At the Center for New York City Affairs, we make headlines – and make a difference. 

That’s not an idle boast; it’s a fact – one that reading our Urban Matters journal bears out, week after week. 

It presents our work that matters to you. And it’s work you can support.

Just look at CNYCA’s impact throughout 2023.

This year, the new director of CNYCA’s InsideSchools project, long heralded for its incisive, independent take on the nation’s biggest public school system…

…Told Urban Matters readers of her team’s vital, hands-on, and heartwarming work helping asylum-seeking families meet the daunting challenges of getting their kids’ educations re-started here. 

Throughout 2023, Urban Matters brought you the reasoning – and passion – behind mounting calls to abolish and replace our failed, racially biased child welfare institutions…

… And introduced you to the growing “Narrowing the Front Door” campaign to transform child welfare – an effort staffed by CNYCA’s Child Welfare Watch project.

We featured the trailblazing work of our Economic Policy team on issues from achieving gender pay equity…

…To shoring up the city’s beleaguered child care system…

… And from securing fair pay and decent working conditions for gig workers… 

… To detailing the budget squeeze that public school students face going into 2024.

Urban Matters spotlighted the successes of community-based anti-violence programs supported by the Center's Institute for Transformative Mentoring…

… While underscoring the link between lifting the minimum wage and increasing community safety. 

And, as it has since we launched it in 2015, Urban Matters also brought you insights and opinions on other key issues...

...From curbing the high cost of health care… 

…To stopping pointless corporate welfare.

One thing is for sure: 2024 will bring new challenges. 

And throughout the year ahead, CNYCA will live up to its credo:

We’ll use research…ideas…and action… to move us toward a more just and livable city.

Please make a tax-deductible contribution to our work today.

And best of the season to you all.

Kristin Morse is the 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 10th, 2024.