Part of Adams Administration’s Continued Efforts to Enact Policies to Support Vital Nonprofit Sector
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the issuance of Executive Order 47 instructing agencies that provide oversight to or directly engage in substantial contracting activities or funding arrangements with nonprofits to designate a chief nonprofit officer to report to the Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services (MONS) and the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS). Each agency chief nonprofit officer will be responsible for coordinating with MONS and MOCS to improve services, provide quality customer service in response to outreach from nonprofits, and expedite payments and communications with nonprofits.
“Nonprofits never hesitate to answer the call to help their fellow New Yorkers. Now, it’s time for government to answer the nonprofit sector’s call for help and ensure they have the tools to succeed,” said Mayor Adams. “Today’s commonsense executive order allows for better, smarter communications, allowing key city agencies to have the right point people focused on answering any and all questions from nonprofits. We look forward to our continued partnership with our nonprofit partners and ensuring they receive the timely support they deserve.”
“At its core, government is about the effective organization and alignment of people,” said MONS Executive Director Michael Sedillo. “By appointing chief nonprofit officers and enhancing interagency collaboration, this executive order ensures that city staff are organized and positioned to nimbly respond to and solve issues affecting our nonprofit partners, freeing them to focus on the critical services they deliver to New Yorkers.”
“Our administration is fundamentally committed to empowering New York City’s nonprofit ecosystem and creating meaningful partnerships that drive community progress,” said Chief Procurement Officer and MOCS Director Lisa Flores. “By mandating the appointment of chief nonprofit officers, we're breaking down bureaucratic barriers and establishing a strategic framework that directly supports the vital organizations transforming our city’s landscape.”
Executive Order 47 will allow for better communications internally between agencies and externally with nonprofits that work with the city. The designated chief nonprofit officers will be responsible for coordinating with MONS and MOCS, including providing and being accountable for key agency performance data, representing the agency to nonprofits and responding in a timely manner to outreach from nonprofits, serving as or designating a constituent-oriented liaison that can help nonprofits navigate city bureaucracy, and performing other tasks as necessary to support the city’s overall mission to ensure nonprofits are paid for work performed pursuant to city contracts and other funding opportunities in a timely manner. Additionally, the executive order formalizes the production of a performance management dashboard led by MOCS and MONS that will track contract registration and payments — building on the administration’s practices of data-driven decision making.
Today’s announcement also builds on the Adams administration’s continued efforts to support, make significant investments in, and enact policies to support the nonprofit sector in New York City. Earlier this month, Mayor Adams announced progress on several new efforts to help pay nonprofits providers faster. MOCS launched a Payment Backlog Initiative in October 2024, focusing on clearing outstanding payments from Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to FY25. In three months, over $1 billion was disbursed, and over 3,700 invoices were processed. Since announcing reforms to simplify bureaucratic barriers and allowing nonprofits to invoice faster in summer 2024, the average time to process discretionary contracts making use of this reform dropped from 366 days in FY24 to just 46 days in FY25 — a nearly 90 percent reduction, slashing nearly 11 months of delays. Additionally, the Adams administration launched the Nonprofit FOCUS (Facilitating On-Time Contracting & Urgent Solutions) Working Group, led by Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Ana Almanzar. Nonprofit FOCUS brings together senior City Hall officials on a weekly basis to examine contract performance data and make key programmatic, policy, or budgetary decisions that support expeditious nonprofit payments.
In March 2024, the Adams administration announced a $741 million investment for an estimated 80,000 human services workers employed by nonprofit organizations with a city contract as part of a new cost-of-living adjustment. The human services workforce — which is overwhelmingly female at 66 percent and 46 percent women of color — remains on the frontlines of the most pressing issues facing the city as they deliver vital services across housing, food access, health services, and asylum seeker services, among other areas. To date, the Adams administration has invested over $1.4 billion towards wage enhancements for the human services sector.
Further, the Adams administration worked with MOCS on the “Clear the Backlog” initiative, which has unlocked over $6 billion in funds for nonprofits that were long overdue, allowing these organizations to get paid for delivering their vital services. Finally, earlier this year, Mayor Adams announced the city’s first-ever Nonprofit Advisory Council. Comprised of leaders and experts in the nonprofit sector, the advisory council works with MONS to serve as a link between the Adams administration and the nonprofit organizations serving New Yorkers.
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