NY2NO
New York 2 New Orleans Coalition
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Community Voices Heard (CVH)
CVH is a membership organization of low-income families working collectively to influence policy change around issues that impact their lives. Founded in 1994 by a small group of mothers receiving public assistance, the group has evolved in 2008 to a statewide organization of over 20,000 members working not only on welfare & workforce development issues, but also public housing preservation & improvement, equitable community & economic development, and voter education & mobilization. CVH has offices in East Harlem, Yonkers, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. The organization and membership utilize a variety of strategies to make change, including: membership recruitment, leadership development, public education, media & messaging, grassroots-driven research, coalition building, movement support, voter engagement, and direct-action.
Volunteers with CVH would have the opportunity to do a number of different things. Organizing volunteers could assist organizers on basic campaign work including: outreach/ door-knocking, phone banking, action preparation, meeting support, etc. Fundraising volunteers could assist with grassroots fundraising, including: helping to organize small scale events, helping to update the organizational database for donor mailings, etc. Communications volunteers could help with newsletter preparation, facebook & myspace postings and outreach, etc.
Administrative volunteers could assist with basic office tasks, including: answering phones, data base entry, filing, mailings, etc. Basically, volunteers will be exposed to all aspects of the work of a small non-profit and can do as much as they are interested in pushing themselves to do.
CVH is generally open on Mondays through Thursdays from 10am - 9pm and on Fridays from 10am - 6pm. Volunteer schedules will depend on interest, availability, and the work plan that is designed with the point staff person with whom they will be working. Weekly after school volunteer schedules are welcome. Occasionally, Saturdays will provide additional possibilities
Learn more at: www.cvhaction.org/
Picture the Homeless
Picture the Homeless was founded on the principle that homeless people have civil and human rights regardless of our race, creed, color or economic status. Picture the Homeless was founded and is led by homeless people. We refuse to accept being neglected, and we demand that our voices and experience are heard at all levels of decision-making that impact us. We oppose the 'quality of life laws' that criminalize homeless people in any form by the city, state and national governments. We work to change these laws and policies as well as to challenge the root causes of homelessness. Our strategies include grassroots organizing, direct action, educating homeless people about their rights, public education, changing media stereotypes, and building relationships with allies.
We envision a relationship with NY2NO as one that would allow us to do much more outreach via door knocking and phone banking citywide. We will periodically have days designated for outreach, in which volunteers will get a chance to go out and canvase the streets of NYC and talk to the homeless about issues that directly affect them. NY2NO could help Picture the Homeless with blogging, Facebook and You Tube entries thereby helping to increase awareness of PTH amongst the youth city-wide. Finally, NY2NO could also be the vehicle by which awareness of homelessness is bought into the New York City school system.
Picture the homeless is operates Monday, Tuesday and Friday 10am-6:00pm.
Wednesday and Thursday 10:00am-8:00pm. Regularly scheduled meetings included Civil Rights, Tuesdays 2:00pm-4:00pm, Rent Subsidies, Wednesday 6:00pm-8:00pm and Housing, Thursdays 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Learn more at: www.picturethehomeless.org/
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE)
FUREE is a Brooklyn-based, multi-racial organization made up of almost exclusively women of color. We are organizing low-income families to build power to change the system so that all people's work is valued and all of us have the right and economic means to decide and live out our own destinies. We use direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to win the changes our members seek. Our guiding principle is that those directly affected by the policies we are seeking to change should lead the organization.
Learn more at: www.furee.org/
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
GOLES is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan since 1977 and is dedicated to tenants' rights, homelessness prevention, economic development and community revitalization. GOLES accomplishes our mission by working with community residents to advocate and organize. GOLES' long-term goals are to build the power of low-income residents on the Lower East Side to address displacement and gentrification, preserve and expand the low-income housing stock, assert community self-determination over the use of public space and ensure a clean and healthy environment where people live, work, and play.
Learn more at: www.goles.org/about.htm
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
CAAAV was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. By organizing across diverse, low-wage, and poor Asian communities in New York City, CAAAV exposes and struggles against violence with the goal of building community capacity to exercise self-determination.
CAAAV's programs the Chinatown Justice Project works to unite low-income residents of Manhattan's Chinatown for decent and affordable housing, and to fight displacement caused by gentrification. In 2005, we founded the Chinatown Tenants Union to be a grassroots voice in Chinatown around issues of gentrification and displacement and to build the collective power for low-income tenants. Currently, we have two main campaigns: the Our Lives, Our Homes, Our Waterfront Campaign and the Alternatives to Mass Evictions Campaign.
In general, student volunteers would work with us on Sundays (mostly) to do outreach in Chinatown and the Lower East Side to residents who will be affected by the development of the East River waterfront and will participate in meetings and events we hold for the campaign.
In general, Sunday afternoons are days that we have our volunteers come in. Usually, volunteers come from 12 to 4, and we meet in Chinatown.
Learn more at: www.caaav.org/
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