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AFSCEME Local DC 37,
Audre Lorde Project,
Brooklyn Masjid-al Olfarouk,
Brown Memorial Baptist Church,
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities,
Center for Third World Organizing,
Child Care, Inc.,
Church of the Open Door,
Community Voices Heard,
CSEA/VOICE,
Domestic Workers United,
Downtown Advisory Committee,
DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving),
FIERCE,
Fort Greene SNAP,
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice,
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Make the Road by Walking,
Mothers on the Move (MOM),
Mount Sinai Baptist Church,
Movement Rising Initiative,
New York City AIDS Housing Network,
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition,
NY VOTE,
NYC Jobs with Justice,
POWER,
Power U for Social Change,
Pratt Institute,
PSC CUNY,
PUSHBACK Network,
Right to the City Network,
Social Justice Leadership,
South Brooklyn Legal Services,
The Miami Worker’s Center,
United Neighborhood Houses, and
Urban Justice Center.
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About me: FUREE is a member-led organization founded in 2001 Brooklyn when a group of fifteen women decided to organize for access to education and training for people on public assistance in Brooklyn, NY. While FUREE started out as a welfare rights organization, in the past few years we have begun to connect welfare rights to a broader struggle to create economic opportunity and eliminate poverty. Welfare reform is part of an inequitable shift that has seen the gap between rich and poor grow exponentially-- low-income workers are increasingly less likely to receive vital income supports like affordable healthcare and childcare; workers caught in a vicious cycle of dead-end jobs and slipping back to welfare; communities and families increasingly losing resources and ownership over their communities’ future, as a major development boom spreads across United States urban centers.
In response, our mission-based organizing focuses on mobilizing low-income and working families to promote equality, improve economic conditions, and build collective power to win systemic changes at the local, state and national level through direct action, leadership development, community organizing, and political education to achieve our vision and goals.
With over 1,500 members, our work is strongly guided by our organizational assessment that we are fighting institutionalized racism, sexism and classism. One of our organizational criteria for selecting new campaigns is that campaigns must have the ability to expose race, class and gender inequality, and we are careful to frame our campaigns publicly using the lens of race and gender.
Our bottom-up approach to community organizing has helped to empower historically underserved people in securing their right to demand policy changes that unfairly target people of color, women and low-income and working families through direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education, our campaigns address the following:
Preventing the mass shutdowns of family day care centers in low-income and working communities while working to win better wages, benefits and working conditions for family day care providers;
Building low-income families’ power to win changes in their communities by increasing voter engagement, turn out and civic participation;
(3) Organizing for community-led accountable economic development and against displacement and gentrification; and
(4) Building youth power through grassroots organizing, coalition building and leadership development.
For more information on who we are and what we do, call (718) 852-2960 or visit us at http://www.furee.org
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People, organizations and coalitions dedicated to building an intergenerational community base and platform on issues related to racism, sexism, classism, access to quality education, fair wages and better working conditions for workers, building the power of low-income families, preventing the displacement of families through gentrification, building youth power, increasing voter engagement, developing leaders from within disserved communities and promoting political education locally, regionally and nationally.
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Hey it's Eman. I'm interning at this org for a bit and just wanted to let you know about this award we have! It would be great if you could help spread the word. We are presenting The Jerry Greenspan Student Voice of Mental Health Award for college students. This award is for a video on their experiences with mental health issues and how they are working to raise awareness and encourage their peers on the issue. The award includes a $2,000 scholarship, a trip to NYC to our annual gala in June 2009, recognition through our site and events and possibly appearing on MTVU. The info is on our site. Apply today. Deadline for submission is Feb 13th, 2009!
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