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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.

    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.

      Highway, Road & Street Construction, Laborers’ Local Union 1010

        Laborers’ Local 1010 was chartered by the Laborers’ International Union of North America in 1937. For over eighty-seven years, we have been one of the primary forces on New York City’s largest and most recognizable roadbuilding and highway projects. Currently numbering at over 2,700 members, Local 1010 members continue to perform work with their unique skill set on virtually every road, street, highway and boulevard in New York City.

        Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice

          Our theory of change is to provide services, advocate and organize. Since 2005, Adhikaar has been committed to improving the lives of the Nepali-speaking community and getting our voices heard in the social justice movement. Adhikaar, meaning “rights” in Nepali, is a women-led community and workers’ center that provides direct services to the Nepali-speaking community and organizes low-income workers and impacted community members to promote social justice and human rights. We create access to information, build community leadership, and grow collective power to win rights for our communities, and dignity and equity for all. At Adhikaar, we define the Nepali-speaking community as descendants of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Burma, and Tibet that speak Nepali.

          African Advisory Council ( AAC)

            African Advisory Council (AAC) of the Bronx Borough President aims to serve the African immigrant community in every capacity.

            • 851 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451
            • (347) 313-5568
            • Sidikidonzo2@yahoo.com
            • Best method of contact: Email, Text Message

            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.

                Alliance of South Asian American Labor (ASAAL)

                  ASAAL is an advocacy organization ensuring fairness, respect, dignity, and opportunity for the advancement, in every sphere of life, including the workplace, of all South Asian workers. Our desire is to empower the South Asian community so that they get the resources that they have earned through their volunteerism, hard work and dedication. We want the South Asian American community to grow and prosper as other communities have done before them

                  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.  

                    Catholic Migration Services

                      Catholic Migration Services is a not-for-profit legal service provider committed to promoting justice and compassion. Established in 1971, we are one of the oldest and most respected legal services providers in New York City. We provide free legal services, tenant organizing services and community legal education to low-income New Yorkers regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, or immigration status. By offering these services, we seek to advance equality and social justice for all, including the most marginalized.

                      Carroll Gardens Association

                        We are a worker center that aims to foster a community where residents and families of all income levels in Southwest Brooklyn’s neighborhoods can live, work, and thrive. Carroll Gardens Association, Inc. fulfills this mission by preserving and developing affordable housing, enforcing quality housing management practices, promoting small business economic development, and providing and linking residents to social services and resources to improve the quality of their lives.

                        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.

                                  $242 billion
                                  Aug
                                  2022