PartnersCNPI Partner Groups
Right now, we are working with some amazing groups:
- In NYC our partners are: Nah We Yone, Domestic Workers United, The Street Vendor Project , Families for Freedom, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), Make the Road NY, Juventud Ecuatoriana, Picture the Homeless, Adhikaar, and the Katrina Evacuees Coalition of New York
- In Louisiana our partners are: United Houma Nation, Renaissance Village Teen Learning Center
- In Mississippi our partners are: North Gulfport Community Land Trust, Coastal Women for Change, Mississippi Workers Center, Moore Community House.
Below is a brief description of Organizations that parter with CNPI:
Adhikaar
Adhikaar, meaning rights in Nepali, is a New York-based women-led non-profit organization seeking to promote human rights and social justice in Nepali communities. www.adhikaar.org
Coastal Women for Change
The mission of Coastal Women for Change is to make a difference in our communities through securing and revitalizing our neighborhoods. We do this by ensuring that our communities have adequate information in a timely manner so that we can both influence and make informed decisions about the recovery process and community development, now and in the future. www.cwcbiloxi.org
Domestic Workers United (DWU)
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United [DWU] is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. www.domesticworkersunited.org
Make The Road NY
The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
The Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights is a worker advocacy organization that sees as its mission, providing organizing support, legal representation and training for low-wage, non-union workers in the state of Mississippi. Through direct action campaigns, organizing sessions and trainings, we seek to raise awareness among workers as to the many ways their human rights are violated in the workplace and in their communities. Through strong partnerships with our worker members, we seek to develop strategies to combat racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. Through local, national and international networking and coalition building, we seek to build bridges between workers in the southern region, other parts of the country and the world. www.msworkerscenter.org
Nah We Yone
Nah We Yone (which means "It belongs to us" in the Krio language) was created to proactively respond to the absence of culturally informed programs and services for distressed peoples from the various communities within the African Diaspora. Nah We Yone offers culturally informed programs and services to facilitate adjustment within the United States. We do this by providing psychological and social support, including the provision of pertinent information, the strengthening of community ties, wellness activities, and crisis intervention for adults, children and families. www.nahweyone.org
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE)
New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) is a cross-cultural, non-profit organization that uses organizing, advocacy, and public education to ensure that new immigrants are active, informed, and influential in civic, governmental and public affairs. Central to NICE's mission is challenging the access gap between recent immigrant communities and government, seeking systemic solutions to improving immigrants' voting rights, full language access, health care, and workplace protections under local, state and federal laws. www.nynice.org
North Gulfport Community Land Trust (NGCLT)
The North Gulfport Community Land Trust (NGCLT) is a community development tool of flexibility, easily accommodating a variety of land uses, a range of income groups, and a diversity of building tenures and types, either scattered throughout a NGCLT's holdings or integrated within the same mixed-use, mixed income projects. Land is the common ingredient, linking them all. The NGCLT is the social thread, connecting them all. www.ngclt.org
Picture The Homeless
Picture the Homeless was founded by two homeless men in November of
1999, Lewis Haggins and Anthony Williams who were both residing in
Bellevue Men's Shelter. Since our founding we have grown to a
membership of over 1,000 homeless New Yorkers living on the streets,
and in the shelter system. Picture the Homeless was founded on the
principle that in order to end homelessness, people who are homeless
must become an organized, effective voice for systemic change. www.picturethehomeless.
Street Vendor Project
The Street Vendor Project (a part of the Urban Justice Center) is a membership-based organization of individuals who sell food and merchandise on the streets and sidewalks of New York City. We help vendors stand up for their legal rights, help them obtain small business training, and act as a center of advocacy for the approximately 10,000 hard-working people who earn their living as vendors in our city. www.streetvendor.org
The United Houma Nation
The United Houma Nation is geographically, not politically,
comprised of several communities. There is one overall chairperson and
several representatives per district. The tribe is state
recognized but not federally recognized. The tribe has submitted a
rebuttal against the proposed finding which was denial of federal
recognition. A review is in the future. www.geocities.com
The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR), is a non-profit organization, founded in 1982 to educate, defend and protect the rights of immigrants. Recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, NMCIR is committed to expanding access to legal immigration services, participating in policy making and community organizing.
Most of the individuals who walk through the doors of the Coalition are low-income, non-citizen immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin America, and increasingly, Africa and the Middle East. Some have lived in the U.S. for decades, others are recent immigrants. The Coalition is often their first entrée into accessing legal aid or basic social services..
The Coalition Educates, Organizes and Defends the immigrant community with the following issues: Family Reunification, Citizenship, Family Based Petitions, Deportation, ESL. www.nmcir.org
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) is dedicated to winning improved conditions for restaurant workers and raising public recognition of restaurant workers' contributions to the city. Our members include nearly 2500 restaurant workers and their families from all parts of the world and from all different sectors of this nation's fastest growing industry.
ROC-NY was initially founded after September 11th, 2001 to provide support to restaurant workers displaced as a result of the World Trade Center tragedy, ROC-NY has grown to support restaurant workers all over New York City and advocate for improved working conditions. Over the last five years, we have won nine workplace justice campaigns against exploitative high-profile restaurant companies, obtaining $4,580,000 and improvements in workplace policies for restaurant workers. www.rocny.org
Good Old Lower East Side
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan since 1977 and is dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development and community revitalization. GOLES accomplishes our mission by working with community residents to advocate and organize. GOLES’ long-term goals are to build the power of low-income residents on the Lower East Side to address displacement and gentrification, preserve and expand the low-income housing stock, assert community self-determination over the use of public space and ensure a clean and healthy environment where people live, work, and play. www.goles.org
East Harlem Preservation
East Harlem Preservation (EHP) is a volunteer advocacy organization* founded in 2005 to promote, preserve, and protect the neighborhood's rich cultural, architectural and environmental history.
We conduct neighborhood tours, coordinate public forums and other projects promoting the neighborhood's history and culture, and regularly document issues of local interest.
EHP also provides news and background information on large-scale development, gentrification and displacement, and other issues of public concern to residents and business owners in East Harlem/El Barrio and surrounding areas. Our web site and newsletter are available to help promote the work of neighborhood organizations and nonprofit cultural, educational, health, economic development, and environmental agencies. www.eastharlempreservation.org
The New York Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors
The mission of the New York Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors was formed to unite survivors as they fight for economic stability, health care, voting rights, adequate housing, and the basic rights guaranteed to them as U.S. citizens. Though our efforts address the immediate concerns and needs of survivors in New York, our long term goal is for all survivors to have the right to return to their homes in the Gulf - the right to return to cities that support and reflect the populations that have been displaced.
We
believe that the voices of survivors must be at the forefront, and
support survivors as they advocate on their own behalf. The NY Solidarity
Coalition organizes survivors and supporters as they connect the
aftermath of the Katrina and Rita disasters to the struggle for human
rights - which includes educational, economic and critical justice. www.nykatrinarita.org
