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.

Awarded the President’s Call to Service Award by the White House, Brenda Duchene’s founded Isabhalia Ladies of Elegance in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

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.

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.

Citizens Committee for New York City Announces $236,950 in Grants to 73 Community Groups Responding to COVID-19 and Community/Police Relations

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).

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.

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.

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.

Uplifting the voices of the community leaders in New York.

Citizens Committee for New York City Announces $250,800 in Grants to 64 Community Groups Responding to COVID-19

Rodney Deas, aka "Radio Rahim" is a long-time activist in Brooklyn. He has been in the entertainment industry for decades, involved in radio and producing; he was involved in the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement and co-founded the Paul Robeson Freedom School in Bedford Stuyvesant.

Our grantees are shifting gears to meet the most urgent needs of their community. Here is API&!’s story.

Danielle Sullivan is an administrative aide by day, community organizer by night and parent to an amazing child with special needs around the clock. She unites parents from all walks of life and engages conversation about the needs, wants, and growth of our children.

West Side Community Fund Announces COVID Relief Grant Program Supporting Small Businesses in Chelsea, Hudson Yards, Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhoods

Our grantees are shifting gears to meet the most urgent needs of their community. Here is iDig2Learn’s story.

Organizer, and preservationist, Zulmilena Then is the founder of Preserving East New York (PENY) an organization whose mission is to advocate for historic preservation for the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York and its subsections.

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