Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

8.09.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

7.26.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

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Join CitizensNYC to learn how to navigate local New York City government to protect the rights of all New Yorkers. Our special guest speaker, newly appointed Manhattan Community Board 1 member, Desi K. Robinson, will discuss how to mobilize our communities to understand and participate in hyper-local government to protect Black rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and Women’s rights.

Violence Will Not Make Us Safe!

What does public safety mean to your community? Public safety is programs or activities implemented by a public agency (directly or indirectly) for the safety, protection, law enforcement and criminal justice of the public. Included in this should be mental health.

Community Gardens: Fertile Ground for Environmental Justice

Community gardens and the gardeners who care for them contribute to the environmental sustainability, public health, and community resilience of their neighborhoods and cities.

#WomenSupportWomen: Network Weaving to Build Your Dream

We don’t go far without each other. Want to launch a business, nonprofit, or other dream?

All in for Community Health

Our one-day Ideas Summit convenes and connects grassroots community leaders, academics, elected officials, strategists, and community residents, working toward the public good of New York City.

Karen Washington is busier than ever. She’s preparing for her community Garden of Happiness to join La Familia market, a community garden coalition she helped found in 1988. Before re-opening, she has mountains of guidelines to consider.

Named in 2012, alongside Beyonce and Oprah, Karen Washington ranked in Ebony magazine’s “Power 100” of influential African-Americans.

Sheryll Durrant works alongside Kelly Street Garden Committee in providing opportunity for all community members to take part in gardening.

Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario has worked alongside several non-profit organization before creating her own, Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE).

Uplifting the voices of the community leaders in New York.

Survey conducted by Citizens Committee reveals greatest needs, challenges among the New York City's most vulnerable communities