Dear City Limits Friends, We are excited to share highlights from the third quarter of 2023 with you, our valued readers. We hope you enjoy reading our quarterly update and please consider supporting our local, nonprofit, independent journalism.

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of four exceptional individuals to our Advisory Board. These members bring a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and unique skills that will greatly benefit City Limits as we continue to inform democracy and empower citizens to create a more just city. Join us in welcoming them!

We’re pleased to have Rashad Nelms join our Advisory Board. He serves as Associate Vice President for Strategy and Innovation for Indiana University. Rashad has served in numerous leadership capacities with the United Nations World Food Programme. He has had an extensive career: from overseeing WFP operations that assisted communities living on the Zambian borders of Malawi and Angola, to mobilizing financial resources for WFP’s emergency flood response while serving in Islamabad, Pakistan, to representing WFP in global food security and agriculture discussions.

We’re honored to welcome Michael Rezendes to our Advisory Board. Mike is a senior investigative reporter with the global investigations team at The Associated Press. Previously, he worked for The Boston Globe Spotlight Team where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church. In 2015, he was played by Mark Ruffalo in the Academy Award-winning movie, Spotlight.

Paul Spivey brings a remarkable history of nonprofit recruitment and an impressive focus on civic sector foundations. With his background as a former President of the Edwin Gould Foundation, his commitment to bridging educational gaps and providing support services for at-risk youth aligns perfectly with our values.

We’re excited to have Tanzina Vega on board, a skilled journalist with a strong passion for education, addressing inequality, and community engagement. Her contributions as an instructor with our CLARIFY team and her experience as a journalist at The New York Times, CNN, and as the former host OF WNYC’s Takeaway, showcase her commitment to sharing important stories. She is an adjunct professor at NYU and a contributing columnist for the Boston Globe opinion section.

We look forward to the positive impact that Rashad, Michael, Paul, and Tanzina will bring to City Limits. Their dedication to our mission and unique backgrounds will contribute to our continued success.

We’re grateful to have received support for a civic discourse project from the American Press Institute (API). This funding and peer learning opportunity will help us to enhance community engagement while prioritizing diversity and inclusivity in our work. With this funding, we’ll engage and inform the NYCHA community ahead of a significant vote in NYCHA’s Nostrand Houses to decide between traditional public housing or alternative models. We aim to empower NYCHA residents with the knowledge and agency to shape the future of their housing community.

We're actively seeking more funding for our bilingual news project, Una Ciudad sin Límites, to expand our coverage to focus on the pressing housing and homelessness issues amidst the asylum seekers crisis. Data at the Limits: Data-driven reporting and visualizations on NYC’s most pressing policy issues. We seek to hire freelancers adept at Excel, coding, and building interactives to help us turn our data reporting into compelling visualizations. If you or someone you know has these skills, please contact us at [email protected].

We’re excited to share that our NYCHA reporter, Tatyana Turner, has been chosen for the prestigious 2023 Age Boom Academy Fellowship at Columbia University. This program, focused on aging issues, will enhance Tatyana's reporting and deepen her understanding of how housing impacts health as we age. Congrats to Tatyana on this achievement! Her continued growth and contributions will undoubtedly flourish through the Age Boom Academy.

Housing Reporter Emma Whitford Promoted to Deputy Editor Emma Whitford, who joined City Limits as Senior Housing Reporter in February, will continue to report for City Limits core housing beat and will serve as editor for our series on NYCHA, launched earlier this year to provide in-depth coverage of the nation’s largest public housing system.

Last month, more than 50 NYC high school and college students returned to campus with a greater appreciation for journalism, new skills in research and reporting, a deeper understanding of what is news and what is not–and more confidence in their ability to ask public figures the hard questions. These students participated in a robust summer of journalism training with CLARIFY News. Read their published stories here. ANNOUNCING THE CLARIFY NEWS FELLOWSHIP We’re thrilled to introduce the CLARIFY News Fellowship, a natural extension of our commitment to fostering excellence in journalism. This ambitious program matches individual support with talented high school students to provide them with skills and experience that support their successful entry into higher education or the workforce. Each $1,000 donation to the fund supports one student’s participation in the CLARIFY News student reporter internship.

We recently asked our newsletter subscribers for guidance on what we’re doing well and what you would like to see more of. Thanks to all who took the time to respond. Some of the information you told us: • 87% say you understand that City Limits is a nonprofit that relies on community support. • You value our high-quality local, independent journalism and want to ensure its sustainability. • Topics you’re most interested in: ◯ Housing and Homelessness (79%) ◯ Affordable Housing (75%) • What do you get from us that you can’t get anywhere else? ◯ In-depth coverage of housing and homelessness issues in NYC (65%) ◯ Community Stories from those impacted (60%) • We appreciated reading how you describe City Limits in your own words: ◯ A voice for the community… Equitable… Informative and Trustworthy… Journalism you can’t find anywhere else… A passionate organization that cares about NYC and wants to make it a better, more equal, and a more inclusive place… Not afraid to publish the facts that shine a light on issues that otherwise would be hidden. ◯ One reader wrote: Non-profit news might well be the future of news. If you care about journalism, democracy, and New York City, you need to support City Limits. ◯ And thank you to the readers who wrote to remind us that the work we do is so very important in the era of declining journalism, and to Keep on keepin’ on. We sure will!

We invite you all to join us at our 47th Annual Gala & Hall of Fame Induction on October 26 to celebrate 47 years of investigating NYC housing programs and policies to drive change. RSVP today. Don't forget to activate your special member benefit to join us at this year's gala! For a limited time, we're delighted to offer supporters who donated $250 or more to City Limits in 2023 one complimentary gala ticket. To get your ticket, simply RSVP directly to [email protected] to be added to the guest list. We look forward to celebrating with you!

We are incredibly grateful for the support of our Board and Advisory Members: Board: Martha Nelson-Chair, Neill Coleman-Vice Chair, Andrew Breslau, Mark Edmiston, Stephen Fee, Erica González Martínez, Lynda Hamilton, David R. Jones, Esq., Edward Lewis, Erik Spooner. Advisory Board: Meg Louis, Michael Moskowitz, Rashad Nelms, Lisette Nieves, Michael Rezendes, Paul Spivey, Tanzina Vega.

Warmly, Marjorie W. Martay & Fran Reilly Co-Executive Directors, City Limits

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