Community Organizations are Key to Moving Individuals and Neighborhoods out of Poverty Eighteen months ago, Change Capital Fund (CCF) initiated a four-year, $5 million investment in five New York City nonprofits and community-based organizations that it believes are best able to reach local residents who are disconnected from the city’s affluence and opportunity and can coordinate housing, […]

St. Nick’s Alliance has launched a new initiative to tackle poverty head on in North Brooklyn. Nabe 3.0 will offer residents affordable housing, literacy and employment assistance for adults, afterschool programming for local kids, and help organize tenant associations.

Residents of the Cypress Hill section of Brooklyn often walk off the street to a clinic run by Jamaica Hospital not because they’re sick, but because they’re seeking a job. “We get a lot of people who are interested in health care, but if you’re not a nurse or doctor, it’s difficult to get into […]

Let us unite and put our hands together for the Fifth Avenue Committee, the genius group behind the Stronger Together initiative. The program is a new partnership developed by the award-winingF.A.C., Brooklyn Workforce Innovations, Red Hook Initiative, and Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation to reduce poverty by providing free job training and placement, adult education, and […]

RHI and other organizations premiered the program recently in Gowanus at the offices of the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC), an organization that developed affordable housing in Park Slope and neighboring communities starting in the late 1970’s. Stronger Together, funded by a grant from the city council as well as various charities, will offer free job […]

Four local Brooklyn organizations have teamed up for a new program that offers free job placement and educational services to public housing residents in Red Hook and Gowanus. “Stronger Together,” which launched late last month, is an initiative that seeks to reduce poverty in the NYCHA developments and is led by the Fifth Avenue Committee […]

Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc. (FAC), an award-winning, Brooklyn-based community development corporation, has formally launched a program that seeks to fight poverty in Red Hook and Gowanus by providing free job training and placement, as well as adult education and individual and family support services. The program, called Stronger Together: Creating Opportunities for Public Housing Residents […]

Last week, community development corporation Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) formally launched Stronger Together, a new program aimed at reducing poverty in Red Hook and Gowanus. The program is a partnership led by FAC in collaboration with Brooklyn Workforce Innovations, Red Hook Initiative and Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation. The organizations will work together to provide […]