About the campaign
On November 8, 2023, Nonprofit New York launched the #WHY15 campaign to call for clarity and sector-wide opposition to the Mayor Eric Adams’s planned 15% budget cuts. The Mayor has already implemented 5% across-the-board cuts on November 16th, 2023, with additional 5% cuts planned for January and April 2024. These cuts will be detrimental to nonprofit services and programs that make New York. Read our full statement on the November plan cuts here.
ACTION
Join our #WHY15 campaign and call on NYC to provide greater clarity on the rationale and impact for the City’s 15% budget cuts, to demonstrate their understanding of the meaningful impact nonprofits have on NYC, and to create opportunities for substantive engagement with organizations that have the expertise and community connections to generate creative, concrete solutions. To include your voice:
- Join the more than 260 nonprofits who have signed our open letter to the City government calling for transparency and inclusion regarding the 15% budget reduction.
- Participate in our 15 Days of 15 Cuts Storytelling Campaign. We are collecting video testimonials to illustrate what a 15% reduction in City funding would mean for our crucial organizations and the communities we serve. If interested, complete this form.
Nonprofits want to be a part of the solutions to our City’s fiscal challenges, but this is not possible when decisions are made about us without us. Please join us to help make the case that all New Yorkers win when nonprofits have substantive, timely, and influential roles in developing and implementing problem-solving plans for our communities. Ask #WHY15.
RESOURCES
- #WHY15 Campaign Video Filming Guide
- November 2023 Financial Plan, Fiscal Years 2024-2027
- Program to Eliminate the Gap Document
- Nonprofit New York Statement on November Financial Plan (November 17, 2023)
- Nonprofit New York Testimony for City Council Finance Hearing (December 12, 2023)
- City Council Fiscal 2024 Forecast Report
- IBO Fiscal Outlook Report
PRESS
Nonprofit New York’s Vice President of Policy, Chai Jindasurat-Yasui (pictured in far left of photo) testified at the December 12, 2023 New York City Council hearing on the November Financial Plan.
- Over 1,000 New York City parks workers expected to lose their jobs due to budget cuts (December 20, 2023)
- NYC’s District 75 schools for students with disabilities brace for tens of millions in cuts (December 20, 2023)
- New Yorkers love their libraries. So why are they always on the chopping block? (December 15, 2023)
- Nonprofit New York Testimony at the December 12 City Council Finance Committee Hearing (December 13, 2023)
- Council Slams Mayor for Scapegoating Migrants to Justify Budget Cuts (December 11, 2023)
- Adams Cuts the Budget and Puts Himself on the Chopping Block (December 11, 2023)
- NYC parks set for dramatic reductions in staffing, cleaning under Mayor Adams' budget cuts (December 11, 2023)
- Compost collection to disappear from NYC greenmarkets due to budget cuts, staffers say (December 7, 2023)
- Composting’s ‘True Believers’ Jilted as N.Y.C. Curbside Program Grows(December 1, 2023)
- Eric Adams axes $547 million from NYC Education Department budget, more cuts on the way (November 16, 2023)
- Eric Adams Slashes Budgets for Police, Libraries and Schools (November 16, 2023)
- Nonprofits mount push against Mayor Adams’ 15% budget cuts (November 14, 2023)
Questions? Please contact Policy & Advocacy Coordinator Thara Duclosel.
For press inquiries, contact our Communications team at [email protected].