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Silicon Valley veterans and Stanford professors BILL BURNETT and DAVE EVANS have written the book DESIGNING YOUR LIFE, to show how the principles of design thinking can help us create the life we want at any age.

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New York City's Police Athletic League has helped millions of kids build their futures by providing them with safe, nurturing and supportive places to play and learn. Executive Director Fred Watts talks about PAL summer programs, how they brings cops and kids together, and he gives us a beat on what NYC kids are thinking about today. For more PALNYC.org

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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.

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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.

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KEEP GOING: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times & Bad is bestselling author Austin Kleon's new book offering keys to stay creative and focused, in the face of burnout and in the era of distractions. For more, visit austinkleon.com.

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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