Karen Ford holding an award at the Brooklyn Power List Honoree Ceremony

Brooklyn honors its best at the Brooklyn Power List

CEO Karen Ford was recognized as an honoree on the Schneps Media Brooklyn Power List in March, 2026. Karen joined City Council members, business leaders, university presidents, and others among the honorees. To learn more about the Brooklyn Power List and find out who all the honorees were this year, please see the article here.

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Continuum of Care: What does that even mean?

A Continuum of Care is a way of understanding services for homeless individuals as a connected system. In late 2025, the Federal government rescinded the existing funding rules for providing states with money for homeless services via the CoC. Nonprofit organizations were seriously concerned with the changes…

Sankofa Now logo for Black Philanthropy Month

Remember, Reclaim, Rise: Reflections on Black-led nonprofits

In 2011, Dr. Jackie Copeland founded Black Philanthropy Month as a time to recognize Black-led change in communities and elevate the donor power of Black individuals and majority-Black institutions. Black Philanthropy Month (BPM) continues today, and this year’s theme for BPM is Sankofa Now: Remember, Reclaim, Rise.  We sat down with Karen Ford, CEO of […]