The Doe Fund Blog
This article by The Doe Fund’s new Executive Vice President, Robert Carnegy, Jr., first appeared in The New York Daily News on March 7th. Frequent and disturbing acts of violence on our subways have prompted Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul to roll out a coordinated plan to address public safety concerns. This plan prioritizes deploying police and […]
The Doe Fund Appoints Robert Cornegy, Jr. Executive Vice President of External Affairs A crusader for racial and economic justice, the former Brooklyn City Council Member brings expertise in housing, criminal justice reform and social enterprise to the nation’s leading homeless services, reentry and workforce development nonprofit. New York, NY— The Doe Fund is pleased […]
This article by Columbia University Professor and former MTA board member Lucius Riccio first appeared in The New York Daily News on February 9th. A recent Daily News headline, “MTA chief says crime and vagrants keep people from the subway,” got it exactly right. I agree with Janno Lieber that the proliferation of destitute men living underground is one […]
This article by Manhattan Institute policy expert Stephen Eide first appeared in City Journal on January 3rd. Bill de Blasio leaves the mayor’s office with an ambivalent legacy on homelessness. As the New York Times recently pointed out, family homelessness is now about 30 percent lower than when de Blasio was inaugurated, but single adult homelessness is up by about two-thirds. Total homelessness […]
Stephen Eide is a social policy expert at the Manhattan Institute. Anyone who studies social policy or works in the social services, will, at some point, be struck by the following thought: all these problems are hopelessly interconnected. Unemployment; re-entry; mental health; substance abuse; injustice; poverty; crime; lack of education; homelessness. None of these can […]
Alexander Horwitz is Executive Director of New Yorkers United for Justice, a bipartisan coalition of local and national organizations working together to deliver common sense criminal justice reforms to New York State. New York’s parole system is broken. It sends people back to prison at a blistering rate, usually with no benefit to public safety. […]
The Doe Fund is proud to partner with like-minded leaders as we work together to end homelessness and recidivism. We are excited to share the thoughts of Dr. Jocelynne Rainey, CEO of Getting Out, Staying Out (GOSO) in this guest post. At Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO), a Harlem-based nonprofit dedicated to helping young […]
Harriet McDonald is the President of The Doe Fund and Co-Founder of Ready, Willing & Able. It has become a cliche to call the pandemic “unprecedented” and 2020 the most challenging year America has faced in decades. Unemployment reached the highest levels we’ve seen since the Great Depression, and homelessness is expected to rise by […]
Isabel McDevitt is an Executive Vice President at The Doe Fund. At the start of 2020, a global pandemic was inconceivable. Yet here we are, one year into what is no longer the “new” normal. Through this shocking, tragic, and life-altering time, COVID-19 has shown us the best and worst of our society, our institutions, […]
This guest post was contributed to The Doe Fund’s blog by Henry Butler in celebration of Black History Month. Butler is the State Committee Member and District Leader of Brooklyn’s 56th State Assembly District. The past twelve months have been an unprecedented time, both in NYC and the country. A pandemic has devastated the economy, […]