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Voces Ciudadanas is a grassroots organization that works to build the collective power of migrants and other marginalized people by promoting community leadership and organizing, offering popular education programming and creating spaces to encourage dialogue so that social justice becomes a reality.

Demographic Programming

Migrant community and families in Sunset Park

Making space for community dialogue through advocacy campaigns such as Make Space for Schools in Sunset Park, food distribution, art and crafts workshops

4112 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232 www.workersjustice.org contactus@ workersjustice.org

Worker’s Justice Project

Founded in 2010, the Workers Justice Project (WJP) is a New York City worker center that educates, organizes, and fights for better work conditions and social justice in the workplace. With a base of more than 12,000 members, WJP organizes lowwage, immigrant workers who are fighting to raise workplace standards in the construction, house cleaning, and app-based delivery industries.

Demographic Programming

Low-wage immigrant workers in Sunset Park & Williamsburg

Zona Segura (Safe Zone): Ongoing campaign to improve and enforce health and safety standards for immigrant day laborers and construction workers.

Los Deliveristas Unidos: A rapidly growing movement of app-based food delivery workers organizing and advocating for better wages, conditions, safety measures, and other rights. In just six months, our membership has grown and continues to grow, demonstrating the need delivery workers have to be seen, heard, and respected.

5th Ave Committee

Founded in 1978, Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) is a non-profit in New York City. The organization aims to push economic, social, and racial justice to create a more just and equitable future for the community’s future. FAC moves through an integrated and community-centered affordable housing, grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and transformative education.

Demographic Programming

BIPOC community, migrants, tenants, and other atrisk communities.

Adult education providing 16 classes annually to over 500 adults from over 24 countries of origin. These students seek to advance their language acquisition, improve their employment prospects, support their children’s education, as well as improve their reading, writing, and math skills

Sanctuary for Families

Sanctuary for Families is a New York-based organization which advocates and offers services for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, and other forms of gender-related violence. The organization strives to create a gender-violence free world while promoting healing and safety through outreach and education.

Demographic Programming

Survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, related gender-violence, and their children. Counseling and crisis intervention, legal, economic empowerment, shelter, outreach and training.

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