Sentences with phrase «community voices heard»

In order to obtain up - to - date data on affordable housing need, members of Community Voices Heard Power partnered with Legislator Catherine Borgia and successfully won $ 100,000 in the 2016 Westchester County Budget to fund a new study.

The effort, organized by members of Community Voices Heard Power, Interfaith Clergy for Social Action, WESPAC, Working Families Party and the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, comes after a year of advocacy to secure this funding in the 2016 Westchester County Budget.

Two advocacy organizations, VOCAL - NY and Community Voices Heard, released a statement today jumping on the revelations in the Times» article.

The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) was one of eight organizations that planned the spirited gathering, along with ACORN, Community Voices Heard, Make the Road NY, NYS Tenants & Neighbors Coalition, New York Immigration Coalition, NYC AIDS Housing Network, and the Working Families Party.

Because campaigns are financed by the 1 %, the people are not the elected officials» top priority,» said Jean Hayes, a Community Voices Heard member and Poughkeepsie resident.

The Office of Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito, Community Voices Heard, Participatory Budgeting District 8 Committee, Participatory Budgeting Project.

In response, Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY; Afua Atta - Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard; Jonathan Westin, Executive Director of New York Communities for Change; José López, Co-Director of Organizing, Make the Road New York; and Cecil D. Corbin - Mark, Deputy Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice issued the following statement:

NYCHA residents, including tenants of the Pelham Parkway, Throggs Neck and Sack Wern Houses, together with housing advocates Community Voices Heard and Real Affordability For All, filled the Million Dollar Staircase to decry current conditions and push for new investments in the nation's largest public housing stock.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- On Wednesday, residents and community leaders from Community Voices Heard (CVH) in Poughkeepsie gathered outside the Dutchess County Office Building on Market St to demand that their elected officials that represent them in Albany pass a Fair Elections system during this year's legislative session.

NEW YORK, NY (01/17/2012)(readMedia)-- Low - income leaders of the group Community Voices Heard (CVH) responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget that he released this afternoon.

NEW YORK, NY (04/04/2012)(readMedia)-- Council Members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R - Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D - Brooklyn) came together on the steps of City Hall Wednesday with partners from Community Voices Heard, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project and dozens of local organizations to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held last week.

Then there's the liberal progressive group Community Voices Heard which takes it a step further, calling for an investigation by the Jonit Commission on Public Ethics into the matter:

Individuals from around the city and state joined together in this protest, including low - income members of Community Voices Heard from Newburgh and New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS that came as members of Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY).

Member groups in the New Deal for New York campaign include Community Voices Heard (CVH, in New York City, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers), Niagara Organizing Alliance for Hope (NOAH, in Niagara County), People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH, in Buffalo), Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN), Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL, in New York City, Westchester and Albany), and VOICE (in Erie County).

Through a survey of NYCHA residents in partnership with Housing Chair Ritchie Torres and Community Voices Heard, the report found more than half of the respondents reported that they either currently have a mold or lead issue in their apartment or have had one in the past.

Who: Community Leaders from Community Voices Heard, Citizen Action of New York, Mid-Hudson Valley 99 %, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL - CIO

NEW YORK, NY (06/05/2012)(readMedia)-- The following satatement wasreleased today by Agnes Rivera from Community Voices Heard and Wayne Starks from VOCAL - NY:

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Hundreds of low - income members of Community Voices Heard from around the state focusing on Gov. Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos

Low - income members of Community Voices Heard will gather to TURN UP THE HEAT and finished the business left undone by the Albany politicians.

The announcement also reminds supporters that Citizen Action joins the VOCAL - NY Action Fund, CVH (Community Voices Heard) Power, and NY Communities for... Continue reading →

Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard (CVH), and Sean Barry, Executive Director of Voices of Community Activists and Leaders - NY, released this joint statement.

Low - income leaders of Community Voices Heard that have played a leadership role at the local and city - wide levels to organize this novel process, as well as organizational staff that have assisted in overall coordination.

NEW YORK, NY (05/01/2012)(readMedia)-- Agnes Rivera, co-chair of the Community Voices Heard Board of Directors, provided the following statement regarding the release today of a new report by Citizens Union of the City of New York on recommended reforms to the New York City Council discretionary funding system:

Community Voices Heard (CVH) members and other Yonkers» residents will speak face - to - face with Mayor Spano, urging him to consider the concerns of low - income community members of color.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (04/03/2012)(readMedia)-- On Wednesday, residents and community leaders from Community Voices Heard (CVH) in Poughkeepsie will demand that their elected officials that represent them in Albany pass a Fair Elections system during this year's legislative session.

Community Voices Heard (CVH) Applauds NYC's Renewed Commitment to Public Housing Thursday January 31, 2013 at 02:26 pm

«As the lead community engagement partner in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) effort in NYC, Community Voices Heard was excited that Citizens Union noted its support today for innovative pilot programs such as Participatory Budgeting.

ALBANY, NY (03/15/2012)(readMedia)-- Low - income New Yorkers from Community Voices Heard gathered in Albany today to call on the Committee to Save New York to disband and also for Governor Cuomo to fund real jobs.

Cuomo has opposed the proposal (A7119 - Wright / S5120 - Savino) by welfare advocates such as Community Voices Heard to eliminate WEP, replacing it with a transitional jobs program to provide a paying job with training and education.

Low - income members of Community Voices Heard will gather to finished the business left undone by the Albany politicians.

«The expansion of participatory budgeting (PB) to 22 council districts, and the institutionalization of the process in the City Council as a new way to govern, is truly exciting and a tribute to the success of the early cycles,» said Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director, Community Voices Heard.

CVH's looks forward to continuing to play our part in ensuring that the broad diversity of NYC is represented in this process,» said Sondra Youdelman, Executive Director, Community Voices Heard.

Community Voices Heard is excited to have played a key role in getting PB off the ground in NYC and then helping to institutionalize it within the City Council.

«Community Voices Heard is glad that there is a call for Albany to dedicate more funding to NYCHA, especially given that a real commitment on their part has been missing for a number of years and we believe that this funding is a great starting point,» said Ann Valdez, a public housing resident and member of Community Voices Heard.

At the same time, the council is working with Community Voices Heard Power, which is described as an independent joint field effort.

Community Leaders from Community Voices Heard, Citizen Action of New York, Mid-Hudson Valley 99 %, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL - CIO

Community Voices Heard (CVH), a member led organization of low - income families with chapters in Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Yonkers and NYC; Current and former Emergency Shelter clients and homeless Poughkeepsie residents; Rev. Blake Ryder of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie; Brian Riddell, Executive Director of Dutchess Outreach; other social service providers, faith and community leaders.

«Participatory budgeting is working,» said Ann Bragg, a leader with Community Voices Heard.

Still, Mark - Viverito lavishes money on supporters, giving $ 65,000 in the past two years to low - income advocates Community Voices Heard and helping to push $ 160,000 in council funds to Picture the Homeless, run by her ally Lynn Lewis, according to budget data.

Among the organizers were Community Voices Heard, Picture the Homeless, Queers for Economic Justice and VOCAL - NY.

Also at 10 a.m., Community Voices Heard members and supporters call on the de Blasio administration to release the sites identified for infill development, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 6:30 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman attends a people's assembly with Community Voices Heard, Newburgh Armory, 321 S. William St., Newburgh.

At 2 p.m., Community Voices Heard Power protests outside the Newburgh office of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in response to his votes on the government shutdown, delaying ObamaCare's individual mandate, and $ 20 billion in food stamp cuts, 123 Grand S., Newburgh.

UPDATE: I've been asked to note that Community Voices Heard was also involved in the early March protest that led to arrests.

The report was compiled by Kevin Connor, co-director of the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with Community Voices Heard and VOCAL — two groups that have been protesting CSNY and Cuomo's proposed spending cuts for several weeks now.

The report was authored by the Public Accountability Initiative, a Buffalo - based non-profit research organization focused on corporate and government accountability and released in partnership with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, Community Voices Heard and VOCAL - NY.

Community Voices Heard Board Co-Chair Agnes Rivera stated that, «The governor's actions have not been transparent.

«Today, we're calling on Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo to stop having us beg every year for funding,» said Saundrea Coleman, a resident of Stanley Isaacs Houses and member of the advocacy group Community Voices Heard (CVH).

Black Westchester Magazine presents People Before Politics Radio With your hosts Damon K Jones, AJ Woodson and Cynthia Turnquest - Jones Guests: Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Dr Kenneth Hamilton, Juanita Lewis of Community Voices Heard and Benyamin Bridges of Parents Against Teen Violence