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March 16, 2010 Volume XXXV Number 6the READER

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ANHD Sparks Landmark Settlement withPredatory Equity Developer & Attorney Genera

SPRING 2010 COURSESANHD Workshops...pp4 & 7

NEW GRANTS INSIDEResources and Notices...pp8-10

NEW JOB POSTINJob Postings...pp11

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ANTAGE PROPERTIES OWNS OVER 9,000 APARTMENTS IN QUEENS AND MANHATTAN. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 34-15 Parsons Boulevard in Flushing, Queens;2 Pinehurst Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan; and 43-23 Ithaca Street in Elmhurst, Queens are owned by Vantage Properties. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomhotos: web source

This case is a result,

in large part, of information

and analysis that ANHD

and our member groups

frst brought to the

Attorney General in 2007.

This past month, New York State Attor-ey General Andrew Cuomo announced landmark settlement with a real estate

eveloper Vantage Properties, an ownerwho is one of the pioneers of the preda-ory equity practice of harassment as ausiness model. Vantage, together withheir investment partner Apollo Real Es-ate Advisors, is a major owner of rent sta-ilized real estate, and have bought over000 affordable apartments across theity in recent years. This case is a result,n large part, of information and analysishat ANHD and our member groups rstrought to the Attorney General in 2007.

The agreement requires Vantage to pay

1 million in damages to tenants who can

demonstrate that they unjustly vacatedtheir apartments or were subject to frivo-lous Housing Court proceedings. Further,

the agreement requires Vantage to reform

its policies and procedures to ensure cpliance with the Rent Stabilization Cand other laws. In a press release

nouncing the agreement, Attorney GeCuomo stated, Landlords who harassants harm all New York City residentdisplacing long-time tenants from sneighborhoods and exacerbating thefordable housing shortage. In these toeconomic times, the preservation of afable housing is of the utmost importaTodays agreement with Vantage notpreserves the rent-regulated apartmowned by them, but also sends a stmessage that my ofce will continuprotect tenants and bring unscrupulandlords to justice.


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2 MARCH 16, 2010VOLUME XXXV, NUMBER 6

IN COMMUNITIES

ANHD INC. is a not-for-prot social welfare organization which advocates on behalf of New York City community-based non-prot housingorganizations and the neighborhoods they serve. ANHD INC. advocates for comprehensive, progressive housing policies and programs tosupport affordable, ourishing neighborhoods for all New Yorkers, especially our lower income residents. The ANHD Inc. Reader (ISSN:2150-5292). The ANHD Inc. Reader is published 26 times per year (bi-weekly) by ANHD INC., which is located at 50 Broad Street, Suite1125, New York, NY10004. Phone: (212) 747-1117. Fax:(212)747-1114.

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Landlords $1M deal with Cuomo shuts door on harassmen

IN THE NEWSANHD

BY Daniel Edward RosenDAILY NEWS WRITERFriday, February 12th 2010

A CONTROVERSIAL Queens landlordhas reached a $1 million settlement withstate Attorney General Andrew Cuomo inwhich it agreed to stop harassing its ten-

ants with threats of eviction, Cuomo saidyesterday.

Vantage Properties, which owns about9,500 apartments in Queens and Man-hattan, must dish out up to $750,000 incompensation to tenants who can provehey were harassed with bogus legal

notices or eviction proceedings, Cuomosaid. It must also give the balance of thatsum not paid out to tenants, plus an-other $250,000, to nonprot groups thatprovide free legal counsel to its tenants.As part of the settlement, Vantage mustuse a new system to handle tenant com-plaints and initiate legal proceedings, and

also le reports with Cuomos ofce overthe next three years to show it is comply-ing with the agreement.

Benjamin Dulchin, executive directorof the Association of NeighborhoodHousing Development in Manhat-tan, applauded the groundbreaking

settlement for protecting tenants agaipredatory equity.Vantage spokesman Davidson Golsaid company ofcials were thrilledbe a part of the settlement.

Vantage has acknowledged makingmistake and is proud to be establish

what Cuomo calls a [new best-practicstandard], Goldin said.

Read The Full Story: http://wwn y d a i l y n e w s . c o m / n y _ l o cqueens/2010/02/12/2010-02-1landlords_1m_deal_with_cuomshuts_door_on_harassment.html

Vantage rst came to the attention ofANHD member groups in 2006, soonafter Vantage began their apartmentpurchasing spree, when ANHD groupsbegan to notice something troubling;mmediately after Vantage took over abuilding, they would commence a waveof evictions in Housing Court. Theseeviction attempts were often directed atup to 50% of the tenants in a building,and where overwhelmingly factuallywrong, making it clear that the develop-er was grasping at straws to nd a wayto get the tenants into court. For ANHD

groups committed to preserving afford-able housing, this pattern was disturb-ng, both because it represented agross misuse of housing court, but alsobecause it was a very effective strat-egy. The buildings Vantage purchasedwere predominantly outer-borough rentstabilized buildings lled with immigrantworking families. Few of these tenantscould afford or had access to an attor-ney when sued, nor were they familiarwith the bureaucratic rules of HousingCourt. In fact, ANHD research suggests

that, in Vantage buildings, for every 10

tenants sued on a factually insufcientbasis, 4 tenants would incorrectly be in-timidated into signing away their rightsand give up their affordable apartment.

ANHD groups approached the Attor-ney General with evidence of the ille-gal harassment, and also with evidencethat the harassment was clearly an in-tentional result of Vantages businessmodel. In fact, ANHD research into theunderwriting of Vantages buildings,was available through public lings withthe Securities and Exchange Commis-

sion because the loans for the build-ings had been bundled into mortgage-backed securities.ANHD believes that this settlement,and the publicity surrounding it, isgroundbreaking, because not onlydoes this agreement provide meaning-ful monetary relief to tenants who wereharassed, but it requires the implemen-tation of clear and sound policies andprocedures that will protect the rights oftenants. The Attorney Generals agree-ment with Vantage puts Wall Street in-vestors and landlords that do their bid-ding on notice that tenant harassmentis against the law and violators will beprosecuted.

The threat toNew Yorksaffordable

rental housing:2005-2009

November 2009

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Predatory

Equity:Evolutionof a Crisis

Vantage Properties has been

mentioned in past ANHD reportsfor its participation in the practiceknown as Predatory Equity. Tolearn in detail about this practice,key practitioners, and the affecton affordable housing in NYC,

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MANAGING & MAINTAINING YOUR HOUSING PORTFOLIO:sset & Property Management and Maintenance of Affordable

Multi-Family Housing Best Practices.

his beefed-up series of nine trainings is specically geared foruilding managers and back ofce staff, superintendents & main-

enance staff of nonprot housing agencies that develop, managend maintain affordable housing. The course will be presented byffordable housing experts, contractors and professional property

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DATES: 9 consecutive Thursdays beginning March 25hrough May 20, 2010. TIME: 1:00 PM. - 4:30 PM. LOCA-ION: ANHD ofces, unless otherwise indicated. COST: $180

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HOUSING


By MICHAEL POWELL

The New York Times | Published: March 5, 2010

TO walk the streets of Brownsville and East New York,Brooklyn, is to see neighborhoods ravaged by foreclo-sure, homes boarded up and marshals notices taped todoors. Yet in the midst of this pain sit several swaths ofwell-tended homes, about 3,000 in all, each with a drive-way and statuary and garden. Not one of their ownershas lost a home.

Five miles away in Jamaica, Queens, another neighbor-hood hammered by foreclosures, there remain blockswhere not one house has been put up for auction in thecurrent crisis.

Stroll around Soundview in the Bronx, or Windsor Ter-ace and Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, and the pat-ern becomes clear. Of more than 60,000 New York

homes built or rehabilitated by the city in partnershipwith nonprot groups like Nehemiah and NeighborhoodHousing Services over three decades, fewer than 1 per-cent have fallen into foreclosure.

t is a hidden-in-plain-sight success story: these allianceshave sidestepped the plague of foreclosure by deliver-ng homes to working-class families in a distinctly tradi-ional manner. The Department of Housing Preservation

and Development and nonprot groups created sturdy,affordable homes. Counselors screened credit historiesand required that applicants attend ownership classes,put cash down and obtain prime-loan mortgages.If you didnt have good credit, you were out it was

old-fashioned, recalled Zandra Brockman, 52, whobought one of the Nehemiah homes in East New Yorkor $68,500 in 1999. They didnt want to sell you a home

and have you lose everything.

As Congress debates the causes of the nations hous-ng calamity, many Republicans have accused Demo-crats of promoting homeownership at any cost, pressur-ng banks and federal agencies to issue mortgages, nomatter how exotic the lending terms or how shaky theapplicants nances. Even some advocates for moder-ate-income subsidized housing have acknowledged thatownership mania swept the country in the last 15 years.n these New York neighborhoods, both liberal and some

conservative analysts see a model for bringing low- andmiddle-income workers, many of them black and Latino,back into the housing market.

They have recapitulated the elements of healthy, work-ng-class neighborhoods its back to the future, saidHoward Husock, a vice president for social research athe conservative Manhattan Institute. Learning to save

and building up credit is a prelude to becoming a good

homeowner.In their aversion to risk, the city and the nonprot groupshave behaved like small-town bankers. They refuse tolet pinched owners overextend with home-equity loans.And the city demands the right to review renancing re-quests.

One lady wrote a thousand letters to the mayor com-plaining about us, recalled Denise Scott, managingdirector of the New York ofce of the Local InitiativesSupport Corporation, which has nanced close to 400subsidized one- to-four-family homes without a singleforeclosure. We refused to accept her argument thatshe could own a house without showing us proof of in-come. Sorry.

A tally by the citys housing agency shows that of 20,614such homes sold since 2004, only 13 have gone throughforeclosure auctions. Among 3,900 Nehemiah homesbuilt since the 1980s, organizers know of no foreclosures.We continue to see an almost nonexistent default rate,said Kathryn S. Wylde, president of the Partnership forNew York City, whose housing arm has helped nancetens of thousands of one-to-three-family homes.

This, despite the fact that the homes are mainly in neigh-borhoods like East New York, where lenders led 1,051foreclosure notices last year, or Jamaica, where 759houses were scheduled for foreclosure auctions, ac-cording to the nonprot Center for New York Neighbor-hoods.While New Yorks commitment over several decades toproducing hundreds of thousands of subsidized apart-ments and houses is without parallel in the nation, othercities have begun similar programs with similarly lowforeclosure rates.

Neighborhood Housing Services has produced tens ofthousands of affordable homes, scattered among virtu-ally all of the nations large cities. The group that formedNehemiah has also built 140 homes in Washington inthe last few years. And Enterprise Community Partners

a nonprot group based in Columbia, Md., has helpednance 15,000 to 20,000 homes for moderate-incomebuyers across the country.

Homeownership is not for everyone, said Mark McDer-mott, an Enterprise vice president. We require coun-seling and down payments we want homeowners tohave some skin in the game.Such housing requires a substantial infusion of publicmoney.

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WINTER/SPRING 2010 COURSES & WORKSHOPS

IN HOUSING PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATIONMANAGING & MAINTAINING YOUR HOUSING PORTFOLIO: Asset & PropertyManagement and Maintenance of Affordable Multi-Family Housing Best Practices.

This beefed-up series of nine (9) trainings is specically geared for building managers and back ofce staff, superin-tendents & maintenance staff of nonprot housing agencies that develop, manage and maintain affordable housing.The course will be presented by affordable housing experts, contractors and professional property managers.

DATES: 9 consecutive Thursdays beginning March 25 through May 20, 2010. TIME: 1:00 PM. - 4:30 PM. LOCATION:ANHD ofces, unless otherwise indicated. COST: $180 per agency for ANHD members ($270 Non-members). Forsingle sessions: $30/ANHD members & $40/non-members.

ANHD member agencies who sign up for the entire series, may send any two staff people they want from their or-

ganization for each presentation.

MARCH 25 THE BUSINESS OF ASSET & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT-BEST PRACTICES -Lisa Deller.

APRIL 1 @ 1 PM. HOUSING COURT: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE TO TAKE A TENANT TO COURT? withLouise Seeley.APRIL 1 @ 3 PM. FAIR HOUSING LAWS with Mike Bucci, CEO, Development Resource Group.

APRIL 8 PROJECT COMPLIANCE: Meeting the Regulatory Requirements of Several Governmental Entities (HPD,DHCR, DOB, HUD), with a Focus on Low Income Housing Tax Credit Regulations with Tania Garrido of Enterpriseand Sandra Abramson, Tem-Pro-Tech, Inc.

APRIL 15. @ 1 PM. NY STATE WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM with Dan Rieber (NMIC) who willexplain the program details and the crucial role of the weatherization assistance provider to help groups with imple-menting energy efciency measures.

APRIL 15. @ 3 PM. CON EDISONS NEW MULTI-FAMILY ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM with Gregory Elcock,Manager. Be the rst on your block to nd out about ConEds free energy audits.

APRIL 22. A DETAILED OVERVIEW OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE with Aaron Lewit, Constr. Mgr.

APRIL 29. MAKING MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS PERFORM MORE EFFICIENTLY, REDUCING MAINTENANCE &OPERATING COSTS & REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING: Retrotting Energy Conservation Measures with a focuson the cost benets of the Low Hanging Fruit and The Crisis of Global Warming - What To Do About It with MichaelSweringen, President, microLEADERSHIP Inc.

MAY (Date TBD) FIELD TRIP TO CONSTRUCTION SITE: Understanding up-close the major building systems (en-velope, mechanical, electrical, heat, cooling and plumbing) with Aaron Lewit.

MAY (Date TBD) OTHER POSSIBLE TRAININGS:

o Maintaining & Operating Heating Plants: Heating & Hot Water Systems.o Insurance Basics: Organizational, Property, Liability & Construction-related insurance issues.o Apartment Management Checklist & Maintaining Best Practices.o Financial Management: Budgeting, Record Keeping, Reporting & Financial Software.

To Register for MANAGING & MAINTAINING YOUR HOUSING PORTFOLIO (above): Please mail the applicationform (page 3) with payment to ANHD, 50 Broad St., Suite 1125, NY, NY 10004, Attn: Rita Mazza, or fax to 212-747-1114. (Make checks payable to ANHD) Contact Mike Bucci 347-306-1745/[email protected] or Moses [email protected] with questions about this training. Advance registration required. Seating is limited with prioritygiven to ANHD members.



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SECOND CHANCE ACT MENTORING GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS................................................................................................................ .................................................... .........................

ACCEPTING UNTIL MAR 18

he U.S. Department of Justice, Ofce of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance announced that it is seeking applicatr funding for mentoring grants to nonprot organizations under the Second Chance Act. This program furthers the departmeission by providing services and programs to facilitate inmates successful reintegration into society. Deadline: March 18, 201

PPLY HEREor visit

DRUG FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT PROGRAM GRANTS............................................................................................ ......................... ............................


he Executive Ofce of the President, Ofce of National Drug Control Policy, and the Department of Health and Human Serviubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention are accepting applications

rug Free Communities Support Program grants. Drug Free Communities grant funds are intended to support eligible communased coalitions focused on addressing youth substance use. Anticipated total available funding: $18.75 million. Anticipated numawards: 150 grants. Anticipated award amount: up to $125,000 per year. Length of project period: up to 5 years.

eadline: March 19, 2010.PPLY HEREor visit

ASSETS FOR INDEPENDENCE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM............................................................................... .................................................... ..................


he Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Ofce of Community Services (OCS), will accept applications for grantstablish and administer Assets for Independence (AFI) projects until March 25, 2010. Proposals for nonprots having a 50) status with the IRS are eligible. This program has $19,000,000 in funding and intends to award 65 grants. The ceiling for fu

g is $1,000,000. Grantees must provide an array of supports and services to enable individuals and families with low incomeecome economically self-sufcient for the long-term. A primary feature of each AFI project is that project participants are giveness to special matched savings accounts called Individual Development Accounts (IDA), in which participants save earned incor the purchase of a home, for business capitalization, or to attend higher education or training. Grantees also ensure that par

ants have access to nancial literacy education and coaching including training on money management and consumer issuesPPLICATION DUE MARCH 25 APPLY HEREor visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2008-ACF-OCS-EI-0053.html

NEIGHBORHOOD EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE.................................................................................................................


ational Competitions: There are two competitions -- Awards of Excellence in Affordable Housing Built Responsibly and AwaExcellence for Sustainable Community Development. The Foundation awards several $75,000 grants to winners, $25,000 ru

ers up grants, and $2,500 grants for honorable mention. For both grant competitions, letters of inquiry are due March 31, 2010PPLY HEREor visit

ASSISTED HOUSING STABILITY AND ENERGY AND GREEN RETROFIT............................................................................................ ......................... ...................................................

ACCEPTING UNTIL FEB 16, 2011

UDs Ofce of Affordable Housing Preservation will make grants available for eligible property owners to make energy and gretrot investments in the property, to ensure the maintenance and preservation of the property, the continued operation and manance of energy efciency technologies, and the timely expenditure of funds. Physical and nancial analyses of the propertiesll be conducted to determine the size of each grant and loan. Incentives will be made available to participating owners. Closin

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State Cedes Brooklyn Bridge Park To City

Governors Island To FollowBy City Hall NewsAfter years of intense lobbying by the Bloomberg administra-tion, the state will give the city complete control of the BrooklynBridge Park waterfront development project last Wednesday,with one other joint-operated project soon to follow in beingtransferred to the citys sole possession.

In exchange for a cash commitment of $55 million, the statewill announce the granting of full control of the project to thecity during a planned meeting of the parks board of trusteeson Wednesday. Following the transfer, the city will be solelyresponsible for planning, construction, maintenance and op-eration of the park, and will have all revenue control over theproject moving forward.

The move by the city will be the rst of several planned trans-fers of joint-operated projects to the city. In the coming weeks,the city will also takeover the 172-acre Governors Island de-velopment project. The state will also release the city from its$300 million obligation for the expansion of the Javits conven-tion center.

Under a previous plan, Bloomberg suggested taking moneyintended for the Javits expansion and put it toward improv-ing Brooklyn Bridge Park and Governors Island. With the citynow moving to assume control of these projects, it is unclearwhether the mayor still intends to dole out funds in that manner.An Economic Development Corportation spokesperson de-clined to comment on the prospective board action. The may-

ors ofce and the states Empire State Development Corpora-tion would not return calls for comment.

After more than two decades of planning, the rst sections ofthe long-delayed 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park were sched-uled to be unveiled late last year, but was delayed due to thepush-and-pull between the city and the state.

Click Below to read the full story:hhttp://www.cityhallnews.com/newyork/article-1180-brooklyn-bridge-park-to-go-to-city-con-trol-wednesday-governorrss-island-will-follow.html

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485 Jackson Avenue HDFC is accepting applications for 20 af-fordable housing rental apartments now under construction at485 Jackson Avenue in the Mott Haven section of The Bronx.Qualied applicants will be required to meet income and familysize guidelines and additional selection criteria.

Applications may be requested by mail from: 485 Jackson Av-enue, HDFC c/o Lemle & Wolff, Inc. 5925 Broadway, Bronx,NY 10463 or by visiting www.lemlewolff.com. This building isbeing constructed through the New Construction ParticipationLoan Program (PLP) of New York Citys Department of Hous-ing Preservation and Development.

Click here to view the size, rent and targeted income distribu-tion for the 20 apartments, and information on how to apply.http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/Jackson-Avenue.pdf

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104 AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS IN STATEN ISLAND

Stapleton Senior Owners LLC is accepting applications for104 affordable senior housing rental apartments now underconstruction at 180 Broad Street, in the Stapleton section ofStaten Island. At least one household member must be fty-ve (55) years of age or older at time of application.

This building is being constructed through the Low-Income Af-fordable Marketplace Program (LAMP) of the New York CityHousing Development Corporation, Homes for Working Fami-lies Program (HWF) of the New York State Division of Housingand Community Renewal, and the Low Income Rental Program(LIRP) of the New York City Department of Housing Preserva-tion and Development.

Click here to view the size, rent and targeted income distribu-tion for the 104 apartments, and information on how to apply.http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/downloads/pdf/Broad-Street-Staten-Island.pdfsterling-street-brooklyn-crown-heights

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39 AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS IN BROOKLYN

Prospect Equities Operating, LLC is accepting applications for39 affordable housing rental apartments now under rehabilita-tion at 286 Willoughby Ave, 577 St. Marks Ave, 1051 EasternParkway, and 603, 848, and 850 Franklin Ave in the Prospect/Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

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Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC), a socialservice community-based organization in Washington Heights/Inwood is seeking a full-time Community Health Worker whowill be responsible for providing community-wide asthma edu-cation and identies, enrolls, and supports families of childrenwith poorly controlled asthma for the period of one year. In par-ticular, CHW offers families individualized asthma education,asthma management support, trigger reduction strategies, andlinks to clinical and social services.

Duties include performs hospital rounds in CHONY at least oneweek per month to visit families of children in the ED and thosehospitalized for asthma to offer them asthma education and carecoordination services; conducts home visits and completes en-vironmental assessments; opens 3-5 new cases per month andidenties and outreaches to new referral sources in the com-munity as necessary; conducts community-wide outreach andtraining and participates in local health fairs, workshops, andevents; completes proper documentation for each new case,maintains organized ling system, and submits relevant paper-work to Care Coordination Supervisor on a timely basis and re-ports to Care Coordination Supervisor and Program Manager atWIN for Asthma and CBO Supervisor at base CBO. Successfulapplicants should have prior case management experience andknowledge of community resources. Willingness to visit fami-

lies in the hospital, community and home settings. Computerliteracy is necessary for this position. Must be able to workindependently, be results oriented and organized with an atten-tion to detail. Ability to communicate effectively with clients andcommunity groups in both English and Spanish is REQUIRED.Bachelors Degree or equivalent degree preferred.

To apply, send resume/cover (with position in subject line) toNMIC, Human Resources Director, 76 Wadsworth Avenue, NY,NY 10033 or [email protected] or fax to (212) 928-4180.NMIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE ORGANIZ.............................................................................................

UPROSE, Brooklyns oldest Latino community-based orzation, is seeking candidates for the position of EnvironmJustice OrganizerCandidates will :

Work closely with Executive Director to develop strategieUPROSEs environmental and social justice programs,ects, and campaigns

Coordinate and conduct organizing events (develop out

materials, manage data base contact information, conductto door outreach and expand UPROSEs base)

Plan informational sessions on key environmental and sjustice issues

Work with UPROSEs members to identify issues that arportant to them.

Hold planning meetings with members to develop action egies and plans for winning on issues and achieving goals

Help carry out media strategies to raise awareness abosues and build support for our organizing.

Assist with fundraising, grant writing and reporting.Other community organizing responsibilities as necessaryAdditional Qualications: Three to ve years organizing experience Excellent written/oral communications skills Commitment to environmental justice and social justice isand UPROSEs mission Knowledge of environmental and social justice issues aing communities of color and low income communities Ability to work collaboratively Experience promoting issues and policy objectives Spanish/English preferred

Candidate Must:

Be someone with initiative, self-condence, energy, and epreneurial skills, who enjoys working as a team player buhas the capability to work independently and as a self-sta

Be a personable, positive, and social individual, with intand a sense of humor

Be very well organized, willing to work diligently and witexibility necessary to balance the many challenges inhera changing and growing organization.

Please submit cover letter, resume and three references tUPROSE 166A 22nd Street Brooklyn, NY 11232 Or emat: [email protected],


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ORGANIZING DIRECTOR....................................................................................................Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is looking tohire a Director of Congregational Organizing.RESPONSIBILITIES: Recruit and organize local congregations, andoccasionally community organizations, universities, or tenant asso-ciations; Coordinate and grow the Clergy Caucus, a body of clergyfrom a dozen denominations devoted to building relationships andjoining together for interfaith celebrations and actions on issues ofconcern; Supervise 1-2 community organizers and support congre-gational organizing in NWBCCC overall; Develop leadership withincongregations through Listening Campaigns and the formation of

Faith in Action committees; Transition leaders from congregationalleadership into the core leadership base of the NWBCCC; Orga-nize campaigns on the issues that emerge from these institutions,such as neighborhood safety, housing, and jobs; Provide leadershiptrainings on organizing and political education, as well as organizingKnow Your Rights workshops in institution; Assist with grant devel-opment to current & potential funders through writing reports, main-taining funder relationships, and helping recruit new funders; Assistwith fundraising through membership dues and special events;Maintain clear fles about congregational organizing and updatedatabase regularly. Must attend weekly staff meetings and submitweekly reections.REQUIREMENTS:Minimum 2 years experience in organizing, ac-tivism, or related feld; Prefercandidate with experience organizingfaith communities; Commitment to social justice and community

organizing as an approach to social change; Flexibility and stronginterest in working as part of a team with staff and leaders; Spanishlanguage skills desired but not mandatory; Ability to work occasionalweekends and weeknights. Salary commensurate with experi-ence. Please submit resumes by email to Co-Executive Direc-tor Laura Vazquez ([email protected]) and Directorof Congregational Organizing Abby Bellows ([email protected])...................................................................................................

SR. PROJECT MANAGER...................................................................................................West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing seeksa Senior Project Manager for Housing Development. Respon-sibilities: Oversight of ongoing housing development activities

which shall include activities such as: identifying sites, devel-oping project budgets and securing necessary project funding,managing projects during construction, and coordinating activi-ties of all internal and external team members to ensure thatprojects are delivered on time and on budget.

Qualications: The successful applicant will have demonstra-ble skills in nancial analysis, demonstrable real-estate relatedproject management experience (in particular, management ofprojects while in-construction), and experience utilizing NewYork City, New York State, and federal programs for subsidizedhousing. Candidate should understand and be comfortable withgrant, equity, and debt structures including bond and commer-cial credit transactions. The ability to juggle multiple prioritiesand maintain an attention to detail is paramount, as is the ability

to manage workload with minimal oversight. The ideal cdate will be creative and motivated, with the capacity to deva long-range vision for existing and potential projects.Salary: commensurate with experience. Interested applicshould email [email protected] to request a fudescription explaining application requirements. Please dcontact the ofce by phone or fax...............................................................................................

FAMILY SPECIALI..............................................................................................Jericho Project is seeking an experienced and enthusiastdividual to join its team as a full-time Family Specialist foScatter-site Housing Program for episodic homeless famOur Family Specialist will provide case management, se

coordination and network with landlords to provide safe afable housing for up to 10 families in the program.

REQUIREMENTS: Qualied candidates will have a MasteSocial Work, and the ability to provide case managemeparents and children who have experienced homelessnesThe location of this position is the Bronx. The candidatereport to the Director of Special Programs and work Full Tsome evenings and weekends.Responsibilities Include:Salary is commensurate with experience. Jericho Project oa comprehensive benets package including health insuradental insurance, retirement plan, and four weeks paid vtion. Contact: [email protected]..............................................................................................

FACILITATED ENROLL..............................................................................................Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC), a sservice community-based organization in Washington HeInwood is seeking a full-time Facilitated Enroller who will bsponsible for enrolling families and children in health insuraDuties include: conducting preliminary assessments to dmine eligibility for health insurance, completing health iance applications and submitting all pertinent supporting dmentation to funding source, utilizing trade-specic softwastore data, conduct outreach to promote the program Conoutreach to promote the program and complete outreach reports. Attend trainings and meetings as scheduled. Refeents to internal NMIC services and outside CBOs.

Successful applicants should possess a Bachelors Degreequivalent education and three to ve years relative experiwith an extensive knowledge of entitlements and health iance. Be able to exhibit knowledge of community resouComputer literacy is necessary for this position. Ability to municate effectively with clients and community groups inEnglish and Spanish is required.

To apply, send resume/cover (with position in subject linNMIC, Human Resources Director, 76 Wadsworth AvenueNY 10033 [email protected] or fax to (212) 928-4


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