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November 13, 2023 City LimitsHow a Bronx Election Swerved the Course for Plan to House Formerly-Incarcerated
Political calculus around a City Council race in the East Bronx has slowed the approval process for a plan to house seriously ill people leaving jail, and could cue up a test: whether the Council is willing to override opposition from one of their own.
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November 08, 2023 Queens Gazette
I On Politics
The Fortune Society, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit reentry service and advocacy organizations serving more than ten thousand justice-involved individuals every year, honored President and CEO JoAnne Page, who is retiring after 34 years at the helm of the organization, and founder David Rothenberg as he celebrates his 90th birthday, at their annual “Bold Leadership, Bright Future” gala on October 30, 2023.
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November 02, 2023 NY1
JoAnne Page: Rebuilding lives of those who were behind bars
While the United States spends billions of dollars on incarceration, funding for reentry services remains limited. JoAnne Page is trying to change those numbers.
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November 02, 2023 New York Nonprofit Media
First Read Morning Newsletter
The Fortune Society, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit reentry service and advocacy organizations serving more than ten thousand justice-involved individuals every year, honored president and CEO JoAnne Page, who is retiring after 34 years at the helm of the organization, and founder David Rothenberg as he celebrates his 90th birthday, at their annual “Bold Leadership, Bright Future” gala on Oct. 30.
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November 01, 2023 City Limits
NYC Promised More Apartments to Break a ‘Vicious Cycle.’ Where Are They?
But a plan to expand JISH to 500 units from an initial 120—that would satisfy a commitment in former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Points of Agreement to close the city’s notorious jail on Rikers Island—has barely advanced, despite a $93.7 million 2019 Request for Proposals (RFP).
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