The Gift of Vibrant Neighborhoods

NPC Newsletter December 20, 2025

There is still time to make a year-end gift to the Neighborhood Preservation Center and support our work in fostering conversations and sharing resources for building vibrant neighborhoods.

Your donations support our efforts in:

• Compiling technical materials for managing disaster planning and response
• Identifying resources and technical support for nonprofits, especially around real property issues and fiscal management
• Fostering conversations with community leaders from the fields of preservation and urban planning
• Sharing stories and strategies from cultural, arts, history, environmental, and community organizations to support neighborhood preservation

Click here to make a gift today.


Our goal is to help you in the work that you do in preserving your neighborhood! Please consider a donation to support NPC today.



Nonprofit Leadership Seminar
Nuts & Bolts of Nonprofit Mergers
January 8, 2026

Join us as we host an in-person panel discussion on corporate and HR due diligence processes, asset management, and operations issues in nonprofit mergers.

Moderated by George C. Whipple, Member of the Firm at Epstein Becker Green

Panelists include:

Heath Bloch, Executive Consultant at Ingenuity International Inc.

Zach Disador, Program Supervisor at The Arc Mid-Hudson

Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt, Executive Director at The Art Effect

Garrett Higgins, Partner at PKF O'Connor Davies

Thursday, January 8, 2026
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

the Highlands

955 NY 9D

Garrison, NY 10524

Q&A following the discussion.

Light refreshments will be served.

Event may be live-streamed. (Stay tuned for those details.)

RSVP and for questions: info@nycnpc.org

History and NYC Communities - Virtual Events in January 2026


The NYC Department of Record & Information Service is holding lunchtime programs that look at the diverse history of the City's neighborhoods from the Gilded Age to robust landscape of languages spoken across local communities and, the history of the Village Voice and the stories captured in its pages.

January 13, 1PM, Lunch & Learn with author Eve M. Kahn: The Queen of Bohemia
January 21, 1PM, Lunch & Learn with author Ross Perlin: Language City

January 27, 1PM, Lunch & Learn with author Tricia Romano: The Village Voice

for details and to register, click here.

Have a question or idea about your neighborhood preservation project?

Share your thoughts, suggestions, or resources by emailing us at:

info@nycnpc.org

NPC Newsletter Contributors

L. Danielle Cylich: NPC Board Chair, Danielle is always ready to share enthusiasm about the rich history and beauty found in the built environment and the people who inhabit our neighborhoods, and in protecting our natural resources.

The Neighborhood Preservation Center is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing and enabling conversations about the need for community space - both physical and virtual - in order to improve the urban environment and quality of life.

We work to facilitate mutually beneficial connections between like-minded groups in the livable cities sector, share resources and champion neighborhoods.