and bar graphs, uh, tables to give you that information. [00:09:35] And we let you know the website where the. , the funder is, and their phone number , you know, so you can really get in touch with the funding source. You can take a look who did they fund before we give you a list of the grants they gave money to. How much did they give? What states did they fu, you know, put the money into? [00:09:54] So now you look at it and you go, Hmm, I'm looking, I'm, I wanna apply for this grant. And it says it's for general support of non. But I'm looking, and all their money really went into preschools, and I'm looking to run an afterschool program for high school youth. Now, it may be a long shot for me because I see every single grant went to preschools. [00:10:21] So even though they're saying this, that's where their money is, that's their focus. So you get to look at that and through grant watch and what if you need a hundred thousand dollars? But you see that every grant they gave, they gave a lot of grants, but they were all 3000, 5,000, 10,000. It's nowhere near what you need. [00:10:40] So now are you gonna take your old, you know, when you write a grant, if you're a nonprofit, your entire organization is involved because there are parts to the grant that have questions and somebody's gotta answer those questions. , it's constant back and forth. There's all this interactive work that goes on when you're writing a grant. [00:11:00] Do you wanna spend your resources on a grant that's, first of all, isn't gonna give you enough money. It's not going to give you, uh, it doesn't, it doesn't seem likely that they're going to fund you. So why are you gonna go there? I mean, let's say your organization is politically conservative and it's well known that it's politically conservative and. [00:11:22] Foundation funds more left and or vice versa. You don't wanna go there. So, or your, um, your organiz nonprofit is a certain religion and they say that this money is for faith-based organizations, but they have never funded your religion. They've always funded a different religion. You don't wanna go there. [00:11:43] So, like you said, if you haven't spoken to anyone, you don't even wanna make that phone call. If you see that you're really, this is not for. But what if you see it is you have so much information you, you understand there's in the xml we are pulling and we're displaying what was the purpose of the grant that they gave the money for. [00:12:04] Like we have lots of grants for climate change and some grants are so specific of that O Oceanic grants, right? So you know where you're going when, when you're looking at the nine 90. So we've worked on this and we're still working. and we're still refining it. Uh, it's ready, uh, press release is gonna go out about it and people are able to use it already, and I can see that they're using it and that makes me very happy. [00:12:32] But that, you know, we do this, we slow down there, but we're catching up. I think it's. Really helpful to understand like where you can go to get more information. And frankly, the, the nine 90 is publicly available. It could be hard to parse though, I'll say, you know, going through, but the, the points you're making are excellent. [00:12:49] Saying like, what is the average grant size? What is the average organization look like? And frankly, if you don't look like those organizations, you know, take a pause and ask yourself, is this the, the grant for me? Maybe a, a different way of asking this question is, You are playing the grant writing game. [00:13:07] Would you ever submit a grant to a foundation if you had not talked to talk to them in some respect? , like zero personal connection and you're, you're firing off a blind grant. Right? So there's two different ways to work with the foundations. One is if you're going to just con, you're gonna write these, um, generic grant applications, a letter of inquiry, and you're gonna send them out to all these foundations. [00:13:33] So there's a certain percentage that people will say won't land in the garbage can, right? Hmm. It's kind of like a fundraising letter. You get a. And you send it out. And there's a few people that I don't know, the kid was in the hospital recently. They wanna give charity. They, uh, they believe that it, you know, giving charity will help them. [00:13:54] And so you'll get a check, right? And, and that they'll give charity, you know, the, it's like the, the, um, the boomerang effect. You know, you, the, you throw things out to the universe and thing. Good things come back to you. And so that's how those fundraising letters work. Somebody has pulled your hearts. And it happens to me many times I get it letter and I never thought of this organization before, and I, it's just that time that I really feel, I wanna say thank you to the universe, to God, and so I'm giving something to somebody else. [00:14:29] That's, that's basically what your letter of inquiry to these foundations that have never said that they're giving money does. If you wanna do. , it's a waste of time, uh, for the effort. But people do it if you wanna do the phone calls. The communication, that's the other way. People used to apply to foundations. [00:14:52] They would go to sit in the foundation center building, you know, for a full day and sit there and make lists and lists and lists and photocopies and come home with a list and then they'd start making phone calls. I would. I was guilty of it also, I'd look in who's who in America for that name. I'd see if I have any connection whatsoever to that person or some family member of mine. [00:15:13] Uh, were they in the same high school? Did they graduate the same year? Did they, did we have, uh, a hobby in common? How can I approach them? I tried that. That's why we built Grant Watch . We deal with currently available grants, and so you don't need to make that phone. You need to apply. You need to follow the directions in their grant application. [00:15:36] That's the difference of Grant watch and just going through foundations. Now we're offering it now. If you want, it's there. Right? But we are taking it a different way. You found a grant on Grant watch that is being offered from by a foundation and now you can see all the nine 90 information. You wanna make that phone call. [00:15:57] You can, sometimes it may give you an. Sometimes it may get the person upset with you. They put out an application, can't you follow directions? You know, you know, you have to know what's going on. And so we take it from a different point of view. [00:16:12] Yeah. I do remember, I actually, uh, I, I know the foundation center. I grew up in New York and I have, uh, I have been in the, in the office and gone through that cold approach and it definitely felt like a massive waste of. And from the sort of like smile and dial, but like for what? And it seems like you actually have a decent amount of faith that when you have a grant that you find and you follow the directions that, you know, while it may seem like a black hole, it is actually the a, a fair enough process to, as long as you're matching the, the size of the grant, the type of the organization that you, you will hear back from them. [00:16:51] Is that your feeling? But Right. But. The first thing if you ask me for a tip is check the eligibility. Do you meet that eligibility? They're gonna say in the grant application, who they wanna fund. And oftentimes they'll say what they will not fund. And if you don't meet all the criteria, if you can't check off all the boxes, don't apply. [00:17:16] If you say, well, maybe, you know, they said if you have to be in business, uh, the nonprofit has to be up for at least five years. Well, we're at three and a half. Maybe they'll let it slide. Don't apply. They made the rules. , you know, this is it. And so somebody at the foundation is receiving everything and she has, or he has the list of rules. [00:17:39] What's the eligibility? And then there is a stack that is passed onto the board members. The ones that don't meet eligibility criteria never get there. So why bother? . Yeah. Maybe you just really like paperwork . Right? You're like, I, I Real hall. Gotta take those shots. Yeah. I don't believe in that and especially with a government grant, you really better match. [00:18:07] Yeah. What is the big difference you see between government grants and foundation grants? Well, government grants are generally much larger. mm-hmm. than a foundation grant. Uh, most often they're multiple years. They have, uh, an evaluation criteria that you need to put in, uh, much more strict in what they're asking. [00:18:32] A federal grant can take you 60 hours of work that they tell you it will take you when it might take you 120. It's just much more strict. , it's generally a lot more objective, whereas a foundation has people sitting on the board. They may have somebody that they know is applying, that they're waiting for that particular application. [00:18:55] Everybody might have their favorite kind of situation. But when I went to, uh, DC to score grants for the federal government, I was a peer reviewer. We sat in a. , they took, uh, they take apart a hotel and they take the beds out of the room and they put tables and you're there with, uh, three other people and we get 10 grants and they're quite thick. [00:19:21] Uh, they're about a hundred, 150 pages. And you sit there and you read and you score according to all the criteria. And then if we are too far apart, we discuss it. If we are all on the same mark, then that's the. and there's usually somebody else that is there to break the tie. And that's even that as objective as that is, because if I know one of those organizations, I'm not gonna allowed to score it and have to sign that I don't. [00:19:48] But even with all that, if there's chocolate on the table, I might be in a better mood. Eating my Hershey's kisses, uh, then the, the room next door. So my, our, our scores might get a little higher than the other room. And then, so that batch of 10 could be a little bit lower than ours and hours might fly above. [00:20:09] You know, it's just we're not computers where human beings and things happen. Yeah, we, uh, I, I had experience as well, sort of scoring grants as part of the nonprofit coordinating committee. And there's, you know, it, it can be frustrating looking at like, I wish all systems were perfect, but the truth is that yeah, if you're hungry, you're gonna get a longer prison sentence. [00:20:32] Uh, from a judge, right? And those, uh, those reports, those research is, is out there. So I think the lesson that everyone should take away is obviously send chocolate with your grant submission, shov it into the machine and just right over the fence. , I mean, I think you point to another facet of this, which is that there is, uh, human on the other side and. [00:20:55] you know, how you present your numbers is one thing, but how you present your story seems like another, because you end up needing an internal champion. Know when it comes down to it because you, you are having subjective scores, but then conversations. So there is somebody who you are trying to pull onto your side as you do this grant. [00:21:15] No, it could be, you can try to make that call. You can try to reach out. Sometimes you get there and sometimes they don't wanna hear from. , you know, so it, it is, it is a tactic. Uh, but you can't do that with the federal government. You're really not allowed to. Uh, and the people that you might talk to on the phone will not be the ones that are scoring the grants. [00:21:39] Mm-hmm. . So, yeah. How do you, yeah, that makes sense. That's what I'd hope from the government. But you know, what I used, used to do, my last set of grants that I wrote, . I used to make the organization charts very colorful. I'd actually put a little picture on the side, a cartoon that represented what we were trying to do. [00:21:59] Uh, I just wanted to make them smile. I would add some bar graphs and pie charts and in color now, depends how it was copied, if it was copied on black and white or color. Now everything's copied in color anyway, so it's not a. , but understand that if you're reading 10 pages of one section in a federal grant and there's nothing in between all these paragraphs, somebody's gonna be really bored. [00:22:25] But if you can squeeze a chart or a table in, it looks a lot better. [00:22:29] the, the sort of, the, the craft of trying to break up. You know, the, the daunting layers of text that, that are involved here, right, is, um, is a real art. Mm-hmm. , um, I like shorter paragraphs. The, however, sometimes you have a grant that says the page limit is five pages. The paragraph, uh, each section has a character count. [00:22:57] That's it. You have to follow that, and those are the hard ones because you really have a lot to say and you have to. very concisely. Yeah. Well, I actually kind of respect the, the word count limit when they're giving you an idea of like what it is that they're actually after. Mm-hmm. . Um, it's actually kind of nice. [00:23:16] Uh, I would say I'm curious about seasonality. Is there, you know, a standard fiscal year that you see? Does it change? Uh, what is your, well, you know, you have nonprofits of January. , you know, their fiscal year could be January to December and it could be um, June to July, right? Or July to June. Uh, so it really depends on the, the foundations. [00:23:45] Uh, we see that deadlines often happen either mid month or end of month for grants. And that's really, that's a very interesting thing. You know, if you miss a deadline, that's it. You can, you can have the most wonderful grant, but you miss the deadline. You, you need to hold it for the next, you know, the next application. [00:24:07] And so Grant, we are working on our grant calendar. That's the next thing where we, when we, when I feel like I've done enough with the nine 90 s, even though we have a grant calendar, I'm working, I have ideas to make it even. . That's, that's great. And I know of other things you're working on. You mentioned before I pressed record here that you're working on a book Yes. [00:24:29] Which is exciting. Can you, can you share anything about that? Well, it's titled the Queen of Grants from teacher to CEO to grant writer to CEO, . It's about my journey, uh, from starting out as a teacher all the way into grant watch and what I'm doing now. [00:24:48] I want to leave a legacy so people can realize that the decisions, every decision we make in life and every fork in the road we take, leads us back, leads us somewhere either back to where we started with something we wanted to do or beyond. And you know, just things happen. And that's. , so I'm hoping. [00:25:13] Well, it sounds, you know, like still something that will be hyper relevant to, to organizations as long here. Here's the thing, as as long as super wealthy organizations and governments need nonprofits to fill the gap of service to each other, there is going to be a process. That process is gonna involve grants. [00:25:32] And you're gonna have to write them. So, uh, I, I'd say, you know, at least the topic is, is fairly future-proofed. Well, I wanna take, I wanna take them through my journey. I wanna take people through my journey, but I also want to show them how to write a grant. I want to give them my knowledge. I wanna pass it, pass it on so that people learn what I've learned throughout the. [00:25:57] I was going through your, your bio here, and I was just sort of curious on your, your, your total amount of, of grants won. And by my rough math, it looks like while you were a grant writer at NYC Department of Education, uh, in Brooklyn which is actually also where I'm from in good old Brooklyn, uh, you raised 11 million. [00:26:17] And then on top of that, your awarded grant history seems to total up to about 6.5 million. So, I mean, , you're coming in at a close 20 million in terms of, uh, total, if I'm getting these numbers right, for winning grants, that's, and I retired. It's strong, and I retired from grant writing and people were throwing money at me. [00:26:36] Libby, please write this grant, please. This grant. And I said, I just couldn't do it anymore. I opened the business and it was just too much. You either running a, running a company, or now it's companies or you're a grant. and we built grant writer team because the realization is that if you have to go out there and look for jobs, you can't write grants. [00:27:02] So you need to have the, the projects flowing into you, not you going out and searching. So we built it and it's, it's working. There are always grant writers looking for work. They come to us and they, they're fed constant. . Yeah. No, it's, it's uniquely different too, in terms of, oh, I need someone to write this, you know, you know, blog post or resource article, this generic, go find a writer versus like, we need our story told in the right way, in the right word count based on this grant, you know? [00:27:36] Mm-hmm. , I, I think it is uniquely different, isn't it? Yeah. And you also need your story told with your passion. So if, if you are, if you hire a grant writer, And they have no connection whatsoever to what you wanna do. You sh that's the wrong person for you. I always tell my grant writers if there's a job out there, and hypothetically, let's just take a Alzheimer's, and that's what it's for, what the grant is for. [00:28:06] If you have an uncle, and hopefully not, but if you have an uncle who has it and suffered from it, or a best friend and you. Then you should write that grant because you can speak in the same passion as the nonprofit you're representing, but if you've never seen it, if you have no connection to what it is, that's not your job. [00:28:29] And that's how we want the grant writers to apply. We want them to look at the look at what the nonprofit is saying and see if you have any background whatsoever in that, because otherwise you can't speak to that passion. . That makes sense. I'm curious, I think I know what your answer will be, but let me just map out something. [00:28:49] I, I'm not sure if you've seen the many articles that have been coming out about AI tools that can write, like people, uh, tools like, uh, chat, G B T and others. I'm, I'm curious because one of the concerns I see is, is that with the proliferation of just general writing, Computers. I am afraid that it's gonna be creating a lot more things like grant submissions and has this, you know, one unintended consequence maybe of saturating certain foundations and application processes with just tons of generically written grant submissions, which could make it harder for folks playing by standard rules. [00:29:38] I, I don't know if you. . So a hot take on this or not, my take is that we use what's available, right? I mean, I wrote my first grant on, uh, Commodore 64, right? I had one of those Dynamite Machine. . Okay. So what, what's available we use, however, the chat bot is a language. a good English language writer. So if you want to answer a question to that's posed in the grant application and you write your answer now, you can give it to chatbot and say, edit this, and then paste your paragraphs in and they'll spit it back out to you with all of your information. [00:30:28] And now you have better English language. Right? But you, you wrote. , it's just being edited. So you may have saved the editor, but if you say, Hmm, I, uh, chatbot, I need, um, a paragraph on the statistics of car steps in KSI, right. , that's not good. You didn't do any of the research and you shouldn't use it that way. [00:30:58] First of all, because you don't know what it's looking at. You don't know what the primary or secondary source was. You have no idea. It's not quoting anything. And the one that's out there is based on 2021. That was the last time it was updated. So anybody using that for that kind of research is making a big mistake. [00:31:17] And a lot of it can be. from somebody else's article or whatever. But if you are giving the information, you already wrote it and all this chatbot is doing is rearranging your paragraph a little bit, a little better. I don't see the problem with that. It's, uh, it's interesting. I, I think absolutely, it's, uh, it's an addition to nu instead of, and frankly, not ignoring it might. [00:31:43] At your own peril because I think it can accelerate and improve when used correctly. I'm not sure how many people actually understand the nuance that it's going to, uh, lie about facts, but actually be decent about what it's supposed to do, which is predict the next word that should come in the sentence and follow directions, uh mm-hmm. [00:32:03] So what I hope is super important note, right? But I hope it's not taking my information and giving it to somebody. Am I teaching the chatbot? Yes, you are. Okay. So I might be causing myself some competition if I'm a grant writer. You are. It's, uh, it's so hard because it is unfortunately, like, you know, this catch 22 where certainly you could hold back, but you know, the, the fact that you're writing a book and. [00:32:34] You know, pieces that you have done writing on in terms of your approach and strategy like that. You know, has been hoovered up by the trillions of data points that this thing has been trained on, and I'm, you know, curious and, and how that impacts the, the ecosystem of grant writing. And also, like, I, I mean it from the foundation side, I'm, uh, I'm worried about humans trying to keep up with robots on one side of it because you need a human to evaluate it. [00:33:02] You can't fake that. Can you have a lazy grant written by, uh, chat G P t? Yeah, you can. Yeah. But you have, you still have to have a plan, a grant, there's a program. I need money. What do I need the money for? Yeah. Well, I need the money for I always go back to preschool. I love that or, you know, raising reading scores and I'm going to teach, uh, reading through the arts. [00:33:29] That's my program. And because of that, I need this much money in supplies and, and th these are the supplies I wanna buy. I don't see chat. Um, doing that, I see chat, taking my opening paragraph and making it, and beefing it up and giving me some alternatives to what I wanna say. I write three sentences and I don't think it's really punchy enough. [00:33:52] And I say to Chad, you know, edit this, make it more exciting. And they give me three different version. and it's all my words, and now I have it and it sounds a little better. That's how I see it. You can't, you can't. Chad's not making me a budget for my proposal. Not a good one, . No. I mean, no, it's not right. [00:34:10] It'll guess that I need to know the salaries of the people that I wanna hire. I need to know what, uh, percentage of the, their full-time equivalent is going to be used for this program. I mean, if I have a supervisor in a. And that supervisor is going to supervise the afterschool program, but they also supervise the adult education program. [00:34:31] There's a percentage of their time that's allotted for my program. Chad's not doing that, so I think that those, those grants are gonna be spotted right away. . Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Uh, I have one more question before we go to, to rapid fire cuz I'm just kind of curious about, uh, another pitfall I'd say of frankly what happens when a nonprofit that you know, helps preschool, but then also sees a tempting grant, but would have to extend their programs to go get it. [00:35:07] Such as, let's just say like gardens in schools and they're like, well, I guess we could create a whole gardening program because we see this grant, this, you know, tail wagging the dog sort of thing. How, how do you view it given your history with the relationship of the grant making process and when we're trying to fit our new program together, we get money. [00:35:30] Well, if that garden is going to enhance their preschool program, that's great. They just never thought of it before, are they? But you know, how are they going to use it? And now they really have to show how. The children may be learning to identify plants, how they're going to learn the colors because of the garden. [00:35:51] If they're going to take all of that and include it in the gardening and they're really committed to doing it, that's great. If they're not committed to doing it, you know, a foundation can say, Hey, we wanna come visit. because they wanna do some press and they never even started the garden. They're gonna have to give all that money down. [00:36:07] Show me some carrots. Yeah. Now those carrots take a while to grow . Right? Right. And some foundations wanna get pictures because they wanna put it up on their website. So you know, you can write a great grant, but if you don't really plan to implement it, you're gonna have to give the money back. Yeah. I'd say other cautionary tales include sort of when you see, hey, we. [00:36:31] A program developed in a city where you aren't and you're like, oh, we can, you know, create a footprint here and develop, develop our services. And the problem is when that grant runs out, you still have an obligation to that community, employees and a foot footprint. And I have seen that happen. And that's, uh, that's disastrous actually. [00:36:49] Right? Well, the, a good organization gets a grant and immediately starts applying for. . You don't get one grant and say, oh, we're done. We don't have to do this anymore. That's what happened in, uh, community School District 18. We had to constantly write grants. It wasn't, you get one pat on the back and that's great. [00:37:12] You just keep writing and writing [00:37:14] Oh gosh. It sounds, sounds like a lot of fun. Um, yeah. Well, I learned it was a great learning. . All right. Let's jump into the rapid fire questions and hopefully, uh, give you a quick response to, to some of these. Uh, let's just kick it off. What, uh, tech tool or website, uh, have you started using in the last year? [00:37:39] Well, we used SIM Rush, and that is very helpful. A lot of people in the organization use it for different things. The developers use it to look at. links that are not, that are giving 4 0 4 errors. It identifies that the marketing people use it for seo. So it's very versatile. What tech issues are you currently battling with inner joining tables? [00:38:06] That, that is something I'm, I'm battling with because I wanna inter joinin three tables for the nine 90 reports, and that's giving me a little trouble. But hopefully we'll get through it every time we, we want to do something, we find a way. Uh, what is coming in the next year that has you the most excited? [00:38:25] Well, I'm really excited about the nine 90 report. The next is the calendar to make it much more interac. And at the same time, my book finishing it up. Can you talk about a mistake that you made earlier in your career that shapes the way you do things today? Well, early in my career we, in my career in Grant watch, you can, you can choose, so you can say earlier in grant watch, or you can go back [00:38:59] Okay. In Grant watch. I knew we could build a website, but I didn't know anything at all about code. So we had hired somebody and he was right out of school and he was like leading us, but we knew what, we knew what we wanted Grant watch to do, and it was then called NYC Grants watch to show you how my dream was so small that it was just NY. [00:39:27] and then it went to New York State and then it went to all the states around it, and then it went throughout the United States. Then it became International Israel, Canada, and kept growing. Now, you know, when you build, you build small. You keep having to do things and add, and add and add. You know, since then we've now we changed our, our server just. [00:39:48] In November and we went from a small ser, you know, a smaller server to a very large humongous server. So I think the mistake was not seeing all that. It could be how great it could be. I was just focused on NYC and it just kept going. So I, I think that's pretty much it. And I, if we say a mistake, I should have gone back to school and learned to code. [00:40:12] Do you believe nonprofits can successfully go out of business, can go out of business successfully? I How do you successfully go out of business? I mean, go out of business, you close your doors because you, you can't provide services anymore. So how do you successfully go out of. Well, hypothetically in the case where you were tasked to solve a social problem and you solve it such as, you know, we did it polio solved, we can close the door successfully would be one example. [00:40:47] Okay. I guess they could, um, , but if I, if I was that same nonprofit, I would say, Hey, let's take on another disease and let's go further. We, we have the recipe. for success. So why, why close the doors [00:41:03] if I were to put you in a hot tub time machine? And I think I'm, I know what you're gonna say, but we'll go through it anyway. A hot tub time machine. Back to the beginning of your work with Grant watch, what advice would you give yourself? Well, I said I probably learned to code. What advice would I give myself? [00:41:20] I think I would, my biggest problem. Today is finding my successor. That's, that's my problem. Within my family, I have you know, people in the business, but because the business has grown so much, we each take a different leadership role and there's nobody to take my leadership role at this point. And so that's my greatest. [00:41:48] And if anybody's out there listening and you think you can be me, let me know. [00:41:53] That's that. I think that is a first for our podcast. Well, there you go. We'll see who gets back to you. What, what is something you think that you should stop doing? Well, I have been in development from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Every day since Grant watch began, and that's, it's time to move that over to somebody else. [00:42:18] Um, I've worked hand, you know, right, with the developers many times just on shared screen, directing every single color, every single letter and word on the website. And that's something that I need to be able to pass over to someone else. If I were to give you a magic wand to wave across the social impact sector, or maybe we can say the philanthropic sector, what would it do? [00:42:46] Uh, I would tell them to not react to everything going on in the, in the chaos and follow your gut. The nonprofits just keep reinventing, reinventing what their focus is because of what's going on in the world. And I think that we know who we need to provide services for and why and how, and we should stay the course. [00:43:22] What advice would you give college graduates looking to enter the social impact sector? I would tell them to take a grant writing. And go and volunteer at a nonprofit and write grants for them. And even if you don't win immediately, you will because you'll be persistent and you will have a career. [00:43:47] What advice did your parents give you that you either followed or did not follow? Well, I was supposed to go to. , I got accepted to Pratt. I had a portfolio and my parents did not want me in an art school during the time of the hippies. Uh, so I didn't go. I went to Brooklyn College, minored in fine arts and, uh, majored in education. [00:44:13] So I did follow. My parents were active in the community wherever they lived, so, and I learned that. You know, the impact that people could have on social organizations. So I think I followed everything. I, I was always a good kid, . All right. Final question. How do people find you? How do people help you? Well, grant watch.com. [00:44:42] G R A N T W A T C H. Our phone number, uh, our contact information is there. We have a chat, uh, that's open during office hours. If you leave us a mess, a message on the chat, we'll get back to you. We return phone calls, uh, we're right there and we, we answer the phones. [00:45:05] Well, I appreciate the resource you've created for the sector and for sharing, uh, for sharing some strategies with us today. Uh, thank you so much. Thank you. It was fun going down memory lane with you, .

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The New York Women's House of Detention was a fixture of Greenwich Village from 1932 to 1974. For public historian Hugh Ryan, its position as a cultural center is proof that jails and prisons were not always peripheral to the development of communities in the United States. In fact, they were sometimes considered in the urban planning of cities and neighborhoods. Ryan discovered the Women's House of Detention (also known as The House of D) on a walking tour, where he also learned of its unfamiliar history as a queer landmark. His curiosity unearthed a plethora of evidence verifying this claim, largely drawn from social worker documentation of the queer experiences of justice-involved youth and working-class people throughout the twentieth century. In his recent book, The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Bold Type Books, 2022), Ryan asserts: "The House of D helped make Greenwich Village queer, and the Village, in return, helped define queerness for America. No other prison has played such a significant role in our history, particularly for working-class women and transmasculine people." Ryan also demonstrates how people housed at the institution, such as notable activists Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur, informed each other about the intersections of Black and queer liberation movements. In this episode, Malcolm Tariq, senior manager of editorial projects for PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing, asks Ryan about being a student of abolition, the ethics of constructing narratives from archives, and how people in the House of Detention participated in the resistance efforts at nearby Stonewall in 1969. Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which New York Magazine called one of the best books of 2022. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a 2020 New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors' Choice in 2019, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association. Since 2019, he has worked with the NYC Dept. of Education to develop LGBTQ+ inclusive educational materials and trainings. Malcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf, 2020), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, and Extended Play (Gertrude Press, 2017). He was a 2016-2017 playwriting apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company and a 2020-2021 resident playwright with Liberation Theatre Company. A graduate of Emory University, Malcolm holds a PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is the senior manager of editorial projects for Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America.

We talk with Lesley Koplow of the Center for Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street College and Allison Demas, an instructional coordinator in the NYC Dept. of Education about the recent struggle in NYC to save social worker and IC positions and why these roles are so important for children's emotional and academic development.

Today's 5-Star Guest is Libby Hikind. Libby is the Founder and CEO of GrantWatch.com, the leading grant funding search engine for nonprofits, businesses, and individuals. Libby holds a post master's degree in Educational Administration and Supervision and is a wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Libby is often referred to as the "Queen of Grants." Libby opened GrantWatch in 2010 after retiring from her 29+ years as a teacher with the New York City Department of Education. While teaching, Libby wrote grants for her special education classroom, mainstream education and business careers, computers, and entrepreneurship classroom. For two years, Libby worked as a grant writer for an NYC Dept of Ed Brooklyn school district raising $11 million.GrantWatch.com is now the leading grant website in the funding industry. GrantWatch is the online resource for grants for nonprofits, government agencies, municipalities, foundations, corporations, small businesses, and individuals. Today more than 200,000 nonprofits, businesses, and individuals visit GrantWatch.com each month and also read GrantsNews, a blog that offers late-breaking grant and fundraising news.Connect With GrantWatch.com: https://www.grantwatch.com/Support This Podcast! Make a quick and easy donation here:https://www.patreon.com/dogoodbetterSpecial THANK YOU to our sponsors:Donor Dock - The best CRM system for your small to medium sized nonprofit, hands down! Visit www.DonorDock.com and use the Promo Code DOGOODBETTER for a FREE month!One Cause - The most intuitive event and online fundraising software available! Visit www.OneCause.com to help make your busy event-planning life less stressful and more successful!Brady Martz - The Nonprofit Audit Specialists! Visit www.BradyMartz.com to connect with folks to make your fiscal life a heckuvalot easier!iTunes: https://apple.co/3a3XenfSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2PlqRXsYouTube: https://bit.ly/3kaWYanTunein: http://tun.in/pjIVtStitcher: https://bit.ly/3i8jfDRFollow On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoodBetterPodcast/Follow On Twitter: @consulting_do #fundraising #fundraiser #charity #nonprofit #donate#dogood #dogoodBETTER #fargo #fundraisingdadAbout Host Patrick Kirby:Email: Patrick@dogoodbetterconsulting.comLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fundraisingdad/Want more great advice? Buy Patrick's book! Now also available as an e-book!Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing GoodAvailable through Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072070359

The message sent by Kansas voters last night was as surprising as it was clear: keep abortion legal in our state. By a large margin, traditionally conservative Kansas rejected an amendment that would have taken away women's right to abortion. It was the first time Americans were called to weigh in on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. That's despite polls showing broad public support for abortion rights. President Biden has now called on Congress to pass a law to restore the protections Roe provided, and with the midterms just three months away, this could be a potent issue for Democrats. Donna Shalala served as health secretary under Bill Clinton and joins the show to discuss.  Also on today's show: US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Wounded Warrior Project campaigner Jose Ramos; NYC Dept. of Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

New York City councilman Joe Borelli blasted the city's health department on Friday for describing "safe" drug use as "empowering.""Don't be ashamed you are using, be empowered that you are using safely," a poster on the New York City subway quotes as testimony for overdose prevention. The poster, published by the NYC Department of Health, gives tips on using drugs safely.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK

THE THESIS: The effort to erase God from American society has sown its poison fruit.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Timothy 2:3 Godlessness in the Last Days 3 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God 10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom] you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. THE NEWS & COMMENT: Dear Friends, Sorry to Announce a Genocide -- It's Really True: They Know they are Killing the Babies Friend who lives in Manhattan sends pic of this subway ad courtesy of the NYC Dept of Health. Heroin addiction -- it's empowering! Abortion-Communion controversy: Pope Francis elevates bishop who defended serving pro-choice politicians A Biblical Worldview Has a Radical Effect on a Person's Life, from 2003. Changes in Worldview Among Christians over the Past 13 Years, 2009 State of the Bible 2021: Five Key Findings Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns I make $5K a day selling my boob sweat in jars See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators want their education ingrained in antiracism and hope that by acknowledging and teaching about bias and systemic discrimination in the medical field, the next generation of doctors will be better equipped to dismantle racism within health care. STAT's “Color Code” takes a look at the groundswell of antiracism work in medicine and medical education, and explores the backlash these endeavors have received, which span from institutional repercussions to protests from hate groupsGuests:Jerrel Catlett: An MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rebecca Zhou: A peer in medical school at Mt. Sinai.Jennifer Dias: An MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Michelle Morse: Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.Aysha Khoury: Assistant Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.Read a full transcript on our website.Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter featuring the latest health policy research and news.Support this type of journalism today, with a gift.Follow us on Twitter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Judy Forbin is a Nonprofit Development Specialist at Edgepoint Consulting, a nonprofit development firm that provides 501C start-up services, grant writing and fundraising consulting as well as speaking, and training services to nonprofit organizations and leaders.Judy is a certified grant writer and experienced nonprofit leader and is passionate about building highly impactful nonprofit organizations.  Over the course of her career, she has helped to secure over $18M in grant funding working for and with organizations such as Susan G. Komen, the American Cancer Society, and the NYC Dept of Health. She has served as a director on the executive boards for two nonprofits. She currently heads a consulting agency dedicated to “Building Better Nonprofits”.  Her frank and engaging style comes in handy as she works with nonprofits to identify funding opportunities, implement systems, and develop strategic plans to grow and sustain their organization.The expertise she brings to nonprofits was honed in her various roles as program director, hospital administrator, and educator. In 2018 Judy decided to dedicate her career skills to her company full-time. Her company Edgepoint Consulting currently boasts a 100% approval rate for 501(c)(3) filings on behalf of its nonprofit clients.Her current 2022 mission is to help 120 nonprofit leaders to launch and fully fund their organizations so they can build sustainable and profitable nonprofits.Connect with her at https:edgepointconsultant.comFREE Business Credit Masterclass here: https://bizcredithelper.comThe Cortez Hustle Show Book Of The Month is "Expert Secrets" by Russell Brunson Get Your Free Copy Here!Text the keyword "Mastermind" to 314-866-4053 to join our private group and get hundreds of dollars in free training & resources weekly. This mastermind is 100% FREE.Support Our Show Partner Bob CraneClick here for FREE Financial Resources: https://bit.ly/tchsbobOpen Arms Wellness - For all of your mental health needs. Take a quick survey to get matched up with the right counselor today: https://bit.ly/h2htherapistmatchOther helpful resources:Dominate Social Media And Build An Attractive, Powerful Profitable, Personal Brand https://personalbranding365.comDesign stunning graphics for your brand try Canva Pro here https://bit.ly/tomcanvaUse Content Study to schedule your social media post to be omnipresent on all platforms: https://tomcontentstudio+++3 TOOLS EVERY ENTREPRENEUR NEEDS TO GROW +++1. Digital Marketing Platform - Create your own websites, sales funnels, digital products, online communities, and more with the Digital Empire System. It's the Premier All-In-One Digital Marketing Platform. Start your 14 Day FREE trial of Go HighLevel by Clicking Here!2. Mentorship/Mastermind - Every entrepreneur should have a coach, mentor, or be part of a mastermind group. The Monetize My Life Academy is the premier Digital Marketing Mastermind for entrepreneurs looking to get more out of the internet and social media. If you're looking to grow your online presence this is the mastermind group for you. Click Here3. Financial Education - Ask any entrepreneur why they're building a business and I guarantee that "LEGACY" is in their top 3 answers. Having the right financial education is what makes building that legacy a reality. Our FinancialEdge membership is designed with unlimited access to professionals to help you Minimize Taxes, Improve Credit, Reduce Debt, And Grow Your Money For Retirement with Done-For-You Real Estate Investing and Other Strategies. Click Here==ABOUT THE CORTEZ HUSTLE SHOW==iTunes: Click HereStitcher: Click HereSpotify: Click HereGoogle Podcast: Click HereAmazon Music: Click Here====================================================Email: hcortez@ThorntonOnlineMarketing.comWebsite https://thorntononlinemarketing.comhttps://www.facebook.com/thorntononlinemarketingllchttp://instagram.com/thorntononlinemarketinghttp://twitter.com/finhealthmentorDISCLAIMER: H Cortez aka Financial Health Mentor is NOT afinancial advisor/planner or CPA. The information shared on this channel is not financial advice but instead examples of actual experiences of H Cortez and the guests of the channel. Also, any mention/reference to income is NOT a guarantee but merely an example of potential income that could be made if one puts in the work required. Always see a certified professional assist you in your financial matters. Finally, the links recommended in most cases pay me a small commission if you were to click through and buy. That's one of the ways I finance the podcast.=====REFERENCES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS=====1 Minute Motivation YouTube CreditShow Some Love To The "iHustle Motivation" Channel: Click Here1 Minute Motivation Video: Click HereIntro Music for The Cortez Hustle Show Intro Courtesy of Anno Domini Beats#nonprofit #cortezhustle #grantwriting

Born across the pond in England, this singer started at a young age. From Bow Wow Wow and the Sex Gang Children, he was a founding member of the Culture Club. After dissolving the Culture Club due to his drug addiction, he enters treatment in an attempt to address his addictions. At that same time, he came out as bisexual, causing quite a stir in the 80's news media. After launching a successful solo career, he slips back into the drug scene. On a British talk show, his own brother called him out for being a heroin addict. Scotland Yard opened an investigation after 3 of his close friends die of overdoses around his orbit.He gets arrested after he called the police for a potential burglary at his apartment and while there, they find his cocaine stash. He was arrested and ordered to the NYC Dept. of Sanitation to perform his community service hours. Back on the straight and narrow, he releases 2 Electronica/ Dance records, which launches he second career as a DJ! With a few World Tours under his belt as a DJ, he enjoys his third career as a reality talent show judge.He's recently released some new YouTube videos, new songs for a return to singing. He has his own record label, He won a Grammy, two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, its the Legend of Lt. Lush, Boy George!Leave an Anonymous SpeakPipe Voice Msg: www.crimeinmusic.comTweet Us: www.twitter.com/crimeinmusicGram: www.instagram.com/crimeinusicFaceBook: www.facebook.com/crimeinmusicProud member of the Pantheon Podcasts Network

Born across the pond in England, this singer started at a young age. From Bow Wow Wow and the Sex Gang Children, he was a founding member of the Culture Club. After dissolving the Culture Club due to his drug addiction, he enters treatment in an attempt to address his addictions. At that same time, he came out as bisexual, causing quite a stir in the 80's news media. After launching a successful solo career, he slips back into the drug scene. On a British talk show, his own brother called him out for being a heroin addict. Scotland Yard opened an investigation after 3 of his close friends die of overdoses around his orbit. He gets arrested after he called the police for a potential burglary at his apartment and while there, they find his cocaine stash. He was arrested and ordered to the NYC Dept. of Sanitation to perform his community service hours. Back on the straight and narrow, he releases 2 Electronica/ Dance records, which launches he second career as a DJ! With a few World Tours under his belt as a DJ, he enjoys his third career as a reality talent show judge. He's recently released some new YouTube videos, new songs for a return to singing. He has his own record label, He won a Grammy, two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, its the Legend of Lt. Lush, Boy George! Leave an Anonymous SpeakPipe Voice Msg: www.crimeinmusic.com Tweet Us: www.twitter.com/crimeinmusic Gram: www.instagram.com/crimeinusic FaceBook: www.facebook.com/crimeinmusic Proud member of the Pantheon Podcasts Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Born across the pond in England, this singer started at a young age. From Bow Wow Wow and the Sex Gang Children, he was a founding member of the Culture Club. After dissolving the Culture Club due to his drug addiction, he enters treatment in an attempt to address his addictions. At that same time, he came out as bisexual, causing quite a stir in the 80's news media. After launching a successful solo career, he slips back into the drug scene. On a British talk show, his own brother called him out for being a heroin addict. Scotland Yard opened an investigation after 3 of his close friends die of overdoses around his orbit. He gets arrested after he called the police for a potential burglary at his apartment and while there, they find his cocaine stash. He was arrested and ordered to the NYC Dept. of Sanitation to perform his community service hours. Back on the straight and narrow, he releases 2 Electronica/ Dance records, which launches he second career as a DJ! With a few World Tours under his belt as a DJ, he enjoys his third career as a reality talent show judge. He's recently released some new YouTube videos, new songs for a return to singing. He has his own record label, He won a Grammy, two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, its the Legend of Lt. Lush, Boy George!Leave an Anonymous SpeakPipe Voice Msg: www.crimeinmusic.comTweet Us: www.twitter.com/crimeinmusicGram: www.instagram.com/crimeinusicFaceBook: www.facebook.com/crimeinmusicProud member of the Pantheon Podcasts Network

Born across the pond in England, this singer started at a young age. From Bow Wow Wow and the Sex Gang Children, he was a founding member of the Culture Club. After dissolving the Culture Club due to his drug addiction, he enters treatment in an attempt to address his addictions. At that same time, he came out as bisexual, causing quite a stir in the 80's news media. After launching a successful solo career, he slips back into the drug scene. On a British talk show, his own brother called him out for being a heroin addict. Scotland Yard opened an investigation after 3 of his close friends die of overdoses around his orbit. He gets arrested after he called the police for a potential burglary at his apartment and while there, they find his cocaine stash. He was arrested and ordered to the NYC Dept. of Sanitation to perform his community service hours. Back on the straight and narrow, he releases 2 Electronica/ Dance records, which launches he second career as a DJ! With a few World Tours under his belt as a DJ, he enjoys his third career as a reality talent show judge. He's recently released some new YouTube videos, new songs for a return to singing. He has his own record label, He won a Grammy, two Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello Award, its the Legend of Lt. Lush, Boy George! Leave an Anonymous SpeakPipe Voice Msg: www.crimeinmusic.com Tweet Us: www.twitter.com/crimeinmusic Gram: www.instagram.com/crimeinusic FaceBook: www.facebook.com/crimeinmusic Proud member of the Pantheon Podcasts Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A  CO-TEACHING CLASSROOM INCREASES STUDENT EQUITY Returning guest and ed consultant John Schembari brings with him from the NYC Dept of Ed, Peer Collaborative Teacher Keiya Smith.CHECK OUT COTEACH.COM FOR MORE ON EQUITY VISIT ACE-ED.ORG. FOR MORE ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING, VISIT SELTODAY.ORG Did you know you can subscribe to Education Talk Radio on Apple Podcasts? Find us on your device & add us to your library of shows! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id403710198

A  CO-TEACHING CLASSROOM INCREASES STUDENT EQUITY Returning guest and ed consultant John Schembari brings with him from the NYC Dept of Ed, Peer Collaborative Teacher Keiya Smith.CHECK OUT COTEACH.COM FOR MORE ON EQUITY VISIT ACE-ED.ORG. FOR MORE ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING, VISIT SELTODAY.ORG Did you know you can subscribe to Education Talk Radio on Apple Podcasts? Find us on your device & add us to your library of shows! https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id403710198

Jasmin, Reese and Emily talk about a slowdown of trash pickups in Staten Island and elsewhere in NYC in response to the city's vaccine mandate, Howard University students protesting mold and vermin in their downs, and ISIS posing a threat to Afghanistan's new Taliban government.

In this episode, Keitha Rhoden, LCSW shares her tips on self-care and self-love during these tough times. Here are six tips to help adults and children adjust return to workplaces and schools as the Covid-19 pandemic persist:  1. Focus on the things you can control to stay safe.  2. Create space for regular check-ins about feelings and thoughts about experiences with loved ones.  3. Start a gratitude practice  4. Use affirmations or positive self-talk  5. Review and practice coping skills that work for you.  6. Review and practice healthy habits / self-care practices that bring you joy and leave you feeling rejuvenated.  Note: Reach out for help from a mental health professional if you are implementing steps 1-6 regularly and feelings of burn out, depression or anxiety persist. Please see all the resources Keitha referred to during the show in the links below:  NYCwell - MH and Substance Abuse Helpline 1-888-NYCwell 1-888-692-9355  Text: ‘Well' to 65173 National Suicide Prevention Hotline 800-273-8255  Keitha Rhoden graduated from The City College of New York (CCNY)  with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in sociology with a minor in psychology and decided to pursue a Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) at New York University. Since graduation she has been a practicing Social Worker in Brooklyn, NY.   Social work is her chosen career and she  uses a strengths based, trauma focused, developmental, anti- racist  perspective in her practice”. For 14 years her professional focus has been on children, youth and families and mental health services in community and school-based settings.  Currently, Keitha works as a mental health specialist with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in public schools where she promotes all things mental health through presentations and discussions with teachers, parents, paraprofessionals and administrators.   She enjoys working with children and families in her church community in a youth enrichment program for children ages 5-10. As a member of the church's health ministry, she periodically promotes mental health with articles for the weekly newsletter.   Keitha is also an active  member of the Spartans Sunday's running club and has completed spartan races and other races of varied distances up to Half marathons. This year she will be completing the NYC marathon with a group of her fellow Spartans.  Keitha has a love-like relationship with running and it has become  one of her self care practices.   As a mental health and self-care ambassador in different spaces, there's one saying that reminds her of the importance of promoting self care : “ you can't pour from an empty cup”.  She believes that everyone  must take care of themselves first  before they can give themselves to others and engage fully in social interactions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bemoretoday/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bemoretoday/support

My guest for this episode is Luis Concepcion, the owner of The Vivus Vici Brand. He is 31 years old, Born in the Dominican Republic but raised in Inwood/Dyckman area of NYC. Like many I come from very humble beginnings, He had a mother who knew nothing else but work to provide and pay the bills. As a teen (13) he worked weekends and sometimes after school to help around the house. For a career, early on he knew I wanted to work with children so he started working at the summer camps as soon as he was eligible (15) and saw the impact a good mentor could have on the youth. Currently, he works as a borough manager at the NYC Dept. of Youth. Vivus Vici translates to Live & Conquer! It's a part of a larger phrase but those words have stuck with my since I heard them in a movie (V for Vendetta). It's the ability to overcome and any challenges in life and rise!! I thank you for listening and definitely support the Vivus Vici brand as well as other small business owners such as him. Video version of this interview on https://www.youtube.com/c/JustHekProductionChannel #jhjustanotherpodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/justhek/message

1) Meisha Ross Porter Is The New School Chancellor of NYC Dept of Education2) As Much as NYS Governor Cuomo Did Lots of Great Things, He Also Did Lots of Wrong Things Too

To celebrate World Teacher's Day, this week's episode features an educator and his wife who together are helping families and the community break the odds with education.   Whether you are a teacher in need of some tips, a parent who needs guidance for how to make digital learning a smooth experience for your child, or a student wanting to know how to prepare yourself for college and your career—today's episode is for you!   — Joining us today is Jonathan and Brittany Burke—Founder and CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Innovation Learning Academy. Both Jonathan and Brittany have a decorated resume, but here is a snippet and more about Innovation Learning Academy:   Meet Jonathan Burke:   Jonathan Burke is the Founder of Innovation Learning Academy. Jonathan has received a Bachelor's degree in Urban Studies from the Metropolitan College of New York. He also earned his Master's degree in Public Administration from Georgia State University and a Master's degree in Special Education from Liberty University.   Jonathan began his educational career in the New York City School District over 10 years ago as a high school math teacher and Education Services Coordinator for NYC Dept. of Correction inmates ages 16-24 at East River Academy located on Rikers Island. While working with incarcerated youth, Jonathan discovered the inequalities of public education and began to work with various community organizations to help troubled youth and students with learning disabilities by offering tutoring and mentoring services.   After being accepted as a TNTP Education Fellow, Jonathan moved to Atlanta and began teaching in Title 1 schools in the Fulton County School District and the Atlanta Public Schools District. Jonathan has taught multiple grade levels and subjects but has always on focused special education services.   As a Learning and Instruction Specialist and a school Administrator, Jonathan's educational experiences have afforded him the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of students to meet the common goal of increasing student achievement and well-being. Jonathan's educational philosophy is based on his uncompromising belief that all students can learn, given a positive learning environment that focuses on the student's learning styles, strong and knowledgeable leadership, a committed and focused educational team, an encouraging community, and a supportive family. All of which, Innovation Learning Academy possess.   Jonathan currently coaches high school basketball at Tri-Cities High School and AAU basketball for various community teams. In addition, Jonathan is an accomplished musician that has traveled the world. As a result, he provides music lessons and production assistance for students at McEachern High School.   Meet Brittany Burke:   Brittany Burke has a Master's degree in Accounting and serves as the CFO (Chief Financial Officer) of Innovation Learning Academy. Prior to serving as the CFO of Innovation Learning Academy, Brittany had a career in marketing and worked for companies such as Cartoon Network and TNT.   Press play to hear this interview with our host Elease Dillard.   — LET'S CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/lets.breaktheodds   LET'S CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/break.theodds/   EPISODE NOTES/BLOG + CONNECT WITH JONATHAN & BRITTANY: https://letsbreaktheodds.com/interview-jonathan-burke-brittany-burke-education-strategies

Bernard Kerik, Former Commissioner of the NYPD and the NYC Dept. of Corrections. Topic: meeting with Trump, officer assaulted with megaphone, police reform, checkpoints.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, heard every afternoon at 3PM on AM 970 The Answer. Topic: New York AG Letitia James' lawsuit against the NRA, black support of police, Isaias. Bernard Kerik, former Commissioner of the NYPD and the NYC Dept. of Corrections. Topic: Meeting with President Trump, COVID-19 checkpoints, Isaias.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How has the pandemic affected your sex life? Host Karen Yates speaks with sex coach Tazima Parris, therapist Matthew Amador, and sex educator Sarah Sloane about practical tips for moving forward. Comedian-musician Amy Do performs a song from our September 2019 show, and we close with Karen's Sermon on the Pubic Mound on COVID and compassion, from March 2020, the last live show (for now!). Part 2: COVID's impact on long-term relationships on the next episode. Links:Safer Sex and COVID-19 (NYC Dept. of Health) Tazima Parris Matthew Amador Sarah Sloane Amy Do Follow us online!Wild & Sublime @wildandsublime on Instagram , Facebook and Twitter Like the show? Support us on Patreon! Wild & Sublime is sponsored by Uberlube. And please rate and review the show on your podcast app! Thanks!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/wildandsublime)

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, many New Yorkers have become far more aware of the importance of local government officials in their lives through the daily press briefings delivered by the governor and mayor. But behind the curtain of city and state flags, there is an unflagging team of agencies and departments working together in novel ways to make the city livable - and more equitable. Marisa Lago, the head of the Department of City Planning and the Chair of the City Planning Commission, explains what goes into city planning — and what citizens get out of it.

Fernando is the Community Engagement Associate Planner for the Bronx Borough Office at the NYC Dept of City Planning. He is also a sustainable consultant and has prior experience working on community development and environmental justice planning and policy with THE POINt CDC in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx. Fernando has studied across four continents researching and observing sustainability related issues. ~Support the Podcast~ Instagram: @makeclimatecool Website: www.makeclimatecool.com Support the Podcast on Patreon Questions? Send me a message @ makeclimatecoolagain@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/makeclimatecool/message

I'm having an affair with my half-brother's wife - but she won't leave her bully husband. Iggy has a weird disdain for Paige Spiranic. NYC Dept of Health is encouraging glory holes. Zach Zane on pegging. EMOTD.

I'm having an affair with my half-brother's wife - but she won't leave her bully husband. Iggy has a weird disdain for Paige Spiranic. NYC Dept of Health is encouraging glory holes. Zach Zane on pegging. EMOTD.

8 AM Hour 5-8-20 Commissioner Bernard Kerik, Former Commissioner of the NYPD & NYC Dept. of Corrections, Jeffrey Lyons, the World's Greatest Film Critic, Carol Alt, Model, Actress & Health Advocate, Mike Gallagher, Nationally Syndicated Radio Host heard weekdays 10am-1pm on AM 970 The AnswerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NYC Dept. of Homeless Services to Move Shelter Residents to Hotels by Uptown Radio

Links to learn more about topics discussed on the show:Excessive spending by NYC Dept. of Education on busing and other contracts this year: Two articles in the NY Post here and here.Two posts in the NYC Public School Parents blog here and hereChallenges of remote learning for teachers especially those with children at homeThe controversy over grading in NYC during remove learning and school shutdownsHow to honor the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by taking action on the climate crisis

Welcome to the Movers and Shakers podcast. Our guest this week is Brian Rees. He is a family man, full time corrections officer for the NYC Dept. of Corrections and a part time multifamily investor. Brian will be in the process of reversing those two within a 5 year window to become a full time investor, part time officer.He is also a volunteer coach for all his children’s activities including Lacrosse, wrestling and Brazilian Jiu- Jitsu.

New #TeesMe podcast episode alert with Copper Cunningham, Equestrian, Actor, & Golfer What you will hear on this episode: • Progress. • Becoming an Equestrian • From Actor to Educator • Teaching District 75 • “Active” Retirement • Having a good time on the golf course • Favorite tournament, Larry Holmes, Heavyweight Boxer • Talking to strangers, Copper’s networking strategy • Me trying to learn Equestrian small talk beyond horsetrack racing • Kentuky Derby golf outing, are you in? • Golf Goals - Play More • When Copper fell in love with golf Copper Cunningham is a retired Educator for the NYC Dept of Education. She is an Actor, Writer, and Photographer. As a child growing up in Chicago, Copper was encouraged to explore a wide range of activities including horseback riding. Being an Equestrian, she loves horses and now she also loves golf. Copper came to NY and was encouraged to become a model and an actor. After a career in film and modeling, she went back to school to pursue a Master of Education at Long Island University. She wanted to make a difference and for 24 years, Copper worked for district 75 teaching children with special needs. A few years before retiring Copper decided to try golf and fell in love with it. Even after retirement, Copper continues to work in the schools and help make a difference with children that benefit from her attention the most. Copper is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the LPGA Amateur Golf Association, NYC Chapter.For the beginner golfers, Copper is proof you can start playing and have fun with anyone, its up to you. ************************** What you need to know: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192276/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/copper-cunningham-b7b70239/ IG: @coppercunningham ************************** https://anchor.fm/TeesMe Listen on Apple, Spotify, Google #FierceFemaleFriday #TeesMe #podcast #storiesNeedToBeTold #untoldStories #womenGolfers #golf #TaxiDriver #Equestrian #TeesMeLive #TeesMeTour #StayTuned #2020 #WHM #hustlelikegaryvee @teesme.thepodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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John Nassivera is an Author, Songwriter, Illustrator, and the founder of Front Porch Story Telling.John's mission is to create community, one story at a time, by complementing the good work our neighbors are doing, so that good continues.John has authored a number of books, including:The Garden Raid (2016) -- An encouraging tale about a young boy who yearns to belong and discovers his own path and inner voice. Respect, acceptance, and friendships follow. This story touches on the importance of community, and the value of people reaching...Chain Links: We’re better together, an eBook set to songs (2018)The Magic You Don't See (Soon to be released)John grew up in Hudson Falls, N.Y. One of his favorite childhood activities was listening to his mother tell tales on the front porch of their home. John's approach to writing is rooted in the same stories and traits shared on the front porches that many of us grew on.John worked for the New York City Department of Education for over 30 years. In 2006, he designed Explorations Academy, a new small High School in the Bronx, and became the founding principal. During his professional career as an educator, John received the NYC Dept. of Education Service Award and presented at the National Science Teachers 2000 Conference. He is a published author ("Teaching Exceptional Children") and formerly served as an educator within the Departments of Curriculum and Education for the City UniversitiesYou can learn more about John and his work by visiting his website at https://frontporchstorytelling.com/Click here to visit John’s Author page on AmazonClick here to visit see John's work on his Pinterest pageClick here to listen to, and purchase the music from Chain Links: We’re Better TogetherThe SuccessInSight Podcast is a production of Fox Coaching, Inc. and First Story Strategies.Link to Success InSight Podcast: https://www.successinsightpodcast.com/2019/12/john-nassivera.html

Interview with Mitchell Silver of NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation by Creative Loafing Atlanta

Comm. Pauline Toole outlines the treasure trove of documents, pictures, videos available to us at the NYC Department of Records and Information Services: New York in the 1940's, Women Activists, NYPD Photos, Bridges, Parks, Trains/Trolleys - Enjoy!

Learn about New York's various famous groundhogs, hear the first review of 'The Raven', and follow Waze underground on AGBC News episode 6! Visit agreatbigcity.com/support to learn how to support New York City local news and allow us to keep bringing you this podcast. If you are a New York-based business and would be interested in sponsoring our podcasts, visit agreatbigcity.com/advertising to learn more. 74 years ago on February 1, 1945 — The north tube of the Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic Staten Island Chuck — a second female 'hog named Charlotte died in September 2018 of kidney disease — Buffalo Bert 173 years ago January 29, 1845: 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe is first published in the New-York Evening Mirror — Competing plaques claiming two different locations for where the home where he wrote 'The Raven' once stood. After surviving since 1984 in the East Village, world famous St. Mark's Comics will be closing at the end of February Waze Beacons installed in tunnels AGBC News Episode 5: Subway Car Problems, A Long-Distance Phone Call, and Ride a Lime — Bombardier resumes subway car deliveries to New York City after manufacturing problems caused a temporary halt in deliveries last week. Bombardier has delivery about half of the initial 300 cars ordered by the MTA, but the delivery schedule is now years behind. Lime has a new, rugged scooter that the company says is built for New York City roads Park of the day Havemeyer Playground: "Triangle park near the Cross-Bronx Expressway in Unionport, Bronx. Features a playground, basketball court, and spray shower. Located at the Cross Bronx Exwy and Havemeyer Ave and has been a city property since 1946-01-31 It's a bit too cold to play a game of basketball at Havemeyer Playground, so check out a Parks Department rec center: Starting next week on February 3rd, NYC Parks will be holding their rec center open house week. Everyone is welcome to try out any of Manhattan's 13 recreation facilities that have exercise equipment, swimming pools, sports fields, and a calendar full of classes like Zumba, yoga, and water aerobics. The Parks Department rec centers offer a fantastic alternative to gyms, at a fraction of the cost: The most you would pay is just $150 for a year, which is $12.50 per month, then there are discounts for people young and old, veterans, and people with disabilities. You even get a 10% discount if you have a New York City ID card! Concert Calendar Bring Me the Horizon, The Fever 333, and Thrice are playing the Hammerstein Ballroom in Midtown on Wednesday, January 30th starting at 7pm. Infected Mushroom is playing the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg on Wednesday, January 30th at 8pm. Igloo Ghost, Umru, and Dasychira are playing Elsewhere in Bushwick on Wednesday, January 30th at 8pm. Brasstracks, Pell, and Kemba are playing Brooklyn Steel in Greenpoint on Thursday, January 31st at 8pm. White Rope, Upsetter, Blood Blush, and Amen are playing Alphaville in Bushwick on Thursday, January 31st at 8pm. Sad Baxter, Long Neck, Keep Score, and Benchmark are playing Gold Sounds Bar in Bushwick on Friday, February 1st at 7pm. Ted Leo, Slingshot Dakota, and Supernatural Psycho are playing the Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint on Friday, February 1st at 8pm. Poppy is playing Irving Plaza in Union Square on Saturday, February 2nd at 7pm. The Roots are playing the Highline Ballroom at the final Highline Ballroom show on Tuesday, February 5th at 8pm. Find more fun things to do at agreatbigcity.com/events. If you're a street artist who wants to paint without keeping an eye out for the cops or if you just have an idea for a joyful mural, the NYC Dept of Transportation is searching for artists to brighten up some of the city's concrete surfaces. Submit your idea for a piece of public art by February 15th and you may be selected to receive up to $12,000 for the project. Visit nyc.gov/dotart for more info. Weather The extreme highs and lows for this week in weather history: Record High: 69°F on January 29, 2002 Record Low: -3°F on February 2, 1881 Weather for the week ahead: Mixed precipitation throughout the week, with high temperatures bottoming out at 17°F on Thursday. Thanks for listening to A Great Big City. Follow along 24 hours a day on social media @agreatbigcity or email contact@agreatbigcity.com with any news, feedback, suggestions, or corrections. If you enjoy the show, subscribe and leave a review wherever you're listening and visit agreatbigcity.com/podcast to see show notes and extra links for each episode. Intro and outro music: 'Start the Day' by Lee Rosevere

How do we train and upscale workers for the 21st Century? And how can an entire pipeline of 7 million formerly incarcerated workers, seeking to be productive in society, “skill-up”. contribute, and fill roles competitively in the labor market, connect with willing and welcoming company? Stanley Richards, Executive Vice President at The Fortune Society, a non-profit organization based in New York City, NY with a mission to support successful reentry from prison and promote alternatives to incarceration, joins Vikrum Aiyer at the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. Richards serves at The Fortune Society, a $35 million non-profit organization based in New York City, with a mission to support successful reentry from jail and prison and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. Mr. Richards is second in charge and is involved in all aspects of the agency including the development and implementation of programs – discharge planning, education, workforce development, HIV/AIDS services, supportive housing, family services, substance use disorder treatment and mental health services, alternatives to incarceration and access to health care. Mr. Richards is a formerly incarcerated man of color and has over 30 years of experience in the criminal justice field. Mr. Richards has developed the expertise and extensive knowledge of programs, services, policies, and systems that impact the lives of people involved in the criminal justice system and reenter society. Mr. Richards was honored by the Obama Administration as a “Champion of Change” for his commitment to helping formerly incarcerated individuals reenter successfully into society. Mr. Richards was also a member of Governor Cuomo’s Ending the Epidemic Task Force which produced New York State’s Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic. Mr. Richards was a key participant in the NYC Discharge Planning Collaboration launched in 2004 by NYC Dept. of Corrections (DOC) and NYC Dept. of Homeless Services (DHS) that led to the launch of the Rikers Island Discharge Enhancement (RIDE) program. Mr. Richards graduated from Medaille College. He is certified as a Counseling Aide by the NYS Department of Labor. Mr. Richards was a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in their Developing Leadership Program to Reduce Substance Use and completed Columbia University’s Institute for Non-Profit, School of Business Management, Executive Management Program. Mr. Richards is a member of the Board of Directors of JobsFirstNYC, an intermediary with a mission to reduce the number of out-of-school and out-of-work young people in NYC He also serves on the NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) Juvenile Justice Oversight Board and the Vera Institute of Justice National Leadership Group: Pathways from Prison to Post-Secondary Education; as well as the Vera Institutional Review Board. Mr. Richards also serves on Community Board (7) in the Bronx.

DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido and NYC Dept. of Education Employees Local 372 Pres. Shaun D. Francois I discuss the need for more School Crossing Guards.

In this episode we spoke with Master of Public Health student Amila Samarabandu about his experience interning at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. We also discuss how science shapes our thinking and the many ways one can engage with science in our social media interconnected world. To learn more about the NYU College of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.

Fulfilling the task-at-hand, (Brooklyn Bridge Park) Regina Myer moves to the next challenge. Her youthful love of NY and affection for Brooklyn is evident, working for NYC Dept. City Planning, and today, as president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.

In this episode   Employees may face penalties if they misinterpret security policies? Human behavior still seen as the biggest weakness Employers are growing less tolerant of misbehaving employees If you "invite a data breach" you could be held liable http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/01/14/employees-face-penalties-misinterpreting-security-policies/ New lawsuit filed blaming Twitter for ISIS attack Should social media filter content from terror groups like ISIS? Can social media companies be held liable, why or why not? http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/01/14/lawsuit-blames-twitter-for-isis-terrorist-attack/ SCADA/ICS make incident response more complicated Typical IR activities are complicated by the nature of ICS systems Differences are there, but strategy still possible What is the path forward? http://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/how-incident-response-fails-in-industrial-control-system-networks/d/d-id/1324094 Only in NYC: Dept of Consumer Affairs warns parents of baby monitor hacks These issues seem to come down to default passwords What can the general population do about this? How can we eliminate this behavior in consumer products? http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hack-alert-nyc-regulators-warn-parents-secure-their-baby-monitors-n505391  

FCC comes to agreement with the NYC DOE for $3M in fines over ERate discrepancies. Investigation goes back more than a decade.

FCC comes to agreement with the NYC DOE for $3M in fines over ERate discrepancies. Investigation goes back more than a decade.

EDUCATION INDUSTRY: THE EDNET CONFERENCE Conference Director Vicki Bigham with special guests Steve Hodas, Executive Director , Office of Innovation, NYC Dept. of Education and Robin Warner, Managing Director at DeSilva and Phillips, both EDNET presenters www.ednetconference.com  @ednetbiz  #ednet14 Presented by MMS Education www.mmseducation  @mmseducation

Founder and CEO of Poetic Motivations, LLC, a personal and professional development training company, Renée McRae delivers programs that focus on self exploration and navigating to a place called SUCCESS!  A believer in living life deliberately and dedicated to the field of personal transformation, Renée spends her time in schools and organizations around the country facilitating programs which uniquely fuse the art of writing poetry with self discovery, self understanding and enabling self-determination. Co-author of “Stepping Stones to Success” alongside Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and others, Renée contributed “Awaken to the Power Within,” an in-depth chapter expounding on the innate power we each possess to determine our own destinies.  Her latest book, co-authored with Les Brown and others, “Mastering the Art of Success,” contains her chapter, “The Key is Self Mastery” and will be available in March, 2013.  Renée McRae’s first book, “Truth in Rhyme,” an approved textbook with NYC Dept. of Education, has been used by teachers in their classrooms to encourage, inspire and reinforce self-esteem and life skills through poetry.  Her award-winning transformational poetry has been published in several magazines, anthologies, and is available on her CD titled “Truth Be Told" Talk show host for the acclaimed “Fade to Black” on QPTV, and featured guest on radio and T.V. shows, alike, Renée McRae is a Certified Success Coach, Infinite Possibilities Trainer, Domestic Violence Prevention Trainer, and Conflict Resolution Trainer.

Shawn Lesflores is entering his 13th year of employment as part of the city's pest control efforts. He's part of a crew that goes where Sanitation won't, cleaning out trashed homes and burned buildings that serve as open invitations to rat infestation and assorted pestilential horror. Despite years of service and union membership dues, the team now fears for its future, as it's first in line for the city's upcoming budget-driven layoffs.

Choreographer Makeda Thomas (of Roots and Wings Movement!) called from Trinidad to speak with me about the tragic killing of her colleague, Augusto Cuvilas, one of Mozambique's most celebrated dance artists. Although the sound quality of this phone interview is not ideal, the information she presents is very important, and time is of the essence. Makeda has been invited to join with South African choreographer Boyzie Cekwana to complete a project that the three were working on at the time of Cuvilas's death. For more information on how you can help, visit Makeda's site at www.makedathomas.org. Makeda Thomas is from Trinidad & Tobago and has presented work at HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Chicago Women's Performance Arts Festival, Maputo's Teatro Africa, Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7), and as a Cultural Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. Her choreography has been commissioned by 651 ARTS Black Dance: Tradition & Transformation (2007) and received awards from the United States Embassy (2006 & 2005), Puffin Foundation (2005), New York State Council on the Arts (2005), Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation (2005), Arts International (2003), Yellowfox Foundation (2006), and the National AIDS Council of Moçambique (2005). In 2004, during its 25th Anniversary season, she was named Resident Choreographer of Companhia Nacional De Canto e Dança. Graça Machel (Former First Lady of South Africa and Moçambique) serves as the Honorary Patron of her internationally acclaimed work, "A Sense of Place" (2005), on which she presented at the 1st Conference on New Perspectives in African Performing & Visual Arts. In 2007, she became a featured choreographer in ‘This Woman’s Work: Choreographic Development Project Representing Women of Color’ - joining Camille A. Brown, Bridget Moore, Shani Collins, Princess Mhoon Cooper, Francine Ott, & Ursula Payne. As a dancer, Makeda Thomas has toured internationally in the companies of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, URBAN BUSH WOMEN, and Rennie Harris/ Puremovement, and independently with Robin Becker Dance, Lula Washington Dance Theater, and Stephen Koplowitz. She began her study in Brooklyn, New York with Michael Goring, continuing on scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, The Paul Taylor School and Hofstra University where she earned a B.A. in Dance and English. Ms. Thomas has conducted research projects in South Africa and The Netherlands, artistic residencies in Hawaii and Florida; and arts in education projects with The Dalton School, Arts in Ed. Institute of Western NY, and NYC Dept. of Education. She continues to create dance works and perform internationally, while living in New York City & Port of Spain. Body and Soul is the official podcast of InfiniteBody dance blog at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Subscribe through iTunes or at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa This material may not be reproduced in any way, either in part or in its entirety, without the expressed written permission of Eva Yaa Asantewaa.

Choreographer Makeda Thomas (of Roots and Wings Movement!) called from Trinidad to speak with me about the tragic killing of her colleague, Augusto Cuvilas, one of Mozambique's most celebrated dance artists. Although the sound quality of this phone interview is not ideal, the information she presents is very important, and time is of the essence. Makeda has been invited to join with South African choreographer Boyzie Cekwana to complete a project that the three were working on at the time of Cuvilas's death. For more information on how you can help, visit Makeda's site at www.makedathomas.org. Makeda Thomas is from Trinidad & Tobago and has presented work at HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Chicago Women's Performance Arts Festival, Maputo's Teatro Africa, Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7), and as a Cultural Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. Her choreography has been commissioned by 651 ARTS Black Dance: Tradition & Transformation (2007) and received awards from the United States Embassy (2006 & 2005), Puffin Foundation (2005), New York State Council on the Arts (2005), Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation (2005), Arts International (2003), Yellowfox Foundation (2006), and the National AIDS Council of Moçambique (2005). In 2004, during its 25th Anniversary season, she was named Resident Choreographer of Companhia Nacional De Canto e Dança. Graça Machel (Former First Lady of South Africa and Moçambique) serves as the Honorary Patron of her internationally acclaimed work, "A Sense of Place" (2005), on which she presented at the 1st Conference on New Perspectives in African Performing & Visual Arts. In 2007, she became a featured choreographer in ‘This Woman’s Work: Choreographic Development Project Representing Women of Color’ - joining Camille A. Brown, Bridget Moore, Shani Collins, Princess Mhoon Cooper, Francine Ott, & Ursula Payne. As a dancer, Makeda Thomas has toured internationally in the companies of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, URBAN BUSH WOMEN, and Rennie Harris/ Puremovement, and independently with Robin Becker Dance, Lula Washington Dance Theater, and Stephen Koplowitz. She began her study in Brooklyn, New York with Michael Goring, continuing on scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, The Paul Taylor School and Hofstra University where she earned a B.A. in Dance and English. Ms. Thomas has conducted research projects in South Africa and The Netherlands, artistic residencies in Hawaii and Florida; and arts in education projects with The Dalton School, Arts in Ed. Institute of Western NY, and NYC Dept. of Education. She continues to create dance works and perform internationally, while living in New York City & Port of Spain. Body and Soul is the official podcast of InfiniteBody dance blog at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Subscribe through iTunes or at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa This material may not be reproduced in any way, either in part or in its entirety, without the expressed written permission of Eva Yaa Asantewaa.