When you donate to Citizens Committee, you know your gift is helping New Yorkers strengthen their communities. And your donation – big or small – goes a long way.
With a little bit of startup cash and a lot of elbow grease, the groups we support make a big impact in their neighborhoods and schools. Whether it’s a women-led urban farm in the South Bronx or a mile-long mural designed by students in East New York, you are helping everyday residents in the poorest neighborhoods make their vision a reality.
From teaching after-school art classes and building little libraries in public parks, to transforming empty lots into community gardens and painting murals over graffiti covered walls – Members help make New York City a more vibrant place to live, work, and play.
When Citizens Committee was founded by Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Oz Elliott and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits in 1975, they began decades of reinventing New York City neighborhoods through resident-led initiative and engagement.
In addition to all membership benefits, Founders Circle members receive special benefits and recognition to acknowledge their leadership.
Citizens Committee
for New York City
Attn: Lori Lichtman
77 Water Street, Suite 202
New York, NY 10005
Call Lori Lichtman at
(212) 822-9592
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Address:
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Chicago, Ill. 60670-0291
Contact:
Eli Aronov
Phone number:
718-853-2710
dtc routing number:
0352
Account number:
73352188
Account name:
Citizens Committee for NYC
Tax id #:
51-0171818
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Hear from a few of our GRANTEES
The Manhattanville Resident Green Committee received its first grant through Citizens Committee. With this grant we planted 5 community gardens in the development to beautify it and make it a more welcoming place to live and visit. Thanks to Citizens Committee, we will be able to plant more gardens and continue with this beautification project.
Working with Citizens Committee has been such a wonderful experience for Feed Your Mind Music. With our grant award, we set up three workshops within the Bushwick, Park Slope and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. The grant was instrumental in the purchase of music books and instruments for children in under- served communities. CCNYC is also a great resource for grassroots community based organizations like Feed Your Mind Music, providing no cost workshops, valuable information, professional advice and an excellent line of communication and follow up.
For over four years, Citizen Committee has supported and guided our community building projects and grassroots advocacy in the Vernon & Throop and Tranquility Farm Gardens in Central Brooklyn. Without the help and support of Citizens Committee, grassroots advocacy groups like ours in New York City would not have been able to grow our respective organizations in fostering the ideals of sustainable practices and good citizenry.
We're eternally grateful to Citizens Committee for making our dreams for a greener Queens into a reality by gifting SustyQ with our first grant for The Critical Moss. Through these funds, we have been able to clean and green our neighborhood, install moss graffiti designs, and create guerrilla gardens as healing spaces which inspire interaction and action. The conversations and new friendships are blossoming like wildflowers!
Citizens Committee for New York City is a proud nonprofit partner of 1% For the Planet, a global network of businesses that donate 1% of their annual sales. 
