Winter 2008
Our Grantees Are Making News
Sauti Yetu Center for African Women is featured in New York Regional Association of Grantmaker’s “
Voices from the Front Line”
VAMOS Unidos and other street vendor groups held a demonstration at City Hall, protesting the Mayor's plan to provide an extra 1,500 cart permits for vendors that sell only produce.
CHANGER-Community Homeowners and Neighbors Gaining Economic Rights members protested outside a Washington Mutual bank branch in Manhattan to demand that bank officials meet with victims of predatory lending to restructure their loan packages.
New York Daily News, December 25, 2007
Bank Protesters say predatory loans threatening to make them homeless
Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled is organizing a campaign to require a census of people who have mental illnesses and are waiting to move into supportive housing.
GRIOT Circle’s Deputy Executive Director was interviewed on the organization’s work with lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual seniors of color.
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, as members of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance, held a rally to demand that the Department of Education build four schools in the armory.
La Union de la Comunidad Latina and
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project are members of a national boycott against Western Union and its excessive money transfer fees.
New York Daily News, October 22, 2007
Immigrant groups boycott over transfer fees
RightRides for Women’s Safety story of how the organization was founded was featured in Ms. Magazine.
Ms. Magazine, Spring 2007
Whose Streets
Grantee Reports
The Human Rights Project, released a new report
Race Realities in NYC on widespread racial disparities in New York City and the government’s responsibility to address them.
Sylvia Rivera Law Project released
It's War In Here on the treatment of Transgender and Intersex People in New York State Men's Prisons.
Trustees Making News
Trustee
Steve Heyman, acted as project manager for the relocation and reopening of the
Museum of American Finance, which occupies 30,000 square feet of space and features a banking hall, state-of-the-art financial education center, auditorium, and library and research facility at 48 Wall Street, the former headquarters of the Bank of New York.
Staff Making News
Program Officer,
Adriana Rocha joined the board of the
Grantmakers Concerned about Immigrants and Refugees, (GCIR) a network of foundations working on immigration and immigrant integration issues including education, health, employment, civic participation, race and inter-group relations.
