Fall 2007 |
PRESSURES AND POSSIBILITIES: FAMILY SUPPORT, FOSTER CARE, AND THE FUTURE OF A BILLION-DOLLAR SYSTEM A CHILD WELFARE WATCH FORUM
December 5, 2007
The Bloomberg administration is mounting an all-out campaign to reduce the length of time children spend in foster care and to make preventive and post-reunification supports for families more effective. Few oppose these goals. Will the city provide enough funding and support for overstretched agencies? Join the Center for New York City Affairs for a forum on this issue. |
CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS EVENT ON AUTISM
November 28, 2007
The Center for NYC Affairs presented a discussion on how government, service providers, schools and parents are responding to the skyrocketing rates of autism in the city's children. A Developmental Disabilities Watch forum. |
CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS AND IBO HOST EVENT ON NYC's FISCAL FUTURE
November 8, 2007
The Center for NYC Affairs and the NYC Independent Budget Office presented a discussion on the impacts of--and opportunities presented by--the expiration of key provisions of the 1978 Financial Emergency Act. Moderated by The New York Times' Joyce Purnick. |
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October 23, 2007
The Center for NYC Affairs presented a roundtable discussion of stakeholders to determine what can be done to save NYC's public housing. Featuring NYCHA General Manager Douglas Apple and moderated by Errol Louis of the Daily News. |
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September 28, 2007
Manuel Castells, a 2005 recipient of The New School Honorary Degree, is Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Research Professor of the Open University of Catalonia, Spain. |
CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS EVENT ON OPENING CITY SCHOOLYARDS
September 27, 2007
The Center for NYC Affairs presented a discussion of the city's plan to open schoolyards to the public during non-school hours. Featuring Rose Harvey from The Trust for Public Land and City Council Member Gale Brewer. |
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September 25, 2007
Milano and the Center for NYC Affairs presented the second session in the Urban Conversations: Strengthening the Middle Class series. Featuring San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Moderated by Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post. |
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September 23, 2007
Milano hosted the third Big Ideas, Big Gifts, Big Impact with Susan A. Buffett, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and David Rockefeller, Jr., The Rockefeller Foundation. |
Summer 2007 |
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August 27, 2007
Orientation for new students at Milano is more than an event. It’s an expectant attitude, a solid commitment, and a palpable excitement about the new academic year and the entering class. |
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Wednesday June 20th
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy hosted the Summer New York Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good. |
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On June 1, Milano and the Center for New York City Affairs held the first event in this year's Urban Conversations series, "Strengthening the Middle Class," featuring D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and WNYC's Brian Lehrer. |
Spring 2007 |
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The federal immigration policy debate may soon reach its climactic moment, changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Meanwhile, our city’s immigrant communities face unique—and not so unique—local challenges in schools, poverty, housing and more. If you read or listen to the mainstream English-language press, what are you missing? A Town Hall meeting with the ethnic and mainstream press, hosted by Brian Lehrer and taped for broadcast on WNYC, New York Public Radio. |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE MEGA CITY
 The Center for NYC Affairs and the Community Development Finance Project presented a public forum on the city's long-term growth and affordability, featuring Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff.
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TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT TO MEET THE CHALLENGES AND CAPITALIZE ON THE OPPORTUNITIES OF THE 21st CENTURY
Mr. David M. Walker is the nation’s chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). GAO’s mission is to help improve the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. |
THE STATE OF WELFARE:
SPITZER, NYC AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
 New York’s city and state welfare agencies have new leaders, and both must implement last year’s revised federal TANF regulations. How do local strategies mesh with Washington's latest demands? What will be the impact of new employment rules on people who struggle to work, if they can work at all? And will the low-wage workforce gain access to more—or fewer—temporary supports?
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BIG IDEAS, BIG GIFTS, BIG IMPACT: A CONVERSATION WITH TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS
Milano hosted the second Big Ideas, Big Gifts, Big Impact: A Conversation with Today's Philanthropists at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 26 at 66 West 12th Street. The four panelists were Alphonse Fletcher, Agnes Gund, Evelyn H. Lauder, and George Soros. |
CHARLES SCHUMER TO SPEAK ON WINNING BACK THE MIDDLE-CLASS
 Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) will deliver the inaugural Robert J. Milano lecture Thursday, February 22, 7 p.m., at 66 West 12th Street. As the architect of the Democrats’ 2006 Senate victory, Schumer offered a message and mandate that persuaded middle-class voters. Across the campaign trail and now in a new book, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time (Rodale, Inc.), he has defended the interests of his party's grassroots base.
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Fall 2006 |
On December 12, 2006, Milano and The New York Times presented a day of in-depth discussion of the challenges facing New York as the office of the governor changes hands for the first time in 12 years. |
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Top staff and consultants from the Democratic and Republican campaigns discussed 2006’s two biggest statewide races at an invitation-only post-election roundtable sponsored by Milano and the Center for New York City Affairs. More... |
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Featuring Donna Brazile, Chair of the Democratic party's Voting Rights Institute and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. |
How is urban America addressing the challenges of readiness, recovery, and renewal? |
Spotlighting new and innovative approaches to philanthropy in the 21st century |
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