Welcome!
Since 2005, The Nonprofit of Staten Island has provided resources, including advocacy, training, and support, to strengthen your mission and enhance our collective impact.
Whether you’re an upcoming organization or an established institution, you’ll find value in connecting with peers, learning new strategies, and accessing exclusive tools that help you grow.
Why Join?
Our sector employs over 20,000 Staten Islanders and serves more than 2 million people each year.
Membership Means More Than Just Belonging. It’s a Catalyst for Growth.
- Expert-Led Training: Learn how to fundraise effectively, recruit board members, and boost your presence online.
- Resource Access: Tap into legal, grant-writing, marketing, HR, and IT support services.
- Peer Collaboration: Connect with over 100 Staten Island organizations — faith-based, cultural, youth-serving, senior support, and more.
- Exclusive Membership to Nonprofit New York: Tools, discounts, helpline, webinars, and more.
- Increased Visibility: Get featured in our newsletter, website, and social platforms.
- Strong Advocacy: We work directly with government and civic leaders to elevate nonprofit priorities.
- Disaster Preparedness: Free membership in SI COAD for coordinated disaster response and planning.
Why Join the Nonprofit Staten Island?
A survey conducted by the Association shows the impact of the borough’s nonprofits on the economy:
- Staten Island nonprofits serve more than 2 million people annually.
- Over 10,000 people volunteer with Staten Island not-for-profit organizations each year.
- The borough’s nonprofit organizations employ more than 20,000 people, over 20% of all people working in the borough, making it the largest employment sector on Staten Island.
- Of organizations and businesses in the borough that employ more than 100 individuals, over 40 of them are nonprofit organizations.
- The sector is the leading supporter of local businesses including restaurants, and technical assistance providers (plumbers, electricians, IT, additional utilities, etc.).
Do you want to learn more?
Becoming a member of the Association immediately gives you access to services and resources that help build new skills, enhance existing ones, and increase your overall sustainability. Specifically:
- Workshops and training in key areas like board recruitment, utilizing social media, grant writing, and developing fundraising campaigns.
- Connections to resources and experts to help with grant applications, legal services, and back office functions (IT, human resources, marketing, etc.).
- A peer network of nonprofit leaders that can share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and help you overcome challenges, regardless of your size or mission.
- Membership to Nonprofit New York (formerly NPCC) and its benefits including a comprehensive online nonprofit toolkit, information hotline, group buying discounts, and webinars.
- An outlet for you to build partnerships while also sharing your areas of expertise and knowledge with colleagues in the nonprofit sector.
- Advocacy with government and community leaders, on and off Staten Island, on issues important to the nonprofit sector.
- Opportunity to gain greater visibility through the Association’s website, social media outlets, and weekly newsletter which reaches over 500 contacts and growing.
- Complementary membership in Staten Island Community Organizations Active in Disaster (SI COAD). The coalition facilitates learning, networking and communication among coalition participants, and serves as a resource in emergency preparedness and/or disaster response (be it an act of nature or man-made) for our local community-based organizations.
