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Grantee Stories 
News Since the start of COVID-19 in NYC and the subsequent stay-at-home order, Citizens Committee has awarded over $500,000 in grants to resident-led organizations and small businesses that are addressing critical community needs in all five boroughs of the city and filling in wide service gaps.
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Grantee Oral Histories Awarded the President’s Call to Service Award by the White House, Brenda Duchene’s founded Isabhalia Ladies of Elegance in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
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Press Release Black-led Grassroots Orgs Most Eager Community Group in NYC to Implement Police-Community Relations Projects. One of nation’s oldest micro-funding organizations says Black & Brown groups willing to do the work even in the face of racism.
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Grantee Oral Histories As the president of the Resident Association of Lafayette Gardens, Tyree Stanback seeks to create a positive difference in the lives of residents and the community of Lafayette Gardens.
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News Citizens Committee for New York City Announces $236,950 in Grants to 73 Community Groups Responding to COVID-19 and Community/Police Relations
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Grantee Oral Histories Sheryll Durrant works alongside Kelly Street Garden Committee in providing opportunity for all community members to take part in gardening.
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Grantee Oral Histories Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario has worked alongside several non-profit organization before creating her own, Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE).
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News Our second COVID-19 Conversations is a special edition where we discussed the murder the George Floyd, the protests that gripped the nation afterward, and the push to end police brutality and systemic racism in America.
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News A few weeks ago, the U.S. Census Bureau announced September 30th as the new deadline for officials to complete the 2020 Census survey, one month earlier than planned. That means there are two weeks left to get every New Yorker counted. At a time when we are already struggling to recover from COVID-19, we as a city, cannot risk losing additional federal and state funding.
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Grantee Oral Histories Brooklyn native Amma Oloriwaa! works with Egbe Iwa Odo'kunrin Egbe Iwa Odo'binrin in preparing and empowering youth in New York City to assume age appropriate responsibilities.
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