In recent years, foundations have plowed big money into a raging stock market, and their endowments reflect it. Funders and their beneficiaries are wondering if a bear market will have…
New York State doesn’t shield companies that buy environmentally tainted “brownfields” from liability. One Staten Island chair factory is being forced to shut down as a result.
Giving students the right to choose their high school is a goal shared by education reformers around the country. New York is already there. But without guidance or real information,…
Every night, teenage girls at a city group home in East New York can be found on the street smoking pot, drinking liquor and disappearing into the night with strangers.…
A book review of Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy, by Ross Gittel and Avis Vidal, Sage Publications, 1998, 196 pages, $23.95.
