Center for Family Life, a program of SCO Family of Services, is a neighborhood-based family and social services organization with deep roots in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. https://sco.org/featured-programs/center-for-family-life/
Damayan Migrant Workers Association
Damayan empowers low-wage workers to fight for their labor, health, gender, and immigrant rights. Established in 2002, our purpose is to build leadership at the grassroots level to eliminate labor trafficking, fight labor fraud and wage theft, and to demand fair labor standards to achieve economic and social justice. http://www.damayanmigrants.org
Make the Road New York
Make the Road by Walking New York provides survival services, transformative education, and engages in community organizing and policy innovation.
Maple Street School
The Maple Street School is a preschool that inspires children through play and discovery, values a diverse community, and relies on the active participation of cooperative-member families and teachers to thrive. http://www.maplestreetschool.org
Nannybee Nanny Cooperative
Nannybee is Manhattan’s only childcare service owned and runned by nannies. https://nannybee.coop/
Carroll Gardens Association
Our mission is 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
Adhikaar
Adhikaar, meaning rights, is a New York-based nonprofit organizing Nepali-speaking community to promote human rights and social justice for all. http://www.adhikaar.org
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Ashley Anderson
Laura Wernick, PhD, LMSW, MPA
Laura is a professor of social work at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service. A former community organizer, their research explores and examines innovative transformative and healing justice organizing models. Laura is a parent, an employer of a childcare worker, and has been actively involved in HIH’s participatory action research project.
