Newsmakers
Summer 2007
Our Grantees Are Making News
The work of Africans in America is featured in this article.
New York Times, April 24, 2007
When The American Dream Leads To Servitude
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality is organizing against the City’s plans to demolish Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street Mall.
New York Daily News, Feb. 8, 2007
Plan to Raze Fulton St. Gallery Stuns Merchants
The Arab-American Family Support Center is partnering with New Visions for Public Schools to open the City’s first public school dedicated to teaching Arabic language and culture.
New York Times, Feb. 13, 2007
A New School Plans To Teach Half of Classes Using Arabic
New York Times, May 4, 2007
Plan for Arabic School in Brooklyn Arouses Protest
The Disabilities Network of New York City’s film festival is featured in this article.
New York Times, May 15, 2007
Clearly, Frankly, Unabashedly Disabled
Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center’s programs and its organizing work against Columbia University’s plan to build a new campus in Manhattanville are featured in the university newspaper.
Columbia Daily Spectator, Feb. 9, 2007
Mirabal Center Promotes Tenant Right’s
United Chinese Association of Brooklyn and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund are challenging the Department of Education’s decision not to address the language needs of Chinese students at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn.
New York Times, Feb. 14, 2007
On Different Pages With Bilingual Education
New York Daily News, March 9, 2007
International High School Nixed
Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York finds operating a worker owned enterprise challenging in New York’s competitive restaurant business.
New York Times, March 7, 2007
Born Of Post 9/11 Hopes, Restaurant Struggles To Fill Tables
Families for Freedom weighs in on the government’s deportation policies.
New York Daily News, Feb. 8, 2007
Deportations Won’t Solve U.S. Immigration Jam
Queens Congregations United for Action and Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan are part of a coalition working to address the lack of affordable housing in Queens.
am New York, Jan. 15. 2007
Affordable Housing Plan Leaves Queens Out
New York Daily News, Jan. 10, 2007
Cramped Tenants Priced Out and Fed Up
Prison Families Community Forum, a partner in the New York Telephone for Justice Campaign received a ruling from the State Court of Appeals that a lower court must hear a suit that New York State had over charged families receiving calls from family members in prison.
New York Times, Feb. 21, 2007
Suit Over Fees For Inmates’ Phone Calls Is Revived
Grantee Reports
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project‘s study on home foreclosures analyses of the 2005 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, finds significant disparities in the pricing of home purchase loans based on race. The report shows that African Americans and Latinos in New York City remain significantly more likely to pay higher interest rates on home purchase loans than whites.
The report was featured in the Daily News.
New York Daily News, March 28, 2007
Set Up For A Fall
Former grantee Community Voices Heard released the first comprehensive evaluation of the welfare system’s $200 million Wellness, Comprehensive Assessment, Rehabilitation and Employment program. The report highlights how the $66.6 million per year that the Human Resources Administration allocated programs to serve 45,600 public assistance recipients, is neither addressing the barriers to employment nor helping them move towards self-sufficiency.
The report was featured in the following article.
New York Times, March 5, 2007
Welfare-To-Work Program To Draw Fire In Report
Picture the Homeless released a report on its vacant building count, developed with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, which found that 24,000 units of housing in Manhattan can be developed out of vacant properties.
The report was featured in several articles.
New York Times, April 21, 2007
To Help Housing, Official Urges Development of Vacant Spaces
City Limits Weekly, April 23, 2007
Unused Land in Manhattan: Report Shows Opportunities for Building
The New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault report, A Room of our Own, Survivors Evaluate Services reveals in their own words, the experiences of adult survivors who seek care after sexual assault.
The report was featured in the Daily News.
New York Daily News, April 13, 2007
Rape Just The First Ordeal
Trustees Making News
Roland Lewis, formerly the executive director of Habitat for Humanity New York, has been named president and CEO of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, an organization that advocates for a sustainable, working waterfront that benefits people, who live, visit or work in the City.
Trustee and professor of urban affairs at Hunter College, Peter Kwong, is quoted in an article about food delivery workers. Former grantee Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association and current grantee the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund are helping to organize delivery workers for better pay.
New York Times, April 15, 2007
Where Delivery Is A Mainstay, A Rebellion Over Pay
Staff Making News
Executive Director, Maria Mottola authored a chapter in Power in Policy, A Funders Guide to Advocacy & Civic Participation. The chapter outlines the Foundation’s approach to grant making and may be ordered from FieldStone Alliance.
