David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
2025 Public Purpose Fund Recipients
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and the New York Community Trust announced the 2025 Public Purpose Fund grants, totaling $250,000. These grants support various community initiatives, focusing on education, elder services, and the arts. Selected by a resident committee, recipients include Island Kids and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society, among others.
CBN Takes High Road After Being Nearly Skunked by NYCT/RIOC
It won’t change the botched allocations squeezed out by a strange group of supposedly unbiased, yet well-informed individuals cooked up between RIOC and the New York Community Trust, but the Carter Burden Network‘s Executive Director rose above the insult. by…
Update: What Went Wrong? Bungling Public Purpose Grants Again
Understanding what went wrong – again – with distributing public purpose funds starts with a single point. It’s an aggravating factor that’s existed for years. RIOC knows it but won’t fix it. While showing extraordinary generosity to its executives, the…
NY Community Trust Does the Impossible: PPF Grants Worse Than RIOC
The New York Community Trust (NYCT), allegedly brought in to straighten out RIOC‘s badly compromised public purpose granting process, pulled off what many thought impossible. That is, they made things worse. Some of their grants, in RIOC spirit, seem openly…
Ethical consideration of RIOC’s Public Purpose Grants
This year, RIOC funded Public Purpose Grants finally get the ethical consideration they deserve. Through an undisclosed intervention, the New York Community Trust earned responsibility, rescuing PPF grants from the brink of disaster. by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily…
CBN fights senior loneliness
CBN fights senior loneliness with a new grant. The grant helps the Carter Burden Network tackle the major challenges of old age. The Roosevelt Island Disabled Association partners with them. On Friday, August 23rd, the Carter Burden Network announced a…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor