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The Noel Pointer Foundation, a non-profit, string music education program has been teaching young musicians across New York City for over 25 years. CEO Chinita Pointer talks about the challenges of remote teaching and getting kids into classical music. NPF is currently enrolling both in-person and virtual summer music programs. For more, visit noelpointer.org.

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THINK AGAIN: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by organizational psychologist and bestselling author Adam Grant, examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people’s minds.

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Queens Public Library is one of the nation's largest public library systems with 66 locations in the most diverse urban area in the world. President and CEO Dennis Walcott discusses QPL’s most in-demand services and during the pandemic, initiatives for Black History month and the Library’s 125th anniversary in 2021. For more, visit QueensLibrary.org

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THE DATA DETECTIVE: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by economist, broadcaster and award-winning columnist Tim Harford, is a guide to help us clarify the political, economic and advertising data we see every day from an objective point of view.

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The Lemon Tree Food Helpline helps New Yorkers find food pantries, soup kitchens and apply for Snap Benefits seven days a week. Community Manager Kasumi Quinlan talks about how the non-profit completely changed its mission in 2020 to become a resource for struggling New Yorkers. For more, visit foodhelpline.org, or you can text FOOD to 90847 to talk to a real person.

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Bestselling author and life coach, John Kim, discusses his new book, SINGLE. ON PURPOSE., guiding readers from being alone and lonely, to alone and fulfilled. John Kim created the Catalyst Life Coaching Course, and blogs at theangrytherapist.com

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TADA! Youth Theater is a unique NYC non-profit organization, producing award-winning original musicals by and for young kids and teens. Executive and Producing Artistic Director and Founder, Nina Trevens, talks about working with their family of students remotely and new initiatives for BIPOC students. For more, visit tadatheater.com

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To begin Black History Month, we speak with poet Rio Cortez, author of THE ABCs of BLACK HISTORY, a book that uses the alphabet a frame to introduce American Black History. Rio Cortez is a writer and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who has received fellowships from Poet’s House and other foundations. Her work has appeared in the The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Mother and elsewhere.

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Ellen Baer, President of the Hudson Square BID, talks about the massive challenges of the pandemic and how they’ve pivoted in an effort to create new opportunities for small businesses and customers in their particular Manhattan neighborhood. For more, visit hudsonsquarebid.org

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Personal Finance Expert Erin Lowry returns with her new book, BROKE MILLENNIAL TALKS MONEY: Scripts, Stories, and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations. Her first book BROKE MILLENNIAL TAKES ON INVESTING: A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up Your Money, was named by MarketWatch as one of the best money books of 2017.

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