Creating Hope In a Troubling Time
At the Center for New York City Affairs, we define our mission simply:
Working to create a more just and equitable city.
For those who share that vision, the past year has often been deeply troubling.
But in spite of that, in 2025 our collective efforts have also succeeded in creating hope.
And with your renewed support, we’ll continue to do that in the year ahead.
Together, we’ll build on what we’ve achieved this year.
That includes how:
Through the Narrowing the Front Door Work Group and our partners in the world of children’s services we’ve taken new strides toward reducing intrusive and harmful family separations.
Our Institute for Transformative Mentoring has supported proven, life-saving and life-changing community violence interventions – despite wrong-headed, short-sighted federal funding cuts.
Our Economic and Fiscal Policy unit has pointed the way toward making high-quality, affordable child care accessible to every family – and given voice to the needs of frontline child care providers.
Our InsideSchools team has stood by, and stood up for, the immigrant families struggling to help their children succeed in new schools and a new home.
And our weekly Urban Matters journal has continued to highlight fresh ideas and insights, from taking readers inside Rikers Island…
… to showcasing young dancers who are en pointe in Hunts Point.
We may not know what the year ahead will bring.
But together, we can and will continue to create hope.
Please make a tax-deductible contribution to our work today.
Thank you for your support.
And the best of the season to you all.
Kristin Morse is executive director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.
Note to our readers: Urban Matters will resume its regular weekly publication schedule on January 7, 2026.