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African Communities Together
African Communities Together (ACT) is an organization of African immigrants fighting for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for families here in the U.S. and back in Africa. ACT empowers African immigrants to integrate socially, get ahead economically, and engage civically.
Ballroom Has Something To Say
Ballroom Has Something to Say is a project of Senior Fellow Michael Roberson at the Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy (C-RRED). Michael is a theologian, public health practitioner, activist, and leader within the LGBTQ and House | Ballroom community, and advisor for the TV show Pose. He presents his organizing work with the House | Ballroom community as a Black Trans-Womanist freedom movement, and its performance as response to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression.
Brigada Solidaria del Oeste
*Rapid response aid for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico*
BSO is a volunteer coalition composed of concerned citizens mostly from the western part of the island. The collective works as both a distribution arm and a supply center, delivering food, first aid supplies, water filtration systems, and seeds for farming, in addition to cooking hot meals, and installing tarps.
Brooklyn Movement Center
*Rapid response to support local action after Saheed Vassell's killing by NYPD*
BMC is a Black-led community organizing group of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents. CPR helped Radfund identify BMC as an organizer for police accountability, saying that "They are uniquely situated to provide significant political leadership in this moment - and they have a long-standing commitment and accountability to the local community that won't be shifted by political winds. BMC is likely to anchor additional local actions (and will be part of leadership of citywide actions)."
Centro Corona
Centro Corona is a community center based in Corona, Queens that offers free workshops on political education, popular art and dance, support in crisis situations and general community engagement towards self-determination. Since 2013, Centro Corona is sustained and operates primarily through the work of volunteer leaders in the community. They are an intergenerational space run by and in service of immigrant working-class families of mixed immigration status, and individuals from Corona and other nearby neighborhoods such as Elmhurst and Jackson Heights.
Child Welfare Organizing Project
The Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP) is a parent led organization dedicated to transforming public child welfare in New York City through increased parent and youth involvement in service and policy planning. Founded in 1994 with a grant from the Child Welfare Fund to the Hunter College School of Social Work, CWOP’s early research led to the conclusion that parents, particularly biological parents, had practically no voice in NYC’s public child welfare system.
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
CAAAV builds grassroots power across low-income Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City to target the root causes of problems facing Asian immigrants and enact institutional change for racial, gender, and economic justice.
Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo
Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization and multicultural movement that defends and promotes the human rights of Trans* people and gender-diverse identities. CITG is committed to building more just and inclusive societies for all and reducing all forms of discrimination.
Communities United for Police Reform
Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) is an unprecedented nonpartisan campaign to end discriminatory policing practices in New York, and to build a lasting movement that promotes public safety and policing practices based on cooperation and respect– not discriminatory targeting and harassment.
Community Action for Safe Apartments
Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) is a membership driven tenant organizing project working primarily in the Southwest Bronx. The organization is grounded in the belief that everyone has a basic right to a safe, healthy, affordable and a stable home. CASA runs local campaigns to protect affordable housing, assists to organize tenant associations, provides legal clinics, and puts leadership development in the forefront.
Crown Heights Tenants Union
The Crown Heights Tenant Union is a union of Tenant Associations that began meeting in response to rampant gentrification, displacement, and illegal rental overcharges in the neighborhood. With over 40 buildings in the union, CHTU demands new, stronger protections that guarantee tenants' rights.
Damayan
Damayan, meaning “to help each other” in Filipino, is a grassroots organization based in New York and New Jersey of and for Filipino im/migrant workers and led by Filipino women domestic workers. In a holistic approach to address the various problems of Filipino workers, Damayan implements programs on labor, health, gender and im/migration.
Desis Rising Up and Moving
Founded in 2000, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, civil rights, and worker’s justice.
Housing Justice For All
The Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance is a coalition of over 70 organizations that represents tenants, homeless New Yorkers, and public housing residents from Brooklyn to Buffalo. We are united in our belief that housing is a human right; that no person should live in fear of an eviction; and that we can end the homelessness crisis in our State.
How Our Lives Link Altogether (H.O.L.L.A.!)
How Our Lives Link Altogether (H.O.L.L.A!) is a youth community organizing organization dedicated to social justice. H.O.L.L.A!'s services are designed to educate, encourage, empower and provide a space for intersectional healing for historically marginalized urban youth living in under-resourced communities.
Justice Committee
The Justice Committee (JC) is a grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City and empowering low-income Latino/as and other people of color to address these issues.
Lorena Borjas Community Fund
Founder, Lorena Borjas, is a long time New York trans activist. In response to a rise of police harassment against transgender women in Queens, the Community Fund was established to provide bail to those arrested, as well as other important financial and legal assistance.
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
New Immigrant Community Empowerment is a community-based organization dedicated to building the power and advancing the rights of immigrant workers in New York. Current campaigns focus on curtailing wage theft through contractor licensing reform, protecting job seekers through employment agency reform, garnering municipal support for worker centers, and fighting for comprehensive and inclusive immigration reform.
No New Jails NYC
No New Jails NYC is a multiracial, intergenerational network of residents, community members, and activists fighting against the Mayor’s jail expansion plan. No New Jails NYC calls for the immediate closure of Rikers without building new jails in any borough in NYC.
Release Aging People in Prison
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release from prison of older and aging people and those serving long and life sentences. The number of people aged 50 and older in New York State, where RAPP was founded, has doubled since 2000; it now exceeds 10,000—about 20% of the total NYS prison population.
Save Our Streets
The Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) Brooklyn staff prevents gun violence from occurring in two target areas within the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant by mediating conflicts that may end in gun violence and acting as peer counselors to the people who are at risk of perpetrating or being victimized by violence.
Teachers Unite
Teachers Unite is an independent membership organization of public school educators in New York City collaborating with youth and parents to transform public schools. They resist institutions that segregate and criminalize Black and Latinx youth, such as the school-to-prison pipeline, by organizing educators to work as allies in campaigns for social and economic justice.