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African Communities Together (ACT)

    African Communities Together (ACT) is an organization of African immigrants fighting for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for our families here in the U.S. and worldwide. ACT empowers African immigrants to integrate socially, advance economically, and engage civically. We connect African immigrants to critical services, help Africans develop as leaders, and organize our communities on the issues that matter.

    African Services Committee

      Afircan Services Committee is a community based organization dedicated to assisting immigrants, refugees, and asylees from across the African diaspora.

      Asian American Federation (AAF)

        AAF is an advocacy organization centered on amplifying the influence and enhancing the well-being of the pan-Asian American community. We are committed to driving change through research, policy advocacy, public awareness, and support for nonprofits.  

        Centro de Recursos Educativos para Adultos (CREA)

          CREA addresses the educational needs of Spanish speaking adult immigrants. CREA serves over 250 students citywide providing educational opportunities to an immigrant community from a diversity of Central and South American countries. CREA’s primary goal is to provide members of this community with classes to improve their formal education in their native language and become proficient in English as their second language. CREA also prepares students to obtain a high school equivalency diploma as well as receive support to continue their post-secondary high school education. Equally important, CREA provides leadership development, individual counseling, referrals to social services, and peer-to-peer support.

          Chinese-American Planning Council

            Chinese-American Planning Council’s mission is to promote the social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities.

            • 45 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002 (Main Office)
              4101 8th Avenue, 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232 (Brooklyn Community Center)
              133-14 41st Avenue, Flushing, NY 11355 (Queens Community Center)
            • (212) 941-0920 (Main Office)
              (718) 492-0409 (Brooklyn Community Center)
              (718) 358-8899 (Queens Community Center)
            • info@cpc-nyc.org
            • https://cpc-nyc.org/
            • @cpc_nyc
            • Best method of contact: Phone Call

            Consortium for Worker’s Education

              The Consortium for Worker Education (CWE) is a New York City based non-profit workforce development organization, overseeing a network of over 40 job training and placement providers across the five boroughs. CWE serves as the workforce development arm of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, providing vital training services to incumbent members across 36 union locals

              Construction and General Building Laborers Local 79

                Construction and General Building Laborers’ Local 79, which serves the five boroughs of New York City, was created in 1996 through the consolidation of ten smaller Laborers’ Locals. Local 79 currently has over 10,000 active and retired members and is the largest construction laborers’ local union in the United States

                Damayan Migrant Workers Association

                  Organizing Filipino low-wage workers to combat labor trafficking, promote human and workers' rights, and develop social justice leaders.

                  Educational Alliance

                    Educational Alliance , one of New York City’s original settlement houses, was founded in 1889 to offer educational, social, and cultural services to Jewish immigrants arriving to the Lower East Side. Today, EA is a proudly Jewish institution that partners with diverse communities throughout Lower Manhattan. We provide New Yorkers with high-quality, transformational programs that enhance their well-being and socio-economic opportunities, reflecting our belief that everyone in our city should be given the tools to thrive. 

                    Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY)

                      Over the course of 27 years, The Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) has built the most religiously-diverse and civically-engaged network of grassroots and immigrant religious leaders across the five boroughs. These include Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Afro Caribbean, and Native American New Yorkers who have attended one or more of our social justice retreats, participated in our religious diversity education programs for social workers, teachers, lawyers, and NYPD officers, or joined multi-faith advocacy work on immigration and religious freedom. Since 2022, ICNY has distributed small grants to diverse faith communities working to support new immigrants and created a learning community that convenes virtually on a bimonthly basis to offer a shared scriptural reflection, receive and give technical assistance and problem solve, and develop advocacy strategies.

                      Laundry Workers Center

                        Laundry Worker's Center is a grassroot non-profit organization that advocates and provides leadership development to improve low-wage immigrant workers' living and working conditions in the food service, laundry, and warehouse workers through the organizing process.

                        Legal Aid Society

                          We stand with hardworking, low wage New Yorkers to ensure they can earn a living wage and participate in the economy on equal footing.

                          National Domestic Workers Alliance

                            The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) works for the respect, recognition, and rights for more than 2.2 million nannies, housecleaners, and home care workers who do the essential work of caring for our loved ones and our homes. We organize domestic workers and develop leaders, We develop policy solutions, We change the story, We innovate solutions

                            New York Immigration Coalition

                              Since its founding in 1987, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC has evolved into a powerful voice of advocacy by spearheading innovative laws and policies to improve the lives of immigrants and all New Yorkers, particularly those that live in lower income communities. The NYIC has also built a strong statewide infrastructure over the years, and now has five offices across the state in New York City, Long Island, Hudson Valley, Capital Region, Central New York, Finger Lakes, and Western New York. In these regions, NYIC staff work closely with key member organizations to drive local policy agendas - and impact - developed with direct input from communities.

                              Northern Manhattan Coalition For Immigrant Rights

                                For the past 39 years, the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights staff have been working to educate, defend and empower immigrants. The Coalition takes a holistic approach toward clients in the form of education, job training, mental health, and legal services. In our Workers Center immigrants can participate in a free OSHA-30, flagging, scaffolding, painting training certificate program, or connect with potential employers.

                                NYCOSH – New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health

                                  NYCOSH uses training, education, and advocacy to improve health and safety conditions in our workplaces, our communities, and our environment.

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