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I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE RICH, by personal finance expert Ramit Sethi, in an updated second edition, offers new options for millennials to negotiate, save, and adjust your financial life for the better.

For 47 years, Bronxworks has worked to feed, shelter and teach the most vulnerable New Yorkers, from toddlers to seniors. Assistant Executive Director John Weed discusses food insecurity in the Bronx and the organization's campaign to raise $100,000 to expand their South Bronx Food Pantry. For more, visit bronxworks.org.

Interschool Orchestras bring music lessons to hundreds of New York City Public School children--and in particular--on "endangered" instruments, with a spring concert on Mother's Day at Tribeca Performing Arts Center. For more on the public event and their current auditions for fall students, visit isorch.org

2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a riot considered one of the most significant moments in LGBTQ history. The Stonewall Reader, a new anthology of the historic event, edited by Jason Baumann, the New York Public Library coordinator of humanities and LGBTQ collections, coincides with the NYPL exhibition he curated on the uprising and the gay liberation movement of 1969. For details on the exhibition, visit nypl.org/stonewall50

The New York based theatrical collective Compagnia de' Colombari presents the music-theater piece "More Or Less I Am" in celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday. Director Karin Coonrod previews the free event in locations throughout the city, and explains why the work of one of New York's most famous citizens remains relevant. More at colombari.org

THE NEW RULES OF PREGNANCY: What to Eat, Do, Think About & Let Go of While Your Body Is Making a Baby, by New York City OB-GYN Dr. Jacqueline Worth, is a go-to guide for mothers-to-be to support what's happening inside their bodies.

Project Renewal helps people stay in the work force and helps industries -- such as the food service industry - find great employees through it's supportive assistance and job training programs. Directors Barbara Hughes and Allison Messina, discuss how two key programs in the project renewal program are facing funding gaps. For more, visit projectrenewal.org

BROKE MILLENNIAL TAKES ON INVESTING: A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling up Your Money, is personal finance expert Erin Lowry’s accessible playbook for building wealth. The book is a guide to investing basics by the author of Broke Millennial, for anyone who feels like they aren't ready (or have enough money) to get into the market.

According to recent data, New Jersey has the highest rate of people with autism in the country. Easterseals NJ CEO Brian Fitzgerald talks about those statistics, and how the organization provides for over 9,000 people in the state. Easterseals.com/NJ

The Wine on Wheels Grand Tasting and Silent Auction on Saturday, April 27th at City Winery benefits the NYC disability advocacy group, Wheeling Forward. Co-Founder Yannick Benjamin discusses why Wheeling Forward emphasizes hospitality for the disabled community, and previews their biggest fundraiser of the year. For more, visit wineonwheels.org

The book BIASED: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, demonstrates how our unconscious biases powerfully shape our behavior.

The New York City based non-profit, Non-Traditional Employment for Women, is a workforce development program for women who want to become plumbers, electricians, carpenters and members of other trades. President Kathleen Culhane talks about how the organization provides a a pipeline of qualified workers to the industries that build, move and maintain New York. NEW Graduate Jewel Tolliver describes her choice to become a tradeswoman and her career as an apprentice laborer with Laborers' Local 79. For more, visit new-nyc.org.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and The Essex County Bar Association sponsored a gun buyback on March 31 to help remove deadly weapons from the streets. Essex County Bar Association President Raj Gadhok discusses the results of the effort and this first time public/private partnership.

Dancing Dreams provides dance classes and performance opportunities in New York City and Long Island for children ages 3-21 with medical or physical challenges. Founder and Executive Director, Joann Ferrara, discusses how their unique leadership program helps connect teens with young dancers, and the school's performance "City Nights" on May 5th. For more, visit dancingdreams.org

Walk MS New York City on April 28th raises funds for people living with multiple sclerosis and for MS research. Natale Raimo, Director of Walk MS, explains how the walks help people in our community, and former dancer Michelle Tolson, tells the story of her surprise diagnosis and finding the right treatment for an unpredictable disease. For more details on Walk MS NYC and other area walks, visit WalkMS.org

For the book, THE BRAVE LEARNER: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, author Julie Bogart distills decades of experience homeschooling her five now grown children and training homeschooling families around the world, to help re-energize parent-teachers when the job they began enthusiastically has begun to feel like a grind.

While anxiety and depression can exist in any kind of weather, NYC clinical psychologist Dr. Jeptha Tausig is an expert on seasonal effective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs during the same season each year, and for most people, during the winter. For more, visit drjeph.com

Priya Parker, author THE ART OF GATHERING: How We Meet and Why It Matters, explains how to make meetings of all kinds more effective, and what kind of rituals will open up a crowd who's inhibited or distracted.

In his new book SICKER, FATTER, POORER, pediatrician and environmental health researcher at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, Dr. Leonardo Trasande, discusses the urgent health threat of hormone disrupting chemicals, and what we can do about it.

Queens Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Grech joins for his views on the Amazon/Long Island City Deal, it's impact and the next horizon for the borough and the city. For more, visit queenschamber.org.