The New York City Capacity Building Collaborative

Federal executive orders and budget cuts are prompting policy changes, confusion, and uncertainty in New York’s health and social service nonprofit landscape. New York’s more than 3,400 health nonprofits—including NYHealth grantees—are feeling the direct and indirect impacts of these changes in the form of budget cuts, communications requirements, rollbacks in protections for the communities they serve, and the contraction of the federal government’s role in public health. These shifts change how organizations operate, forcing them to navigate an uncertain policy and funding environment and a weakened safety net infrastructure. More than ever, nonprofits struggle to assess risk, forecast financial plans, communicate, adhere to their missions, and support staff and communities to navigate fear and uncertainty. They have been compelled to divert limited resources from serving clients to adopting contingency plans, implementing new compliance and safety measures, and intensifying advocacy efforts to protect their organizations, staff, and communities from discrimination and barriers to care. In 2025, NYHealth awarded The New York City Capacity Building Collaborative (CBC) a grant to deliver free, timely technical assistance and capacity-building support to NYHealth grantees to strengthen their ability to respond and adapt to new, evolving, and unforeseen circumstances.

Under this grant, CBC will offer trainings and tools focused on strategic communications, fundraising, Artificial Intelligence (AI), data security, and local advocacy to New York City-based grantees, prioritizing smaller organizations with limited resources. Grantees will have ongoing access to virtual trainings, resource directories and tools, and periodic in-person convenings where organizations can learn from each other and build relationships.

NYHealth also awarded complementary grants to the Nonprofit Support Group and Nonprofit Finance Fund.