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Attention New Yorkers: A New Blog For You!

We're very excited to announce the launch of a new blog for New Yorkers - Idealist in NYC.


Contributors will be posting all summer about the ways our city challenges us and inspires us to do wonderful, crazy things. Like make time stop in Grand Central Station. And go car-free for three Saturdays in August. And increase the number of foster parents in Bushwick.

We learned via a couple of recent surveys, including this one conducted by the Citizens Committee of New York City and one of our own, that plenty of New Yorkers would get more involved in their community if only they had more time or were aware of the groups and opportunities around them.

Given that we work at a website where, as of this morning, folks have posted nearly 900 volunteer opportunities, more than 3,000 nonprofit jobs, 47 events, and 50 community groups in New York City alone…we figured it might be time to play a more active role in, well, showing people that making time and plugging into those myriad opportunities might not be so difficult after all.

We hope you'll add http://nycblog.idealist.org to your favorites folder, leave comments, and help us to create more dialogue around the barriers to community involvement and the reasons you choose to overcome those barriers. How can we spend this summer making the Big Apple more shiny, healthy and delicious for everyone? If you have announcements, articles, or ideas we should share, don't hesitate to get in touch.