J.M. KAPLAN CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS

In an age when citizens routinely encounter important policy issues reduced to political sound bites and mass media rhetoric, the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School promotes a far more productive kind of civic engagement. The Center is dedicated to providing the people of New York with a nonpartisan forum for dialogue and debate about critical urban problems, and to cross-fertilizing isolated sectors in the local and regional policymaking field with visionary ideas and innovative solutions.

The Center's seminars, lectures, workshops and panel discussions engage top government officials as well as front-line service providers; business leaders as well as community activists; journalists as well as citizens from neighborhoods as disparate as Central Harlem, Far Rockaway and Forest Hills. The Center hosts public dialogues that move good ideas out into the marketplace and boosts innovation and reform by convening working groups, organizing private conversations among key players and providing space for network building.