The Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity), CUNY School of Professional Studies, and the John Jay College Institute for…

A new study from the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity) highlights the promise of credible messenger programming and…

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We’re excited to announce Phipps Neighborhoods as our second Designed by Community Fellowship partner!

Ladders for Leaders is a component of NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program, the nation’s largest summer jobs program. Ladders for Leaders…

Put your data, design, digital, and policy skills to work to improve the lives of millions of New Yorkers.

NYC Opportunity has just launched Mapping Equity: a new data tool on the EquityNYC website. Mapping Equity shows a geographic picture of…

A warm welcome and lots of wishes to NYC Opportunity’s newest summer interns: Khailyn Waite and Zhaobin Tan. Here is a little bit about…

The use of credible messengers has been increasing nationwide. Not long after taking office, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the City is…

This is the seventh post in the COVID Data Analysis series by NYC Opportunity’s Poverty Research Team. This post assesses whether the 2021…

Interested non-profit community based organizations came together to learn more about the RFP and design process

The Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity) has launched the New York City Workforce Data Portal, a public-facing online…

In 2019, just before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, New York City’s poverty and near poverty rates fell to the lowest point since the series…

This hurricane season, New Yorkers should consider protecting their corner of the world with flood insurance. The Mayor’s Office of Climate…

The City has announced Mental Health for All, a new comprehensive plan to deliver universal access to mental health support to all New…

This post uses data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey to examine the impact of the pandemic on New York City’s housing crisis…

To help restaurant workers and restaurants that were hard hit by COVID-19, New York City launched the Restaurant Revitalization Program…

The Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity (NYC Opportunity) is seeking candidates for design, data, research, policy, and technology…

Report cover of the Qualitative Study to Enhance the NYCgov Poverty Measure, July 2021.

By Candice Charles

There is a powerful new website to help New Yorkers learn about programs that can help them find short-term jobs, internships, job…

“What I realized is people were hungry to eat and people were hungry to help.”  - Mikey Knab, Strategy Director, RAISE: High Road…

This post is the latest installment in a series of blog posts from NYC Opportunity on COVID’s impact on New York City. Previous blog posts…