HSC Members,

This afternoon Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Corey Johnson announced the New York City’s FY20 budget, which included a commitment to ensure human services nonprofits will receive critical indirect funding to cover their true costs.

"We have worked very closely, Latonia McKinney has worked very closely with Melanie Hartzog, on getting a fairer formula and ensuring that these community-based organizations, working towards the Fall, will see a modification in the November Plan to see an adjustment in getting that reimbursement." -New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

HSC will hold the City to this commitment and will be fighting alongside our allies at the City Council to ensure this funding is secured in November. We will also be reaching out to our members over the next couple months to make sure providers are determining their indirect rates and claiming them on City contracts.

This victory would not have been possible without the advocacy of HSC, our members and partners. The leadership of Speaker Johnson, Council Member Rosenthal, the Progressive Caucus, and the Robin Hood Foundation was also key. We thank CM Brannan for continuing the work of CM Rosenthal as Chair of the Contracts Committee, and CM Kallos for picking up the mantle on this issue as the new Contracts Chair!
   
The Adopted Budget also included vital funding for early childhood pay parity, a major victory for the sector that helps lay the groundwork for our continued fight for fair pay for the entire human services workforce. Thanks to those from our sector who lead the fight securing this funding, CCC, FPWA and UNH in particular, and set a clear precedent towards achieving fair wages across all sub-sectors!

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Please see our official press statement:
 
Nonprofit Sector "Cautiously Optimistic" Regarding Legislative Solution From Speaker Johnson and City Council
 
NEW YORK CITY — The final budget agreement between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Council fails to provide $106 million for frontline nonprofit human services providers, the bare minimum necessary to cover shortfalls from City Hall’s managerial inadequacies.
 
City Government hires nonprofit vendors, such as homeless shelters, food pantries and mental health facilities, to provide critical services to New Yorkers. Yet the City regularly pays these nonprofits too little and payment arrives too late. The $106 million investment would have covered indirect costs for nonprofits, such as interest on a loan taken out when the city fails to pay its bills on time.
 
Importantly, Speaker Corey Johnson said the Council is committed to working towards a November budget modification that will fund the true indirect costs of nonprofits under contract.
 
Allison Sesso, Executive Director of the Human Service Council of New York (HSC) released the following statement in response:
 
“The de Blasio Administration routinely shortchanges human services providers, paying them late and insufficiently. While the Administration paid lip service to this issue by establishing a Nonprofit Resiliency Commission, years later we are still waiting for these issues to be resolved. Nonprofits are fed up.
 
"We are pleased to see Speaker Johnson speak so eloquently about the issues in the sector, and are cautiously optimistic that he will be able to address this problem given Mayor de Blasio’s failures to do so to date. 
 
“Nonprofits will continue to fight for the funds to support the organizations serving millions of New Yorkers so that those relying on homeless shelters, mental health clinics and meals for seniors don’t continue to pay the price. 
 
"Perhaps if these nonprofits operated in Des Moines, our Mayor would have paid closer attention to their plight." 
Thank you to the Robin Hood Foundation for their strong support and their FY20 budget statement . Read it here
TWEET to thank our allies!

"We created a mechanism by which human services agencies receive indirect funding for their true costs." - @NYCSpeakerCoJo
Thank you for this strong commitment! This adjustment must be included in the November Plan. #NYCBudget #YearoftheCBO

Indirect funding for human services nonprofits is vital to help manage underfunded and late contracts. Thank you @HelenRosenthal for securing a commitment to make sure providers are paid their true indirect costs on City contracts! #NYCBudget #YearoftheCBO

Thank you @NYCSpeakerCoJo and the @NYCCouncil for successfully securing funding for early childhood pay parity in the FY20 budget.
We look forward to continuing to work with you to ensure fair pay for the entire human services workforce! #NYCBudget #YearoftheCBO

Thank you @NYCSpeakerCoJo, @HelenRosenthal, @RobinHoodNYC and the @NYCProgressives for fighting tirelessly for fair and on-time funding for human services nonprofits throughout the entire budget process! #NYCBudget #YearoftheCBO
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