A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

Civic Engagement Fellows and their host organizations came together to both look back at the work done engaging and educating community members in the South Bronx over the first year.

For the first time in 10 years, elected officials in New York City voted to give themselves a raise—an 18.2 percent increase. That number came as a recommendation from the Quadrennial Commission, for which CUNY ISLG conducted an independent analysis of affordability, comparable wages, and other cities to make sure the recommendations were rooted in data, not politics.

Why do students feel apathetic about voting, and what can be done? This post, by Civic Engagement Fellow Stephanie Frias, is the first in our series “Field Notes: Civic Engagement Fellow Voices on Democracy.”

After decades of rapid increase, cities and counties across the country were starting to reduce the numbers of women held in jails. But those numbers have started to climb again. A new analysis from CUNY looks at why women are being booked, how long they’re staying, and how it compares across demographics and to men.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

The CUNY system educates hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers a year and serving as a major social economic engine for the city. Managing the budgets of its 26 colleges is, thus, complex. ISLG’s Financial Planning Fellowship for Higher Education gives CUNY college leaders to the tools to balance budgets while advancing academic innovation.

Last year, around 2,000 people entered and were released from NYC’s jails every month. Tens of thousands more were redirected to community programs. The breadth of these systems ask: How do public systems and services ensure responses to crime hold people accountable, without adding to cycles of incarceration? Restorative justice has been used to find these answers.

This request for proposals seeks to fund survivor-led, grassroots organizations that support people impacted by domestic and intimate-partner violence in Manhattan.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

Our Public Policy Pathways Internship gives CUNY students hands-on experience in the public sector, developing career pathways into research, policy, data science, and government operations, as well as professional development. Meet the latest cohort.

Grassroots community organizations are increasingly becoming the lifeline for those facing immigration proceedings, particularly for minors who, unlike Liam, do not have immediate family members with them. In New York City, the Immigrant Children Advocates’ Relief Effort (ICARE) has connected unaccompanied minors with legal representation and other services since 2014.