Stories include Tracie McMillan on guards arguing that better jobs make for a safer city; Cassi Feldman on the mess of problems coinciding with NYCHA's dedication to renovating over 100 developments around the city; Dan Bell on the constant challenges faced by female construction workers looking for employment; Liza Featherstone on what New York can do to stop Wal-Mart from opening new stores throughout the city; Jonathan Bowles' Q&A with Red Hook developer Greg O'Connell; Wendy Davis on the disproportional punishment of hundreds of teens who commit petty crimes; Cassi Feldman on the lack of effectiveness and oversight in New York State's juvenile facilities; Xiaoqing Rong on how MBAs are transforming the ways nonprofits do business; Sasha Abramsky's book review of "Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration" by Michael Jacobson; and more.
Stories include Tracie McMillan on guards arguing that better jobs make for a safer city; Cassi Feldman on the mess of problems coinciding with NYCHA's dedication to renovating over 100 developments around the city; Dan Bell on the constant challenges faced by female construction workers looking for employment; Liza Featherstone on what New York can do to stop Wal-Mart from opening new stores throughout the city; Jonathan Bowles' Q&A with Red Hook developer Greg O'Connell; Wendy Davis on the disproportional punishment of hundreds of teens who commit petty crimes; Cassi Feldman on the lack of effectiveness and oversight in New York State's juvenile facilities; Xiaoqing Rong on how MBAs are transforming the ways nonprofits do business; Sasha Abramsky's book review of "Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration" by Michael Jacobson; and more.
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Stories include Tracie McMillan on guards arguing that better jobs make for a safer city; Cassi Feldman on the mess of problems coinciding with NYCHA's dedication to renovating over 100 developments around the city; Dan Bell on the constant challenges faced by female construction workers looking for employment; Liza Featherstone on what New York can do to stop Wal-Mart from opening new stores throughout the city; Jonathan Bowles' Q&A with Red Hook developer Greg O'Connell; Wendy Davis on the disproportional punishment of hundreds of teens who commit petty crimes; Cassi Feldman on the lack of effectiveness and oversight in New York State's juvenile facilities; Xiaoqing Rong on how MBAs are transforming the ways nonprofits do business; Sasha Abramsky's book review of "Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration" by Michael Jacobson; and more.
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I'M HERE TO SAY not-quite goodbye. This is my last issue editing City Limits, a project that has been my singular passion for nearly six years. I'm moving on ro write more widely about many of the same issues I've taken on here- namely the power, politics and economics of building thriving and diverse communities. City Limits will continue to be one of the publications I write for- and the most impor- tant one. There's a fallacy in the egomaniacal profession of journalism that the worthiest work is national or international in scope, while local coverage is a merely necessary ser- vice. I'm looking at my new endeavors in exactly the opposite way. Drawing from my work for City Limits, I'll be sharing with new audiences the remarkable successes, and diffi- cult trials, of New York City's civic movements. It's an exciting and confusing moment to be doing this. New York City neighborhoods that were written off as chronic problem spots when I started here in 1999 have been flood- ed with investment. There isn't a viable parcel of real estate out there that doesn't have rein- Cover illustration by ALR Design. forced concrete sprouting out of it. But these are wily dollars, chasing windfall returns. They have as much power to destroy as to nurture, just as a life-giving sea can give rise to a tsunami. Though some poor New York- ers have ridden the city's ongoing revival to a more secure economic status, others have been forced to leave. The community devel- opment movement is only beginning to rise to these new challenges, in small factions led by brave innovators. New York neighborhoods are under so much pressure not only because civic leaders have been so successful but because many other American cities have not been successful enough. Our (mostly) functional mass transit system alone accounts for untold billions in real estate values. Our tradition of tolerance made the city a magnet for the artists and rene- gades who built a flour ishing creative culture. A dense geography helped give wealthy resi- dents common cause with the poor living in close proximity-and has led to civic philan- thropy and social work on a scale and sophisti- cation unmatched in the world. And on and on. These are the commodities new arrivals to New York are buying into, at very high prices. How do you replicate those elsewhere? Don't say you can't. Say that these are the val- ues that built America's greatest city, and that others must aspire to in order to survive. Those new cities must grow more densely in order to halt sprawl, conserve energy and put the brakes on global warming (an issue in which New York City has quite a bit at stake) . Those denser cities must build functional local democracies and cultures of tolerance, for how else can Americans live as intimate neighbors? They must build thriving civic institutions and find ways to assist the needy, for the federal government has already hung out the going- out-of-business sign on domestic programs. And if you don't want to do it because it's the right thing to do, do it because it provides great return on investment. The work in New York is far from done. But it's time for us to start spreading the news. -Alyssa Katz Editor Cente.[ {or an The Center for an Urban Future F Utroan u ure the sister organization of City Limits www.nycfuture.org Combining City Limits' zest for investigative reporting with thorough policy analysis, the Center for an Urban Future is regularly influencing New York's decision makers with fact-driven studies about policy issues that are important to all five boroughs and to New Yorkers of all socio-economic levels. Go to our website or contact us to obtain any of our recent studies: tI New York's Broadband Gap (December 2004) tI Between Hope and Hard Times: New York's Working Famil ies in Economic Distress (November 2004) tI Seeking a Workforce System: A Graphical Guide to Employment and Training Services in New York (November 2003) tI Engine Failure: With Economic Woes That Go well Beyond 9/11, New York Needs a Bold New Vision To Renew the City's Economy (September 2003) tI Rearranging the Deck Chairs? New York City's Workforce System At The Brink (May 2003) To obtain a report, get on our mailing list or sign up for our free e-mail policy updates, contact Research Director Jonathan Bowles at jbowles @nycfuture.org or (212) 479-3347. City Limits and the Center for an Urban Future rely on the generous support of their readers and advertisers, as well as the following funders: The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, The Unitarian Uni- versalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, The Scherman Foundation, JPMorganChase, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Booth Ferris Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Taconic Founda- tion, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Spingold Foundation, The Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, L1SC, Deutsche Bank, M& T Bank, The Citigroup Foundation, New York Founda- tion, Bernard F. and Alva B, Gimbel Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation, Washington Mutual, FAR Fund, Child Welfare Fund, United Way, Merrill Lynch, F.B, Heron Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, FEAT THE BIG BOX BOOM It's way beyond Wal-Mart: love or loathe them, giant retailers are here to stay. A City Limits guide to the new retail cityscape. 18 MORE IN STORE Wal-Mart's out in Rego Park but still determined to open stores in New York. Can labor and community activists stop the retail Goliath-or bring it and other megastores in line? There's a lot to learn from successes in other cities. By liza Featherstone 20 GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICIES Big boxes aren't all fabricated from the same mold. Here's how they rate on business practices and community connections. By Matthew Schuerman 22 OUTSIDE THE BOX An interview with Red Hook revitalizer Greg O'Connell, on Fairway, Ikea and big-and-balanced development. By Jonathan Bowles PLUS: Measuring Southeast Queens' Retail Gap Harlem Gets New York's First Community Benefits Agreement 24 FOR THEIR OWN GOOD Juvenile delinquents get sent upstate because it's supposed to be a better environment than their homes. The Department of Probation has a new idea: Fix the family instead. By Wendy Davis 27 OUT OF MIND Juvenile facilities are dangerously underscrutinized. By Cassi Feldman 29 SOCIAL CHANGE, INC. As government, foundations and donors cut back spending, nonprofits have an urgent need for savvy business sense-and some are hiring MBAs to get the job done. By Xiaoqing Rong MAY/JUNE 2005 CONTENTS 5 FRONTLINES: SAY GOODBYE TO MOM AND POP ... GUARDS' POOR PAY COMPROMISES SECURITY ... HIRINGS, FIRING AND RETIRINGS ... SEX WORKERS GO GLOSSY ... PUBLIC HOUSING'S HOME-IMPROVEMENT HASSLES . HOW TO STOP HIV FROM LEAVING PRISON ... MOVING INTO BATIERY PARK CITY ... BUT NOW GRANDMA CAN GIVE CONSENT ... AN ICON PASSES ... HIGH MARKS FOR JOB CENTERS .. HPD'S MUST-READS I NSI 0 12 WOMEN NOT WANTED The Bloomberg administration vows to put more women in construction jobs. A group of unemployed tradeswomen isn't waiting-they're organizing. By Dan Bell ==CITY tIT== 35 PRISON BREAK Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass Incarceration By Michael Jacobson. Reviewed by Sasha Abramsky. 2 EDITORIAL 38 JOB ADS 40 PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY 46 OFFICE OF THE CITY VISIONARY 3 LETTERS BINGO ON BROOKLYN The article ''The Return of Metro Tech" Qanuary/February 2005) is one of the most well-researched and well-written articles regarding development in Brooklyn that I have ever seen. Well done!!! METROTECH'S GIFTS -Amy Greer Brooklyn In spite of the fact that the article "The Return of MetroTech" is quite lengthy, it fails in a number of ways to give an accurate picture of the impact of Downtown Brooklyn's MetroTech development on the economic heal th of our borough. Let us look at what is known. Just before Metro Tech went into construction, in the late 1980s, Downtown Brooklyn was in crisis. The retail core was hemorrhaging businesses and jobs. Vacancies abounded, crime was rampant, the streets were filthy, and those who remained were trying desperately to leave. Fast forward 15 years. At least 20,000 jobs have either been relocated or anchored within the MetroTech complex alone to say nothing of the vastly improved retail cli- mate on the Fulton Street Mall, Willoughby Street and Jay Street. Although many of these jobs were initially relocated from other areas of the city, as people leave their positions the "back- fills," more and more, are coming from Brook- lyn. It never was, and is not now, the intent of the MetroTech companies to exclude local residents of any economic strata from available jobs. As contrasted with the bleak outlook of the mid-1980s, all of the major colleges in Down- town Brooklyn have constructed new facilities and continue to grow. Brooklyn Friends School has just announced that it is leasing an addi- tional 17,000 square feet of space, on Willoughby Street. All of this activity has led to more jobs, for teachers, guidance counselors, service workers, construction workers, and in the retail sector. And what about the confidence that MetroTech has provided to spur future growth? Would Atlantic Center, the BAM Cultural Dis- trict, the Brooklyn Bridge Waterfront Park, and the booming Downtown neighborhoods be the buzz of the city? Every one of these efforts pro- vides construction jobs, permanent jobs and related economic activity. Failure to report fully on this activity gives a distorted picture. Now let's get to the issue of low income res- idents in the adjoining neighborhoods. In the same paragraph there are rwo statements as fol- lows: " ... business leaders and community activists agree that the number [of low income jobs] is very low" and "No one knows how many low-income residents of the adjoining neighborhoods are working at the complex." If no one knows, then how does one conclude that the number is low? The issue is much more complex than just counting the number of low-income jobs and equating success with results inside one adja- cent housing development. Should the low income residents of other Brooklyn neighbor- hoods be excluded from eligibility for available jobs in Downtown Brooklyn? This flawed logic would lead one to advocate for new jobs in Harlem to be only for Harlem residents or new jobs in Spring Creek to be only for Canarsie residents. We should not have one community in our city fighting to exclude another from available employment. This is not to say that we cannot do better. We need to support the efforts of the city and the private sector to strengthen job training and job readiness programs. We need to continue the good work of the Metro Tech Companies, working with the local schools and community organizations, to provide internship programs and job development initiatives. We need to advocate for affordable housing and better schools that are also key components of efforts to provide economic equality for our citizens. A more balanced view of the Metro Tech experi- ence would better serve this work. -Michael Weiss Executive Director MetroTech Business Improvement District www.citylimits.org 4 CITY LIMITS Volume XXX Number 3 Publisher: John Broderick broderick@citylimits.org Associate Publisher: Jennifer Gootman jennifer@citylimits.org Editor: Alyssa Katz alyssa@citylimits.org Managing Editor: Tracie McMillan mcmillan@citylimits.org Senior Editor: Cassi Feldman cassi@citylimits.org Senior Editor: Xiaoqing Rong xrong@citylimits.org Reporting Fell ow: Dan Bell danbell@citylimits.org Copy Editor: Ethan Hauser ethan@citylimits.org Admin Assistant: Tariqah Adams tariqah@citylimits.org Contributing Editors: Neil F. Carlson, Wendy Davis, Nora McCarthy, Debbie Nathan, Robert Neuwirth, Hilary Russ, Kai Wright Design Direction: Hope Forstenzer Art E d ~ o r : Margaret Keady margareUeadY@citylimits.org Photographers: Michael Berman, Margaret Keady, Casy Kelbaugh, Gregory P. 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Subscriber inquiries call: 1-800-783-4903 PHONE (212) 479-3344/FAX (212) 344-6457 e-mail: citylimits@citylimits.org and online: www.citylimits.org Copyright 2005. All Rights Reserved. No portion or por- tions of this journal may be reprinted without the express permission of the publishers. City Limits is indexed in the Alternative Press Index and the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and is available on microfilm from ProQuest, Ann Arbor, M148106. CITY LIMITS FRONT LINES Saying Goodbye to Mom and Pop FOR YEARS, Virginie-Alvine Perrette hovered intently over her video camera, capturing pieces of New York slipping away. Michael's Salon, owned and run by Nick DiSisto, for instance, offered Upper East Side children their first haircuts (complete with lollipops) for almost a century. In December 2002, when the charm- ing Italian shop where Perrene herself got her hair cut as a child closed, she was there to film it. According to DiSisto, the landlord wanted to double his $4,770 monthly rent. Rent hikes, chain stores, and gentrification have put the city's 185,000 mom-and-pop businesses in danger like never before, says Sung Soo Kim, president of New York's Small Business Congress, a federation of city trade organizations. Based on commercial evictions and bankruptcies, Kim estimates that the city lost 10,000 small businesses last year alone. A native of the city, Perrene first noticed the MAY/JUNE 2005 abrupt change in her own neighborhood on the Upper West Side. After returning ftom college at Stanford and practicing international and environmental law in Latin America, she came home to find that many of the shops she grew up with were gone. Determined to bring their stories to life, Perrene started taking video production cours- es at NYU. "Digital video has made documen- tary filinmaking very accessible," she says. "I took a few courses, then just jumped in." Now Perrette spends her days producing, shooting and editing the documentary. She also cofounded a nonprofit, 2 Spot Digital, which creates videos for other community organiza- tions, foundations and schools. Howard Hassan, owner of a family business that prepared fruit and nut baskets, was one of her subjects. On February 23, 2001, he invited Perrene to film the last day of the Basket Shop his parents opened 62 years ago. A new owner of the Woolworth building wanted to build an entrance into the garage, forcing Hassan to close his doors. "My dreams aren't that great-I don't need to be a giant," says Hassan, who has since opened up a new Basket Shop in Brooklyn's Borough Park. In production since 1998, the film will debut next year, its 20-plus hours of film boiled down to 40 minutes. Perrene plans to call it Twilight Becomes Night, inspired by a quote from author John Barth, about how hard it is to pinpoint the exact moment when twilight has become night. "We will not fully know that all the charm, character, flavor and humanity from small mom-and-pop stores is gone from Manhattan until it is too late," says Perrene. "At that point, twilight will already have become night. " -Carlos Menchaca To view a clip visit www.twilightbecomemight.com 5 FRONT llNES Guards say better jobs make the city safer. By Tracie McMillan JESSE VILLEGAS takes pride in protecting the Empire State Building. A security guard at the 34th Street entrance, he reports to work in the landmark's cavernous marble halls, overseeing turnstiles that scan office workers' 1.0. cards. Bur even though he's a security officer, Villegas sometimes wonders if the building is safe. "Nobody really checks 1.0.," says Villegas. "All they're doing is making sure people don't jump over the turnstile. " They also don't do much to screen the 3.8 million tourists who pour through annually. A visitor's first encounter with security is an x-ray machine for bags, located in the building base- ment where the line for observatory tickets begins. Entry to the building itself and various parts of its lower floors is monitored by noth- ing more than a surveillance camera. The lax security hasn't gone unnoticed. Last summer, tenants filed a lawsuit alleging reckless 6 Building Insecurity and negligent security practices. Howard Rubenstein, spokesperson for the building's management, says security is "based upon industry standards. " Yet even since 9/11, those industry stan- dards are woefully low, according to a recent report from the city's public advocate. Charac- terizing the city's security force as "ill-prepared to protect its public, " the survey found officer training to be outdated and frequently insuffi- cient, wages low, and turnover rampant. SEIU Local 32BJ is hoping to change all that with a new campaign to organize about 6,000 security officers in high-end office build- ings, including the Empire State Building and 250 Broadway, home to local legislative offices. The union hopes not only to raise wages and garner benefits for security officers but to raise the profile of a typically low-wage, entry-level occupation. "Security is a workforce that's often overlooked as part of building staff," says Lenore Friedlander, director of organizing for 32BJ, which represents security officers as well as other building service workers like janitors and porters. That's far less true across the pond, says Jim McNulty, an executive vice-president at Securi- tas, the largest security company in the U.S. Regarded as an industry leader, Sweden-based Securitas employs about 5,000 security officers in New York City. "In many European coun- tries, the job itself carries more respect," says McNulty. "People are better paid and have bet- ter benefit programs." Here, guards' wages aver- age between $9 and $10 an hour, with many making considerably less. Few companies offer health insurance, sick days or vacation. The companies say they're doing their best. Fierce competition renders industry profit margins tight, so the cost of higher wages or more benefits would be borne by clients. And few are willing to pay more. "A lot of people see security as a necessary expense, bur not [related to] profits, " says McNulty. "Conse- quently, cost becomes a big factor." Low wages and benefits exact their toll, mostly because they fuel turnover, estimated to be as high as 400 percent nationwide. Having workers cycle in and out can compromise safe- ty, says Robert McCrie, professor of security management at John Jay College and an expert on the industry. The longer an officer stays in a job, the more familiar he or she is with a build- ing. That means that "when exceptions occur, [guards] are in a better position to do the right thing," explains McCrie, "rather than just stumble and call for help." Guards also need better training, say insiders. "The curriculum we use, it's so old it's pathetic," says a security instructor at a local firm, who declined to be named or identifY his employer. State requirements for security training were last updated in 1994, and mandate just eight hours of prejob training, plus 16 on the job. That requirement is often ignored; 17 percent of workers surveyed by the public advocate report- ed having less than the eight hours of prejob training required by law. New York's standards are more lax than those in Europe, where train- ing programs often exceed 150 hours. Last fall, the City Council passed a resolu- tion calling for the state to adopt more stringent security standards, but there's been no move- ment in Albany thus far. (In November, the governor did sign legislation requiring stricter background checks.) For its part, 32BJ has developed a 40-hour training program with city agencies that includes terrorism awareness and response, crime prevention, and basic fire pre- vention and extinguishing skills- none of which are currently required by the state. Villegas thinks that's a shame. He sought out and paid for security courses on top of his initial eight hours, but it hasn't helped his wages. "I'm making $7.50 an hour," he says. "I'm going to stay at $7.50 an hour as long as I'm there. " CITY LIMITS = =l NS AND OUTS=:::::::I MICHAEL CLARK is the new president and executive director of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee (NPCC) of New York, an umbrella organization for more than 1,300 non profits. Clark has served as president of Citizens for NYC, a community group, for 18 years. He will succeed JON SMALL on May 2, when Small returns to his law career after leading the organization for five years. TOM GERETY, executive director of the Brennan Cen- ter for Justice at the New York University School of Law, is leaving to resume his academic career, including writing books and teaching. The organiza- tion is conducting a search for his successor. HIVIAIDS Services at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) welcomes SCOTT KELLERMAN. Kellerman, who took the reins in early March, is in charge of implementing the city's HIV/AIDS Continuum of Care plan. He also oversees more than $200 million in funding for related program contracts. Before joining DOHMH, Kellerman worked for several government HIV/AIDS programs, including the Division of HIV/AIDS Pre- vention at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mothers on the Move (MOM) , a South Bronx social jus- tice organization, and the nonprofit Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), both picked up new executive directors. JAMES MUMM, codirector of MOM, will become the head of NWBCCC in April. His codirector, WANDA SALAMAN, will become head of MOM. Departing NWBCCC executive director MARY DAILEY will be a lead organizer with the Center for Community Change, coordinating national campaigns. JOSEPH SEMIDEI became executive director and CEO of St. Christopher, Inc. on March 14. The Westchester-based child welfare agency's reputation has been tarnished amid a scandal over forged doc- uments that led to the loss of city contracts and the resignation of former director LOUIS MEDINA. Previ- ously, Semidei was deputy executive director of the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families and held senior positions in the New York City Depart- ment of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alco- MAY/JUNE 2005 holism Services; and the state's Division of Family and Children Services. PHAEDRA THOMAS, former director of the Red Hook and Gowanus programs of the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation, was promoted to executive director, replacing LEAH ARCHIBALD, who left to serve as director of marketing at the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation. A native of Brooklyn, Thomas served as director of the Red Hook Office of the Southwest Brooklyn Local Development Corporation for four years before join- ing SBIDC. -Xiaoqing Rong BETWEEN THE SHEETS HUsnER, PLAYBOY AND JUGS have got some competition brewing: $pread, a new trade magazine for workers in the sex business. That includes strippers, erotic masseurs, call girls, dominatrixes, rent boys and-judging from the performances at the rag's launch party-transvestites sporting lank hair, fulsome faux breasts and bare phalluses. Heavily pro-sex and keen on legalizing prostitution, the magazine includes tips for workers and clients ("Present the money up front, but nonchalantly") and news updates about sex work around the globe. The magazine does its grassroots best to explore the pros of sex work (flexible hours, potential for high pay) while giving a nod to the cons (violence, disease, social stigma). $pread's illustration-heavy, black-and-white pages might disappoint the occasional mis- led porn connosieur who picks it up, but they'll at least get a glimpse of one thing they probably haven't seen before: sex work- ers' frank accounts of their jobs. -Tracie McMillan NANCY HARDY Insurance Broker Specializing in Community Development Groups, HDFCs and Non-Profits. Low-Cost Insurance and Quality Service. Over 20 Years of Experience. 270 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-636-8455 7 FRONT llNES Renovations vex public housing residents. By Cassi Feldman HOME RENOVATION is a big hit on reality TV: The teary-eyed family returns from a weekend away to discover a new sofa set, a cleaned-out garage, a colorful playroom for the kids. But for residents of New York City public housing, the reality of renovation isn't quite so cute. In Feb- ruary, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) announced plans to pump an unprecedented $2 billion into 129 develop- ments around the city. The modernization will include exterior brickwork and roofing, new kitchens, boilers, elevators and intercoms. Most residents agree that the rehab is need- ed, if not overdue. But at Walt Whitman Hous- es and Raymond V Ingersoll Houses, two Brooklyn developments where prep work has started, tenants say it's also brought them a mess of problems. First, they say, it's hard to know exactly what's going on. The boxy brick buildings show few signs of renovation, other than minor 8 Extreme Makeover scaffolding here and there. The one obvious construction site is a community center, ren- dered unusable for years. Meanwhile, tenants have been moving out steadily since 2003, at the direction of the Housing Authority. "What's the latest timeline?" asks Whitman resident and tenant organizer Enida Davis, 27. ''They had this super rush and now nothing's happening. It's a fight to get any information." NYCHA spokesperson Howard Marder says the work is "basically" on schedule and is currently in a design phase. "This is a major undertaking," he says. "We've got to do one thing at a time. " The 1,526 families whose apartments are slated for overhaul were given three options: They could move to other apartments in their developments, move to other NYCHA com- plexes, or leave public housing entirely. The Housing Authority set up an onsite Relocation Assistance Unit and offers grants to cover mov- ing expenses. Many tenants, however, still describe the process as chaotic and disruptive. Kizzy Wilson, 27, says she waited for months, postponing job opportunities and school, before NYCHA found her family an apartment in Greenwood Houses in Flatbush. "Everything was in limbo," she says. Then, in March 2004, her transfer was approved, sudden- ly leaving her just two weeks to move and forc- ing her to pull her son out of fust grade midyear. Monique Midyett's family of six outgrew its three-bedroom apartment years ago, but she's not yet eligible to move because her phase of the renovation hasn't begun. Meanwhile, she says, her apartment is in disrepair. "We've got no closet doors, the ceiling is falling," she says. "You're doing apartments that no one is living in. What about us that are paying rent?" On the flip side, some residents have dug in their heels. "I'm sick and disabled and don't want to move," says Edna Grant, 65, who has lived in Ingersoll since 1959. Like many older residents, she will likely be downgraded to a smaller apartment, whether she likes it or not. To help ease residents like Grant into mov- ing, NYCHA created tenant-run relocation committees. But there seems to be a disconnect between those who have the information and those who need it. "If [tenants] don't come to the meeting," admits Secretary Priscilla Dou- glas, "they wouldn't know what was going on." Without proper information, word spreads informally-and unfounded rumors are ram- pant. "People have said that they sold the proj- ects to MetroTech," says Douglas. Others simply don't trust assurances from the Housing Author- ity that they'll be allowed to move back in. Brooklyn's public housing residents aren't the only ones worried. In Staten Island, residents of Markham Gardens are protesting plans to raze the 360-unit development and replace it with mixed-income housing. The Housing Authori- ty insists that most families who leave will be able to return, but it has not yet agreed to a one- for-one replacement of the demolished units. Linda Couch, deputy direcror of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, says residents are right to be wary, given the history of public housing rehab. "They should make sure relocation and rehousing plans are as detailed and transparent as possible, " she says. Even well-planned relocation will inevitably leave some people out, argues Susan Popkin, research associate at the nonprofit Urban Insti- tute, who has studied the impact of HOPE VI reconstruction. "It's an open secret that there are all kinds of people living in public housing who aren't on the lease." Nearly every resident City Limits spoke with said the benefits of the renovation were out- weighed by its human cost. "To be honest, I'm against the whole darn thing," says Effie Jones, vice president of the Ingersoll tenant associa- tion. "We :,eel like we're being pushed out of our homes . CITY LIMITS ===HEAlTH No Condoms for Convicts THE APPEARANCE OF a new "super-strain" of AIDS in February dramatically refocused pub- lic attention on the importance of HN pre- vention. Needle exchange, condom distribu- tion and high-profue awareness campaigns have been part of the arsenal for years. Unless you happen to be one the state's 65,000 prisoners, who still lack access to even the most basic safeguards. According to a National Commission on Correctional Health Care report published in 2002, 20 percent of all HIV infected individuals pass through the prison system in a year, and rates of infection are five to 10 times higher in prisons than in the general population. Assemblymember Dick Gottfried has spent years trying to lower those numbers. In Febru- ary, he reintroduced a package of bills that would improve prison oversight and create HIV-prevention programs such as needle exchanges and condom distribution. Though the bills still need a Republican sponsor, Got- tfried hopes that this year, public pressure and the support of more than 40 community groups will finally spark action. "We don't think the bills are particularly radical," he says. The first of the three would require annual review by the Department of Health (DOH) on policies and practices concerning HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C at state prisons and local jails. As it stands, monitoring of prison health care is not only internal to the Department of Correctional Services (DOCS), but is often left up to individual facilities. The second would place health care facilities operated or supervised by the DOCS under the definition of "hospital," thus bringing them under the same DOH standards of care required of hospitals on the outside. The fmal legislation (known as "the con- dom bill") authorizes the Corrections commis- sioner to develop and implement programs in prisons to prevent the spread of sexually trans- mitted diseases. Currently, condoms are avail- able to inmates in jails, where inmates are held before sentencing, bur not in prisons. A DOCS spokesperson says the agency does not comment on pending legislation. Meanwhile, advocates have found that care varies widely from prison to prison. Handy Rayam was diagnosed with HN at Rikers Island in 1995 and was transferred to Franklin Correctional Facility a year later. During his four years at Franklin, Rayam says, he met with a doctor only rwice. The standard practice for monitoring HNIAIDS includes a doctor's visit FRONT LINES and blood testing evety three months. John Damars, deputy superintendent for programs at Franklin, says he would have "no way of knowing" how often an inmate had seen a doctor. "If they request to see a doctor, they would see one," he says. In 2000, Rayam was transferred to Wood- bourne Correctional Facility, where he says his health care improved dramatically. Upon arrival, he met with a doctor who referred him to an infectious disease specialist (IDS). With a new drug regimen and monthly check-ups, he soon had an undetectable viral load. Rayam considers his visits with the IDS cru- cial. "It's very important," he says. "If you had a chronic disease, you would want to see a specialist." Access to an IDS is a key indicator used to monitor prison health care. Research conduct- ed by the Prisoners' Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society showed that in 2001, 54 percent of the state's known HN-positive inmates never saw an IDS. "Prisons are like fiefdoms. What happens in prison A doesn't necessarily happen in prison B," says Jack Beck, director of the Correctional Association's Prison Visiting Project. "This is a public health opportunity that is not being adequately exploited. Prison health care is good public health. 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But the city has found a loophole in the agreement that allows it to use the funds to plug gaps in the city's budget. Since the agreement, only $143 million in bonds has been spent on 1,557 affordable housing units in Harlem and the Bronx, and no affordable units have been built in Battery Park City. Meanwhile, luxury apartment complexes have blossomed. Jodie Velez, who lives in a homeless shelter, carried a sign that read "Cum pia la promesa" at the protest. "It would be nice if I actually had a place to move into," she said. The city and state agreed to use surplus revenue from the Battery Park City Authority to build afford- able housing in other parts of the city. The authority currently shifts some of its surplus into a Joint Purpose Fund, which has not yet been earmarked for any specific project. Tenants are pressuring the city to use that fund, which is expected to accumulate $40 million each year over the next five years, for affordable housing. -Bennett Baumer CHilD WElFARE Caregiver Consent In Memoriam IN FEBRUARY, Governor Pataki signed inw law a new bill giving relatives who care for their kin the authority w make health care and school-related decisions. The Caregiver Con- sent bill, inaoduced by Senator Kenneth LaValle and Assemblymember Thomas DiNapoli, will allow caregivers to sign paper- work enabling their children w participate in special programs and field trips, and w receive health screenings, diagnoses and treaanents. "Passage of this very crucial legislation will remove unnecessary barriers grandparents and other caregivers experience in providing day- w-day care for children," says Fatima Gold- man, executive direcwr of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies. More than 143,000 grandparents and other relatives care for more than 400,000 children in New York, while across the country approximately 6 mil- lion children are living with their caregivers. The law goes into effect in May. -HanDu 10 CUSHING N. DOLBEARE, an influential hous- ing advocate and researcher, died of cancer on March 17. She was 78. Dolbeare began her career in housing in 1952 at the Citizen's Plan- ning and Housing Association in Baltimore. Since then, she fought tirelessly for affordable housing. Among the numerous housing agen- cies Dolbeare led was the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLlHC), which she founded in 1974 in response to the Nixon Administra- tion's temporary moratorium on funding for federal housing programs. She served as exec- utive director from 1977 to 1984 and from 1993 to 1994. She donated her $250,000 Heinz Award for Human Condition to the NLlHC to start the Cushing N. Dolbeare Endowment Fund to encourage research on housing prob- lems. Her family requests that memorial gifts be made to the Endowment Fund. -Xiaoqing Rang
WIA Works EMPLOYERS WHO get workers from "one-swp" centers funded by the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) are largely happy with the results, according w a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report. A survey of employers found that about three-quarters of them were satisfied with the results and would be likely w use the one-swp system again. There is, of course, room for improvement: The smaller the company, found the GAO, the less likely it is w know about or make use of one-swps, suggesting that the system may be more convenient for large companies (those with 500 or more employees). For next steps, the GAO recommended that the federal labor deparanent begin routine collection of state data on use of the workforce programs, w determine, for example, whether employers utilize one-swp centers' training services or merely fill job openings. 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But for the past five years, instead of plying her trade as a plumber, she's been left to tend the fire and clean the kitchen. Literally. This winter, Collier spent her work- days watching over space heaters, checking fire exits and cleaning up after tradesmen on their work sites. But it was better than having no job at all. Even though she qualified as a certified plumber from a five-year union apprenticeship in 1999, for the past half-decade she has rarely worked more than four months of each year. The last time Collier checked, of the 21 women in her union, Plumber's Union Local 1, only six were employed using their trades. 12 (Another six are in apprenticeships.) Women make up less than 1 percent of the 5,700 mem- bers in her union, and they have an unemploy- ment rate of 60 percent. According to a business agent with Plumber's Local 1, the union's unem- ployment rate as a whole is about 3.5 percent. Chronic unemployment has led many women to leave the trades altogether. Collier has compiled records showing that from 1989 to 2004 the number of women in her union fell from 56 to 21, as they "lost their books" when they fell behind on union dues. They couldn't afford their dues because they weren't getting work. Carlyne Montgomery was one of them. After she qualified in 1995 following her apprenticeship, Montgomery would call her union delegate every day to look for work. She says she found herself continually passed over for jobs. "You have to know somebody to work," she explains. It's not just the plumbers. Collier is a mem- ber of Sisters in the Trades, a group of more than 200 tradeswomen who are beginning to organize for equal treatment. In addition to plumbers, the group represents laborers, carpen- ters, sheetmetal workers, painters and teamsters. "It is definitely at least three or four times harder to be a woman in this industry than it is to be black," says Lavon Chambers, a field rep- resentative with the Greater New York Labor- ers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust. "What would be easier, to tell all of your 30 or 40 guys not to sexually harass, or not to hire a woman?" In his State of the City speech in January, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new Commis- sion on Construction Opportunity to tackle dis- crimination in the building trades. With the city on the brink of billions of dollars in new con- struction, Bloomberg pledged to rally developers, contractors, union representatives and politicians to help ensure that women and people of color have access to the estimated 230,000 new jobs that will come with the redevelopment of Man- hattan's West Side and other neighborhoods. The trouble is, discrimination is so entrenched that it's hard to know where to start. Everyone agrees that as more women come into the industry it will change. But it's a catch-22: More tradeswomen will dilute the sexism, but sexism is preventing women from getting a foothold. There is a "revolving door," says Francoise Jacobsohn, a project manager for Legal Momentum's Women Rebuild project. ''As fast as they come in, they leave again. " The atmos- phere on site is often so hostile, she says, that women who do get employed often leave quickly afterwards. Continual verbal abuse was only the start of it for Collier. She describes instances where CITY LIMITS workers groped her and undressed in front of her. She has often been forced ro share the same rest huts where the men change their clothes before and after work. When Collier asked the men to warn her so she could leave before they undressed, they ignored the request. "Do me a favor: If you're going to change into your street clothes, give me the same respect that you'd want all these men to give your mother, sis- ter or daughter, " she told them. "And one guy just went right ahead and dropped his pants." This treatment, she says, went on for cwo months on one site. "I've left plenty of jobs cry- ing, and told the foreman 1 was sick because of what was happening," says Collier. The trade group representing empl oyers doesn't dispute that there are few women in the construction business. "I have not ever heatd that contractors discriminate on the basis of sex, " said Francis X. McArrlle, managing director of the General Contractors Association of New York. "I think the biggest question is the extent to which [women] apply into apprenticeship programs and are accepted." Applicants' qualifications are an issue, agrees Anne Rascon, executive director of Nontradi- tional Employment for Women (NEW), which does preapprenticeship training. She gets more applicants for those programs than there are spaces, but many of them are prevented from enrolling because they lack high school diplo- mas. "Not having a GED is paramount," says Rascon. ''There are a lot of women who don't have ninth grade reading or math skills." The same is often true for men, but with so few women in the trades, every obstacle has a dispro- portionate impact. Women continue to show massive inrerest in apprenticeships, the first step toward construc- tion careers. Last March, in an event tied to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center si te, more than 700 women bottlenecked the stai rs of Pace University to learn about careers in con- struction and watch half a dozen female plumbers, electricians and carpenters plying their skills on trade-show mock-ups. FEDERAL LAW is supposed to offer some assur- ances for female construction workers. A 1978 executive order requires contractors and subcon- tractors on projects receiving federal funds to make "best faith efforts" to ensure 6.9 percent of hours are worked by women. The Office of Fed- eral Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is charged with enforcement. 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Neither does the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, the City Commission on Human Rights or the Department of Labor. Following a month of phone calls from City Limits, the State Department of Transportation, a major recipient of federal funds, was unable to say how many women were working on any of four current highway projects-9A on the West Side, the Bruckner Expressway, the FDR Drive or the Staten Island Expressway. "I personally have never been asked in three years to put these "What would be easier, to tell all of your 30 or 40 guys not to sexually harass, or not to hire a woman?" numbers together, " says agency spokeswoman Lisa Kuhner. For contractors that receive money solely from city or state agencies, there is even less oversight. Between 2002 and 2004, Collier unsuccessfully "shaped" (applied for work on site, rather than through her union) the $2 billion upgrade of the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant in Brooklyn six times. She says that on only one occasion did she see another woman on site. According to a construction manager at New- town Creek, there are currently around 800 workers, of whom about 20 are women. A DEP spokesman said that the agency has no hiring goals, and averred that the project does not receive any federal funding. So what are unions doing about it? Not a lot, CITY LIMITS say advocates. Collier has even brought an anti- discrimination case against Plumbers Local 1. Her complaint alleges that the union's referral process, in which it acts as a mediator between workers and contractors, is biased and does not put women forward for jobs as often as men. Collier brought her case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board and the New York State Attorney General. Both the EEOC and the NLRB ruled in favor of her union. In a lerrer explaining its ruling, the NLRB said, "A union operating a non-exclusive refer- ral service like the one here owes no duty of fair representation in connection with its opera- tion .... Accordingly, even assuming that the union did discriminate against you and others in the referral process, it owed no duty of fair representation. " In other words, because the union is not the only means by which its mem- bers find work, if it chooses to discriminate, it is not a violation of the National Labor Rela- tions Act. "They lost. They have no case," says Dudley Kinsley, a business agent with Local 1. Though the union has an equal opportunity policy, Kinsley declined to provide information on it. Labor insiders say the real obstacle presented by the unions is one of neglect and intransi- gence, rather than active obstruction. The unions "could tell the contractors that we're not going to tolerate this, but they don't, " says Jane laTour, author of Sisters in the Brotherhood, a book about women in New York's construction indusuy. Tradesmen often see hazing and tough humor as part and parcel of working in the trades; as apprentices, many had rough treat- ment themselves. Some unions, including those representing carpenters, laborers and the sheet-metal work- ers, are starting to try to berrer accommodate women. Each has a women's commirree that works to organize female construction workers and provide them with support services. The committees provide mentors, announce job prospects, and host guest speakers on every- thing from coping with sexual harassment to credit card debt. Unions also provide social workers to help women and minorities gain access to child care and other support services. "We believe thar women need to get organized, to get involved in the union, " says Elly Spicer INSIDE TRACK of the New York and Vicinity Carpenters Labor Management Corporation. Just over 1 percent of the carpenters are women. "We are at the beginning of the process, nor the end," she adds. "We have a long way to go." It remains to be seen how much help they'll get from the Bloomberg administration. The 34-member Commission on Construction Opportunity, which includes seven city agency heads, had its fust meeting in March and has yet to discuss any specific measures. Advocates say a crucial first step would be to start track- ing the number of women hired. Right now, Collier hasn't been hired any- where-she was laid off from her heater duty job in March. After 11 years as a plumber, she has accrued six years worth of pension contri- butions. If she gets injured now, she says, she will have $400 a month to live on. She has no health coverage. ''I'm struggling just to keep my head above water, and I can name a lot who are going through the same thing," she says. Why doesn't she give it up? "Because I have invested so much time in it and because I like plumbing, " she says. "I like working with my hands." Milano Earn a Master of Science degree in: MAY/JUNE 2005 Courses Available Degree and Non-Degree Day and Evening' Saturday On-line' Site-line (112 on-line and 112 in-class) Nonprofit Management Health Services Management and Policy Human Resources Management Organizational Change Management Urban Policy Analysis and Management Ph.D. degree: Public and Urban Policy Applications still being accepted for Fall admission 15 16 Center for an Urban Future and City Limits Projects of City Futures, Inc. invite you to join us for our Fourth Annual Gala Cocktail Reception honoring Phyllis Rosenblum, Senior Vice President, HSBC and Martin Dunn, President, Dunn Development Corp. 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MANHATTAN IS A MECCA for destina- tion shoppers from allover the world. But many less visible parts of the city, especially poor neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, are anything but customer-friendly. Stores are few and far berween. Basic necessities are over- priced, resulting in the sad irony that the work- ing poor must travel to middle-class communi- ties to find better bargains. Selection is dismal, and merchandise is often damaged. Return policies are, at best, informal and capricious. It's no wonder, then, that big box stores would look at New York's boroughs as an untapped market, and that some consumers might crave them. Would New Yorkers wel- come Wal-Mart, which undercuts competi- tors by 30 to 70 percent, sells just about any- thing a household might need, and serves more poor and working-class shoppers than any other retailer? "Fuhgeddaboutit!" as a TV news headline declared. When word got out last December 18 By Liza Featherstone that Wal-Mart was planning to open a store in Rego Park, Queens, as part of a shopping cen- ter that would also include Old Navy and Sears, the outcry was swift. That's because, as Rego Park City Councilmember Helen Sears explains, "People who shop are also people who work. " Wal-Mart is not kind to those who work. In the last several years, it has faced large-scale legal actions for sex discrimination, overtime and child-labor violations. Even worse, the company pays poverty wages-$8 to $10 per hour-and Wal-Mart workers pay as much as 40 percent of their health insurance premiums. (Many employees choose to depend on pub- licly subsidized health care instead.) The com- pany has also been unwavering in its disregard of labor rights, recently closing a Quebec store after workers voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). WaI- Mart's entry into the market often has a disas- trous effect on unionized supermarkets, which, Rutgers labor relations professor Robert Ange- lo points out in a recent study of the industry, have for many people "replaced factories as attractive and stable places of employment opportunity." For all these reasons, says Stuart Applebaum, president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) , "We'd like to keep Wal-Mart out." To that end, in December the New York City Central Labor Council (CLC) , UFCW Local 1500 and the RWDSU began to build coalitions with small business and neighbor- hood groups, and to forcefully lobby City Council members behind the scenes, arguing that, as Applebaum puts it, "Wal-Mart's low prices come at too great a cost." The City Council proved receptive. Says Local 1500's Pat Purcell, "What politician is going to be the one to let Wal-Mart in, in an election year?" At hearings on the issue, and in public statements, council members seemed to compete with one other to denounce the red- CITY LIMITS state retailer in the strongest terms. Coun- cilmember Sears took her concerns directly to the source, meeting with Wal-Mart officials for what she delicately calls "an open and candid discussion. " She told them that if Wal-Mart came to New York City, it would have to "review" its labor practices. Sears also met with officials ftom Vornado Realty Trust, the com- pany that planned to develop the Rego Park site. Throughout January and February, the developer endured pressure from politicians like Sears, as well as bad publicity about the Wal-Mart deal, as the coalition's press confer- ences and hearings drew media coverage. In late February, Vornado dropped the retailer from the Rego Park project. The national developer's decision was particularly striking given that many of its projects in other communities have included the retailer, and that Vornado proudly displays the Wal-Mart logo on its website. The quick death of the Rego Park Wal-Mart was a victory for the Wal-Mart Free NYC coali- tion. But Wal-Mart has said it is looking at sev- eral other New York City sites, including two on Staten Island, and it's likely that many of the problems Wal-Mart ran into in Queens can be avoided on the next try. Wal-Mart proved an albatross to the Rego Park project, which has several other major retailers eager to move for- ward. By contrast, one of the Staten Island locations-in Richmond Valley-is an aban- doned and polluted industrial site with no other takers. Like Rego Park, it would require City Council approval for rezoning, but in a local political climate that is likely to be friend- lier. Already, the Staten Island Advance has edi- torialized in favor of the company's plans to open on the island. Wal-Mart is determined to come to New York. Many retail analysts say that the compa- ny must open more stores in urban areas in order to continue its growth, as it has nearly saturated rural and exurban America, and many of its stores are now competing with each other. Given its mediocre stock performance in recent years, Wal-Mart also does not want to be humiliated on Wall Street's home tur Most communities that have defeated Wal- Mart have ended up having to fight the retail- er again. The company has a proven ability to learn from its mistakes. In Inglewood, Califor- nia, Wal-Mart attempted to make itself an exception to local land use rules by holding a voter referendum on a proposed Supercenter. That arrogance proved costly to Wal-Mart, says Madeline Janis-Aparicio of the Coalition for a MAY/JUNE 2005 Better Inglewood, which led the campaign against the Supercenter. "It became an issue of respect, " she says. "What Wal-Mart did was stupid, and it helped us. " CEO Lee Scott now acknowledges the company erred in Ingle- wood, and Wal-Mart has approached further development in California with far more suc- cess, opening several Southern California Supercenters since its Inglewood defeat. In New York, the company displayed a sim- ilar arrogance. It received invitations but didn't send representatives to the two hearings related to the Rego Park project held by the City Council's Economic Development Commit- tee. Rego Park might have been a mistake, too; it's a middle-class neighborhood, which is not as desperate for retail as other parts of Queens or Brooklyn and the Bronx, where Wal-Mart is now looking. [See "Queens' Cash Flow Prob- lem," page 20.] Nor is it as conservative as Staten Island. There, Wal-Mart opponents will face a "chal- New York's anti-Wal-Mart coalition is exploring several policy strategies. In Chicago, where a store is scheduled to open by this Christmas, Wal-Mart opponents have been try- ing to require the retailer to pay a living wage. That wouldn't work for New York City, which does not have the authority to set wage stan- dards. But the City Council does have power over zoning. Seventeen members have intro- duced a bill requiring large retailers-those opening stores bigger than 85,000 square feet-to give a full public accounting of crimi- nal charges, civil actions or violations against the company. They would also have to explain what wages and benefits the store would pro- vide as well as its projected local economic impact. One model is Los Angeles, where to get a license to build such a store, a company must pay for an economic impact study to show how the project will affect local workers and businesses. One player decidedly unenthusiastic about Wal-Mart is determined to come to New York. Retail analysts say it must open more stores in urban areas in order to continue its growth. lenge, because of the political environment," admits Richard Lipsky of the Neighborhood Retailers Alliance, which has been a vocal anti- Wal-Mart pressure group. But Lipsky points out that there is a conservative case to be made against the retailer, one that emphasizes "place and tradition, quality of community life." In Staten Island, Lipsky promises cheerfully, "We will be cultivating right-wing populism as well as left-wing populism." As varied as the upcoming battles may be, the company's recent setback in Queens shows that New York may have the political will to defeat Wal-Mart. Rabbi Michael Feinberg of the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coali- tion, who has been active in the fight against Wal-Mart, says, "To be honest, if New York City can't keep Wal-Mart out it's quite absurd. Other communities with far less organized labor and community activism have been able to stop Wal-Mart." such policies is Costco, which declared in a recent letter to the City Council that con- straints on major retailers' business practices are unfair to Costco, whose wages and benefits were among the best in the retail industry. Wal-Mart's possible arrival has also been a major inspiration behind the Health Care Securi- ty Act (HCSA), introduced before the City Council this fall, which would force large grocery stores-as well as large employers in several other industries-to provide health insurance for their workers, or pay into a fund that would do so. Since Wal-Mart would probably never agree to abide by HCSA, its passage could deter the com- pany from opening stores in New York. (In con- trast to Costco's reaction to big box legislation, many companies are supporting HCSA as a way to make competition fairer.) As associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, Nathan New- man helped draft Chicago's living wage law and is continued on page 36 19 QUEENS' CASH FLOW PROBLEM Some outer-borough residents deplore big box stores, calling them magnets for traf- fic that offer neighborhoods little but giant walls. Others desperately want their low prices and relatively wide selection. But there's no disputing one thing: Neighborhoods from Soundview to the Rockaways need a variety of retail services that they' re not currently getting from businesses, big or small. Just how badly do New York City neighborhoods need retail? The Queens Economic Development Corporation turned to MetroEdge, part of Shorebank Corporation, to find out how much money consumers in five residential neighborhoods-Hollis, Laurelton, Queens Village, the Rockaways, and South Ozone Park-were spending elsewhere. Much of that money presumably goes to neighboring Nassau County, home to ample retail services. MetroEdge estimated retail supply and demand for different types of services based on the federal Census of Retail Trade, which is performed every five years. (The available data is from 1997.) To determine which types of businesses consumers spend money on, ana- lysts assessed consumption patterns associated with demographic characteristics of each neighborhood. An important caveat: The Census for Retail Trade tends to undercount sales at small and informal businesses, exaggerating the flight of dollars from neighborhoods. Here are the top unmet retail needs for each area: Hollis Total spending $196,152,470 Eating and drinking Department stores Apparel Laurelton Total Spending $157,470,456 Automotive Eating and drinking Food stores Queens Village Total Spending $229,897,696 Food Stores Department Stores Apparel Rockaway Total Spending $149,933,899 Automotive Apparel Department Stores South Ozone Park Total Spending $233,374,344 Automotive Eating and Drinking Department Stores Estimated dollars spent elsewhere $59,151,269 $11 ,469,467 $9,911,042 $9,152,868 $66,912,564 $21,853,264 $11,669,314 $9,076,674 $63,379,651 $23,135,310 $12,251,739 $12,018,085 -$2,941,992 $20,562,695 $8,248,813 $7,503,631 $94,995,588 $33,503,651 $18,615, 303 $12,582,140 Percentage spent outside neighborhood 27 44 94 78 44 92 56 30 28 53 99 87 -02* 92 92 93 41 95 61 100 *indicates inflow in other categories -Alyssa Katz 20 Good Neighbor Policies Megaretailers are trying to be better citizens. Here's how they stack up. By Matthew Schuerman AT FIRST GLANCE, big box stores look an awfully lot alike. Beloved by consumers, they are scorned by local retailers. All of them want to deliver shareholder value to investors. None of them welcome unions. But beyond that homogenous exterior, big box stores differ from one another significantly, and not just because of the merchandise they sell. Here are three that have opened outlets in New York City with above average employment practices and community outreach efforts. CITY LIMITS COSTCO Legendary for high wages and low turnover, this warehouse club has beaten back Sam's Club-a competitor run by Wal-Mart- through a strategy that dates back 24 years. By offering a mix of low-cost necessities and brand- name indulgences, and everything in bulk, Costco draws a wide demographic of shoppers and pumps up total sales. Treatment: Wages start at $10 an hour; the average is $16.97 an hour. Compare that to $10.38 an hour for Wal-Mart's metropolitan New York stores. Eighty-six percent of employees receive health insurance (Wal-Mart: 47 percent). For years, Wall Street analysts pounded the com- pany for its generosity, but investors have stopped listening: Costco stock today is just as expensive as Wal-Mart's in future earnings per share. CEO Jim Sinegal has long maintained that happy workers reduce turnover and increase customer satisfac- tion, and last year a Business Week analysis proved him right: The typical Costco employee brings in higher profit than does one at Sam's Club. Solidarity: Costco has 56 unionized stores, none in New York City. 'We did try organizing five years ago," recalls Patrick Purcell, organizing director of Local 1500 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. "But when we did a comparison of what workers were receiving, there wasn't much differ- ence." Still, he says, having some stores unionized keeps up pressure to maintain wages and benefits. Collateral Damage: The Long Island City store has hurt, but not killed, local supermarkets, according to Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist for the Neighborhood Retail Alliance. The Brooklyn and Staten Island locations have done less damage. Still, when Costco tried to open a scaled-down store on the West Side of Manhattan five years ago, a coalition including Lipsky's group, commu- nity activists and labor unions blocked it. Another location, in Harlem, also failed. Sinegal has not ruled out another try. "It's just difficult to come up with a site that would make it feasible," he says. "Real estate is expensive." MAY/JUNE 2005 LOWE'S Relatively new to New York City, Lowe's debuted on Staten Island and opened its second store, in Brooklyn, last year. The No. 2 home- improvement chain, Lowe's can be expected to open more stores in the five boroughs, since it is serious about gaining market share in metro areas. Rival Home Depot, with 600 more outlets nation- ally, just opened two new innovative, car-free loca- tions in Manhattan. Treatment: Eighty percent of Lowe's 160,000 employees work full -time, and the chain offers flexible shifts for working mothers, two weeks paid vacation after a year, 401 (k) matching, and accrued sick time that can be used should one adopt a child. Its comprehen- sive health insurance coverage is affordable but not cheap. (For a variety of reasons, however, only 52 percent of Brooklyn employees are enrolled.) Stock analysts regularly give the chain high marks for customer satisfaction, which may say something good about employee satisfac- tion as well. Getting Involved: To pave the way for its entrance in Brooklyn, Lowe's held two communi- ty meetings and also took advice from the Gowanus Canal Community Development Cor- poration on landscaping issues. The result: a pub- lic esplanade on the ever-promising Gowanus with benches and tables, as well as a mural on the back wall for which a contest was held. The store's location is so out of the way that it has caused lit- tle traffic congestion-though that could also hamper sales. Collateral Damage: As for knocking out small local businesses, Home Depot did that years ago when it opened in neighboring Red Hook, says Matt Mazzone, the manager and son of the owner of Mazzone True Value Hardware in Carroll Gar- dens. 'We've felt very little impact," he says. "Most of the studies show that when the second big box comes in, they more compete with each other than with the little guy." TARGET TARGET Like Costco, this trendy discounter of clothing and household goods appeals to people of all, or at least most, tax brackets, which means the opening of one in the middle of a city is something of a civic event. Targets make a splash in other ways too, making overtures to commu- nity institutions when they open. The big ques- tion is whether the company ever follows up once the novelty wears off. Treatment: By reputation, Target pays better than average for retail work and offers substantial benefits. The company, however, does not release any information publicly. In New York, it has made efforts to recruit in the immediate vicin- ity of its stores: Before an outlet opened in Brook- lyn's Atlantic Terminal Mall last summer, Target partnered with the city-run Workforce 1 Career Center and sought applications through the office of Council member Letitia James. Of the 40 applications received from constituents, about 20 ended up working at the store; roughly half are managers. Getting Involved: Though the company's corporate giving-second most generous in the country, according to Forbes magazine-focuses on Minneapolis-St. Paul, where the corporation is headquartered, all store managers get discretion over local grants, from $1,000 to $3,000. (Non- profits can apply for the funds online.) But in New York, the chain hasn't been so ready to be active in the local business community. The store in Queens at first joined the local commercial orga- nization, the College Point Board of Trade, but hasn't paid the $100 dues in the last couple of years, according to board president Fred Maz- zarello; the store also hasn't participated in the group's annual dinner, Memorial Day parade or other functions. "They threw a few dollars around at the start, signed up for membership," Maz- zarello says, "but otherwise we have had very lit- tle luck getting them to cooperate." Calls to the College Point store were referred to headquar- ters, which did not return several rnessages. 21 Outside the Box Developer Greg O'Connell seeks balanced building for Red Hook. By Jonathan Bowles ONCE AN EMBLEM of urban blight, Red Hook today is enjoying a mini-renaissance fueled by an ecleccic mix of activicies, from its busy container port and thriving light manu- facturing sector to its growing community of artists and hipsters. While unemployment and poverty rates in the neighborhood remain depressingly high, Red Hook recencly attracted major retailers like Fairway and Ikea, and will soon boast a new $30 million cruise ship ter- minal. With so many developments on tap, the Center for an Urban Future went to speak with Greg O'Connell, the developer of the Fairway project and one of the people most responsible for the Red Hook's rebirth, ro get his thoughts on the neighborhood's future. CUF: You've been developing commercial properties in Red Hook for a couple of decades now. How did you first get involved in the neighborhood? GO: There had been a huge urban renewal going on in the late '70s and the city was going to put in a huge container port, which was going to go from where the container port is today all along the waterfront through the end of Red Hook, including Erie Basin. They were taking property through eminent domain. They would knock the buildings down and deed them over to the Port Authority. And of course, the businesses that were here at the rime moved out because they knew they were going to be taken and the landlords weren't putcing any money into their buildings. And then came the fiscal crisis. It lefr Red Hook with some build- 22 ings that were up, some that were down, and lots that were vacant. That's when I came in, because they amended the whole urban renew- al plan to include only the container port where it is today. I saw it as an opportunity, a chal- lenge. The location was good. And I had worked as a detective for the 1st Precinct in 50ho when the transformation there started, so you could see the ingredients were there. You try to be ahead of what you thought the next area of development would be. CUF: It's hard for me to imagine that Red Hook at that point would have been seen as the next neighborhood. GO: Without a doubt, it was not the next neighborhood. You can imagine what buildings vacant for 10 to 20 years were like. That's what I bought. But I have a love of historic buildings and I like a challenge. The challenge is to take a building that nobody wants and make it alive. So that's what I did. I plugged away. The first building I bought was in 1982, and it was 90 percent vacant. There was only one tenant in the whole building, a mattress manufacturer. I renovated the building, taking advantage of the ICIP [Industrial Commercial Incentive Pro- gram, a city initiative that provides tax break for developing or renovacing commercial build- ings) . So I could bring down the rent low. And so I advercised it in the Times. People would see the ad and call up. I'd tell them all about the property and then they'd ask me where it was. I'd say Red Hook, and then it was conspicu- ously silent on the phone. CUF: From the looks of things it must be a lot easier to attract tenants here today? GO: It has completely changed. I don't do any advertising now. We're 98 percent occupied and my rental basically is by word of mouth. For the last 10 years, I have two signs I leave on the building. That's all I do. CUF: How many businesses do you have today in the buildings you developed in Red Hook? GO: About 80. And they're in buildings that were basically vacant or empry. Years ago, this was dumpy. You'd see packs of dogs down here. You'd see no one. There was nothing going on here. For me, it's quite rewarding to see that now you have activities. You have people work- ing, you have art shows, you have people on bicycles coming down. CUF: Obviously, Red Hook's also become an attractive place for residential developers. Do you worry that residential encroachment will push out the businesses? GO: The trick is you want to keep the balance. There's a certain hum you want to create in a neighborhood, and if it's too much in one direction or another, you lose something and it becomes sterile. You have historic buildings. You have a great waterfront, you have plenty of air and light, you have a great location. People want to live here. Absolutely. I can understand why and there's nothing wrong with that. But the small business owners are happy here and it's produccive for them. They want to stay here, but they're now very concerned with the thing that every business wants: stability. If you lose the working waterfront, if you give it up to residential development, you never get it back. CUF: Your latest project involves bringing the Fairway supermarket to Red Hook. How did that come about? GO: About 15 or 16 years ago, one ofFairway's principals was importing olive oil for his store and he rented warehousing space here at one of my buildings. The product was so good and so well accepted, that he looked to expand into other related lines. When I bought the Beard Street warehouse, he was one of the first ten- ants, and he doubled the space. Later, when I became interested in [the building now being developed for Fairway], I was looking for a business that I thought would be good for the community. And if you walk around Red Hook, you'll find that the markets here are gen- erally expensive, poor quality and not so clean. Also, I learned that one of the best businesses [0 CITY LIMITS put into an inner city is a supermarket, because it employs locally. So here we had a Fairway, which at the time had just opened up in Harlem, where it employed hundreds locally. The community in Harlem loved it and it had quality products and pricing. I thought that it was a perfect match. I spoke to them, and we managed to make a deal. And they will be opening at the end of the year. CUF: How is this going to benefit Red Hook? GO: They will employ locally, there'll be union jobs and there'll be benefits. I think it will also have a multiplier effect on other businesses in the neighborhood. We have a wine store and a bakery that just opened up, and a new restau- rant. Some of these businesses are opening up in anticipation of people coming down into the area, walking in the area, becoming part of the community. Plus, when we began to look at the food business, we found that there weren't enough markets to service the population, partly because the population has been increas- ing. You don't see abandoned houses anymore, you see new construction going on, and there's more disposable income. These people need a place to shop. CUF: Do you fear the Fairway will have a neg- ative impact on some local businesses? GO: I was concerned about the mom and pop business and would they be put out of business. I heard this when Pathmark opened up 15 years ago on Smith Street, and it's been just the opposite. It never happened. I asked that same question to the principals of Fairway, and they told me the opposite took place [around their store in Manhattan]. What happened was the mom and pops-the small grocery stores- cleaned up their stores and lowered their prices, and they're still in business. CUF: Red Hook is also getting an Ikea, a much bigger development than your Fairway project and one that many people in Brooklyn oppose. What do you think? GO: I'm on the community board and I voted to support Ikea. I think Ikea is not what you con- sider a typical box store. If you look at their health benefits, the way they rreat their employ- ees, it's much different. They did much ourreach into the community and adjoining communi- ties, and listened to what people said. They're opening up the waterfront where now you can't get to at all. There'll be 500 or 600 jobs. That's important when you look at Red Hook Houses, where the unemployment is so high. And Ikea is MAY/JUNE 2005 going to start training programs way in advance [of the store's opening] and give those people opportunities and do it on a continuous basis. They're also going to use the waterfront to tie up some tug boats, and I think now they're even going to be putting in a ship repair facility some- place there. The other side of the coin is the traf- fic it's going to generate. CUF: There's a lot of attention on big box HOW MARRIOTT MADE HARLEM HAPPY THE POLS broke ground in February on what will be the tallest building in upper Manhattan, to be called Harlem Park. The $236 million glass tower will be anchored by a Courtyard by Marriott, the first hotel to be built in Harlem in decades. The complex will also include office space and apartments. It will be a massive development with a corporate tenant that is openly anti-union. But unlike Wal-Mart, Marriott got approval for a zoning change from the City Council and is moving forward on friendly terms with its host neighborhood. That's because the developer signed a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) with Community Board 11 that will give Harlem residents first shot at an estimated 948 hotel and 1,482 construction jobs. It is New York's first CBA. CB11, which represents East Harlem, has had trouble with businesses that moved in but did not hire Harlem residents. So when Harlem Park developer Michael Caridi approached the board, members jumped at the chance to sign an agreement, recalls dis- trict manager Javier Llano. "We're sick and tired of promises and they don't deliver," says Llano. 'We felt we should take this opportu- nity to hold the developer accountable." The benefits agreement, worked out dur- ing a week of negotiations last year, sets goals of 50 percent minority employment in hourly positions. In management, 35 percent will be women and 35 percent minority, the company pledges. Construction contractors will open a community hiring office and refer applicants to unions. The hotel will also give one-quarter of its contracts to minority- and women-owned firms and make a good-faith effort to employ Harlem residents in one in four hotel jobs. ''The goals are attainable," stores, partly due to Wal-Mart's attempt to open a store in the city. Why do you think so many are looking to set up shop here? GO: I think they realize that the city's safer and they realize that the market is here, that the need is here. They look at Ikea's store in Para- mus and see how well it is doing, and they find that a lot of their shoppers are coming from New York City. So why shouldn't we have the advantage of these type of items in our area? says Marriott Senior VP of Diversity Initiatives Dave Sampson. 'We're not just talking about jobs-we're talking about careers." Marriott management will not interfere if hotel workers decide to unionize-part of an existing neutrality agreement between the corporation and UNITE-HERE Local 6. Marriott has 1 3 hotels and 4,000 employees in New York City, many of whom are already union members. "It's up to the associates," says Sampson. "They will have the opportunity to organize the hotel." The developers badly needed community support. The site previously was restricted to low-rise development, so a zoning change had to get approved by the City Council. Orga- nized opposition from the community board could have been fatal. After discussions with the board, Caridi agreed to lower the tower's height, now projected at about 458 feet. Some say CB11 could have gotten much more. There are no hiring goals for the con- struction jobs, and no way for newcomers to enter the overwhelmingly white trade unions. The carpenters' apprentice program will not have openings for another year; by then, construction will be well underway. "There's a clear lack of involvement of unions," observes Adrianne Shropshire of the New York Unemployment Project, which is working to promote CBAs. She helped orga- nize a community-labor coalition that won a precedent-setting CBA in Los Angeles. In 2001, the developers of the Staples Center committed to hire more than 5,000 nearby residents for living wage jobs and agreed to provide funds for parks development, park- ing, affordable housing and job training. "We didn't have any legal basis-only the ability to organize," said Victor Narro of UCLA's Labor Center, who helped negotiate the Staples agreement. "They didn't want to see us in the streets." -Bennett Baumer 23 For
elr wn Hundreds of teens are in jail for crimes for which adult would walk. Can the Probation Department reform its By Wendy Davis Illustrations by Matt Vincent "Nym" was 15 years old when he caught his first case. He was a passenger in a stolen car-though, to this day, he maintains he didn't know the car was stolen before he accepted the ride. The police picked him up after the driver, an older acquaintance, crashed the vehicle. The police brought Nym to the station. Fol- lowing standard procedure, they called his mother to pick him up. Had she retrieved him from the precinct, the last four years of his life might have turned out very differently. Instead, she told the police to keep him overnight-setting in motion a chain of events that would result in him going upstate until his 18th birthday, at a cost to taxpayers of $125,000 a year. "She said, The first time you get arrested, I'm going to let you spend the night in the precinct,'" he recalls. Like many parents, she couldn't have realized the consequences. Many kids arrested for riding in a stolen car will never see the inside of a juvenile facility. But whether they get sent upstate for this or almost any other crime depends largely on whether they've been attending school, have a sober parent at home, ever got into fights- almost anything besides the crime itself At sentencing, or "disposition," in family court lingo, judges are required to impose the least restrictive alternative in keeping with a young person's best interests and the need to pro- 24 tect the community. In practical terms, judges look at the supervision in a child's home-and usually that means scrutinizing their mothers. They'll look at a parent's mental health, whether she's a substance abuser, even housing conditions. It's all part of assessing whether she is able to exert authority over the youngster. Nym's mother was in court with him the day he was sentenced. But it was too late. The judge decided that his mom couldn't handle him. The number of young people sentenced to confinement upstate is shrinking. There were 2,142 in 2002, down from 2,740 in 1995. Yet more and more of them are being sent up on less serious crimes, according to data from the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). In 2002, for the first time in at least 10 years, admissions to juvenile facili- ties for crimes against property oumumbered those for crimes against people. In 2002, 140 young people were confined for criminal mischief, such as graffiti or vandal- ism; 294 were for larceny-shoplifting, snatch- ing a bag from an empty office, and the like; and III were for riding in a stolen car. Another 237 cases were related to drugs, marijuana included. The Vera Institute ofJustice reported last year that more than half of the juveniles incarcerated had committed misdemeanors. Family Court judges make these decisions, but they're guided by the New York City Department of Probation. The agency makes recommendations to judges about whether a young person should be locked up or paroled pending trial. It can decide to divert a case before it even gets to court. If a defendant is found guilty, probation conducts an investigation and makes a recom- mendation. Its reports are critical to judges' decisions in moving to "place" a young person in jailor let them go. The Department of Probation is now mak- ing major changes in how it deals with young people like Nym. It is collaborating with the Vera Institute's Project Esperanza to ensure that more young offenders remain in the commu- nity instead of in jail. The changes are guided by a very simple fact: There's little if any evidence that locking up nonviolent young offenders does anything to reduce crime. More than half of the boys released from state facilities are arrested again within nine months, and 81 percent within three years, according to a 1999 study com- missioned by the state legislature. That's not surprising, says Probation Commissioner Mar- tin Horn: "When you send a kid to placement, you haven't done anything about the home the kid has come from, about the school situation. " Cases like Nym's confound the commis- sioner. Why are the courts sending young peo- CITY LIMITS 00 offenders ways? pie ro jail for minor offenses? "Often place- ment decisions were made for reasons unre- lated ro the degree of danger presented by the child," says Horn of family court-like prob- lems with their families, or housing, or school attendance. "All the wrong reasons." Like Hom, lawyers, judges and probation officers who work with adult criminal defen- dants are frequently puzzled when they dis- cover that, in family court, youngsters who don't appear ro pose a risk of violence are sent away and incarcerated. Nym was charged with grand larceny, unau- thorized use of a vehicle and reckless endanger- ment. The judge sentenced Nym ro up ro 18 months in a facility overseen by OCFS. That turned into three years, after OCFS petitioned ro extend placement through his 18th birthday. (Nym says his stay was extended for challenging the staff's authority roo many times.) Adults rarely do three years on a car case. Had Nym been just one year older when he was arrested, he would have gone ro criminal court, where he would almost certainly have been able ro work out a plea bargain that didn't involve prison time. But in Family Court, the rules are different. After finding a youngster guilty, judges are allowed to impose a wide variety of sentences, ranging from dismissing the case ro probation ro sending youngsters ro OCFS-which usu- MAY/JUNE 2005 Juveniles from troubled homes can be sent upstate for almost anything-including a ride in a stolen car. ally places them in locked facilities upstate. Whether the arrest is for possessing a loaded gun or writing graffiti, family court judges are required ro figure out a sentence by weighing what's best for a youngster with the need ro protect the community. They are supposed ro impose a "least restrictive" alternative-proba- tion over confinement-wherever possible. "The whole mindset of family court is that the level of the crime does not dictate the out- come," says Jacqueline Deane, who trains attorneys at the Legal Aid Society's Juvenile Rights Division. Instead, judges look at the broader picture: the child, the family, school, the home environment and prior court hisrory. This discretion works ro some kids' advan- 25 tage. If they've committed a serious offense but have other factors in their favor-they're attending school regularly, the parents are appropriately concerned, and the offense appears to be an aberration-judges sometimes impose probation. But the flip side is that teens who have committed relatively minor offenses end up sent away for far longer than adults convicted of similar crimes. Bart Lubow of the Annie E. Casey Foundation ticks off the reasons he's seen in New York courts and others: "Lousy to send fewer youngsters to detention pending trial. He is now the Casey Foundation's direc- tor for system and service reform. "We often describe family court as quick- sand, " says Mishi Faruqee, director of the juve- nile justice project at the Correctional Associa- tion. "Once you get caught in family court, you get deeper and deeper." Sometimes young people agree with judges who want to send them off to juvenile facili- ties-they're thrilled to be getting out of bad homes. Take 17-year-old "Grimes." He says he Since October, more than 200 young offenders have gotten a caseworker instead of a criminal sentence. school careers, the parents may abuse sub- stances, the families may be less than ideal, it may be a very poor family living under very tenuous circumstances, maybe one of the fam- ily members or more is incarcerated," says Lubow. "With kids who are most likely to end up in residential placements for minor offenses, you tend to find a constellation of these needs and issues in play. " Lubow is an expert on New York City's juvenile justice sys- tem, a veteran of a failed attempt in the 1990s 26 "loved" Berkshire Farms, the upstate center his judge sent him to after he gOt into a fight at school. Grimes had been in foster care but con- tinually ran away, back to his family, even though he had suffered abuse growing up there. Based on those circumstances, a Bronx judge decided Grimes would be better offin a juvenile facility and sent him to Berkshire Farms. Bur his stay there didn't solve anything. After two years there, Grimes was released- and immediately rearrested for fighting at school again. Berkshire Farms took him back for another year. Courts also examine school records. Kids who don't attend class or who are failing courses, or who've gotten into rrouble for things like fighting, are much more likely to be incarcerated than honor students. For many kids, the problems start early. In elementary school, Nym was suspended for fighting. Judges look at that history when they decide on sentencing. It literally goes on a kid's permanent record. Judges, it turns out, don't like this state of affairs either. "There's a certain degree of angst here," says Joseph M. Lauria, administrative judge for New York City family courts. "You're trying to do the right thing for the youngster and the community. We certainly want, if there must be a placement, for the placement to be as short as possible and return to the commu- nity and be a productive individual." He adds, "No one goes into this saying, ' Let's see how many youngsters we can place. '" Judges typically do go in with the intent to rehabilitate a young offender. (That's why Judge Lauria says it's a mistake to even com- pare juvenile sentences with adult ones-"It's apples and oranges. We have a different phi- losophy. It's not punitive-it should be reha- bilitative.") But the reality is that most of the kids in OCFS care live in locked facilities and a restrained environment. They're transported to and from some facilities in handcuffs and leg irons; a few of the most secure centers are ringed with barbed wire. While the "limited secure" centers aren't quite Attica, they're not group homes, either. Kids in the centers usu- ally aren't allowed to leave unescorted, and, in some cases, they're not even allowed to ven- ture from room to room. Why subject petty offenders to months or years of this? In many cases judges feel that the years of problems that preceded a crisis are too big for the courts to solve. Instead, it seems less risky to just send the youngsters upstate for a while, in hopes that some time away will do everyone good. The problem is, it does nothing of the kind. "The system operates on the basis of cer- tain myths, or certain sacred cows, that it just hasn't been willing to confront-and one of them is that out-of-home placement is good for kids," says Lubow. "You're talking about a kid going away for maybe a year, and then that kid's returning home, and the family's exactly the same, and what do people think CITY LIMITS Out of Mind Who knows what happens inside juvenile facilities? By Cassi Feldman "Everybody calls it Rugbum City," says Carl*, 17, about the Louis Gossett, Jr., Residential Center, where he was incarcerated for gang violence. "I still have a scar on my face to this day." After a verbal spat with a staff member, he says, he was pulled from his room and physically restrained. 'There's four staff on you: two on your arms; two on your legs. And they're scraping your face on the carpet The staff really messed me up." Kids in juvie are tough, of course, and wrestling maneuvers are a neces- sary survival tool for those supervising them. But many teens who have done time upstate describe rug burns as an intentional- and indelible-result of overzealous restraint holds. They also report harassment, homophobic slurs, overmedication, unsanitary conditions and sexual advances from staff. Yet juvenile residential centers run by the Office of Children and Family Services- which range from small community homes to massive campuses rimmed with razor wire-are rarely inspected by outsiders. While they are overseen by an ombudsman, independent review board, and volunteer cit- izen advisory boards, aU of these report to the agency itself. Legal Aid used to visit, but its last report dates back to 1999. 'These young people are very isolated," says Kim Hawkins, director of the Peter Cicchino Youth Project of the Urban Justice Center, which moni- tors LGBT youth in state care. "It's a comedy of errors just to get a conver- sation by phone." When problems are brought to light, they're handled internally, if at all. A youth restrained at Lou Gossett in 1996 suffered brain damage and later died, yet teens who stay there continue to report abuse by staff members. When asked about the center, OCFS said it couldn't comment due to client confidentiality. It's a screen that serves two purposes: protecting both the teens and the facilities themselves. That's why activists are pushing for the creation of an Office of the Child Advocate. A6334, a bill sponsored by Assemblymember Barbara Clark, would establish an independent office to oversee aU state services for children, including foster care and juvenile justice. "Children are mov- ing between these systems, but the systems themselves are fragmented," says Gertrud Lenzer, a professor at the Brooklyn College Children's Stud- ies Center, who lobbied for the bill. 'This will really bring them together." Other states have already created such offices. In Connecticut, Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein has successfully pushed for reform at the state's troubled correctional school. In New Jersey, Child Advocate Kevin Ryan con- ducted an investigation into the state's 17 detention facilities and found that adolescents with profound mental health needs were going untreated. Here in New York, oversight of adjudicated youth falls to one man with a nearly impossible job: Robert Dodig. the OCFS ombudsman, is expected to oversee 2,900 youth in 44 facilities. OCFS argues that it has other safeguards in place. All its centers are accredited by the American Correctional Association and staff are trained annually on use of force, explains spokesperson Brian Marchetti. Whenever a restraint occurs, the facility must conduct an internal review. If the youth MAY/JUNE 2005 Juvenile facilities get inspected infrequently. alleges abuse, a call goes into the state's child abuse hotline and the accused staffer is transferred. But former ombudsman Vincent O'Brien, who served in the post for 30 years, recalls haggling with facilities over what constitutes abuse. "Every facil- ity had its own administration and there was a lot of variation in when to call CPS [Child Protective Servicesl." Over the years, he says, his job became harder. At one point, the ombudsman's office had five attorneys and was relatively autonomous. Now it has one, who must answer to the agency's legal department. Marchetti says visits are conducted "as frequently as required: but O'Brien recalls visiting some facilities as seldom as once every two years. For Diana*, 17, talking to the ombudsman felt pointless. While con- fined in the Brentwood Residential Center in Long Island, she says, she was shunned and then transferred after reporting that a popular staffer had assaulted her (he was later charged with sexual abuse and sodomy). "All of those stories just get covered up," she says. "It's just a big cover-up." Supporters say a Child Advocate would be more independent, and therefore more inviting. The office would be accessible to youth via a toU- free number and have the power to file lawsuits if necessary. So how likely is the bill to pass? Even with bipartisan support, Clark has her doubts. In 2003, she points out, the governor okayed a commission to oversee foster care group homes but never funded it Here again, funding could be a sticking point. "I don't think it's controversial," says Clark. "But it's going to cost some money." ' Names have been changed. 27 had made a difference?" Nym was released early in 2004, when he was 18. "You feel violated when you come home," he says. Litrle things, like 50-cent pay phones, "bugged me out. "For a long time, I used to blame my mother," he says. Now, he says he's over that. Now he wants to go to college in Canada, where he intends to study music marketing. But first he has some unfinished business in New York City to take care of. Like most young men who've done time with OCFS, Nym was rearrested almost immediately. Nym's next arrest, in June 2004, was for This "home-based placement" program assigns MSW social workers to work closely with the entire family and serve as mentors for the teenager on probation; each has no more than 10 cases at any time. Workers make regu- lar home visits, and someone is always avail- able for emergency calls. They offer or refer family members to services, including counsel- ing, drug treatment and assistance with hous- ing. All this continues for four to six months, at a cost of $8,000 to $10,000 per young per- son-far less than the expense of confinement. Probation's goal is to reduce the number of youth sent to OCFS from 1,400 last year to Judges send kids upstate hoping it will do them good. But four in five boys who've been in juvenile facilities are arrested again within three years. assault. After a few months on Rikers Island, he struck a deal to get probation. Starting about six months ago, the New York City Department of Probation launched a new effort to keep young offenders out of juve- nile facilities when they don't need to be there. A parmership with the Vera Institute ofJustice, Esperanza/Hope works to maintain youngsters at home with their families. Since last October, Esperanza has kept 200 delinquents at home who would otherwise have been sent away to juvenile facilities. Almost any juvenile defendant is eligible; the only exceptions are those with "obvious and severe mental health problems" and those whose parents refuse to cooperate. 28 1,1 00 this year. After six months, 65 percent of the youngsters referred to the program are still in good standing, boasts Horn-an improve- ment over the 50 percent of young men usu- ally rearrested within six months of leaving state facilities. The department has tried intensive proba- tion programs before. It didn't get far. Prosecu- tors from the Corporation Counsel resisted. The state, which helped finance prior efforts, put bureaucratic blocks in place. Judges, mean- while, lost faith after discovering that case- workers didn't always report back to them promptly when problems emerged. "Credibil- ity with the court is of the utmost importance," says Lauria. When judges "find out they've been misled," he says, they're reluctant to trust that program again. This time around, Lauria is cooperating with Probation. As Esperanza gets going, courts are sending youngsters to the project's home-based placements and hoping it works out. Lauria says time will tell; if the recidivism rate is any lower than it is now, he will consider it a success. Esperanza is something Vera has wanted to push for a long time. When Horn showed up, the institute found an enthusiastic partner. For the commissioner, Esperanza is just one aspect of a larger plan to reduce rates of juvenile incar- ceration. "We think we've changed Probation's role," says Horn. "We're moving to restoring the concept of best interest of the child com- bined with best interest of society." Since taking the reins at the Probation department in 2002, Horn, who is also com- missioner of Correction, has spearheaded ini- tiatives to not only reduce the number of youngsters sent upstate but to send fewer kids through the court system in the first place. Probation has the power to divert delinquency cases from judicial system altogether, but in the past only diverted 8 percent of arrests. That's because diverting a juvenile takes careful work. To put the brakes on prosecution, Probation needs to get the consent of the police officer, victim or other party involved in bring- ing the case. Under Horn's direction, the agency is now making an effort to track those parties down and secure their cooperation- and in the second half of last year, diversion increased to 23 percent. "We think we can do better yet," says Horn. The probation department has also taken another look at the process by which probation officers make sentencing recommendations to the court. Officers used to mostly go with their gut. But recently, Probation asked Vera to create a "probation assessment instrument"-an analysis officers use to evaluate the needs of youngsters as well as the strengths of their fam- ilies. The process "reserves a recommendation of placement for the most severely disadvantaged kids," says Horn. In the last 18 months, the pro- bation department has gone from recommend- ing placement in 50 percent of cases to seeking placement in only 35 percent of cases. Lest anyone think that the man in charge of New York's prisons and probation is soft on crime, Horn knows how to frame the issue. ''I'm a fiscal conservative," he says. "I believe that taxpayer dollars belong to taxpayers. When I look at what we spend on placement and what we get for it, it offends me. " CITY LIMITS
Three case studies: How MBAs are ways nonprofits do business. F or New York's nonprofit organizations, this year's federal and local budgets bring reams of bad news. President Bush plans to cur $216 billion from the nation's social services sec- tor in the next five years. Governor Pataki intends to slash $150 million from New York City's in the coming fiscal year. The cuts and their impact are still Alliance, an organization that helps nonprofits start for-profit businesses, saw its membership jump to 500 last year, more than three times its level in 2002. Making money isn't the only skill nonprof- its are looking to pick up from the business r nsforming the business schools provide. MBAs are already fix- tures on nonprofit boards; eight in 10 Harvard MBAs, for example, are involved in some way. Bur increasingly, MBAs are also raking on lead- ership roles at non profits and related ventures. At the same time, the business schools that train them have started pay- ing more attention to the uncertain, since the budgets haven't been finalized. But one thing is clear to Burton Weisbrod, a professor at Northwestern University's lnstiru te for Policy Research. "If those budget proposals are enacted, either the nonprofit organizations have to cut back "Organiza s are getting more freedom to advocate for their missions. nonprofit sector and its causes. Corporate social responsibility is a hot ropic. And people trained for the business world are showing unprecedented interest in working for nonprofits. "In the last couple of years, there's been at least a 20 ro 30 percent increase in peo- ple transferring from the Their destinies are in their hands versus the hands of fickle funders their mission-related activities or they've got to get money from some other sources," he says. "It leads to a growing pressure to fmd some business-type commercial activities or find some- thing they can sell profitably." In an environment with fewer government resources and an increasing number of com- petitors for funding, more and more organiza- tions have been turning to market activities to keep their programs strong. Social Enterprise MAY/JUNE 2005 or government." world. The IRS and other federal agencies are increasing their demands for financial accountability. Major philanthropists, mean- while, expect their donations to be spent effi- cienrly and effectively. It all adds up ro intense need among nonprofits for organizational and financial planning and management. These are exactly the skills that graduates of business sector into the nonprofit sector," says Gayle Brandel of Pro- fessionals for NonProfits, an executive search firm. "It's been pretty substantial." Business schools have been both a catalyst and a follower of this trend. In the 1990s, MBA programs started to establish social enterprise concentrations and courses to address demand for people with management skills and a desire 29 to do more than produce a profit. These are now fixtures at all major business schools in the U.S. "It is evident that the boundaries between the business, nonprofit and government sectors are becoming blurred. There is a growing overlap and interdependence," says James Austin, direc- tor of the Social Enterprise Initiative of Harvard, one of the earliest such programs. "It will become increasingly cornmon for the MBAs to cross over from one sector to another during their careers. " The mix worries Weisbrod, who has been outspoken in urging that the nonprofit and for-profit sectors remain as sep- arate as church and state. "When you enter the realm of the private sector, you'll find yourself under a growing pres- sure to act like a private firm, which is in the business to make money," says Weisbrod. "It becomes impossible to com- pletely separate the money-rais- ing activities from the mission- related activities that really con- stitute the rationale for the organization's existence. " Others argue that nonprofits' missions are even more severely compromised by the endless chase for grants and donations-- a treadmill that business ventures and strong management can help them get off. "We've seen many organizations generating enough operating dollars through their earned income efforts and getting more treedom to advocate for their missions," says Beth Bubis, president of the Social Enterprise Alliance. "Their destinies are in their hands versus the hands of fickle fimders or government." Bubis, it turns out, has a master's degree in social work. "It was the way to do it 25 years ago when I was in college," she says. "But now MBAs are recognized as having a real value. " Ben Thomases Col umbia MBA 2003 First Source Statting N onprofits in need of new revenue have increasingly been turning to so-called social ventures-for-profit business 30 enterprises. But many such businesses end up failing soon arrer they are born. Among the rea- sons: The businesses don't fit with the nonprof- its' social mission and therefore don't get suffi- cent organizational anention. Many non profits also lack the business skills needed to make the ventures succeed. This was the conclusion of a report published in January by Seedco, an orga- To some MBAs who have been taught about social entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing the dual demands is a prime attrac- tion of the nonprofit sector. "There was a ques- tion in my mind whether it's possible to run a successful social purpose business, " says Ben Thomases, who enrolled in Columbia Univer- siry's business school in 2001 arrer spending three years as a communiry organizer with the criminal-jus- tice-reform group CASES. "Look at all the energy we spend worrying where the money would come from to support our social programs. If our social programs can support themselves, we don't have to worry about that." Thomases went straight trom school to the kind of job that all MBAs dream of- president of the company. FirstSource Staffing is a for-profit temp agency owned by the FifTh Avenue Comminee, a nonprofit organization that helps poor people in Brooklyn get housing and jobs. He makes money by finding office work for graduates of the FifTh Avenue Comminee's job training pro- gram and other hard-to-employ people living in Brooklyn. Ex-community organizer Ben Thomases now has an MBA and a growing firm finding jobs for the hard-to-employ. Before Thomases applied for the job, FirstSource Sraffmg had burned through three managers in just four years. "When we evaluated Ben, we were excited about both sides of the equation that he brought to the table. That was the nonprofit experi- ence and commitment to our mission as well as his MBA toolbox of skills," says Aaron Shiffman, director of the FifTh Avenue Committee-spawned organization Brooklyn Work- force Innovations. nization that has been assisting nonprofits in business planning since 2000. "A bakery is a bakery. You need a market for your muffins whether you are for-profit or not- for-profit, " says Diane Baillargeon, president of Seedco. "It is more complex for a nonprofir because they have this double bottom line, which is both to contribute to their mission as well as generate a profit. " Thomases' firm does all the things any staffing company does, from inter- viewing job seekers carefully to make sure they are qualified to hitting up fellow Columbia alumni for job openings. He has to bring in enough money to pay his three staff members. But unlike the for-profit staffing companies, when employers complain about his job seek- ers, Thomases doesn't fire them-he personally sits down with them to improve their conduct. CITY LIMITS Business Goes Pro Bono M BAs who settle into non profits right after graduation are the exception. Despite the rapidly increasing number of students selecting social enterprise classes, the financial burden left by high tuition limits the proportion of MBAs from major business schools who join non profits to less than 5 percent. However, social- minded MBAs also help in other ways. Increasingly, like their peers in the legal profession, they're turning to pro bono consulting. "More organizations offering similar services are springing up," says Anastasia Thatcher, a student at Stern School of Business at New York University, who leads a consulting group for non profits at the school. "We have more competition to attract volunteers. " Thatcher' s group is a local chapter of Net Impact, a national network that focus- es on using business skills for social good. Founded in 1993 by a few MBA students who were interested in social issues but felt isolated, Net Impact now has more than 10,000 MBA students and professionals in 100 chapters around the country, and it's expanding overseas. In addition to the fellowship and intern- ship programs, in 2002 the organization launched Service Corps, a program that matches MBA teams to nonprofit organizations to help on specific projects, such as marketing or strategic planning. More than 50 non profits are involved in 16 cities. Pro bono MBAs were what made it possible for the Child Abuse Pre- vention Program, a small New York organization with a staff of seven, to launch a fee-for-service training program for other organizations in need of their expertise, says Executive Director Marion White. Rrst, MBA NYC, a pro bono consulting group established after September 11 to help lower Manhattan businesses, worked with the Child Abuse Prevention Program to rework the pages of informal notes used by its trainers into a standardized three-week curriculum. Then Net Impact's Service Corps took it from there, working with White and her colleagues to identify potential customers and develop a market- ing strategy. White now has a concrete plan: Develop one organizational customer this year, then build to four in three years-a level of business that will make the program profitable. "If you are interested in feeding hungry people or providing housing for the homeless, it usually comes from a wish to do good, " says White, who is currently scouting for customers. "To pair your good intentions with people who have a strong business mind really makes a difference." The following institutions provide business consulting services free of charge to nonprofit organizations: Net Impact New York Chapter www.netimpact.org MBA students and professionals take on a variety of projects-for example, defining and developing metries of organizational success or strengthening mar- keting plans. Length of service depends on need. Net Impact New York current- ly serves seven organizations, including Chinatown Manpower Project and Inter- faith Hospitality Network for the Homeless. To apply: Visit website; applications for fall open this summer. MBA Corps www.mbacoros.org These MBA professionals assist nonprofit social ventures-non profit-run for- profit entities. They provide, free of charge, three months of intensive work plus 18 months of advice. Clients include the West Harlem Art Fund and Uniformed Fire Officers Association. To apply: Contact Joe De Bono, 917-579-6612 or info@mbacorps.org Stern Consulting Corps www.stern.nyu.edu Students from New York University's Stern School of Business undertake 1(}' week projects, including strategic and financial analysis, marketing and entre- preneurship. Past clients include Carnegie Hall and Robin Hood Foundation. To apply: Email initiatives@Stern.nyu.edu MAY/JUNE 2005 The Small Business Consulting Program http: //www.gsb.columbia.edu/students/organizations/sbcp/ Students from the Columbia University Business School devote a semester to a particular nonprofit or for-profit organization. Client names and details are kept confidential. To apply: Email KKordestani04gsb.columbia.edu or mz2104 columbia.edu Columbia University courses http: //www.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterorise/academics/coursesl Several courses provided by the Social Enterprise Program at the Business School of Columbia University incorporate nonprofit consulting projects for course credit. Nonprofits typically apply directly to professors of these courses at the beginning of each semester. These include: Social Entrepreneurship Spring semester, Professor Cathy Clark. Contact cathy@cathyhc.com Board and Executive Management of Nonprofits Fall semester, Professor Ed Henry. Contact eph36@columbia.edu Marketing art, culture and education Spring semester,Professor Robert Shulman. Contact: shulman@markitecture.com -XR 31 Marketing materials sent to potential employ- ers make clear that the company is an affiliate to a nonprofit and the profit will be used on social services. But there is no word about where its job seekers come from. "There is certainly stigma attached to people who come through commu- nity-based programs, which is why we handle the maner delicately," says Thomases. The delicate rouch works well. Clients say five years. Thomases' vocation would be foreign to Thomases' mother, a veteran in the nonprof- it sector, and his father, a business consultant. "Straddling the line between the nonprofit and for profit sector is harder than just plant- ing yourself firmly in either one," says Thomases. "That's why I jumped into this opportunity." Michael Schreiber, formerly of the accounting firm De/oitte, is one of the many MBAs overhauling United Way. they're highly satisfied wi th the service. "They've been terrific. They seemed to pick up very quickly. They seemed to have very good office skills," says Sean Delany, execu- tive director of Lawyers Alliance for New York, a legal services organization that has used FirstSource Staffing seven times since November. "If they didn't, we wouldn't go back." In Thomases' 18 months in the job, the revenue of FirstSource Staffing has increased 30 percent. (He declines to disclose precise revenue figures, or his salary.) He expects to boost revenue growth even more in the next 18 months and aims to begin pro- viding revenue to the nonprofit in three to 32 Brian Gallagher Emory MBA 1992 Michael Schreiber Duke MBA 1995 United Way T alk to some of the top managers at United Way and it sometimes feels like you're conversing with a bunch of executives from General Electric or IBM. The business jar- gon flows freely. The emphasis is on brand build- ing, pay for performance, entrepreneurship, effective management controls. Since CEO Brian Gallagher, an MBA from Emory University, took over in 2002, United Way has welcomed many MBAs and business consultants into its ranks. At the top echelons there are now two MBAs in charge of enter- prise services (both of whom previously worked for the accounting and consulting firm Deloine), and a former partner from McKin- sey & Company, the business consultants to Fortune 500 companies. They see nothing strange about leading an organization fIXated beyond the bottom line. "The reason I was willing to engage with this organization is the subculture, the specific focus on the business as a business," says Brian Leamy, a Whar- ton graduate who joined United Way in 2004 as a vice president of enterprise services. This is not the first time United Way has brought MBAs in at a criti- cal moment. Thirteen years ago, Elaine Chao, a Harvard MBA who now serves as Labor Secretary for the Bush administration, was named CEO when her predecessor, William Harmony, resigned amid allegations of theft. (Harmony was later convict- ed of stealing $600,000 from the organization.) Chao helped United Way rebuild trust and rescued the organization from financial woes. The situation Gallagher and his team face is no less daunting. Other entities have arisen that do the same thing United Way does-<:ollect donations through corporate partners and channel them into charitable pro- jects. The rise of internet fundraising has also been a formidable challenge to United Way's dominance as a fundraiser and distributor to member nonprofits. And if that weren't enough, the institution is still recovering from a financial scandal, in which several local United Ways were caught using a controversial account- ing method to exaggerate donations. Gallagher had to oust the management team of the Wash- ington D.C.-area United Way eight months after he took the helm. These incidents sparked a series of dramatic reforms now underway, intended to rebuild trust among donors and redefine the institu- tion's role. The objective: change its identity from a fund distributor for its members to an investor focusiDg on key social issues and work- ing with local nonprofits to solve them. The results are measured by tangible indicators, such CITY LIMITS I as local high school drop-out rates. Internally, management can feel the heat. Stricter accounting rules adopted in 2003 require local United Ways to report their finan- cial data to the national office for a third-party review. Recently, the organization hired Noel Tichy, a business school professor at the Uni- versity of Michigan, to train its senior Staff in management skills. Tichy, who helped GE go through the same process two years ago, is now helping Gallagher set up a standard that will tie the pay of executives to their performance, a method common in the corporate world. "United Way is becoming much more per- formance focused every month," says Brooke Manville, who joined United Way from McK- insey in 2003 and is the executive vice president overseeing the new community impact strategy. The new business culture made it possible for Michael Schreiber, executive vice president of enterprise services, to launch United eWay. The venture provides online platforms to com- panies and organizations, matching volunteers and tracking the impact of donating online. The goal is to make it easy for donors to con- tribute right from the workplace. What's more, it generates its own income, by charging the corporations that sign up a fee for each donation made by their employees. United eWay was established in 2002 through two acquisitions: an electronic pledg- ing system originally set up by some local Unit- ed Way groups for their exclusive use, and an online volunteer matching system invented by a group of MassachusettS Institute of Techno 1- ogy students. It launched with $5 million in start-up capital borrowed from banks-the first commercial loan for operating purposes in United Way's history. "That's not something anybody would have been comfortable doing before," says Schreiber, an MBA from Duke University who previously worked for Deloine. United eWay now serves 100 local United Ways and has more than 800 nonprofit and cor- porate clients. Its revenue was $400 million last year, and it has recorded a 20 percent annual growth rate since its inception; it is expected to be profitable next fall. United eWay is sening the pace for the rest of the organization. The cen- tralized technology center makes it highly effi- cient-it has a 1.5 percent overhead expense, compared with 10 percent for United Way as a whole. Schreiber is now working to launch a slew of central services, including data manage- ment and customer support, for local offices. Local United Ways are also being encouraged to retool themselves for efficiency and results. In MAY/JUNE 2005 2003, United Way of New York City set out to rarget its resources to five areas of urgent need- homelessness, affordable housing, workforce development, the nonptofit sector and educa- tion. It collects performance data on its projects and makes it available to donors. The organiza- tion hired McKinsey to develop a marketing plan, and Larry Mandell, CEO of United Way of New York City, says he is considering inviting Tichy or experts from McKinsey to train his management team. "It's important for non profits generally to make sure they are managed in a businesslike way," says Mandell. "Because really these are businesses." Laura Goodman Columbia MBA 2003 KaBOOM! W hen Laura Goodman enrolled in Columbia University's business school in 2001, her dream was similar to those held by many students seeking an MBA- she wanted to be a consultant to corporate America. But that was then. "The social enter- for its unusual ability to attract corporations not as mere check-writers but as strategic part- ners. Under the sponsorship of Home Depot, Stride Rite, Computer Associates and others, KaBOOM! has built 750 playgrounds in "child-rich and playground-poor" cities across the country, including New York. The spon- sors, for their part, get favorable media cover- age and build employee morale. As sponsorship manager for the $12 million organization, Goodman puts her understanding of the MBA rnindset to work. "Knowing how to communi- cate to business executives in the language they understand is extremely important," says Goodman. ''At the end of the day, my job is to make a case to show our corporate partners why they can support KaBOOM! and meet their business objectives. " Darell Hammond, executive director of KaBOOM!, believes that non profits are going to want more people like Goodman to con- vince corporations to donate. "Corporations are looking for higher performance. It requires non profits to be able to measure the impact of the dollars, which either allows the company to United Way' online-donations venture launched with $5 million in start-up capital bolTOwed from banks-the first commercial operating loan in the institution's history. prise program changed me," says Goodman four years later, sitting in her office in KaBOOM!, a nonprofit that builds playgrounds. Through classes offered by Columbia's Social Enterprise Program and a summer internship at Blue Ridge Foundation New York, an organiza- tion that provides assistance to start-up non- profits, Goodman found there were many inno- vative models in the nonprofit sector that were "extremely intellectually stimulating." She dis- covered, too, that her business skills were keenly desired and respected. Nonprofits presented, Goodman says, "the opportunity of making an impact right away with what I just learned, and the opportunity to have a larger responsibility and to be part of a team at a more senior level." KaBOOM! offered all these to Goodman. Established in 1995, the organization is known invest more resources, or they'd make a judg- ment and say, 'We didn't get enough out of what we invested in the first place,'" says Ham- mond. "The MBAs going to nonprofit organi- zations act as change agents and help the orga- nization understand business processes. " Hammond harbors a bigger dream for the new generation of MBAs-to make more cor- porations behave like nonprofits, at least to their own employees. "In many instances non- profit organizations wouldn't have to be srarted if businesses closed the loop on what they were responsible for, from the employee's stand- point, like providing child care or health insur- ance," says Hammond. 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Less well-known is that New York Ciry, a showpiece for crime decline in the 1990s and 2000s, actually channeled fewer people into the prison system during the past decade, at a time when the rest of the country was busily putting more and more behind bars. True, misdemeanor arrests have skyrocketed. The number of people cycling through New York Ciry jails has risen. But as brutal as the policing strategies of Zero Tolerance New York have been, the total number of inmates in the ciry on any given day has gone down, and the total number of prisoners being shipped from the ciry to the state prison system has also declined. While states such as California and Texas have seen astronomical increases in their prisoner numbers in the past decade, New York State's have increased only marginally-largely as a result of fewer ciry residents entering the criminal justice system. In Downsizing Prisom, Michael Jacobson points to New York as a prime example of why states can't simply incarcerate their way out of crime epidemics. There is, he writes, "no apparent relationship ... between increased use of prisons and crime reductions." Jacobson is particularly well credentialed to make these arguments. Currenrly president of the Vera Institute of Justice and professor of criminology at John Jay College, he has behind him a long public service career-as a depury budget director for New York Ciry and as com- missioner of the ciry's Probation and Correction agencies. He's gOt an insider's understanding of which policies are good-sense social interven- tions and which are likely to be counter-produc- tive, tools for demagogues and headline hunters MAY/JUNE 2005 that look "tough on crime" on paper but in prac- tice cost a fortune and have very lime impact. Five years ago, the journalist Joel Dyer pub- lished The Perpetual Prisoner Machine. Dyer argued that a series of interlocking policies, bud- get choices, influences of tough-on-crime advo- cacy groups, and media representations of crime and punishment had come together to create an almost irresistible momentum toward expansion of the U.S. correctional apparatus. Whether crime went up or down, Dyer argued, enough people, businesses and government entities now had a vested interest in seeing the prison popula- tion rise that it would be extremely difficult to create effective counterweights. In Dowmizing Prisom, Jacobson theorizes just such a countervailing force, building on ideas developed in recent years by, among others, researchers at the Urban Institute and Joan Peter- silia, a criminologist at the Universiry of Califor- nia, Irvine. In a world of overstretched state bud- gets, cutting dollars out of the correctional sys- tem is, Jacobson argues, both logical and politi- cally possible. Reducing mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders; trimming the amount of time parole violators spend back in prison; revamping parole to help ex-prisoners reenter society rather than focusing resources on catching them in minor rule violations. If the public can be convinced that such measures won't lead to significanrly rising crime rates, Jacobson believes, they will likely tolerate a shrinking of state correctional budgets. Because New York City saw such spectacular successes in barr1ing crime without doubling or tripling its felon population, Jacobson suggests that it should serve as a poster child to reassure nervous public officials nationwide about the via- bility-and marketabiliry to their constituents- of such an approach. He proposes diverting prison funding to rebuilding damaged, high- crime neighborhoods in order to create environ- ments less likely to generate such large numbers CITY LIT of addicts and criminals in the first place. These shifts, he suggests, would in the long term lead to public attitude changes deep-rooted enough to allow more politicians to challenge existing correctional policies, without fear of being seen as soft on crime. And that evolving political terrain would, in turn, lead to further legislative changes that would channel more pe0- ple away ftom the correctional system and into drug treatment, community service and other programs. He posits a series of feedback loops between budget offices, legislatures, public opin- ion and correctional agencies that, he hopes, will cumulatively create what might be termed "a per- petual prisoner reduction machine." Jacobson's writing is not stellar. He is a tech- nocrat who loves detail and numbers. At times, Dowmizing Prisom tries to cover too much ground too quickly and risks becoming a sta- tistics-laden primer. Yet this is an important book. In particular, the recommendations for reforming parole systems will likely become an influential part of the policy debate in many states. And Jacobson's insights on New York should give pause to advocates of 1990s-style tough-on-crime policies that expand prisons. Thirty years ago, theorists such as James Q. Wilson used crime data and public dissatisfac- tion with the criminal justice system to dramat- ically realign America's crime-and-punishment debate. Over the past few years, budget crises, as well as public rebellions against policies emanat- ing from the war on through various state ballot initiatives--have created the conditions for another tectonic shift. Downsiz- ing Prisons should help direct that movement . Sasha Abramsky is the author of Hard Time Blues (St. Martins Press). 35 The Big Box BOOM continued from page 19 now working on policy solutions for New York. "Wal-Mart won't come in if [HCSA] is passed. Wal-Mart doesn't want the standards raised," he says. "Of course, you and I know it won't bankrupt itself paying for workers' health insurance. But Wal-Mart doesn't want that demonstrated." As Wal-Mart begins to consider other New York locations, those fighting the retailer will have to address the dearth of shopping alter- natives in many borough neighborhoods. City shoppers have enthusiastically embraced national retailers that aren't too different from Wal-Mart. Target, for example, is also nonunion, and its wages are in many markets as low as Wal-Mart's. Yet when a Target store opened in Brooklyn's Atlantic Center it inspired almost no opposition, partly because there was so little affordable and convenient shopping in the area. "I see a lot of people in Park Slope carrying Target bags," says Michelle de la Uz, executive Commitment is director of Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Commit- tee, which is located just blocks from the Atlantic Center, "so I guess it is fuling a need." But when de la Uz's organization looks for jobs for graduates of its workforce training pro- grams, it searches elsewhere for positions-for living wage jobs. "I think we are all becoming more sophisticated," she says. "We don't just need development, but accountable develop- ment. We have to ensure that people work with dignity, that we don't invite retailers in to help depress wages." In Red Hook, where a new Fairway super- market is under construction, Fifth Avenue Committee and its former subsidiary Brook- lyn Workforce Innovations have been working with the company to ensure that residents of the Red Hook Houses will have an early opportunity to apply for jobs at the store. Fair- way has an agreement with the UFCW that any new shop will be unionized, and workers at the store's Manhattan locations are well compensated. Whatever the alternatives to Wal-Mart may be, says Rabbi Feinberg, "communities them- selves need to decide what is appropriate eco- nomic development for communities. Which seems to be much easier to discuss and think about than to do." "It's not that big is bad," says Andrew Friedman of Make the Road By Walking, which has been organizing low-wage retail workers in Bushwick and is part of the Wal- Mart Free NYC Coalition. "It's exploitative conditions that are bad." Addressing the lack of retail in neighbor- hoods is not at the top of most community organizations' to-do lists, and it has something to do with the fact that many regard a single- minded emphasis on bringing in retailers as a backwards approach to development. Build a neighborhood's purchasing power through better jobs, they agree, and retailers will be eager to set up shop. "If there are assets in a community," says Aaron Shiffman, executive director of Brook- lyn Workforce Innovations, "there will be expenditures, and then there will be quality goods and services." Such development is fos- tered not simply by bringing in jobs, he adds, but "quality jobs. Not every job is created equal. " Liza Featherstone is author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books). Tomorrovv starts today Deutsche Bank's commitment to global corporate citizenship recognizes a responsibility to improve and enrich the com- munities throughout the world in which we conduct business. With a focused strategy of support for com- munity development, the arts and the envi- ronment, Deutsche Bank partners with local organizations to build a brighter future. leading to results Our commitment to a better tomorrow sta rts today. 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Taught by Muadi Dibinga, former adjunct professor at NYU's Center for Phi lanthropy and Fundraising, this interactive and dynamic workshop will give you the tools and insights you need to maximize your efforts to raise funds for your nonprofit organization. Date and timeApril 30, 2005 10:00a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Location: Brooklyn Marriot Hotel 333 Adams Street (Downtown Brooklyn) Registration: $150 (includes course materials, light breakfast and mid-day coffee service). For more information: (718) 703-4266. Sponsored by: Bijimba & Associates. Visit us on line al: www.bijimbaassociates.com WORKSHOPS FOR ADVOCATES-The Public Benefits Resource Center conducts low-cost workshops for advocates on government ben- efits. Winter 2005 workshops include Section 8, Supplemental Needs Trusts, Social Security Disability Determinations, Emergency Assis- tance for Poverty Advocates, Medicaid Home Care, Immigration Law and many more. To attend a workshop, you must register. For information, call (212) 614-5497 or go to: http://www.cssny.org/pbrc/training.html RENTAL SPACE BROOKLYN, 36 ROOM RENTAL-Housing Group- Vacant 36 room SRO, available for triple net lease. Call 917-363-.9130. 38 SPACE AVAILABLE-Stolen Lives research: Office share with nonprofit org in LES (Clinton St.); $400 mo. Call 917 543 9906 JOB ADS ACCOUNTANT-University Settlement a Non- profit social services agency seeks an Accoun- tant with BS degree in accounting. 2yrs expo Sal high 30's w/exc bnfts. Send res to: I. Gon- zalez, Controller, The Door, 121 Ave of the Amer- icas, NYC 10013; Fax: 212-941-9642. EOE ACQUI SITION MANAGER-The National Equity Fund, Inc.: NEF, Inc., a non-profit syndicator of low-income housing tax credits, seeks an Acquisition Manager. The primary emphasis of the position is on business development in the State of New York and New Jersey. The main functions are to market, originate, structure, negotiate and close low-income housing tax credit investments. Structuring transactions in a manner consistent with investor expecta- tions. Transactions must also be structured so that the real estate will remain viable housing for the term of the Partnership. Provide quali- ty housing in communities across the region. Requirements: BA in business, economics, urban planning, real estate with 5 years expe- rience in underwriting and structuring real estate investments. Prior experience with the LlHTC program including affordable housing loans, investment and state and local pro- grams. Strong oral/written communication and analytical skills, computer literate. Must possess competencies to market complex financing structures to non-profit and for- profit sponsors/developers. Ability to travel is required. We offer a competitive salary, along with a comprehensive benefits package. Sub- mit resume and cover letter with salary requirements via fax to (312) 360-0804, e- mail to rhall@nefinc.org, or mail to The National Equity Fund, Human Resources Department, 120 South Riverside Plaza, 15th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606. NEF IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-HELP USA's new Fair Housing Justice Center seeks a highly motivated individual to provide administrative support to a small professional staff. The ideal candidate is reliable, detail-oriented, well- organized and able to work independently and as part of a team. Candidates must possess good oral and written communication skills, be computer literate, and a proficient user of Word, Excel and other Microsoft applications. Responsibilities include procuring equipment, supplies, and contractual services, assisting with preparation of reports, coordinating mail- ings, organizing meetings, and implementing office policies. Minimum two years experience in administrative assistant or comparable position required. High School Diploma required, Associate's Degree or some college preferred. Annual salary $24,000 plus fringe benefits for a 32-hour work week. Send cover letter and resume to Diane Houk, Executive Director, Fair Housing Justice CenterIHELP USA, 5 Hanover Square, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10004. No calls please. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace. ADVOCACY COORDINATOR-Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development -The Advocacy Coordinator will advance members' budgetary, policy, and legislative priorities. S/he will also support ANHD's membership- wide campaigns. Qualifications include: 5 years in advocacy, organizing, or policy work; commitment to the community housing move- ment. Women and people of color are especial- ly encouraged to apply. Send cover letter and resume to david.g@anhd.org AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLIANCE ANO REPORTING MANAGER-Prestigious Communi- ty Development Corporation in the Bronx, with 30 years of experience in Property Manage- ment is seeking an Affordable Housing Com- pliance and Reporting Manager. Must have Tax-credit financing and reporting experience. Bachelor's Degree in Real Estate, Non-Profit Management, Business Administration or related field. Master's Degree preferred. Salary according to experience. Email resume and cover letter to jroundtree@mbdhousing.org or fax to HR at 718-542-7694 AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM COOROINATDR- Mount Hope Housing-Project R.E.A.D.Y. (Resources for Employment and Academic Development for Youth) is a Bronx-based, edu- cational enrichment and vocational training initiative, targeted for youth ages 6-22. Responsibilities: The After School Program Coordinator position entails working with grade school age youth, ages 6-1l. Candidate must possess: strong administrative and edu- cational development skills; capacity to hire, train, supervise and evaluate staff; solid teaching experience at the grade school level; and experience with curriculum development and lesson planning. Experience with planning and implementation of summer camp pro- gram a plus. Requirements: Minimum BA in Education or Human Services (MA in Educa- tion and Teacher Certification preferred) . NYS School -Age Care Credentials preferred. First- Aid, CPR, RTE certification preferred. Bi-lin- gual (English /Spanish) a plus. Minimum 5 years supervisory / managerial experience. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Salary commensurate with experience and credentials. Comprehensive benefits package. Send resume and cover letter to: Estel Fonseca, Vice President of Youth Ser- vices, The Mount Hope Housing Company, 2003-05 Walton Ave., NY 10453. Fax: (718) 466-4788. No telephone calls. AFTER SCHOOL YOUTH SPECIALIST-Mount Hope Housing-After School Youth Specialist - Part lime (25 Hours Per Week) Responsibili- ties: To work within an after school learning center for grade school youth, ages 6-11 years. Design educational , recreational and cultural activities within a youth development model. Develop and execute daily lesson plans to stimulate children's cognitive, motor and FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG social skills. Prepare students for standard- ized city wide tests, daily homework assis- tance and special school projects. Supervise children throughout daily activities, trips and insure safety/comfort of children. Assist Pro- gram Coordinator in the planning and imple- mentation of school year and summer day camp program activities. Interface with par- ents in assessing the educational , social, emotional , and physical needs of their chil- dren. Qualifications: Minimum Associates Degree in Child Education preferred (or equiv- alent work experience). Completed course work in child development, curriculum development and lesson planning for school aged youth. Minimum three (3) years proven work experi- ence planning and executing program activi- ties for school- age children. Bilingual (Span- ishlEnglish) is a plus. NYS School -Age Care credentials preferred. First-Aid, CPR. RTE cer- tification preferred. Salary commensurate with experience and credentials. Must be available to work part-time, Mondays through Fridays, 1-6 pm. Send or Fax Cover Letter and Resume to: Estel Fonseca Vice President of Youth Ser- vices Youth Services Department Mount Hope Housing Company 2003-05 Walton Avenue Bronx, New York 10453 Fax: 718-466-4788. No phone calls. ASSISTANT DlRECTDR OF OUTREACH -Candi- date will serve as counselor to prospective parents and guide them through the admis- sions process of various children and youth programs (Summer Day Camp, Preschool , After-School). Travel is required as well as occasional weekend duties. The position will require an individual with a minimum of two years experience working COMMUNITY BASED outreach, sales, admissions, and/or recruit- ment. Send email cll and resume to info@bbccenter.org ASSISTANT MORTGAGE OFFICER-Community Preservation Corporation, a leading afford- able housing lender, seeks an Assistant Mort- gage Officer for their Bronx office. ResponSi- bilities will include providing administrative support to Mortgage Officers, and involve- ment in all aspects of loan production, due diligence, the preparation of closing pack- ages and the monitoring of existing loans. The position will be responsible for daily coor- dination with our central office to facilitate loan closings and will require the individual to become familiar with all aspects of loan origination and underwriting for permanent and construction lending. Qualifications: a College degree, work experience in a related area, and strong writing, math and computer skills (proficient in Excel and Word). Drivers license required. Knowledge of New York City neighborhoods very helpful. Salary range: $30,000 to 40,000 with excellent benefits. Send cover letter, resume, writing sample, and a list of three references to Bruce Dale, CPC, 3154 Albany Crescent, Bronx, NY 10463 or fax to (718) 543-3437. ASSISTANT TO THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT-American Civil Liberties CITY LIMITS Union: Reporting to Deputy Director of Devel - opment; responsible for maintaining/tracking budgets/expense reports, maintaining fund raising reports, writing/editing/proofing member correspondence, preparing mailings, customer service, admin as needed; Associ- ates degree, 3yrs experience, strong organiza- tiona I/com m u n ication/proofi ng/com puter skills required; 2 copies of letter of interest and a current resume by 2.12.05 to: Geraldine Engel , Deputy Director of Development, ACLU Foundation, 125 Broad Street-18th Floor, New York, NY 10004 BID MANAGER-St. Nicholas NPC, on behalf of the Grand Street District Management Associ- ation, seeks an energetic, articulate, full-time Manager/Executive Director for the Grand Street Business Improvement District (www.GrandStBklyn.com). The Grand Street BID is a six block retail corridor between Union and Bushwick Avenues. The Grand Street BID provides sanitation services and limited holi- day marketing activities. The successful can- didate should: be creative, have experience working with retail businesses, have good writing skills, excellent computer/internet skills, be able to communicate and work with business/property owners on improving retail facades, have knowledge of city programs and agencies, and be able to work independently. BA degree required. Salary: mid 40s with ben- efits. Please email resume, cover letter with salary requirements and three references to joseleon@ewvidco.com or fax to 718.486- 5982 attention Jose Leon. To view the job description please visit www.stnicksnpc.org CASE MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR-Community Service Society seeks a Case Management Supervisor to administer delivery of services to clients in Eviction Prevention, Family Service, Services For Individuals, Camp Scholarship and annual Holiday Project. Responsibilities: supervise case managers; management of data , client records, grants & expenses; develop program implementation and evalua- tion plans. Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Social Work or related field, with 5 yrs expe- rience (Master's Degree preferred); experience in supervision, coordination of program services, case advocacy, case management, public benefits intervention, and informa- tion/referral services. Strong written/ oral communication & interpersonal skills required. For more details, visit http://www.cssny.org/about/jobs.html . Resume & cover letter to CSSNY SS-20 105 E 22nd Street, NYC 10010. Fax 212-614- 5336 e-mail cssemployment@cssny.org. EOE CASE MANAGER-Community Service Society seeks a Case Manager to provide case man- agement advocacy and information/referral services to low- income individuals. Responsi- bilities: assess public benefit eligibility & assist clients in the application process; develop and maintain case files and prepare case summaries for fund raising and the media. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in social work or related field; min. 2yrs related MAY I JUNE 200S experience, including experience in advocacy, case mgmt, publ ic benefits intervention & information/referral svcs; strong interpersonal skills req'd, bilingual Spanish a plus. Knowl - edge of employment and/or housing resources a plus. For more details, go to www.cssny.org Resume & cv letter to Community Service Soci- ety, HR Dept. SSI9, 105 East 22nd Street, NYC 10010; fax212 614 5336; e-mail cssemploy- ment @cssny.org EOE CASE MANAGER-The Doe Fund is a non-profit organization that empowers people to break the cycles of homeless ness, welfare dependen- cy and incarceration through innovative work and housing programs. We seek a Case Man- ager who has a strong connection to The Doe Fund's mission. The ideal candidate would possess a college degree and at least 2-3 years human service/case management expe- rience with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. Responsibilities include maintaining consistent client interac- tion and coordinating social services to address client needs. Excellent recordkeeping abilities are essential. Salary is upper 20's with a comprehensive benefits package. Please forward resume and cover letter to Human Resources, The Doe Fund, Inc., 341 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10021; fax to (212) 570-6706 or e-mail to hr@doe.org. EOE. Dead- line for submitting resume is ASAP CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERlVP FOR BUSI - NESS OPERATIONS-Graham Windham, the nation's oldest non-sectarian nonprofit child care agency, seeks a Chief Financial officerNP for Business Services, direct fiscal operations including budgets, audits, rate appeals, contract negotiations, payroll and benefits, financial reporting and asset man- agement. Oversee information technology, risk management, real estate/facilities and pur- chasing. Must possess a demonstrated record of efficiency, achievement and integrity in child welfare financial/business management and a capacity for long-term fiscal strategic planning. Knowledge of Federal , State and City reporting requirements including Stan- dard of Payments, Consolidated Fiscal Report, A-133, IRS 990 and 5500 forms, CMS and SSPS systems is critical. Expertise in NYS and NYC methodologies that drive foster care, Medicaid, ACD Day Care and State Education reimbursements essential. Command of inter- nal fiscal control systems and general accounting principles important. BAIBS required, MBA and/or CPA preferred. Graham Windham, operating with a $40 million annu- al budget, provides foster care/adoption, fam- ily/community support an early childhood ser- vices in Brooklyn the Bronx and Manhattan, and residential education and treatment ser- vices in Westchester. This is a senior-level management position reporting directly to the CEO and indirectly to the Board. Highly com- petitive compensation, generous benefits plus annual performance bonus. A terrific opportu- nity for the right person. AAlEOE. Send resume and salary requirements to: Graham Windham 33 Irving Place, 7th Floor. NY NY 10003 Attn: HR Dept Fax: (212) 358-1724 hr-general@ graham-windham.org CLIENT CARE ASSISTANT-The Partnership for the Homeless: The Partnership has an opening for a Client Care Assistant at Peter's Place, our 2417 multi-service center for older, frail home- less adults. Responsibilities include helping clients achieve lives of independence by assisting with activities of daily living skills, including issues relating to personal hygiene, shopping, budgeting and laundry. The Client Care Assistant will make home and hospital visits, and perform other related clerical tasks. The work schedule is Sunday - Thursday, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. Experience with the mentally ill population necessary, experience with home- less ness a plus. Excellent communication skills, bi-lingual preferred. We provide an excellent salary and benefits package. Resume and cover letter to: The Partnership for the Homeless Human Resources Representative 305 Seventh Avenue, 13th Floor New York, N.Y. 10001 or email to: jobs@plth.org CLIENT SERVICES COORDINATOR-The Part- nership For The Homeless-Leading advocacy and direct service organization has a unique opportunity for an organized, client-focused individual to be an integral part of its inter- disciplinary team in our 24-hour multi-service center for older homeless individuals. Assist with initial client screenings and referrals and oversee general day-to-day facility operations, including ensuring compliance of center's policies, and supervision of maintenance and monitoring staff. The Client Services Coordi- nator will interact with clients on a regular basis and manage multiple tasks in a busy environment. Direct social service and crisis management experience required, bi-lingual a plus. We offer excellent salary and benefits. Work schedule is Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m .. Send resume and cover letter to: Human Resources Rep., The Partnership for the Homeless, 305 Seventh Ave. NY NY 10001 or e- mail your resume to jobs@plth.org. CLINICAL DIRECTOR-Church Avenue Mer- chants Block Association, InC.-Clinical Director to supervise clinical operations, social work and recreation staff of men's transitional homeless shelter in East New York, Bklyn. MSW, 2 yrs sup expo Send cover letter & resume to CAMBA, Inc. 1720 Church Ave, Bklyn, NY 11226. E-mail: marilyng@camba.org. Fax: 718-693-3576. EOE COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW-PRLDEF, the pre- mier advocate for Puerto Ricans and Latinos since 1972, seeks an experienced (6+ years), bilingual communications professional with a passion for Latino and social justice issues to increase the visibility of PRLDEF's landmark work with the media and allies. For a full job description, go to httpi/www.prldef.org. To apply, send cover letter, resume, writing sam- ple and three references to: Cesar A. Perales President & General Counsel PRLDEF, Inc. 99 Hudson Street, 14th FI New York, NY 10013 FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG JOB ADS COMMUNITY L1ASON-State Senator Liz Krueger-Seeking a Community Liaison focus- ing on housing issues to perform constituent services, community outreach, and policy development. Strong writing and interpersonal skills required. Background in housing policy and/or constituent work strongly desired. Knowledge of New York City politics and gov- ernment desi rable. Salary mid 30's commen- surate with experience. Please submit cover letter and resume to Brad Usher via fax at212- 490-2151 or emailliz@lizkrueger.com. COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE-The Office of Congressman Jerrold Nadler seeks a Com- munity Representative to work on local issues. Familiarity with community/develop- ment issues and knowledge of NYC govern- ment and political environment required. Note: This is a six month position. Salary commensurate with experience; extensive benefits included. Please submit cover letter and resume to michael.kay@ mail.house.gov, or fax to 212-367-7356, ASAP. No phone calls, please. CONTRACTS AND HUMAN RESOURCES COOR- DINATOR-Health People-Prepare monthly and semi-monthly vouchers for peers and con- tract vendors. Also duties as assigned by the Director of Fi nance. Manages all health and life insurance, terminations and process semimonthly payroll. Manage vacation, sick and personal time accruals for employees'. Handle disability claims, third party sick pay- ments, unemployment requests, and opt-out medical insurance payments. B.A. and 5+ years experience in financial/human resources management. MS Word, MS Excel and Paychex Online Payroll . Send resumes by fax to Jesus Fernandez at 718-585-5041 or email jesusfernandez@healthpeople.org. CONTRACTS/GRANT COORDINATOR-The Door- Non-profit social services agency seeks a Con- tract/Grants Coordinator w/BS degree in accounting. 6 yrs experience and excellent analytical skills required. Sal High 50's to 60,000 w/exc bnlts. Send resume to: I. Gonza- lez, Controller, The Door, 121 Ave of the Ameri- cas, NYC 10013; Fax: 212-941-9642. EOE COORDINATOR, SINGLE STOP BENEFITS CEN- TER-New Settlement Apartments: The new Single Stop Center will offer low-income fam- ilies in our SW Bronx community free and con- fidential social-service counsel ing and refer- rals; assistance in applying for public bene- fits; and direct access to legal , tax and finan- cial counseling and services. Requirements: Demonstrated capacity to provide counseling and referrals, conduct intakes, coordinate and communicate with program partners and clients, maintain records and write reports. Bilingual English and Spanish. Computer lit- erary. Experience with New York City benefits and entitlement programs. Hours and com- pensation: Approx. 10 to 12 hours weekly (over 2 or 3 days) , including Fridays from 2- 7p. Hourly rate negotiable, $15 to $22.50 / hour, DOE. Send letter, resume and list of 39 JOB ADS three references to Single Stop Center Coordi- nator Search, New Settlement Apartments, 1512 Townsend Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452. Email : jobsearch@newsettlement.org. More info: see www.idealist.org, "New Settlement Apartments. " CREATIVE ART THERAPIST/CASEWORKER- Adult Day Health Care program located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, seeks indiv with Masters in Art, Music, or Expressive Ther- apy. Responsibilities include facilitating spe- cialized Art, Music and/or Poetry therapy groups, performing assessments and reassessments, providing case management and developing individualized treatment plan. Prior experience in an adult day health care setting is preferred. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply. We offer a competitive compensation package & excellent bnfts. Please email your resume with position title & salary requirements to: desnoyers@ housingworks.org. EOE MlFIDN DATA ENTRY/sYSTEMS SUPPORT ASST- Bronx AIDS Services-Enters client data systematical- ly in URS system and verifies accuracy of the information. Produces periodic and requested statistical reports. Assists IT Coordinator with PC and network maintenance, orders new computer/IT equipment as necessary. Qualifi- cations: BAIBS (or qualifying work experience) in related field and 2 years computer-related experience. Database management/analysis required, especially MS Access and URS. Work- ing knowledge of various HW/SW platforms. Position requires lifting (50Ibs) of equipment as needed. To Apply: FAX: (718)733-3429 Email: employment@basnyc.org DEPUTY DIRECTOR-New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) -Deputy Director will assist the Executive Director with the operations of the office. Supervision of NYCLU's administrative staff and student coordinator; work with finance; oversee human resources; coordinate intern program; coordinate strategic planning process; serve as liaison with archives; and facilitate Board development. Bachelor's degree/Master's preferred; ten years experi- ence in non-profit sector or publi c interest law preferred; five years leadership in manage- ment position; experience in staff and fiscal management; excellent writing and interper- sonal communications. Submit cover letter and resume: NYCLU, Box DD, 125 Broad Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10004; fax: 212.344.3318; e-mail: jobs@nyclu.org . Visit website at www.nyclu.org. NYCLU is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and encourages women, people of color, per- sons with disabilities, and lesbians and gay men to apply. DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT-The Osborne Asso- ciation: Provide admini strative support to the Development Department including maintain- ing department files, maintaining DonorPer- fect database, assisting in the preparation of grant proposals and maintaining the depart- ment schedule. BA; strong writing skills one to two years experience in Development required. Strong database skills required. DonorPerfect experience highly desired. Send resume to: hr@osborneny.org or Fax (718) 707-3315 For detailed posting visit www.osborneny.org EOElAA DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR-Mothers on the Move organizes for social justice in the South Bronx. We raise hell , you raise the money. Con- tact Wanda Salaman with your cover letter, resume, and writing sample (928 Intervale Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10459, wanda@ mothersonthemove.org). We totally rock. Ask anyone. DEVELOPMENT DlRECTOR-A prominent social service agency that works to reduce homeless- ness, advance effective housing and service initiatives, and provide supportive services to people with mental illness, AIDS, alcohol and drug problems and other special needs. The Development Director is responsible for the organization's private sector fundraising pro- gram to include foundation and corporate solicitations, special events, annual appeals and capital campaigns. In addition, the Devel - opment Director works in collaboration with the Communications Manager in order to raise the visibility of the organization and to pro- mote fundraising efforts. The director's key responsibilities include: Creating an annual fundraising plan to meet the annual needs of the organization; Research, outreach, relation- ship building, grant writing and reporting in order to build foundation and corporate sup- port; Planning and implementing at least one fund raising event per year; Planning and implementing at least one annual appeal ; Building an individual donor program; and Supervising the development associate posi- tion. Requirements: Bachelor'S Degree. At least five years of successful fund raising experi - ence. Planning and implementing annual fundraising events that net at least $150,000. Excellent writing skills. Sound professional judgment and ability to orchestrate relation- ships with multiple, external partners. Highly productive self-starter who likes to work as part of a collaborative team in a high energy organization. Eagerness to work in a non-prof- it environment, in which much must be accomplished with limited resources. Compet- itive salary and benefits. How to Apply: Please submit cover letter, resume, writing sample and salary requirements (you must submit all four to be considered) to ddresumes@ verizon.net. EEO. DIRECTOR & ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR- Safe Horizon, the nation's leading non-profit victim assistance & advocacy organization is seeking candidates for the following 2 posi - tions: Director of Sage House, to manage the day-to-day operations of a n emergency shel- ter that offers domestic violence survivors the opportunity to develop tools for economic self- sufficiency & independent living to live a vio- lence free life. Candidates should possess a MSW & a min of 5 yrs experience incl 3 yrs supervisory exp, knowledge of shelter regula- tions, domestic violence, child abuse & neglect issues req'd. Bilingual Spanish desir- PROFESSIONAl DIRECTORY 40 SPECIALIZING IN REAL ESTATE J-51 Tax Abatement / Exemption 421A and 421B Applications 501 (c) (3) Federal Tax Exemptions All forms of government-assisted housing, including LISC/ Enterprise, Section 202, State Turnkey and NYC Partnership Homes KOURAKOS & KOURAKOS Attorneys at Law Eastchester, N.Y. Phone: (914) 3 9 ~ 7 1 : Program delivery : Supervisory skills : Performance appraisals : Initiative : Communication com L----____ I ~ 212.721. 9 764 .J REI CH 2@EARTHLlNK.NET WWW.CREATIVEHDTLI ST.CD M / .J REICH ADS , A NNUAL REPORTS , BOOK DESIGN, BROCHURES, CATALOGS'j COLLATERAL, CORPORATE IDENTITY, MEDIA KITS, & MORE ......... ./ /1 " ~ ' W '1"- Social Policy Research Design and Evaluation Vahnont Consulting LLC Mary Eustace Val mont, Ph.D. Phone: 7187888435 Fax: 7187880135 Email: valmont-consulting@earthlink.net FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYlIMITS.ORG CITY LIMITS I. able. Administrative Director, who will be responsible for creating and monitoring a bud- get of $13 million & overseeing all administra- tive functions for the domestic violence shel- ters, hotlines, Project Safe & DVAP programs. Grad. degree in related field pref'd, a min. of 5 yrs of financial expo Background wkg in non- profits a plus. History of employment that includes management/ supervisory expo For a more detailed description log on to www.safe- horizon.org Qualified applicants should send or fax resume & cover letter to A. Perhaes, VP, Domestic Violence Shelter, Safe Horizon, 2 Lafayette Street, 21st fl New York, NY 10007, fax: 212-577-5083. Email : aperhaes@ safehorizon.org No phone calls!! DIRECTOR OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH SER- VICES-The Door, a dynamic non-profit, is cur- rently seeking a Program Director to provide leadership for our Adolescent Health Center. Qualified candidate must possess graduate degree in health care administration or related field with at least five years experience in health care administration and adolescent health care delivery. Competitive compensa- tion package and generous benefits. Send resume and salary requirement to: Human Resources, The Door, 121 Avenue of the Ameri- cas, NY NY 10013. DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS-Gra- ham Windham, the nation's oldest non-sectar- ian child care agency serving New York's chil- dren and families since 1806, seeks a Director of Business Operations for its School and Res- idential Treatment Center in Westchester County. Supervise administrative functions for its School and Residential Treatment Center in Westchester County including fiscal manage- ment, personnel , physical plant, cafeteria, grounds, operations, and other related areas. Master's Degree in Public Administration or related field and four years experience in non- profit management required. Graham Wind- ham is committed to rewarding performance excellence with highly competitive compensa- tion, generous benefits, and a merit-based reward system. Graham Windham encourages a diverse workforce. AAlEOE. Send resume and salary requirements to: Graham Windham 33 Irving Place, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 Att: Pablo Molgora Fax: (212) 358-1724 hr-general@graham-windham.org DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT MONITORING UNIT-The New York State Bank- ing Department is looking for a highly experi- enced professional with expertise on the Com- munity Reinvestment Act (CRA) to serve as the Director of the Community Reinvestment Monitoring Unit in our Consumer Services Division. We seek an individual with signifi- cant and relevant hands-on CRA bank, com- munity group and regulatory experience to manage bank examiners and CRA analysts in evaluating the CRA performance of all New York State chartered banking institutions. This individual will construct and implement CRA policies and guidelines, direct and train bank examiners and CRA analysts, and assist MAY/JUNE 2005 in the Department's community outreach activities related to state-chartered banks and CRA performance. Candidates must have a thorough understanding and knowledge of the CRA, the impact of the CRA on low- and moderate-income communities and the abil i- ty to implement policy recommendations. Strong communication, analytical, and orga- nization/ management skills are essential. Computer skills preferred. Must have knOWl- edge of Federal and State banking laws and regulations as they relate to the CRA and be able to demonstrate the ability to understand complex and sensitive community reinvest- ment issues. The preferred candidate should possess a bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of progressively responsible experience involving major supervisory, administrative or program planning functions, three of which must involve the interaction of regulatory oversight with private industry and the public. A Master's Degree in Public Administration, Urban Planning, or a related field may be sub- stituted for one year of the experience. Inter- ested candidates should send their resume to: Peggy Butler-Bertholf NYS Banking Department Human Resources One State Street New York, New York 10004-1417 You may also submit your resume by: Fax (212) 709-5450 Email peggy.butler.bertholf@ banking.state.ny.us DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT-Brownsville Com m unity Development Corporation-The Director of Development has responsibility for the overall functioning of the Corporation's Development office. Must have 3-5 yrs. experi- ence in community based fundraising includ- ing individual donor cultivation & appeals, fundraising events, grant writing and special project required. Must possess excellent writ- ing skills and strong research capabilities. Send resume to: Joan Wong, Human Resources Manager, 592 Rockaway Avenue, Bklyn, NY 11212-5539 or fax: 718-346- 7183. Email: jwong@bmsfhc.org DIRECTOR OF EVALUATION-Common Ground Community- Director of Evaluation will be responsible for designing, implementing and directing an evaluations team; collect data, provide management reports for program quality assessment; measure efficiency of CG programs including regular surveying of key stakeholders such as tenants, neighbors, and funders; analyze research results and make programmatic recommendations.Must have management level experience in 00, QA and/or process improvement. Experience with program planning and/or service delivery to homeless population helpful. MPA, MPH or related masters level degree required and expertise in statistics and evaluation meth- ods. PLEASE SEND A COVER LETTER WITH YOUR SALARY HISTORY AND A COPY OF YOUR RESUME: Human Resources Dept.lGD Com- mon Ground Community 505 Eighth Avenue. 15th Floor New York, New York 10018 Fac- simile 212-389-9313 Email:GCresumes @commonground.org DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & AOMINISTRATION- Clinton Housing Development Company-Over- sees finance, personnel and administrative activities. Responsibilities include budgeting, contract, administration, financial auditing, daily cash management. Strong computer lit- eracy and management skills required. 3- 5years experience and masters in relevant field preferred. Salary 60-75K. E-mail resume: FD@clintonhousing.org or fax 212- 967-1649 DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS-The Social Inter- vention Group at the Columbia University School of Social Work seeks a Director of Oper- ations to oversee all administrative functions, including: operational planning, finance, accounting, human resources, IT, and grants management. We are a fast growing research center with 25 staff and an annual budget of 2.5 million. The position reports to the Execu- tive Director and is part of the Senior Manage- ment Team. Superior leadership and manage- ment skills as well as excellent oral and writ- ten communication skills are required. Masters in a related field preferred, Bachelor's degree required. We offer excellent benefits and salary commensurate with qualifications. To apply for this position, please send a resume and cover letter with your salary requirements to cusswsig+doo@columbia.edu. DIRECTOR OF PROPERTY OPERATIONS-Mount Hope Housing Company, Inc.-Not-for-profit CDC in the Bronx, seeks Director of Property Operations. s/he will report directly to the SVP of Real Estate. Current property portfolio includes 32 buildings with 1300 units, and 45-strong staff of property managers and administrators, superintendents, porters, and work crews. Responsibilities: Manage all rou- tine building and apt. maintenance work as well as preventative maintenance program and capital improvement projects. Candidate must be a tenant focused, hands-on manager, with superior administrative, leadership, team-building, and organizational skills, with verifiable experience. Effective vendor man- agement and project management skills a must. Qualifications: Proven ability to multi- task in a fast paced environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. BA required; Master's in Business Administra- tion or related field is preferred; 3-5 years prior project management experi- ence with residential and/or commercial developments; knowledge of real estate oper- ations; experience in a community based set- ting; skills in working with tenants/supers /vendors/contractors. Sal : low-mid $60s. Fax or email cvr Itr and resume to Z. Dejesus, Director of REDI Search at 718-299-5623 or Zuleika_DeJesus@mounthopehousing.org. DIRECTOR OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT-Gra- ham Windham, the nation's oldest child care agency, seeks and experienced, high perform- ing QI Director to lead efforts to renew COA accreditation, ensure contractual/regulatory compliance and track/report/analyze program outcomes. Knowledge of EQUIP,COA and HIPPA standards essential. Strong tech ski ll s neces- FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG JOB ADS sary. Graham Windham is a large, community- based child welfare agency providing foster care/adoption, family/community support and early chi ldhood services to education and treatment services in Westchester. This is a high-level management position reporting directly to the CEO and Board. Competitive compensation, generous benefits plus perfor- mance bonus. A terrific opportunity for the right person. AAlEOE Send resume to: Graham Windham 33 Irving Place, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 Att: Pablo Molgora Fax: (212) 358- 1724 hr-general@graham-windham.org DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE DEVP JCT-Com- mon Ground Community-Director of Real Estate Development/Connecticut is the key staff person assisting the Di rector of Replica- tion in NYC in meeting Common Ground's goals with respect to the implementation of supportive housing in CT. A baccalaureate degree; five (5) years of comparable real estate experience involving project and staff management requ ired. Email resume to csanfanandre@commonground.org or fax to 203-773-1709. DIRECTOR OF TRAINING-The Doe Fund, a prominent NYC-based established and inno- vative organization that serves the homeless, is seeking a Director of Training to join our winning team and make a difference in peo- ple's lives. Candidate will leverage knowl- edge of best practices to design, develop and deliver training programs that position lead- ership, staff and trainees to perform at their fullest; define individual training tracks; cre- ate and deliver training programs including curriculum, materials and exercises, span- ning social services, business, administra- tion and management trainings; perform both hands-on training and 'train- the-train- er'. Candidate must have Bachelor's Degree, Master's a plus and at least 7-12 years rele- vant experience. Applicants must possess proven track record of creating and delivering successful training programs from scratch, including defining direction, designing pro- gram, creating curriculums and materials. Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary as well as knowledge of best practices and strong leadership skills. Salary is commensurate with experience; compre- hensive benefits package included. Please forward resume and cover letter electronical- ly to Human Resources at hr@doe.org. www.doe.org EOE. OIRECTOR OF WOMEN'S HEALTH PROMO- TION-YWCA of Brooklyn seeks a Director of Women's Health Promotion for planning and implementation of dynamic, culturally com- petent, community-based women's health promotion programs. Minimum 5 years expe- rience in community health management and delivery, MPH preferred. Resume, salary his- tory, cover letter to AED, YWCA of Brooklyn 30 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Fax 718- 858-5731. email bklynywca@yahoo.com. 41 JOB ADS DIRECTOR, AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING-The American Civil Liberties Union, seeks a Director of Affili- ate Organizational Development and Training, to work in the Affiliate Support Department. The Director will work with affiliates and national chapters and will implement pro- grams and develop materials. Minimum 5 years senior management experience in orga- nizational development.Please send a letter of interest and resume to:G. Rozanski,125 Broad Street-18th Floor,New York, NY 10004 OR hrjobs@aclu.org DIRECTOR, ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVES-National Urban League-The Director, Entrepreneurship Initiatives will have overall responsibility for top-flight and business-oriented management of operations of Economic Empowerment Centers in Nation- al Urban League Affiliate locations and coor- dination of their activities - providing busi- ness training, counseling, coaching, financ- ing and procurement opportunities to minori- ty and urban business owners. Direct supervi- sion of Directors/Managers of Economic Empowerment Centers in the Urban League. Overseeing design, implementation, and coordination of research, development and information management projects at the Cen- ters involving data/information collection and analysis and development and management of Web-based databases for information on entrepreneurship, financial, training and education, and procurement resources, etc. Development and execution of marketing, communications and education & informa- tion dissemination strategies, management of Affiliate & community relations, etc., to change mindsets on entrepreneurship and new/innovative & private sector-based approaches to foster economic & social devel- opment and provide information on Center's role, services and expectations. Responsibili- ty for evaluation of Centers' work and impact, periodic reports, and presentations to part- ners, at conference and other forums, as well as Board of Trustees of the National Urban League. Strong business-oriented, resulted- based, performance-driven and entrepreneur- ship approach to project implementation with high busi ness & professional standards and top-quality performance. Bachelor's degree required. Master's preferred. Minimum ten years professional experience. Proven track record in a senior management position with demonstrated strong leadership and program management ability. Experience as an entre- preneur, senior manager of a business orga- nization, business/financial consultant, preferably in an urban setting. Senior position at a foundation, nonprofit organization, gov- ernment agency, etc. involving minority busi- ness/entrepreneurship development, financ- ing and/or economic development. Communi- ty development experience. Strong research and analytical abi lity. Sound knowledge of the business and financial environment. To apply submit resume to recruitment@nul.org. Please mention you were referred by City lim- its. No phone calls. 42 DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES-Community Food Resource Center: We are seeking a Direc- tor, Human Resources to join the management team and oversee the overall administration and coordination of the Human Resources function. The Director will manage the daily human resources and professional develop- ment needs for all FoodChangelCFRC employ- ees. Act as advisor to Executive and Deputy Director to meet organization's strategic human resources goals. For a detailed job description go to www.cfrcnyc.org. Send a cover letter and resume to jobs@cfrcnyc.org or fax: 212-616-4988 DIRECTOR, TIMES SQUARE-Common Ground Community-Leading NYC not for profit Housing Developer is looking for Director to oversee and supervise building management of the largest supportive housing residence in the US. Must have a baccalaureate degree and five years of work experience in supportive housing or prop- erty management including at least 3 years in supervisory capacity. Master's degree pre- ferred. E-mail resume and cover letter to CGCresumes@commonground.org or fax to 212.389.9313. DIRECTOR-FIERCE! , a community organizing project for Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual , Two Spirit, Queer, and Questioning (TLGBTSQQ) youth of color in New York City, seeks Executive Director; $37-$42K with benefits. Qualifica- tions: Knowledge of New York City TLGBTSQQ communities. Minimum 3 years campaign & community organizing; fund raising & develop- ment experience; demonstrated success build- ing strong organizations. Applications due February 4, 2005. Mail OR e-mail cover letter, resume, three professional references, and short writing sample to FIERCE! , Director Search, 437 W.l6th Street, Lower Level , New York, NY 10011 OR directorsearch@ fiercenyc.org. For more information: www.fiercenyc.org EDUCATIONAL LEADER-Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation seeks an education- al leader to guide start-up of innovative new high school. We expect the school to open in 2006 with 100 students and grow to 400. Cur- riculum themes: community service and Lati- no/Caribbean studies. Strong student advise- ment and college preparatory program. Candi- dates should have significant teaching and administrative experience, commitment to educational reform, the school mission, and working with community groups and college partners. Candidate should have or be eligible for principal certification. We encourage cur- rent candidates for, or participants in the New Leaders for New Schools or Principals Academy program to apply. Contact: Andrea Soonachan, Planning Team Coordinator, Soonachan@ tC.edu. Fax: 212- 678-3091 EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN-The Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, a division of New School Univer- sity, seeks an Executive Assistant to the Dean. The Executive Assistant plays an intricate and considerable role to the operations of the Dean's office. This person must be a self- starter, self-directed, experienced, personable and have a "whatever it takes" attitude. The Executive Assistant will perform assignments that are administrative, technical, and analyt- ical in nature involving complexity and sensi- tivity, and confidential matters related to the Office of the Dean. Requirements: . Significant experience in a similar position . Bachelor's degree Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel , Powerpoint), Groupwise a plus High level of computerized organization, atten- tion to detail, accuracy Strong grasp of office protocols and professional practices . High degree of professional discretion and confiden- tiality . Excellent communication skills both written and verbal . Excellent telephone and personal interaction skills . Experience and comfort with computers and wireless technolo- gy a plus .. Proven success in the ability to jug- gle multiple tasks, to work at a fast pace and produce on-deadline. Interested applicants should send their resume, cover letter and salary expectations to: New School University, Human Resources Department, Search #22621 , 80 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003, or e-mail it to: NSU- jobs@newschool.edu. Please make sure to write: Search #22621 in the subject line to ensure proper distribution of resume. EOEIM Go to http://www.newschool.edu/admin/ hr/2262l.htm for additional information. EXECUTIVE OIRECTOR- NWBCCC seeks ED to lead its community organizing work around housi ng, education, immigration, environment, and social justice issues. Candidates should have extensive community organizing, fundraising, fiscal , supervision, and adminis- trative experience. People of color strongly encouraged to apply. Excellent salary and ben- efits. Contact: edsearch@nwbccc.net. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-Brooklyn Community Housing and Services (BCHS) is seeking a full- time Executive Director. BCHS, founded in 1978, is a highly regarded supportive housing and social services agency with a $6.5 million budget that serves more than 600 individuals with special needs in Brooklyn. The Executive Director is responsible for working with the Board of Directors to develop a strategy for the organization's growth and future expansion. S/he will lead the staff in using the agency's resources and capabilities to meet the chang- ing needs of the homeless special needs com- munity in Brooklyn. The ideal candidate will be passionate about BCHS' commitment to bring- ing people from crisis to community. S/he will be experienced in fund raising, non-profit man- agement, and program development. The Exec- utive Director should also be a seasoned pro- fessional with demonstrable leadership experi- ence, who is results-driven, relationship-ori- ented, and well-regarded in the field of sup- portive housing. Salary commensurate with experience. Email resumes to bchs@crenyc.org or mail to: BCHS, 41 Schermerhorn Street Suite 163, Brooklyn NY 11201. No telephone FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG inquiries, please. Respond ASAP. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-HELP USA is a national- ly recognized organization with over 750 employees and 17 residential facilities totaling over 2000 units of housing. We are currently seeking an Executive Director to manage the day-to-day operations at one of our Brooklyn facilities. The facility has 146 units of transi- tional housing for homeless families. Position involves overall management of facility opera- tions including budget, program services, safety, physical plant management and con- tractual compliance. Master's Degree required, preferably in social work (or related field). Min- imum of five (5) years management experience with supervisory skills, staff development, pro- gram management and budgetary skills a must. Knowledge of the NYC homeless system a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. Send Resume to: Janice Mills, HELP USA, 5 Hanover Square, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10004, or email to: jmills@helpusa.org. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-Liberty Community Development Corporation: The Liberty Commu- nity Development Corporation (LCDC), a newly formed community development corporation in the Mid-Hudson Valley, seeks its first executive director. The LCDC grew out of an inclusive, hands-on, action-oriented process conducted over the past 18 months aimed at expanding economic activity and employment opportuni- ties for the people of Liberty. We seek a candi- date who possesses the expertise and skills to leverage other community resources and involve busi nesses, community residents, and government in the formation of partnerships that lead to building a strong and financially healthy community. The Executive Director will coordinate and implement housing rehabilita- tion, economic revitalization and youth devel- opment projects as well as community organiz- ing initiatives. Track Record of accomplish- ments in housing and economic development, and community organizing (5 years or more a plus) ; Proven success in fund raising and orga- nizational development; Relevant BA and/or masters degree in urban planning, real estate or related field; Ability to cultivate partnerships and work collaboratively with resident leaders, funders, city and state officials, and other non- profits; Ability to work independently, manage time, and multiple projects; Strong written and oral communication skills; Experience super- vising staff; Experience supporting collabora- tion in multi-racial communities; Bi-lingual skills (Spanish) would be an additional desired strength. Interested applicants should send a resume, writing sample and salary require- ments to: Liberty Community Development Corporation Executive Director Search 98 North Main Street Liberty, NY 12754 Phone: 845.292.8202 Fax: 845.292.7121 libertyactioncenter@verizon.net EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-The Catalog for Giving of New York City (www.cfgnyc.org) is seeking an Executive Director to lead and expand the organization's current operations, direct an CITY LIMITS annual fund raising campaign, and oversee annual fundraising special event. Candidate must have at least seven years of fundraising success and management experience. Com- mitment to serving youth a must. Salary com- mensurate with experience, excellent benefits. Please send resume & cover letter to: Search Committee, CFG, 250 W. 57th Street, Suite 1429, NY, NY 10107. Fax: 212-765-8190 or send to info@cfgnyc.org. FAMILY AND YDUTH FIELD CDUNSELDR-Vera Institute of Justi ce, Esperanza/Hope Program- MSW/Master's psychology. Esperanza/Hope, a project of the Vera Institute seeks dedicated counselors provide services to court- involved youth and their families. Full job ad www.vera.org/abouVabouC6.asp. Resume/cover letter to Esperanza, 636 Broadway, 4th FI, New York, NY 10012, Fax: (212) 964-5566 E-mail: fieldcounselor@esperanza-hope.org FAMILY SERVICES SPECIALIST-The Osborne Association, Inc.-Family Services Specialist needed for organization that serves prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families. BA and experi- ence in working with children and their families required. Send resume, to hr@osborneny.org or fax 718 707 3315. For detailed info visit www.osborneny.org EOEIM. FINANCE DFFICER-One Stop Senior Services: Hands-on responsibilities for accounting, bud- geting, financial reporting, payroll processing, cash flow projections. Five years experience, knowledge of funding processes for social ser- vices agencies. Totally computer literate and excellence in Peachtree required. Excellent interpersonal skills and oral and written com- munication skills. Respond with letter and resume via email only to info@ onestopseniorservices.org FINANCIAL ANALYST-Social Intervention Group: Responsible for administration and finance of research group focused on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and domestic vio- lence and affiliated with School of Social Work at Columbia University (18 FTEs, 3 part-time casual employees, 10 graduate students, 10 Faculty affiliates).Please put Financial Ana- lyst in subject heading Please send cover let- ter and resume to: cusswsig@columbia.edu . Manage annual budget of $2.1 million: devel- op and monitor annual budgets, forecast future budgets based on known grants, work with School Financial Management Office and SIG administrative team to assure SIG compli- ance with Columbia University policies. Coor- dinate administrative aspects of grant sub- missions, including developing budgets and writing budget justifications, preparing sup- porting documentation based on agency requirements, and serving as liaison with School and University grants offices for SIG and Social Work Faculty. GIFT PRDCESSING MANAGER-The American Civi l Liberties Uni on-The ACLU is seeking an experienced manager with knowledge of all MAY/JUNE 2005 aspects of gift processing to manage process- ing operations. Including:direct supervision processors, managing the data entry workflow and working with vendors. Forward 2 copies of a letter of interest and a current resume by March 12, 2005 to:Geraldine Engel ,Deputy Director of Development,ACLU Foundation,125 Broad Street-18th FI.,New York, NY 10004 GRANT WRITER-American Civil Liberties Union: Reporting to Director of Foundation Relations; provides writing and editorial sup- port on civil liberties issues; assists in researching foundation/corporate funding sources; drafts grant proposals; miscellaneous assignments as needed by Director; BA, 2+yrs experience, outstanding writing skills, ability to multitask, excellent research skills, experi- ence with Windows- based word processing required; resume, cover letter, salary expecta- tions, writing sample by 2.10.2005 to Human ResourceS/GW, ACLU, 125 Broad Street-18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, or email hrjobs@aclu.org. GRAPHIC DESIGNER-American Civil Liberties Union-The Graphic Designer is responsible for designing and illustrating material for both printed and web publications and for photo research and art cataloging functions within the Department. Applicants should send a let- ter of interest, resume and salary requirements to:ACLU,Attn: Human Resources - Graphic Designer, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004 HEALTH EDUCATDR-Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area Health Education Center-Conduct workshops at schools and community based organizations. Assist in preparing reports and compiling program data and in interviewing high school and college students for partici- pation in Summer Health Internship Program. Assist in program development. Bachelor's degree in health education or social service and experience in conducting health related workshops required. Experience in youth development or curriculum development desired but not required. Send resumes in confidence to Gabrielle Kersaint, Executive Director at gkersaint@institute2000.orgorfax to 718-797-5390. HDUSING CDDRDINATDR-Organization that deals with supportive housing services-Out- reach, intake and rent collection for permanent supportive housing. Must have: BA degree; experience with housing, special needs (drug abuse, HIVIAIDS, mental illness, homeless), rent-up, social services. Team player with excellent computer and paper work skills; organized & deadline oriented; collaborate with social services; interest in fast paced, diverse and challenging work environment. Salary: $35K & benefits. No. Manhattan loca- tion. Fax cover letter of interest and resume to: 212-781-6193. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST-The Housing & Community Development Network of New Jersey seeks Housing Development Spe- cialist. Qualifications include:. Five or more years of experience working at a community development corporation developing afford- able rental and/or for sale housing and work- ing knowledge of asset and property manage- ment. Submit resume and cover letter to: Paige Carlson-Heim, Associate Director for Technical Assistance & Training, HCDNNJ, 145 West Hanover Street, Trenton, NJ 08618. HDUSING DIRECTDR-Flatbush Development Corporation: Housing Director Manage/administer gov't contracts; supervise staff; accountable for programmatic, fiscal, personnel/agency goals. Write foundation and government grants. Maintain effective work- ing relationships with grantors, related ser- vice organizations/clients. Possess knowledge of housing laws. Provide direct service to ten- ant and property owners. Assist housing coun- selor(s) to ensure effective service delivery. Organize /facilitate housing workshop series; conduct outreach/ public relations cam- paigns. Develop/maintain Tenant Organizing Project (TOP) and Discover Home Ownership. BA in related field, minimum five years expe- rience. Excellent communication (verbal/writ- ten), time management, computer and staff management skills. Knowledge of HPD and DHCR gov't contracts and Bi/multi-lingual a plus. Send resume/cover letter to ssiegel@fdconline.org or via fax (718) 859- 4632. NO PHONE CALLS HOUSING POLICY ANALYST-Community Ser- vice Society, a nonprofit organization that works to alleviate poverty in NYC, seeks a Housing Policy Analyst to join its Public Policy Department. Responsibilities: design & analy- sis of the annual Survey of Low Income New Yorkers, development of housing policy research & advocacy agenda. Requirements: Ph.D. or Master's Degree in economics, social sciences, or policy-related field with 3 years relevant experience, strong SPSS & qualitative research experience, professional written work. Salary: mid-50s. For further details, visit www.cssnY.org. Resume, letter of interest, & 3 references to: Community Service Society, 105 East 22nd Street, NYC 10010; e-mail cssemployment@cssny.org; fax:212-614- 5336, Ref#PP48. EOE HOUSING SPECIALIST-Adult Day Health Care program, located in Greenwich Village, Manh, seeks indiv with at least two years experience working with HIVIAIDS substance using popu- lation; responsibilities include developing housing referrals, assessing clients housing needs, coordinating housing service plans, and providing case management. Prefer strong housing placement assistance back- ground; excellent communication and organi- zation skills; Bachelors in Human Services or Social Sciences and Spanish proficiency pre- ferred. We offer a competitive compensation package & excellent bnfts. Please email your resume with position title & salary require- ments to: desnoyers@housingworks.org. EOE M/F/DN. FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG JOB ADS HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALISTIBENEFlTS- VIP Community Services, a progressive behav- ioral health organization seeks professional with 3-5 years Benefits Administration and Generalist experience. BA or equivalent. Knowl- edge of Federal and New York State regula- tions. Exemplary communication and analyti- cal skills. Proficiency with Microsoft Office & HRIS required. Send resume with cover letter, salary history and requirements to: Ms. D. L. Thomas, Human Resources- JC#4078HRGOl05CL, 1910 Arthur Avenue, 6th FI., Bronx, New York 10457 or E-mail : work@vipservices.org, FAX: 718/299-1386 Visit our website @www.vipservices.org IACIHUDSON GUILD VOLUNTEER COORDINA- TDR-Hudson Guild, a New York City settlement house serving more than 11,000 individuals in Chelsea, and IAClinterActiveCorp (lAC), a lead- ing multi-brand interactive commerce compa- ny with future corporate headquarters in Chelsea, seek an individual to develop and run a volunteer program for Hudson Gui ld. Design and implement specific lAC volunteer program activities for the benefit of Hudson Guild, as well as the Guild's ongoing volunteer program. Help develop goals, objectives and policies for volunteer program. Interview, screen and assign individual volunteers. Develop and implement strategies for volunteer recruitment on corporate and individual basis; develop resources for volunteer programs; serve as liai- son between agency and community to pro- mote volunteerism. B.A. degree; 3 years+ related experience in a not-for-profit communi- ty service based setting, must be able to han- dle multiple projects, work both independently and flexibly as part of a team and meet dead- lines. Good interpersonal and communications skills required. Experience in coordinating vol- unteer-related events a plus. Should have Word and Excel skills. Competitive salary and full benefits. Send cover letter, salary require- ments along with resume to jobs2005@nyc.rr.com. Only qualified individu- als will be contacted. JOB DEVELOPER! JOB READINESS TRAINER- Brooklyn Workforce Innovations seeks job a developer and job readiness trainer for its commercial driver training program. Respon- sibilities: job development and placement of program graduates; conduct job readiness workshops; assist with resumes and inter- viewing skills. Qualifications: 3 years of job development experience; workshop facilitation experience; well -organized, with excellent communication skills; bilingual (English/ Spanish) a major plus. Send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to Julio Perez, fax 718-237-5366 or e-mail jperez@fifthave.org. AAlEOE. JOB DEVELOPER-Hunts Point Economic Devel- opment Corporation: Developer to create employment opportunities for Hunts Point, South Bronx residents and to assist Hunts Point businesses with their hiring. BA or relat- ed degree with knowledge of business hiring requirements. Spanish speaker preferred. 43 JOBADS Salary negotiable. Email resume and cover let- ter to jsautter@huntspointedc.org LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT-NYS Assembly Mem- ber-Chairman of Assembly Housing Committee seeks motivated self- starter to work in busy district office. Responsibilities include: l)Assisting constiuents and community groups 2) Organizing community coalitions 3)Coordinating policy in designated issue areas. BA required. Spanish speaker preferred. MSWs and JDs encouraged to apply. Fax resumes to (718) 963-6942 LEGISLATIVE-COMMUNITY AIDE-College Grad: Legislative-Community Aide -Legislative Aide- District Liaison for State Assembly- woman. Seek bright, literate, articulate person for constituent work, correspondence, commu- nity outreach and representation in exciting multi-cultural Brooklyn district. Frequent evening hours. Must have car. Salary in the $20M's. Fax cover letter, resume, writing sam- ple to 718-266-5391. LOAN OFFICER-The Low Income Investment Fund-The Loan Officer is responsible for a wide range of tasks related to LlIF's afford- able housing and community facilities lend- ing programs, including loan underwriting, loan closings, credit reviews, relationship management, and, to a lesser extent, servic- ing and reporting. The successful candidate will be an energetic, organized self-starter experienced with real estate underwriting, proficient with financial database systems and software. Excellent teamwork and com- munication skills are essential. The position reports to the New York Regional Director. The ideal candidate for this position will have these key qualifications: Experience in real estate-based lending, including credit analy- sis, deal structuring, due diligence, and loan closings (familiarity with loan documents is assumed); Proficiency in analyzing financials of nonprofit organizations and real estate operations (in particular, rental housing and community facilities); Familiarity with feder- al, state, and local government funding sources for capital and operating needs of multi-family housing, special needs housing, and community facilities (e.g. child care cen- ters, educational programs, etc.); Working experience with both private sector financial institutions and public agencies; Computer aptitude, including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite Programs, and other database software; Excellent skills in managing multi- ple tasks requiring strong attention to detail; Self-motivation, dedication, and flexibility THE COMPANY: The Low Income Investment Fund (LlIF) is a non-profit community devel- opment financial institution, with headquar- ters in Oakland and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. LlIF builds healthy communities by investing capital in afford- able housing, child care, education, job train- ing programs, and other community initia- tives serving low-income populations. APPLY- ING: Forward cover letter (including salary expectations) and resume by mail to HR, Low 44 Income Investment Fund 1330 Broadway, #600 Oakland, CA 94612; or by email : hr@liifund.org; or by fax: 510- 893-3964. LlIF, an EOE, believes that diversity ensures excel- lence. Thi s position is open until filled. MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR-The Doe Fund, Inc., an innovative social service organization providing job training and transitional hous- ing to homeless individuals, seeks a Mainte- nance Supervisor to perform maintenance and custodial duties for a 70 bed residential facil- ity in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Must be self-moti- vated and fully capable of performing effec- tively without close supervision. Candidate must have hands-on experience in basic elec- trical/plumbing/carpentry areas; a high school diploma or GED; valid NYS Driver's license and a minimum of 3 years experience. Salary high 20's, comprehensive benefits package, EOE. To apply, send cover letter and resume to Human Resources, The Doe Fund, 341 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10021, e-mail to hr@doe.org or fax to (212) 570-6706 before March 31, 2005. MAJOR DONOR OFFICER-Lesbian, Gay, Bisex- ual & Transgender Community Center: Seek- ing an experienced development professional to manage all aspects of the Center's major donor relations, as well as provide staff supervision and support to the Center's mem- bership program. Qualified applicants will have a minimum four (4) years fundraising experience, including in a senior level , super- visory capacity; substantial high dollar fundraising experience with a proven record of success and accomplishment; minimum two (2) years Raiser's Edge experience, including gift/appeal coding, queries and reporting; excellent interpersonal and team building skills; knowledge of, and commit- ment to, LGBT issues and communities. Qual- ified candidates should submit a cover letter (stating desired position and salary require- ments) and resume by mail or fax to: Center Human Resources 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 FAX (212)924-2657. The Cen- ter is an EOE. MANAGER, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING-The National Urban League seeks a Manager for the Economic Development and Housing Division. The successful candidate will assist in the operation and administration of the department's programs and services. The Manager will work to refine strategies for technical assistance and program designs that advance homeownership, community economic development, asset building and other self-sufficiency models. The ideal candi- date will work as part of a team of talented professionals who create and deliver services and programs through partnerships with other nonprofit organizations, government agen- cies, foundations and corporate entities. Bachelor's required. Master's preferred). Three years relevant experience required in two or more of the following areas: Housing and/or Economic Development Policy Analysis, Urban Planning, Nonprofit management, Training and Technical Assistance, Program Design and Evaluation, and interaction with elected officials and government agencies. Ability to work cooperatively with public and private sector agencies, local community develop- ment groups and national nonprofit boards. Prior experience with writing reports, briefs, and newsletters. Salary up to $60k. To apply submit resume and cover letter along with a writing sample to recruitment@nul.org. Please mention you were referred by City Lim- its. No phone calls. MOBILE VAN OPERATORIHOUSEKEEPER- Brownsville Community Development Corpora- tion-The Mobile Van Operator/Housekeeper is responsible for providing transportation ser- vices for patients of BMS@BWS, operate van for Mobile Access Progra m a nd the perfor- mance of routine housekeeping duties. Must have at least one year maintenance experi- ence. Possess current NYS driver'S license with satisfactory driving record. Send resume to Joan Wong, Human Resources Manager, 592 Rockaway Avenue, Bklyn, NY 11212 or fax:718- 346- 7183/email:jwong@bmsfhc.org MSW IMMIGRANT PROGRAM COORDINATOR- Cabrini Immigrant Services, located in the Lower East Side/Chinatown community is seeking a LCSW or MSW to coordinate the Immigrant Women Program which will provide individual and family counseling, educational workshops, domestic violence prevention, and assist in procuring immigration benefits. Candidate must have SIFI or be eligible for certification. Some prior experience working with immigrants and bilingual Spanish is required. We offer a competitive salary & ben- efits package. EOE. If needed Licensing Supervision will be offered. Send resumes to rsanchez@ccnr.cabrininy.org or fax to 212- 202-5089. MSW SUPERVISOR-Partnership With Children: Supervisor at Preventive Services agency in downtown Brooklyn; individual, family and group counseling. MSW required, minimum 5 years post MSW and supervisory experience. Clinical and administrative expertise re- quired. Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits. Fax resumes to 718-875-9822 or email to Btaylor@ partnershipwithchildrennyc.org NEW YORK CITY ORGANIZER-Citizen Action of New York-Seeking a full time organizer for NYC office to staff afterschool campaign. Will mobilize after-school providers, students, parents and educators in support of increased funding for after-school programs. Also work to build NYC chapter. Activities include membership recruitment, leadership development, fundraising, lobbying and elec- toral work. Qualifications: . Verbal and written communication skills Computer skills . Problem-solving, analytic, strategic and planning skills . Ability to travel, work evenings and weekends Salary is competitive, with full health benefits. Send resume and cover letter to: Davia Collington, 94 Central FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB PoSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.oRG Ave, Albany, NY 12206, fax: 518 465-2890, email dcollington@citizenactionny.org. OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR-New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI)-Supervise adminis- trative personnel , manage facilities, adminis- ter benefits, process invoices, maintain data- bases and filing systems. Requirements: excellent organizational and communications skills, office computer applications, five years experience. Salary commensurate with experi- ence. Excellent benefits. Affirmative action employer. Cover letter, resume, three refer- ences, salary requirements ASAP to Charlene A. Toombs, NYLPI, 151 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10001 ORGANIZER-The New York Civic Participation Project (NYCPP), is a collaboration of labor unions and community organizations that pro- motes immigrant and worker rights in NYC. The NYCPP organizes union and community members in Washington Heights, the South Bronx and Queens. The Organizer will work with union members, community activists and community partners in Washington Heights and the South Bronx. Qualifications: -two years experience in organizing with community orga- nizations and/or labor unions; -experience in or knowledge of Washington Heights and or the South Bronx; -coalition building and outreach skills among community institutions, grass- roots organizations, unions, churches, service agencies, etc.; -experience implementing cam- paigns;and -ability to communicate in Span- ish and English. E-mail cover letter and resume to: gsadhwani@nycpp.org PHYSICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST OPENING- ESR Metro-Seeking an experienced Phys Ed Specialist to coordinate sports and cooperative games component for our (PAZ) After-School Program at PS 24 in Region 8 (Sunset Park) Bklyn. Able to teach cooperative games and sports to chi ldren and help develop sports/games curriculum, and supervise the counselors in teaching activities. 3-6 p.m. Monday-Friday (School Calendar). $321hr. Email resume to Icastro@esrmetro.org, or mail resume to ESR Metro, Room 550, 475 Riverside Drive, NY, NY 10115. POLICY ANALYST/ADVOCACY COORDINATOR- NYC Employment & Training Coalition (NYC ETC) seeks experienced individual to ana- lyze city, state, federal legislation and budgets, draft legislative testimony, conduct research and develop advocacy activities for members. Graduate degree preferred; experience in NYC workforce development and/or welfare-to- work; firm understanding of city, state and federal government; excellent writing and speaki ng skills. Send resume, letter and salary requirements to Rebecca Brown, rbrown@nycetc.org, 212-253-6869. See http://www.nycetc.orglpdf/policLanalyst_des cription.pdf for position description. PROGRAM ANALYST-The Osborne Association, Inc.-Program Analyst needed for organization that serves prisoners, ex-prisoners and their CITY LIMITS families. BA and experience conducting research, writing reports to government and foundation funders required. Send resume, to hr@osborneny.org or fax 718 707 3315. For detailed info visit www.osborneny.org EOEIM. PROGRAM ASSISTANT-University Settlement seeks recreational assistant to work with older adults. Must be bilingual in Chinese & English. Salary low 20's plus benefits. Contact: M. Mar- tinez, University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St., NY, NY 10002; Fax: (212) 533-4759. EOE PROGRAM COOROINATOR-Brooklyn Queens Long Island Area Health Education Center- Develop new program initiatives, imple- ment/coordinate workshops and internship program. Coordinate placement at health institutions, schools, hospitals and commu- nity health centers. Laison between partici- pating partners, prepare statistical reports and assist in the writing of grants, concept papers and articles. Master's degree in a health related discipline or Social Work. Three years experience in student enrich- ment, mentoring program or youth develop- ment efforts desired. Program development and non-profit management experience in Public Health or Public Health Education desirable. Excellent writing, communica- tion, interpersonal and computer skills required. Send resumes in confidence to Gabrielle Kersaint, Executive Director at gkersaint@institute2000.org or fax to 718- 797-5390. PROGRAM COOROINATOR-New York District Counci l of Carpenters-Federally-funded job training initiative partnered with organized labor and academia seeks full-time coordina- tor, reporting to the program director. Duties include: coord. outreach/recruitment, main- taining student records,liaison with students & admin. on personal & behavioral issues, & job placement. Salary $35-43K. Email resume to dki ll inger@nyccbf.org. PROGRAM OIRECTOR-Housing Works, a large community based health services non- profit organization is seeking two Program Directors to assume overall administration of COBRA CFP case management teams. Working in either our Queens or Bronx location, you will be responsi bl e for the supervision of cli nical and administrative staff, coordination of client services, staff recruitment, staff training, summary reports to AIDS Institute, and the development/implementation of program poli- cies and procedures. In addition, you will mon- itor contract compliance, assign cases for intensive COBRA case management services, review all Intake charts and follow up with case management teams on Medicaid prob- lems. To qualify, you will need 3 years supervi- sory or management experience in human ser- vices and an advanced degree in the human services field. The ability to supervise and pro- vide leadership to 20 staff members and excellent oral and written communication skills also necessary. Strong knowledge of City, MAY/JUNE 2005 State and Federal entitlement systems and an understanding of HIV/AIDS and its impact on homelessness, substance use and mental ill- ness also most important. Must be willing to work overtime as needed. We offer a competi- tive compensation package and excellent ben- efits. Please email your resume with salary requirements to robinson2@housingworks.org EOE MlF/DN. PROGRAM lIASON & ASSESSMENT COUN- SELOR-Women In Need, InC.-Serve as program liaison to the community and other social ser- vice providers. Identify and assess alcohol/drug, mental health and other prob- lems among potential clients of WIN's treat- ment programs, Make appropriate referrals to substance abuse treatment and other med- ical , mental health and social service providers, Conduct follow-up client interviews for outcome studies, Participate in the devel- opment, implementation and evaluation of mardeting strategies and programming. Develop additional community and social ser- vice referral resources, Develop, conduct and/or facilitate trainings on substance abuse issues for staff and external service providers. Conduct site tours and other activities to mar- ket treatment programs. Participate in the development and distribution of program information and materials. Complete all required paperwork (assessments, reports, etc.) in a timely manner. Compile data for evaluation purposes in a timely manner. Par- ticipate in case conferences and depart- ment/organizational meetings, Maintain exemplary standards of professional conduct. Qualifications: Must have Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW), CASAC or CASAC eligible with at least two years of substance abuse treatment experience. Experience and knowl- edge of homeless population and women's issues. How To Apply: Qualified Applicants should send a resume with cover letter, indi- cating the job reference code (CLPLA.1.05), by: e-mail to Winjobs@w-i-n,org Applicants must include salary requi rement. No calls please. WIN offers a competitive salary and benefits package, AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, MI F/ D/ V. PROGRAM MANAGER-COMMUNITY SUPPORT- EO AGRICULTURE IN NYC-Just Food, a NYC organization that works on food and farm jus- tice issues for NYC and the region, is seeking a FT CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program Manager, This is the lead position for our innovative CSA in NYC program that works with communities to develop their own CSA markets, For further information, see www,justfood.org. DEADLINE for applications (by mail only): ASAP. PROGRAM MANAGER-REFUGEE SERVICES- Church Avenue Merchants Block Association, Inc,-Lge Bklyn-based multi-svc CBO seeks exp'd prog mgrfor its Workforce Development & Refugee Programs. Exp. w/performance based contracting, systs & prog develop pref'd. Com- petitive salary & bnfts, Send cover letter & resume to CAMBA, Inc" 1720 Church Ave, Bklyn, NY 11226 Fax: 718-693-3576 Email: marilyng@camba.org EOE PROGAM SUPERVISOR-George Daly House-Day Shift Supervisor needed for homeless shelter. Responsible for supervising three program aides and overseeing the daily operations of program such as medication monitoring, updating logs, distribution of supplies to resi- dents, Provide emergency escort and homecare services to adult residents, Email resumes to mgalligan@georgedalyhouse.com or fax to 212-260-9846, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR-MSW Program Supervisor wanted for East Harlem ACS fund- ed PPRS program (foster care prevention) . Bi- lingual English-Spanish STRONGLY preferred, MUST have previous SUPERVISORY experience in Preventive Services OR equivalent knowl- edge of ACS requirements for preventive ser- vices. Email resume to EBassano@ TheHarbor,org Or fax to LIZ: 212.876.4857 PROJECT MANAGER-The Garment Industry Development Corporation seeks a Manager for our new Special Garment Center District Enforcement Project. The Project Manager will be responsible for outreach to the Garment Center community regarding the requirements of the SGCD, and monitoring of the District to prevent any illegal conversions of space. Duties incl ude developing educational materi- als and conducting seminars for building own- ers, brokers, and tenants; establishing & staffing an information hotline related to the SGCD; regular contact with tenants and visits to SGCD buildings to help identify illegal con- versions; close collaboration with the NYC Dept. of Buildings to monitor permit applica- tions and complaints, Must be organized, detail- oriented, and good at follow-through, able to work independently, have excellent writ- ten and verbal communication skills, and able to interact successfully with a variety of people. Masters Degree in Planning or equivalent expe- rience preferred. Send resume and cover letter to: Julia Fitzgerald, GlDC, 275 Seventh Avenue, 9th Floor, NYC 10001 or e-mail to jfitzgerald@gidc,org. PROJECT MANAGER-Clinton Housing Develop- ment Company-Coordinates development and construction of affordable housing projects. Responsibilities include working with archi- tects, contractors, and multiple government agencies, 3 years experience and BA required. 35K-40K plus benefits. Please e-mail resume and cover letter to: PM@clintonhousing,org or fax 212-967-1649, PROPERTY MANAGER-Mount Hope Housing Company, Inc.-A Bronx nonprofit landlord seeks experienced Property Manager to man- age/ supervise 15 Supers/Porters, estab- lish/maintain high building maintenance standards, manage tenant repairs and pre- ventative maintenance program, recertify ten- ants as necessary, establish/maintain excel- FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.ClTYlIMITS.ORG JOB ADS lent building infrastructure/systems, ensure full compliance and ongoing reporting for all regulatory agencies. Section 8 experience essential. Minimum 3-5 years experience. BA and RAM certification preferred. Excellent organizational, oral & written skills a must. Computer literate & Yardi experience A+. Bi- lingual Spanish A+. Fax cover letter and resume w/ salary requirements to: 718-299- 5623, Attn: Z, DeJesus. PROPERTY MANAGER-Prestigious Community Development Corporation in the Bronx, with 30 years of experience in property management is seeking an experienced Property Manager pro- fessional. The successful candidate must have at least three years of experience in property management, i.e, Tax Credit Buildings, 202's, SIP/HPD, and PRAC, Bachelor's Degree in Real Estate, Non-Profit Management, Business Administration or related field, Accredited Res- idential Manager Designation a plus, Salary according to experience. Email resume and cover letter tojaskew@mbdhousing.org or fax to Human Resources at 718-542- 7694 PROPERTY MANAGER-Real Estate PROPERTY MANAGER POP Management, an affiliate of Catholic Charities, Brooklyn, is seeking a new Tax Credit Property Manager for expanding Family Housing Programs in Bushwick, Experi- ence in housing, business and/or compliance with regulatory agencies, Excellent oral , written & computer skills required. Strong organiza- tional skills & ability to work on a team a must. BAlBS; bilingual Spanish preferred. Fax cover letter/resume to: Patricia Dawsib, (718) 722- 6134, EOEIM PROPERTY MANAGERS-Catholic Charities, Brooklyn & Queens is seeking Property Man- agers for Senior Housing in Queens, Responsi- bilities include: Maintaining full occupancy, performing tenant initial, annual and interim recertifications according to HUD regulations, processing invoices for payment & collecting and posting tenant rents, Bilingual and hous- ing experience a plus, HS required, BA pre- ferred, Salary $24,500. Fax cover letter and resume to: (718) 722-6134, Attn: Associate Director, POP Management. EOEIM QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST-Services for the Underserved (SUS) has been providing res- idential and support services to individuals with special needs, in New York City. Currently, we are looking for a QA Specialist to work in our Department of QA and Staff Development. Candidate will be responsible for assisting the Director of QA in the execution of all job func- tions related to QA activities, as well as Staff Development; and will lead the facility's inter- nal QA audits for MRlDD, MH, PLWA and Home Care Divisions, Candidate must have a Bache- lor's Degree + 5 years of experience in the filed of Human Services. Salary is commensurate with experience; comprehensive benefits pack- age included, Please forward resume and cover letter electronically to Human Resources at resumes@susnyc.org. www,susnyc,org EOE. 45 ILL U S T RAT ED MEMOS om CE OFTIIE CITY VISIONARY: :' The Summer Youth Employment program will never provide enough jobs for city teens, even if proposed budget cuts are restored. Instead of part-time jobs, why not give the more entrepreneurial youth of today a head start to self-sufficiency? $12.2 million is enough to employ just 10,000 kids for one summer, but as seed money for 1,000 small summer hedge funds, we would be guaranteed a far better return for our investment! -::::;:- - . GOT AN IMPRACTICAL SOLUTION TO AN INTRACTABLE PROBLEM? SEND IN 46 OFFICE OF THE CITY VISIONARY CITY LlMITS MAGAZINE 120 WALL ST., 20 T l!FLOOR,NY NY 10005 ootcv@ citylimlts.ors CITY LIMITS 1 RECEPTI ONIST-MBD Community Housing Organization: Prestigious Community Devel- opment Corporation in the Bronx, with 30 years of experience in property management is seeking an experienced Receptionist to oper- ate multiline telephone system. Duties include routine clerical work such as typing, filing, and related work as required. Bilingual pre- ferred. High school diploma/GED required. Salary according to experience. Email resume and cover letter to jroundtree@ mbdhousing.org or fax to Human Resources at 718-542-7694 REHABI LITATION SPECIALIST (2 POSITIONS)- CUCS-Opening Doors to Opportunity: The Rehabilitation Specialist is the senior para- professional on a direct service team working with low-income and formerly homeless indi- viduals, many of whom have mental illness, history of substance abuse and/or HIV/AIDS. Must be able to work effectively as part of a team. Reqs: BA + 2 yrs. relevant exp; BSW + 1 yr. relevant expo (excluding fieldwork); HS Diploma + 6 yrs. relevant expo For applicants without college degrees, one year of experi- ence may be reduced from the requirement for every 30 college credits secured. Demonstrat- ed ability to serve a specialized population or address a special need of the program. Good verbal and written communication skills and computer literacy required. Bilingual Span- ishlEnglish preferred. Competitive salary and benefits. * Send resumes and cover letters ASAP to: Heidi Brody, CUCS!Times Square, 255 W. 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036. Fax: (212) 391-5991. CUCS is committed to work- force diversity. EEO RESIDENTIAL SUPERINTENDENT/ASST. RES. SUPER.-Housing Management-Position with R.E. Mgmt. Co. on Staten Island. Reports directly to Property Manager - must have strong supervisory experience, maintenance skills, carpentry, plumbing, and electrical skills. Experience in residential maintenance a must. Certificates of Fitness required i.e. boil- ers license, standpipe/sprinkler certification, etc. Union position - Local 32BJ. Fax resume to GRM at 718-642-196 SENIOR ACCOUNTANT-Graham Windham, the nation's oldest non-sectarian child care agency servi ng New York's children and fa m- ilies since 1806, seeks a Senior Accountant. This individual will work with Fiscal Depart- ment managers on year-end closeout and day-to-day operations; complete agency SSOP, CFR, A-133, IRS 990 and 5500 reports; prepare schedules and documentation for internal and external audits; coordinate and lead team assignments as necessary. BAIBS degree and minimum three years accounting experience is req uired. Must possess excel- lent computer skills and good work ethics. Graham Windham is committed to rewarding performance excellence with highly competi- tive compensation, generous benefits, and a merit-based reward system. Graham Wind- MAY/JUNE 2005 ham encourages a diverse workforce. AAlEOE. Send resume to: Graham Windham 33 Irving Place, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 Att: Pablo Molgora Fax: (212) 358-1724 hr-general@graham-windham.org SOCIAL SERVICE COORDINATOR-Progress of Peoples Management Corp., an affiliate of Catholic Charities seeks an individual to coor- dinate a range of social services to residents of three Senior Housing Facilities in Brooklyn. Position requires a bachelor degree, experience in working with seniors, good people skills and the ability to work as a team member. Send resume to: Director, POP Management, 191 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 or fax to (718) 722-6134. EOEIM SOCIAL WORKERISUPERVISOR-Hamiiton- Madison House-MSW,organizationallcrisis intervention skills. Experience with homeless families. Supervise group worker/student interns. Interface with building management. Submit letter and resume: Linnit Lawton, HR Director 50 Madison Street, New York 10038 Fax: 212-349-2793 Email: h rdept@hmhI00.com SOCIAL WORKER-Harlem RBI -Primary responsibilities: short-term solution-based counseling, referrals, crisis intervention counseling, group counseling, supervision of Social Work Interns. Qualifications: Exten- sive experience working with inner-city teenagers and parents, LCSW with at least 3 years experience as Licensed MSW. Experi- ence supervising graduate student interns,strong clinical skills, Bi - lingual (Spanish speaker) preferred. Salary: low to mid 40's.Send resume and cover letter to: Harlem RBI, Attn: Social Worker, PO Box 871, Hellgate Station, New York, NY 10029 Fax: 212-722-1862, Emai l: socialwork@ harlemrbi. org SR. DIRECTOR & DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVICES-Safe Horizon, the nation's leading non-profit victim assistance and advocacy org is seeking candidates for the following 2 vacancies in the Jane Barker Brooklyn Child Advocacy Center. The center's mission is to provide services that facilitate child abuse investigations/prosecutions & that ensure treatment & services to child victims of abuse & their families. The JBCAC is comprised of a multidisciplinary team administered by SH in collaboration with child protective, law enforcement & medical services personnel. The Sr. Director manages approx. 50 staff & has responsibility for coordinating the ser- vices of the multidiscipli nary team. Qualified candidates will possess an advd degree: MSWIMPAlJD or Ph.D. in rei field & min.5 yrs. managing programs that service trauma sur- vivors. Prior exp w/service delivery to child victims of abuse & their famil ies pref'd. Fundraising & public speaking skills req'd. Director, Clinical Services will report into the Sr. Director guiding the clinical direction of the center & ensuring the delivery of quality cli nical svcs to clients/staff. Applicants should possess Ph. D. in Psychology or MSW, CSW, and min.4 yrs of supv exp reqd. Exp.managing multi-site, interdisciplinary programs. Expertise in working with families impacted by child abuse & sexual assault. Strong clinical , interpersonal, oral & written communication skills req'd. Training in Extended Forensic Interviewing or willingness to participate in such training. Further infor- mation about Safe Horizon may be found at www.safehorizon.org Please e-mail cover let- ter and resume to shjobs@safehorizon.org. No phone calls! EOE. SR. PROJECT MANAGER-Brooklyn Workforce Innovations-Sr. Project Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the IDA and financial education programs. Additional responsibilities will include spe- cial projects and assisting with resource development. S/he will supervise two full- time VISTAs. Must be goal- driven and results-oriented. Excellent communication, group facilitation and organizational skills are a must. Experience in asset and/or workforce development preferred. Experi - ence managing a federally funded IDA pro- gram is a major plus. Salary: DOE; good benefits. AAlEOE. Fax or e-mail resume, cover letter and salary requirement to: Aaron Shiffman (718) 237-5366 or ashiffman@fifthave.org. STAFF ASSOCIATE FOR HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES- Multi -issue child advocacy organization-Staff Associate for Health, Mental Health, and Child Welfare responsibilities incl ude: policy and program analysis and development, research and fact-finding; data analysis; community outreach and constituency building; budgets and legislative analysis, extensive writing (tes- timony, pol icy reports, briefing papers, arti - cles); and public speaking. Email jmarch@cccnewyork.org. No phone calls. STAFF ATTORNEY-Bronx AIDS Services- Responsibilities: Provide civil legal services to HIV+ clients in areas of housing, entitlements, permanency planning and domestic violence. Provide on going training to agency staff, clients and members of other community- based organizations. Qualifications: JD with 2 years experience in HIV/AIDS related law, NYS Bar admission. Bilingual skill s in Spanish helpful. To Apply: FAX: (718)733-3429 Email : employment@basnyc.org SUMMER PROGRAM INTERN-New Yorl< Founda- tion-SUMMER INTERN to oversee the New York Foundation's grants to community organizing groups for summer internships. Conduct site visits, plan events, write reports. Paid. For more information: www.nyf.org/ news.asp FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE JOB POSTINGS, GO TO WWW.CITYLIMITS.ORG JOB ADS TENANT ORGANIZER-Met Council on Hous- ing, a tenants' rights organization, is seek- ing a part-time organizer (20 hours per week, afternoons and evenings). Applicants should have organizing experience and familiarity with tenants rights and New York City housing issues. Responsible for working with tenant associations and on broader advocacy campaigns. Bilingual English/ Spanish with writing ability (flyers, letters, fact sheets). Applicants with fund raising experience and/or experience with member- ship organizations preferred. Met Council operates with a small paid staff and a larg- er group of regular volunteers. Familiarity with computer programs such as Word or WordPerfect, Outlook, Front Page (or other web page editing program) , and some type of membership database program. Applicants should be self-starters who can organize their own work well . Please email resume and cover letter to: staff@ metcouncil.net. Please do not fax or mail. WESTCHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGA- NIZER-Grassroots Economic Development Organization seeks Westchester County Com- munity Organizer. Experienced organizer want- ed to conduct an assessment and research project of potential organizing campaigns and the potential to develop a Westchester- County based chapter of successful New Yorl< City Eco- nomic Justice Organization. Community Voices Heard, a membership organization, is explor- ing the potential of developi ng a Westchester based organizing project that would organize a CVH Chapter in a community in Westchester County - possibly Yonkers or Mount Vernon. Minimum 3-5 Years community organizing, political organizing, legislative issue advocacy, and or project development management experience required. The position would be based out of our New Yorl< City office in Upper Manhattan, but would require a significant amount of independent work and travel in Westchester County - including evening meet- ings. A car is required. Salary is DOE. Spanish language skills are strongly desired. Please send resume and cover letter to Paul Getsos, Community Voices Heard 170 116th St. Suite IE, NY, NY 10029. Please send hard copies via mail only to the above address. For more infor- mation please check out our web page at www.cvhaction.org. Hiring for this position is ASAP. YOUTH ORGANIZER-Education Community Organizing-Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation is hiring a full- time Youth Orga- nizer to initiate a program organizing teens for education improvement. Responsibilities include outreach, campaign development & implementation, cultivating youth leadership & more. BA & youth experience required. MSW, bilingual English/Spanish, & organizing experience preferred. 32K + benefits. Resume to: caitline@cypresshills.org or 718. 647.2104 (fax). 47 i . . , Get real appreci.ati.on on your i.nvestment. citibank.com Community Development Real Estate Financing Sometimes, return on an investment doesn't have to be measured in dollars and cents. Because, frankly, there's more behind developing a community than simply profits. At Citibank, we have tools like competitive rates, flexible terms and plenty of expertise to help you finance your development in a way that works for you. How do you gauge appreciation? Now, that's up to you. 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