By Miguel Bonilla
Director of Strengthening New York City Nonprofits
United Way of New York City
Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much nonprofits touch people’s lives.
Reflecting on the ways my life has been touched by nonprofits, I realize I would be very different without them. I remember getting bags of canned food and warm jackets at our church from kids not much older than myself; I remember making smores during a Boy Scout camping trip; and I remember making pens filled with shredded money to learn about entrepreneurship from Junior Achievement. In college, I was active in Amnesty International and eventually earned a graduate scholarship through the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship.
Each one of these organizations provided me with life-changing opportunities that might not have been available to the son of poor farm-raised immigrants from Puerto Rico and Mexico. Each organization was also a big risk for someone to start and to support financially.
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