EDITORIAL

THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?

IF BEING AN IMPROVEMENT from the Giuliani
era were the only criteria, Michael Bloomberg
would have been anointed the People's Mayor
a long time ago.
Take welfare. Rather than continue with the
punitive program of the past, Tracie McMillan
found that Bloomberg's Human Resources
chief is softening the city's approach. What's
more, New York has made a name for itself in
Washington by countering the Bush adminis-
tration's more severe plans for welfare.
At Battery Park City, Bloomberg fmally
made good on a decades-old promise to include
affordable housing in the developmenr-
though, as Alyssa Katz reports, it took an army
of organizers to get there. The real prize for the
mayor graces our cover: a warm smooch from
ACORN's Bertha Lewis for his modest plan to
protect or create 65,000 affordable units.
Nor is Bloomberg's predilection toward stadi-
ums and giveaways to big business his only strat-
egy for development. The mayor's also quietly
pushed economic revitalization from the bottom
up in the boroughs, as Jonathan Bowles explains.
There are many ways in which Bloomberg
is no People's Mayor: consolidating power in
the school system so that it operates even fur-
ther from popular accountability; a love of big
tax giveaways to megacorporations of the type
tracked by Good Jobs New York; a secretive
management style inherited from his private
sector days that doesn't work well in the public
sector. But perhaps because his predecessor was
so brazenly dismissive of antipoverty work, and
so clearly in thrall to big business, we are eager
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for signs of a mayor who, sometimes in the face
of community challenges, sometimes not, does
the right thing for "the people."
Maybe Bloomberg's approach doesn't add
up to a new New York populism; certainly each
success story has a dark strand wound through
it. Yet seeing light notes in a dark era reminds
us that our work in communities, or laboring
quietly for good in seemingly immovable
bureaucracies, need not always be in vain.
Attorney General Elliott Spitzer announced a settle-
ment with M&T Pretzel under which the company
paid employees $450,000 for labor law violations.
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THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?
18 BATTERY PARK CITY RECHARGED
The 1960s promise to fund low-cost housing through
Battery Park City languished for decades. Why the city finally
made good on its pledge.
By Alyssa Katz
20 BEYOND BLOOMBERG'S STADIUM
INFATUATION
Sports arenas aren't the mayor's only plan for invigorating New York.
Just take a look at how the city's pursuing development in
the outer boroughs.
By Jonathan Bowles
24 ENDING WORKFARE AS WE KNOW IT?
With 400,000 still on the rolls, New York City is taking a new
approach to welfare reform's second round. Could a gentler touch
really put more of the city's poor to work?
By Tracie McMillan
30 Q&A
Once synonymous with urban blight, the Bronx is now booming.
An interview with local developer Neil Pariser reveals what's
fueling the upturn.
By Jonathan Bowles
JULY/AUGUST 2005
CONTENTS
5 FRONTLINES
MESSENGER OLYMPICS ... LEAD CLEAN-UP
CRISIS ... SIEGEL'S BOHEMIAN CLOUT ...
CANNERS'CRUSADE
If4S M iRACK
9 TORTURED SOULS
When undocumented immigrants die, many end up in the city's
potter's field-but not if one Queens travel agent has any say.
By Xiaoqing Rong
2 EDITORIAL
32 CLASSIFIEDS
On the cover: ACORN's Bertha Lewis lands a big smooch on Mayor Bloomberg
after his May announcement to create affordable housing in Brooklyn's
Atlantic Yards project. Photograph by Tom Callan
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LETTERS
CUT HIS SALARY?
I truly enjoyed reading your article, in the
May/June 2005 issue, "Social Change, Inc." It
is so important in this day and age to recognize
those who have made life/career decisions that
affect social change. I am curious however,
about your interview with Ben Thomases. As
compared with the others you interviewed, Mr.
Thomases appears to have taken a hit by not
discussing his agency's revenues but more sig-
nificantly, his salary. In your other interviews,
the salaries of Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Shreiber and
Ms. Goodman were never questioned either
directly or parenthetically. Why was it impor-
tant to call out Mr. Thomases this way? It
seemed so arbitrary and unnecessary given your
topic. We need to support these leaders in the
community rather than try to hint that it is
inappropriate to withhold information that few
people would want to disclose.
Laura Ensler
Director
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Early Head StartiEarly Steps Family Center
BALANCED BEAMS
I read with interest your Q&A with Red
Hook Devdoper Greg O'Connell: the Impor-
tance of Balanced Growth. I noted that he was
proud that the jobs in the new Fairway would be
union jobs with benefits and that that would have
a multiplier effect for other community business-
enterjor an
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es. What he doesn't mention nor do you explore
in your questions is why he chose not to build
union or provide benefits for workers, which
would also have been a great multiplier effect.
Since unemployment is most severe among our
youth and apprenticeship is the construction
industry's method for acquiring new hires and
training them for this high skilled industry; Mr.
O'Connell could have sdected reputable contrac-
tors who have state registered apprenticeship pro-
grams. He could have requested that youth from
the neighborhood receive apprentice slots that
lead to long-term careers in the construction
industry. He did not. He refused to even solicit
bids from union carpentry contractors and
wouldn't rdease his plans to our organizers.
Mr. O'Connell goes on to discuss that his
support of the Ikea project (also slated for the
Red Hook community) was partially based on
the above board manner in which Ikea treat
their employees and that they provide health
benefits. Unfortunatdy, Mr. O'Connell doesn't
hold his own employees in the same regard.
It is disappointing that your title was "the
importance of balanced growth" when you
failed to provide balanced reporting.
Elly Spicer
Carpenters Labor-Management Corporation
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The Other Olympics
NEW YORKERS anrsy for some inrer-
nacional athleric compecicion needn'r
wair for me Olympic Commirree's
upcoming decision: This Fourm of
July weekend, New York will play
hosr to me Cycle Messenger World
Championships, a grassroors-y,
slighdy debauched rake on global
sporring conresrs.
Equal parrs rrade show, family
reunion, parry and sporr, rhe
"Worlds" began in Berlin in 1993.
German messengers, inspired by
meecing American messengers,
decided to invire meir compatriors
from omer countries to a well-organ-
ized, closed-course, insured race, a
far cry from me informal "alley-
cats"-races through live traffic-mar are sraples of messenger subculrure.
Now in New York for me firsr rime, comperitors will barrie in a race
designed to simulare a bike courier's workday, mough it's rhe omer evenrs
rhar ger me crowd roaring. Trackskids, for insrance, gauges who can skid
me farmesr on his or her track bike, a kind of lightweighr, brakeless bike
favored by American messengers (a Brooklynire holds me world record
ar 479 feer). The "bunny hop," a son of reverse limbo on bikes, requires
parcicipanrs to jump meir bikes over a bar mar's raised incrementally
after each successful jump.
The compecicion is a kind of coming our parry for me New York Bicycle
Messenger Foundacion, a scrappy nonprofir founded by accivists in 2003 ro
provide funds ro messengers injured on me job. The group has raised
$100,000 through registracion fees and sponsorships (any profir will go ro its
messenger injury fund) , and by lare May had recruired more man 500 com-
pecirors, wim anomer 500 expecred by show rime. Internacional ourreach is
JULY/AUGUST 2005
"Redman" and Jose Morales
gear up for the messenger
olympics.
coordinared through me Internacion-
al Federacion of Bicycle Messenger
Associacions, which represents more
man 200 messenger groups world-
wide and oversees a formal bidding
process for ciries hoping to hosr
me Worlds.
The scale and scope of this year's
compecicion underscores me growing
attencion paid ro streer bike racing as
an organic, urban spott-nor unlike
me early days of skareboarding. And,
as wim mar sporr, advercisers are
raking nocice. Puma, a hip sportswear
label, is a primary sponsor for
me Worlds and of a messengers-
only racing ream based ar rhe
Queens velodrome.
Bur me games are scill young.
"We're amareurs in rerms of evenr
producing, " says Judim Max. A
mohawked 2S-year-old and work-
ing messenger, Max is heading me
evenr's personnel commirree and is me NYBMF secrerary. "This is me
firsr one where we've had ro deal wim me police, " she says. Bike messen-
gers in me ciry have held large evenrs before, according to Max, bur gen-
erally have only needed permission from me ciry parks deparrmenr- and
mey rarely seek permirs for alleycats.
After negociacions wim me NYPD stalled, says Max, organizers reluc-
randy moved me main race to me New Jersey warerfronr. "We're very aware
of our image as troublemakers or ne'er-da-wells," says Max. "Bur mere's a
lor more to us man mar. We really hope people come check this our. "
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===HEALTH===
Clean-up Crisis
IN MARCH, the city's health department made a
shocking discovery: Roughly half of city day
care centers were contaminated with lead.
Providers panicked. Not only were their chil-
dren at risk, but the centers themselves could be
shut down if the lead wasn't quickly abated.
Now the City Council and nonprofits are look-
ing for ways to help.
Under Local Law 1, day care centers with
lead violacions have 30 days to correct problems,
though centers can fue for extensions to find
funding and dispute the violacions. The cost to
cover or remove the lead ranges from a couple
thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of
dollars depending on the severity of the problem.
The Montessori Day School in Brooklyn was
inspected in November 2004 and is facing lead
abatement costs of more than $100,000. The
school cares for III preschool-age children
inside the downtown Brooklyn YWCA build-
ing, and has received extensions in order to find
funding to clean up the lead. "There is no atten-
tion to how [this law] is implemented," says
Fatemeh Modarres, head of Montessori Day
School. "In 30 days you can't even get the bids. "
Dan Porter, president of the school's board
of directors, says the city's health department
has been hostile with the school. The lead is
"under five layers of paint, " he says, and lead
poisoning usually occurs in the home, not at
day care facilities. The health department said
the case has been referred to the city's Depart-
ment of Design and Construction.
Dan Chachter, whose child attends Montes-
sori, says the inicial inspeccion report didn't pto-
vide parents a full picrure of the ptoblem. "What
I would like to know is the risk," he says. The ini-
cial inspeccion found lead in the walls, he explains,
which is common for old buildings, but he's heard
that the real danger is in paint dust and chips.
The city has had strong lead abatement codes
since the late 1990s, though enforcement was
relacively lax, according to Matthew Chachere, a
staff attorney with the Northern Manhattan
Improvement Corporation, which pushed for
Local Law 1. Once it passed, he says, ''All of a
sudden the health department got off its derriere
and started inspeccing day care centers."
The Children's All Day School on the Upper
East Side was inspected in December of last year
and cited for multiple violations. Roni Hewitt,
administrative director at the school, fued for an
extension to get a second opinion on the viola-
tions. After months of back and forth with the
health department, the center dipped into its
own pockets for $20,000 worth of work but will
seek a loan to sacisf}r other requirements.
In response to stories like these, the City
Council is now mulling financial assistance
for day care centers looking to remediate.
Currently there are loans available from the
state, but only for residential removal.
"There's a wide range of possibilities being
di scussed, " says Councilmember Letitia
James, noting that many of her constituents
have called her about the problem.
The Low Income Investment Fund is pre-
pared to offer loans of up to $70,000 to day care
centers capable of paying it back. It is also looking
to partner with other community-based fmancial
groups in order to expand its reach. "We seem to
be the orily organizacion working on this," says
ptogram coordinator Suzanne Reisman.
"Everyone agrees that having lead in day
care centers is a bad idea," says Chachere. "We
need a funding solution.'"
-Bennett Baumer
Safe and Sound?
The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court
ruled in May that the city can be held liable for
the behavior of foster parents. The decision is
based on a case that dates back 20 years, in
which two kids were allegedly abused by their
foster parents. The city argued that it was
immune to such liability under a state law that
protects institutions serving children. But the
court decided the law does not extend to foster
care. The city plans to appeal the ruling, accord-
ing to a spokesperson for the Law Department.
Advocates say the court decision won't expose
the city to too much risk. "We are talking about a
case happened two decades ago, says Karen
Freedman, executive director of Lawyers for Chil-
dren, a children's rights organization. "The cur-
rent level of supervision of foster homes has
increased significantly. But it's always important
to remind the city, as well as the private agen-
cies, that when a child is transferred to their
care, they are responsible to ensure that child
remains safe. " -Xiaaqing Rang
CITY LIMITS
==POLI TICS:==
Siegel's Bohemian Clout
BURLESQUE DANCERS, fire-spinners and nightlife
activists aren't commonly courted by politi-
cians. But this year, bohemians citywide have at
least one candidate eager for their support: Nor-
man Siegel for Public Advocate.
Taking his second stab at the office, Siegel's
jumpstarting his campaign by drawing on the
city's newly mobilized masses, some of whom he's
represented in court: cydists
opposed to the aggressive polic-
ing of monthly mass bicyde
rides; hipsters fighting the city's
arcane cabaret law, which pro-
hibits dancing in bars without a
license; and anti-gentrification
advocates in Williamsburg,
Prospect Heights and beyond.
By early June, Siegel's campaign
had compiled a list of more
than 400 volunteers ready to do
battle for Norman.
He'll likely need them. Siegel
is again /acing Betsy Gotbaum,
who won last time by a margin of
nearly 2 to 1 in the primary
runoff, and who now has the
meetings on race relations, and tackle thorny
issues like Ramer's Atlantic Yards development.
It's a bit different &om Gotbaum's strategy of
assuring voters that she knows how to work with-
in the system. Indeed, she entered office assuring
Bloomberg that she would be his "parmer-not
adversary." It's played well with city politicos; Got-
baum's already picked up major endorsements
from all five county Democratic organizations, and
from former Mayors Koch and Dinkins. Siegel's
approach, says Gotbaum, is just not realistic. "You
can't get somebody on the street and say, 'This per-
son can solve government problems,'" she says.
"He kind of sees this as a little law office, and that's
not what this office is all about. The issue here is
advantage of incumbency. She Norman Siegel rallies the troops.
also has Jar more money: Late
May filings showed her cam-
paign docking in at $1.3 million, with another
$800,000 slated to come from matching funds. Her
war chest Jar exceeds her five opponents combined,
Siegel, in second place, was at less than $500,000.
"I think it's incredibly difficult to make a
case against Betsy Gotbaum. I would think
you'd have to outspend her by a magnitude of2
or 3 times to have a fighting chance," says
Micah Lasher, a Democratic political consult-
ant with Knickerbocker SKD. "You have an
incumbent that people have no problem with,
in a city in which people are feeling good. What
is the impetus for change?"
That is precisely where Siegel hopes to make
his mark. Battling for an office that few have heard
of, Siegel promises that "after my first year in
office, everyone will know what the Public Advo-
cate does." He envisions the Public Advocate as a
professional firebrand, brazenly challenging the
Mayor and City Council on behalf of city resi-
dents. Siegel wants to deputize residents as "neigh-
borhood advocates" across the city, convene town
JULY I AUGUST 2005
you've got to try to solve the problems."
Siegel's betting that his fiety approach will gain
ground, and points to his 14 dub endorsements by
early June (up &om five in 2001). It's also what's
drawn such an energized, idealistic crew to Siegel's
side. His campaign manager, Matthew Roth, was
an arrestee during the Republican National Con-
vention whom Siegel later defended. Two of
Siegel's 10 staffers come our of Democracy for
New York City [DFNYC], an early endorser of
Siegel and a local offShoot of Howard Dean's
organization. "We think Norman Siegel embodies
everything that Howard Dean did," says Lewis
Cohen, who's been fundraising for Siegel in addi-
tion to coordinating finance for DFNYe.
Of course, there's a glaring difference
between the insurgent Dean campaign and
Siegel's approach: Regardless of how he fmishes
the race, Siegel has little interest in becoming an
insider. "After all," he says conspirarorially, ''I'm
a very charming troublemaker. "
-Tracie McMillan
INS AND OUTS
DANIEL NISSENBAUM joined HSBC as the bank's
senior vice president and manager of communi-
ty development. Nissenbaum brings 14 years of
experience in housing finance to the job, in
which he oversees the bank's community serv-
ice, grant, loan and invesunent programs. He
started his career with the International City
Management Association and worked in the
community development or real estate divisions
of many banks, induding Chemical Bank,
Chase and ].P. Morgan. Most recently, he was
manager of the Merrill Lynch Community
Development Company. Nissenbaum succeeds
PHYLLIS ROSENBLUM, a community develop-
ment veteran who retired in April.
CARL WEISBROD, founding president of the
Downtown Alliance, the largest business
improvement district (BID) in the country, is
leaving the organization after 10 years to join
the real estate division of Trinity Church-St.
Paul's Chapel as executive vice president.
During his tenure at the Downtown Alliance,
Weisbrod helped create some of the city's sig-
nature economy boosting programs, such as
the Lower Manhattan Revitalization Plan and
the River to River Festival. He was also
founding president of the New York City
Economic Development Corporation.
JONATHAN SPRINGER joined Citibank in March
as a relationship manager in its Community
Development department. Springer cofounded
the Workforce Invesunent Company, a nation-
al nonprofit, where he was president for the past
three years. Springer has also worked in housing;
in 1993, he joined the Northern Manhattan
Improvement Corporation to develop afford-
able housing in Washington Heights. Addi-
tionally he has consulted on finance issues for
the New York City Housing Parmership, a non-
profit that promotes affordable development.
NATHAN NEWMAN, a former associate counsel of
the Brennan Center for Justice, len in March to
start Agenda for Justice, a new nonprofit policy
research center where he will be executive direc-
tor. Newman had previously served as a codi-
rector for the Center for Community Econom-
ic Research ofU.e. Berkeley and as an associate
counsel for a labor law firm in New York City.
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Canners' Crusade
AFTER 21 YEARS on the streets of Manhattan,
Eugene Gadsen knows everything there is to
know about collecting cans and bottles. He
knows which recyclables can be redeemed,
which buildings have friendly supers and which
ciry events yield the most castoffs (Gay Pride is
a doozy, he says). And he knows which super-
markets are willing to cash them in.
Despite a state law requiring any store that
sells beer or soda to accept up to 240 cans or
bottles per person per day, many simply refuse,
setting arbitrary limits of
100 or 40 per person
instead. The state Depart-
ment of Environmental
Conservation fielded 460
complaints about viola-
tions of the law in New
York Ciry in the first quar-
ter of2005.
tainers to be accepted for redemption ... to less
than 240 containers per redeemer per day."
Associated isn't the only offender, notes Pic-
ture the Homeless. The group interviewed 52
canners, mostly in Manhattan, who reported
more than 70 different supermarkets and drug-
store branches that were flouting the law. In
addition to the limit, canners complained
about broken redemption machines, long waits
and harassment by store employees.
"I've always found that managers try to be as
kind to them as they can," says Matt Wanning, a
spokesperson for Gristedes, one of the chains
named in the survey. But he also expressed aggra-
vation with the law. "I believe Albany made a mis-
take," he says. "You can't sell groceries if you've got
For those like Gadsen,
who rely on the meager
deposits for survival,
redemption limits can
mean one less meal. "It's
not right," he says, eyes
yellow and watery. "Just
because they're a big
chain, they think they're
above the law."
Canners would prefer that all supermarkets have outdoor
machines like these.
Gadsen and other canners took their frustra-
tions to the street in May at a protest organized
by the nonprofit Picture the Homeless outside
an Associated supermarket at Second Avenue
and 48th Street. Dragging huge clear garbage
bags full of cans and bottles, the protesters
chanted outside the store: "What do we want?
Redemption. When do we want it? Now."
Police officers pulled up within minutes and
attempted to corral the crowd. After a brief
confrontation, the protest was over. Inside the
supermarket, Assistant Manager John Polanco
looked stunned. He admitted that the store
allows only 40 cans per person and stops
redeeming after 9 p.m. "What it is is the lack of
space," he says, nodding toward a side room
where recyclables are stored. "If we took hun-
dreds of cans, where would we put them?"
Polanco says he was unaware of the state
bottle law, which specifies that "a dealer may
not limit the number of empry beverage con-
one of these homeless guys standing in the corner
purting dirry cans into the machine." A
spokesperson for Associated, who declined to give
his name, agrees. "It's a very unfair law. The ciry
should create recycling centers instead of pushing
that responsibiliry onto us." Several chains are
now fighting an extension of the battle law that
would make water and juice bottles redeemable.
The ciry used to provide space to We Can, a
nonprofit that helps homeless canners, but
took back its West Side pro perry in the mid-
1990s. The group has since opened recycling
centers in Harlem and the Bronx and runs a
mobile service in Manhattan.
Ed Snowden, who coordinates the group's
collection nerwork, says the ciry should do more
to recognize the environmental role played by
collectors-and their economic rights. "You'd be
surprised at how resourceful people can be," she
says. "You can really build a life on redeeming. "
-Cassi Feldman
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Tortured Souls
Laying undocumented immigrants to rest.
By Xiaoqing Rong
FROM HIS BUSTLING TRAVEL AGENCY in Jackson
Heights, Orlando Tobon is a linchpin of
Queens' Colombian community. Hundreds of
immigrants turn to him, whether to .book the
cheapest flights back home, fill out a tax
return or translate documents for their green
card applications. But he has also won the
trust and admiration
of his community for
another reason: He
has raised enough
money to fly home
to Colombia the
bodies of hundreds
of undocumented
immigrants who die
in New York City.
from whence they came.
"Their families are all poor and have no
money to pay for sending the bodies back,"
says Tobon, who recently made arrangements
for a 27-year-old mother of two and drug mule
who died of an overdose when the drug con-
tainers hidden in her stomach burst. "If
nobody helps them,
the bodies would be
thrown away."
THROWN AWAY, in this
case, means that the
city would have buried
them with other
unclaimed bodies in its
potter's field, a public
cemetery on Hart
Island in the Bronx. To
Tobon and
Tobon got involved
in this work about 20
years ago, when he
accompanied a neigh-
bor, also from Colom-
bia, to the Jamaica
Hospital morgue to
claim her sister's body
afrer a fatal car acci-
dent. Tobon was sur-
prised when a hospital
worker told him that
she thought the vicrim
was lucky. "She said,
'At least she got some-
one to claim her body.
Look at the two bodies
over there. They are
also from Colombia.
many
immigrants, there is
little that differentiates
this place from a
garbage dump. The
unclaimed are placed
in cheap pinewood
coffms and buried one
on top of another by
inmates from nearby
Riker's Island prison,
in common graves
holding 150 bodies.
There are no grave-
stones. There is a soli-
Orlando lobon raises funds to
bury the undocumented.
tary monument erect-
ed in 1948 with a cross
and the word "peace" engraved on the front. Nobody claims them.'" Tobon recalls.
That was enough to make him realize that
not only did many Colombians die alone in
New York but even then their fates were uncer-
tain. So Tobon became one of a handful of
immigrants in New York who navigate the tor-
tured route to bury the friendless and ofren
undocumented dead, whether it's identifYing
bodies, finding visas for families to attend
funerals, or raising the money to fly people
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It seems that little about the cemetety has
changed since the 10 I-acre island was first put
into use in 1869. It is now home to more than
750,000 bodies; about 900 adults are buried
there each year.
"We call the potter's field luan fen gang in Chi-
nese, meaning body piles," says Amy Mak, Presi-
dent ofNg Fook Funeral Services, a funeral house
in Chinatown. "It's the last place one would like to
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That is the fate of many of the invisible and
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tified and placed in a mass grave is hardly the
only mark of disrespect society may give them
after death. Even when their families are found,
often in their home countries, it's only the begin-
ning of a bitter struggle.
For instance, they receive no help from the
ciry, which gives poor families up to $800 for
funerals. But the state law that mandates this
help applies only to legal residents.
So Fagui Lin, an immigrant from rural China,
could not turn to the city to bury his relative Lin
Jian Chun. In 2002, Chun was shot to death
delivering food in Brooklyn, and he died owing
thousands to the gangs that smuggled him to the
country.
Much of the problem comes from the nature
of immigration itself, placing loved ones far
from the deceased. Lin is now trying to put to
rest his nephew-in-law Qing Zheng, who was
killed in a car accident in Chinatown early in
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May. He is helping to collect the documents
needed to secure visas for Zheng's wife and
two sons so they can attend the funeral here.
Lin is not optimistic about the chances.
"Most likely, they won't get the visa, just like
what happens to everyone else in the same sit-
uation, " he says. Since he came to the United
States in the early 1990s, Lin has seen several
dozen Fujianese die, most of whom were smug-
gled here. Each time the State Department has
denied their family members' visa applications.
"Many of these people, just like Zheng,
hadn't seen their families for more than 10
years," says Lin. "I just wish the U.S. embassy
had the mercy to give them the last chance to
see each other. "
"[Deceased immigrants'] families would
have to go through the normal visa process
and meet the criteria," says Nancy Beck, a
spokesperson for the U.S. Department of
State. "If someone was here illegally, it is diffi-
cult for family members to qualify for a visa."
the deceased back, to be laid to rest with their
loved ones as wirnesses. In many Latin Amer-
ican countries, cremation is taboo, so that
isn't an option. Tobon must raise $2,070 to
ship each body, a discount price he gets
because of his long-term relationship with
the airlines who otherwise charge $6,000 for
the six-hour trip.
Immigrants from countries that are further
away, such as China, often can't afford to ship
back a body; costs can easily exceed $10,000.
Many Chinese who left in search of the Amer-
ican dream arrive back in an urn of ashes sent
via UPS.
Even if everything goes smoothly, the costs
of a funeral can be a big burden for some
families. In many cases money the deceased
person sent home from the United States was
the family's only source of income. Over the
past five years, activists in the Chinese com-
muniry have established the Celestial Love
Foundation and the Chinese Perfect End
Inc., two nonprofits that help finance funer-
als. Tobon is also thinking of starting a per-
"Their families are
all poor and have no
money to pay for
sending the bodies
back," says an
advocate.
Not being able to get a visa gets expensive,
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language radio station to call for donations
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pension for the survivors when a worker
dies on the job, even if he or she is undoc-
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think from the program would help. Her
husband was killed at work, crushed by a
falling steel beam. As a result, she and their
four children were entitled under Workers'
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the cost of his funeral and burial.
But in December 2003, when Maria
(whose lawyer requested she only be identi-
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compensation, she was disappointed. She
got less than half of the $8,000 she said she
spent on his funeral because the funeral
home in her small village in Mexico couldn't
provide valid receipts. At $260, her weekly
survivors' benefit was also lower than it
might have been because she could not prove
that her late husband's salary, paid in cash,
totaled at least $600 weekly.
"Some immigrants live in an invisible
economy," says Mayra Peters-Quintero, the
supervising attorney at the Immigrants Rights
Clinic of the New York University, who han-
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shadows to get their compensation is compli-
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the ability of survivors to secure compensa-
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to the situation is a deep sigh. "These people
are poor and have a miserable life. And when
they die, they are treated miserably," he says.
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New York's Black
Market in AIDS drugs
By Dan Bell
Photographs by Margaret Keady
armine Passero's room in the Bronx is at the dead end of a windowless corridor that
smell of bleach and cold turkey. As he hunches on the edge of his single bed, he
gaunt and tired; one of the effects ofHIV medicine is jaundice, and Passero's
skin is sallow and pitted with acne scars. A bedbug crawls across the sheets. The
critters, he says, come with the room.
Passero has been HIV positive since 1989, and for years his viral load-the amount of HIV in
his bloodsuearn- was undetectable. But then heroin got the better of him, and Passero started to
sell the only commodity he had: his HIV medication. His viral load shot up, from less than 50 per
ml of blood to 200,000.
Passero's doctor saw what was happening and stopped writing his prescriptions. "If you don't care
about your health, why should I care?" his doctor told him. "When you're ready to go back on them,
let me know."
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Anyone who needs a fix badly enough to sell their
meds knows all about the street corners in Hell's
Kitchen and Washington Heights, where dealers buy
up prescription drugs for knock down prices. All
Passero had to do to get money for a hit was take the
subway a few stops to 59th and Ninth and his
monthly supply of Kaletra, Sustiva, Videx and Vira-
cept-anti-retrovirals that fight AIDS-was quickly
converted to cash.
Passero contributed to a black market worth tens of
millions of dollars annually in New York City, and
hundreds of millions nationwide. In four recent cases
across the city investigated by the New York State
Attorney General's Office, fraudulent claims for HIV
medications cost Medicaid an estimated $2.8 million.
In another case this April, after an investigation _ Jaime, HIV positive since he was 19, watches the midtown scene.
that lasted close to a year and ranged across Utah,
New York, New Jersey and California, a federal grand
jury indicted six individuals and six businesses with
mail fraud and drug diversion. The conspiracy involved more than 40
different types of drugs-many for the treatment of HIV and AIDS-
and more than 80 pharmacies are part of an ongoing investigation of
the distribution of the drugs.
"It's having an unbelievable impact on the system," says Ken Karp, a
police officer investigator with the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud
Control Unit and president of the New York State chapter of the
National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI). "It's
like keeping control on gold or money. It's such a valuable commodity,
there are people hijacking shipments at airports."
On average, an HIV positive Medicaid recipient receives $2,000
worth of medication a month. But a single bottle of pills can have a retail
value of $1,700, and one month's supply of Serostim-a growth hor-
mone sometimes prescribed to combat wasting from AIDS-is worth
$5,000. On the street, depending on the type of drug and the state of
the person selling it, a month's supply of meds can fetch anywhere from
$50 to $600.
In short, it is possible for someone on SSI, receiving $400 to $600
per month, to double his or her income in one shot. For a person
trapped in the moment-to-moment crisis of homelessness and drug
addiction, the immediate benefit of selling their meds often outweighs
the abstract concept of extending their life.
The dealers are known on the street as "the non-man, " or "non-control"-
men dealing in non controlled substances, drugs that don't get you high.
They loiter on corners in Midtown and Washington Heights, waiting for
addicts to turn up from all over New York. In seconds, they exchange wads
of cash for plastic bags full of medication. The dealers pass the drugs on
to crooked pharmacies that pay about $800 for $2,000 worth of medica-
tion. The next time a patient comes in with a prescription, instead of dis-
pensing drugs bought at full cost from a supplier, the pharmacist hands
over the street-bought meds, bills Medicaid for the full amount, and
JULY/AUGUST 2005
makes a fat profit. Sometimes the pharmacies simply buy a patient's script
and bill Medicaid for drugs that were never ordered.
Jaime is an old pro who's been hustling for nearly 20 years. Propped
on a tin chair in the corner of the examining room of the New York
Diagnostic Centers in Midtown, he's barrel-chested and big bellied.
There is a deep scar bisecting his left eyebrow, and he's missing one of
his front teeth.
Jaime pitches out of his chair, steps past the spaghetti of blood pres-
sure tubing hanging above the examination couch, and plucks a chart off
the wall. It looks like a jelly bean menu, but instead of candy it depicts
the multicolored lozenges and diamonds of the HIV regimen, alongside
their names and side effects. He peers at the small writing by each pill
and works down the list with a thick thumb, checking off the street
prices for each as he goes-Epivir: $50. Reyataz: $50, Kalerra: $35 to
$40. Rerrovir: $35.
Now 35, Jaime tested positive for HIV when he was 19 -infected
perhaps ftom shared needles, perhaps from a woman he knew once, he
isn't certain. Jaime's right knee shakes when he talks about it, and he isn't
sure it matters anyway. He says that he only ever sells his methadone,
and, though tempted by the money, never his AIDS medication.
He can describe the system in minute detail. The hawker on the
street holds some of the money and drugs, exchanging cash for borrles
of pills, while a middleman ferries back and forth, supplying him with
money and passing the drugs on to small pharmacies and bodegas. They
even have solvents to take the stickers off the bordes, ready for res rock-
ing the pharmacist's shelves.
On a hot day in Hell's Kitchen, trade is brisk, and to the untrained
eye, invisible. But as Jaime hustles up and down Eighth and Ninth
avenues, pointing out the dealers and buyers looming up through the
crowd, it's as if he has dimmed the lights and turned on a UV bulb.
Jaime gives a quick, urgent nod across the street at a short man in
oversized pants, black T-shirt and a backwards black-and-red baseball
15
cap, rushing to Ninth
Avenue. He has the
junkie strut: shoulders
too far back and jittery
like a broken windup toy.
Skittering behind him
are two small men, one
younger with a black-
and-yellow sweatshirt
and a backpack, the
other middle-aged, bald,
and wearing a black
leather jacket. They're
both gripping small
white bags, knotted tight
so that their contents are
balled up at the end of a Hell's Kitchen is a hotspot for illegal trade in HIV and AIDS medication.
skinny stretch of plastic
string. One has the typi-
cal red outline of a smiley face used on the
shopping bags of local pharmacies.
Black-and-red runs across Ninth Avenue with
the other twO trailing close. As the three hurry
south, they join a fourth man, wearing a black
baseball cap and carrying a bulging blue plastic
bag. They cross 48th Street. The newcomer takes
one of the white bags from the man in the yellow
sweatshirt and unknots it with his teeth. He peers
inside and examines its contents, their hands
meet, and sweatshirt peels off empty-handed.
The remaining three jostle to a halt around
a pay phone. Black-and-red cap pulls out a
bundle of notes, the man in a black leather
jacket ducks away, and the two dealers march
off up the street, shoulders back, heads jerking
from side to side, the bag's plastic sides strain-
ing a little more tightly.
The money made on the street is modest com-
pared to the heavy doses of cash absorbed by
the pharmacies, and often without any med-
ication changing hands.
In May 2004, Newton Igbinaduwa, owner
of Aduwa Pharmacy on Sutphin Boulevard in
Jamaica, Queens, pleaded guilty to charges
that he defrauded Medicaid out of more than
$800,000 in AIDS medication. Between 1998
and 2003 he submitted thousands of claims to
Medicaid for HIV medicines including, Com-
bivir, Crixivan, Epivir, Kaletra, Procrit, Sus-
tiva, Trizivir, Viracept and Zerit.
Igbinaduwa rarely paid cash for the pre-
scriptions. He simply traded scripts for over-
the-counter goods such as toothpaste, shaving
cream, nail polish, lipstick and hai rsp ray.
Unfortunately for Igbinaduwa, a number of his
clients turned out to be undercover officers
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from the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud
Control Unit. He was sentenced to six months
in jail and five years probation.
That same month, Albert and Hector Perez,
who ran a pharmacy in Washington Heights-
one of Manhattan's most notorious under-
ground marketplaces for HIV medicine-were
indicted in a similar scheme. According to pros-
ecutors, they either paid cash for prescriptions
or allowed Medicaid recipients to trade their
prescriptions for other drugs such as Viagra or
Tylenol 3. The racket is alleged to have made
them more than $800,000. This April they
pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the third
degree and were due to be sentenced in June.
In a third recent case, Narendra Patel, the
owner of Merrick Boulevard Pharmacy, also in
Jamaica, paid cash for scripts and then billed
Medicaid for $750,000 worth of drugs that he
never stocked. He's been sentenced to six
months in jail.
Private insurance companies estimate that,
in total, fraud amounts to 10 percent of the
state Medicaid budget.
The Attorney General's office does not keep
statistics on what proportion of its budget goes
to AIDS Medicaid fraud. Kevin Ryan, press
officer with the Attorney General's Medicaid
Fraud Control Unit, ventures an informed
guess: "If you're talking in terms of dollars,
pharmacy fraud is up there, especially with
HIV because [the drugs] are so expensive."
Here's some back-of-a-napkin math. In the
latest report published by the New York State
Department of Health, in 2002, the total cost
of HIV treatment to Medicaid recipients was
just under $2 billion. Of this, nearly a third,
$590 million, went to pharmacies. If the same
level of fraud throughout
Medicaid applies to HIV
pharmaceuticals as well,
lO percent of that is lost to
the street trade-nearly
$60 million a year.
Jaime's midtown single
room occupancy (SRO)
residence is calm and
clean, and he says he's
been off heroin for several
months. Monique Bin-
ford, his medical provider
at New York Diagnostic
Centers, says that one has
a lot to do with the other.
Binford, who has known
about the trade in HIV
meds since she worked in Red Hook in 1997,
sees her clients' struggles with chaotic lives, men-
tal health problems and unstable living condi-
tions as the main reason they sell their meds. In
her experience, patients often use the meds not
only for drugs but as supplemental income for
food and living expenses. She estimates that up
to two-thirds of her patients are either in transi-
tional housing or homeless. "If you can't meet a
person's food, shelter, clothing issues, how can
you have them focus on their health?" she asks.
"There's numerous times we come in and
patients haven't eaten for two days."
She also contends with ignorance and dis-
truSt of professional medicine. "A lot of them
don't buy into the health care system being
there to do any good for them," says Binford.
"Especially the HIV patients-they think the
system has developed HIV or AIDS to destroy
them." Pharmaceutical companies are simply
part of the conspiracy.
The illicit drug trade is another story. For
many SRO residents, heroin, cocaine and
other drugs are never far from home. Carmine
Passero shuts himself up in his room with his
small television set and his piles of medication,
and tries to resist the drugs for sale merely a
few steps and a door knock away.
Passero was released from prison in 2000
after a five-year stretch-a period that he says
saved his life. A lot of the people he knew before
serving time are dead. Inside, he was given pro-
tease inhibitors and three meals a day. When he
was freed, he was even a little overweight. It's his
life on the outside that's the problem. With
nowhere to go on his release, Passero has been
living in SROs ever since. He was first housed in
one that "was unbelievably disgusting, terrible,"
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he recalls. "I was in a room as big as my jail cell."
He fought to get Out of there, and he now lives
in Bronx SRO-"a crack hotel," he calls it. Many
of the residents are users, and dealers pass freely in
and out of the building. The man behind a grimy
plastic window barely looks up as he buzzes the
door open without any questions. At the end of
last year, a girl fell from the toof and died. "I go
back and forth to my program and I stay in my
room and watch the TV," he says. "I fight it every
day. I stay here and I sweat it out."
The isolation doesn't do him much good
either. "That's when the bipolar kicks in," he
says, "and I start thinking about all that stuff
that's negative which leads you straight back to
the needle.
"As an addict with AIDS, they're taking care
of your medical problem, but you're still an
addict," he says. "They're giving us all they can,
and I'm grateful, but it's like a merry-go-round:
drugs, jail, here, drugs, jail, here."
The AIDS drug trade confronts care providers with
a difficult dilemma: They don't want to take
patients off their medication, but neither do
they want to finance their drug use. And doctors
need to protect themselves: Medicaid routinely
investigates physicians whose records show that
they prescribe large quantities of high-value
prescnpaons and the number of pharmacies
where they can have them filled. Chronic abusers
may be restricted to a single doctOr and a single
pharmacy. But even this can't prevent someone
from selling their meds once they get them.
Another way is to snuff out the trade at its
source. Besides the Attorney General's Medic-
aid Fraud Control Unit, agencies investigating
illegal pharmaceutical sales include the ciry
Human Resources Administration (HRA), the
New York State Bureau of Controlled Sub-
stances, the Department of Health (DOH),
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
HRA carries out stings of pharmacies that
buy HIV drugs illicitly, and it claims to have a
report detailing how its fraud investigation
bureau has saved $80 million in Medicaid fraud
in the last year alone. The agency declined to
permit an interview with investigators.
Karp from the AttOrney General's office
recognizes that even with a battery of bureaus
on the case, the fight against the black market
in prescription drugs, including HIV medica-
tion, is "like bailing out the ocean. You can
put a dent in it and be a good cop, but peo-
ple want their drugs. "
New York has a good incentive to keep HIV
drug fraud under control. State Medicaid costs
One Queens pharmacist admitted that
he defrauded Medicaid out of more than $800,000
in AIDS medication.
meds, such as the ones used to control HN
Then there are the feds. Controlled drugs,
such as Oxycontin and Vicodin-powerful
painkillers with a high street value as alterna-
tives to heroin-are tracked by the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA). Nonetheless, as
a primary care provider for HIV patients, Bin-
ford ofren needs to treat patients who are in
severe pain. "Say you see 300 patients and
maybe 100 of them are on Oxycontin. That's
going to flag, " she says. 'There's a catch-22:
How do you prevent the sale of the narcotics
but yet assist the people who really need it?"
One way is to limit both the number of care
providers from whom a patient can claim their
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overall are spiraling upward, driven primarily
by long term care for the old and dying. Mean-
while, New York is threatened with a billion
dollars in federal Medicaid funding cuts. The
coming fiscal year will also see $1 billion
chopped from the.state budget, plus $1 b1ion
in federal matching funds. -
The cuts themselves will not affect HIV
Medicaid mills. Drugs that target wasting and
other symptOms will be available only by a
doctor's special request. But protease inhibitors
and antiretrovirals that fight the actual virus
will continue to be freely available.
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THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?
Banery Park City Recharged
Why the city made good on an old housing pledge.
By Alyssa Katz
T
here was love amid the cherry blossoms
of City Hall Park on April 19 . Affordable
housing advocates have been spending a
lot of time there lately, bur it was a par-
ticularly sweet success that brought them
and Mayor Bloomberg together for a warm and
raucous press conference. After three decades of
inaction, promises, misappropriation and a
near-detour to the West Side redevelopment
money pit, Mayor Bloomberg and Comptroller
William Thompson struck an agreement to use
$130 million in Battery Park City revenues to
create a new fund subsidizing affordable hous-
ing. Thus begins the process of fulfIlling a
pledge fIrst made in the 1960s and codifIed in
the 1980s: The lower Manhattan project would
generate low-cost as well as luxury homes.
Members of community and citywide hous-
ing organizations cheered the mayor, exclaimed
"Hallelujah," and thrust a baby into Bloomberg's
arms. This was the fun part. What preceded the
celebration was more than a year of careful orga-
nizing work, election-season strategizing and a
lot ofluck. And the work is far rrom over.
The money was there all along. In 1989, New
York City and the state-controlled Battery Park
City Authority reached an agreement: The
authority, which leases the site from the city,
would give the city $600 million in its rev-
enues-money paid by major tenants in lieu of
taxes-to be spent on affordable housing.
It wasn't. A year ago, the city's Independent
Budget Office (IBO) determined that "little if
any of the $600 million was used for housing
programs, and was instead used for general bud-
get purposes." Total spent on housing: $143
million. A clause in the agreement allowed the
funds to be redirected if City Hall needed them
to "maintain fIscal stabiliry"-and according to
the Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg adminis-
trations, that was always the case.
Over the decades, watchdogs-notably Glenn
Pasanen of City Project-kept the heat on City
Hall to fulfill the pledge. Mayor Bloomberg even
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mentioned the funds in his 2001 campaign. Bur
it wasn't unrillast year that a window of opportu-
nity opened, and an organized network of afford-
able housing advocates kept it propped open.
The new Battery Park City deal is a side
effect of the administration's West Side rede-
velopment mania. In March 2004, the mayor
and governor announced an agreement to
fInance the expansion of the Javits Center, a
plan that counted on using $350 million in
Battery Park City revenues. That use of the
funds was shot down by State Assembly
Speaker Sheldon Silver, and the city never pur-
sued it further. (The Bloomberg administra-
tion has since moved to create a special "pay-
ment in lieu of taxes, " or PILOT, fund, over
which the mayor has exclusive control.)
But the Javirs flap was a wake-up call to
affordable housing advocates: The Battery Park
City money was once again in play. The Battery
Park City Authority had restructured its debt,
freeing $1.1 billion in proceeds and generating
its final payment to the city under the 1989
agreement. The slate was clean. And a new
alignment of advocacy organizations stepped
up to bring the pledge back from the dead.
Joe Weisbord, consultant to the fmancial-
institution-backed Housing First! coalition,
worked with the IBO to determine what money
was there and what needed to be done to get it.
Any deal would have to be approved by the gov-
ernor, the mayor and the comptroller. So Weis-
bord set out to find partners who could help
persuade the comptroller to get on board.
ACORN was an obvious choice. It has a
housing development corporation, an organizing
network that can turn out throngs to rallies, and
a leadership role in the Working Families Parry,
which endorsed Thompson. Bertha Lewis and
Jon Kest of ACORN had a series of meetings
with Thompson last summer and fall. The comp-
troller evenrually went to meet with the mayor.
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ACORN was soon joined by the Initiative
for Neighborhood and City Wide Organizing
(INCa), a new project coordinated by the
Association for Neighborhood and Housing
Development. INCa funds organizers at com-
munity development groups around the city,
who were deployed to convince their local
members that they had a stake in what was hap-
pening in lower Manhattan. It wasn't hard, say
organizers. "People are overcrowded. We hear
these stories every time we have a meeting: A
family is growing but it can't move because they
can't afford the rent," says Hilda Chavis, cochair
of the housing committee at the Northwest
Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Now
she was able to tell them they could do some-
thing about it. "Everyone knows it's an election
year for the mayor," say Chavis. "It didn't take
long for people to see the connection. Ifwe were
going to get housing on the agenda, we would
have to be vocal-we would have to be seen."
Working together as the Housing Here and
Now Coalition, ACORN, INCa, and tenant,
homelessness and labor groups brought about
7,000 people to a City Hall demonstration on
a winter afternoon. They rallied around five
demands, with the Battery Park City funds at
the top of the list. "The rally on February 2 was
the housing community coming together and
prioritizing a few issues," says Julie Miles, lead
organizer of Housing Here and Now. 'They
may not have been the priorities of individual
organizations, but it came from asking, 'What
can we win if we work together?'"
That was followed by a March 15 mock
"move-in" to Battery Park City, at which
demonstrators were clad in pajamas and
bathrobes. In the meantime, City Council
members, including Speaker (and mayoral
candidate) Gifford Miller, were picking up the
issue. By early April, the comptroller's people
notified the mayor's office that Thompson had
scheduled a press conference announcing his
support for a housing trust fund. The admin-
istration quickly agreed to join in a deal.
Battery Park City funding "is not a good polit-
ical issue magically," says Brad Lander, executive
director of the Pratt Instirute Center for Commu-
nity and Environmental Development. It was
Lander who held the dlrmer -cum-summit in early
2004 that first brought many of the coalition
members together. "It's a good political issue if
organizing has made it an issue for communities."
Mayor Bloomberg, surrounded by advocates, announces a
new fund for affordable housing.
The groups that puShed the Battery Park City
deal shared a conviction that the mayor's New
Marketplace development plan-aiming to
build or preserve 65,000 units by 2008-does-
n't go deep enough. "If there's any criticism
that can be leveled at the mayor's plan, it's that
it doesn't do enough for the neediest house-
holds, especially homeless and very low income
people," says Patrick Markee, senior policy
analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless and a
strategic advisor to Housing Here and Now.
"The trust fund addresses the needs of some of
the poorest families in New York."
THE NEW BATTERY PARK
CITY DEAL IS A SIDE
EFFECT OF THE
ADMINISTRATION'S WEST
SIDE REDEVELOPMENT
MANIA.
Housing Preservation and Development
Commissioner Shaun Donovan reportedly
advocated within city government for a Bat-
tery Park City trust fund. He knew that there
had been a particularly acute lack of subsidies
not only for the very poorest but also for
moderate-income people making too much to
qualify for apartments built under the Low
Income Housing Tax Credit program. Addi-
tionally Donovan needed a way to finance his
ambitious scheme to have HPD acquire mort-
gages on distressed federally subsidized apart-
ment buildings.
Some of the new funds will be tapped to
buy sites outright, creating a "land bank" for
future construction. HPD has already been
working with the Enterprise Foundation and
philanthropic partners to pave the way for
such acquisitions, under the New Ventures
Incentive Program.
Could the city have done even more? Perhaps.
The commitment is limited to four years. "I don't
know that we can bind future administrations,"
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THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?
Beyond Bloomberg's
Stadium Infatuation
An economic development plan for the boroughs.
By Jonathan Bowles
A
Sk anyone what Mayor Bloomberg's
plan is for the local economy, and the
likely answer would be "sports stadi-
ums." Between the Jets arena and the
accompanying plan to redevelop
Manhattan's far West Side, many New Yorkers
assume that his economic strategy was insepa-
rable from his strategy to host the 2012
Olympics. Yet while the West Side redevelop-
ment has overshadowed all other economic ini-
tiatives, the Bloomberg administration is qui-
etly pursuing a far-reaching economic develop-
ment program that in many ways is a refreshing
improvement on the pase.
For much of the past four decades, the city's
economic development agencies largely just
reacted to the needs of a few dominant sectors,
like finance and media, and overwhelmingly
focused on Manhattan. Economic develop-
ment primarily involved multimillion dollar tax
incentive pages-known as corporate retention
deals-for a handful of large corporations that
threatened to take jobs to New Jersey.
Not so under Bloomberg, whose game plan
calls for diversifying the city's economy by focus-
ing on ignored industries, from biotechnology
to manufacturing, and gives new attention to
economic development in the other boroughs.
Indeed, the city's major economic agen-
cies-the Economic Development Corpora-
tion (EDC), the Department of Small Busi-
ness Services (SBS) and the Department of
City Planning (DCP)-are supporting neigh-
borhood revitalization outside of Manhattan
with a vigor not seen in a generation. And this
work, in communities such as Coney Island,
Bedford Stuyvesant, Flushing and Hunts
Point, generally involves greater community
input, more comprehensive planning and
greater attention to core infrastructure
improvements than was the case under previ-
ous mayors. In the old, pre-Bloomberg days,
city-sponsored initiatives typically revolved
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around a one-shot real estate project.
Perhaps the biggest change comes from
Bloomberg's grasp of New York's place in a
globalized world. Bloomberg's speeches and
policies reveal an understanding that in today's
global economy, in which companies and
workers are less tied to place than ever before,
few things are as important to the city's future
economic strength as having an environment
that enables it to retain and attract a smart, cre-
ative and skilled workforce. Like Giuliani,
Bloomberg underscores the importance of
public safety to the city's economic health. But
Bloomberg smartly makes other quality-of-life
issues-like sanitation, affordable housing,
access to open space and education-part of
his economic strategy as well. Earlier this year
he noted that "crime, garbage in the streets,
homelessness" were all "job killers. "
Undoubtedly there are missteps and missed
opportunities. A publicly funded stadium on
the West Side makes little economic sense. The
defiant push for it was a poor use of the mayor's
limited political capital and diverted staff atten-
tion from important projects in lower Manhat-
tan, Long Island City, Jamaica and other areas.
The administration shows little regard for the
scores of small businesses being displaced by
city-sponsored development projects, and its
aggressive efforts to increase city revenues from
fines and fees hurt many more small firms.
Dan Doctoroff, the Deputy Mayor for Eco-
nomic Development & Rebuilding, was too
often consumed with the city's bid for the
2012 Olympics. And while Bloomberg grasps
the economic importance of quality-of-life
issues, he does little to pressure the Metropoli-
tan Transit Authority to address persistent
problems with the subway and he makes only
meager attempts to convince state officials to
properly fund the transit system.
Still, even some Bloomberg critics say the
adminiscration has done certain things right. He
deserves the most credit for recognizing that the
old way the city handled economic development
no longer makes sense in today's u1tracompeti-
tive economic landscape, and for quietly imple-
menting a new growth-oriented strategy.
"In my time working with city govern-
ment, since 1970, this is the most dramatic
departure in econotnic development we've ever
had, " says Kathryn Wylde, president of the
Partnership for New York City, the city's largest
business advocacy group. "New York City his-
torically has taken for granted that its economy
would take care of itself "
Some of the most important changes have
taken place at EDC, the city's lead economic
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T HE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?
development agency. For much of the prior
decade, EDC was simply reactive, doling out
tax breaks for large scale real estate develop-
ments brought to its attention by individual
developers and corporations.
EDC is, sadly, as infatuated as ever with
stadiums, yet the agency has entered into only
five corporate retention deals thus far under
Bloomberg, compared to 38 in Giuliani's first
mayoral term and eight during the administra-
tion of David Dinkins. Its president, Andrew
Alper, has also agreed to disclose more details
about all EDC-administered incentive deals-
a small step, but one that was fiercely resisted
by all of his predecessors.
"The number of deals has changed dramat-
ically and there's some accountability in the
new ones, " says Bettina Damiani, executive
director of Good Jobs New York, an organiza-
tion that monitors business subsidy programs.
' ~ p e r has moved some things forward on
basic transparency issues. "
Instead of devoting so much attention to a
few companies, the agency more broadly
focuses on a number of key sectors, many of
which didn't get the time of day before. This
includes a new system of industry desks, with
agency staff assigned as full-time liaisons to
sectors such as life sciences; financial services;
professional services; media, tech and telecom;
airlines; and consumer products. The adminis-
tration also pays considerable attention to the
cruise ship industry, significantly improved its
film office and, notably, created an office
focused on the obstacles facing manufacturers.
The boroughs outside of Manhattan figure
prominently in EDC's effort to diversifY the
city's economy, another notable change from the
Giuliani administration. Indeed, $442 million
of the $938 million in EDC's capital budget for
the next four years--47 percent-is dedicated
to projects in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens
and the Bronx. Manhattan is slated to receive a
smaller share-$361 million, or 38 percent-
though this amount does not include the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars planned for the
extension of the number 7 train and the expan-
sion of the Jacob Javits convention center. The
remaining $135 million is not yet allocated.
The agency isn't just doling out more
money either. It has also sought community
input and takes a more strategic approach.
Take Coney Island. Under Giuliani, the city
committed $39 million to build a minor
league baseball stadium on the Coney Island
waterfront. While local residents applaud Giu-
liani for bringing baseball back to Brooklyn, it
hasn't been the economic stimulus that the
neighborhood hoped for.
In contrast, Bloomberg's economic team is
developing a strategic plan that aims to boost
the entire neighborhood. To get the ball rolling,
EDC helped set up a local entity two years ago
to guide the planning process: the Coney Island
Development Corporation (CIDC). Ultimately,
it hopes to spur new development on many of
the area's vacant sites, breathe new life into
Coney Island's long struggling amusement park
and attract employers that would provide year-
round jobs for local residents. The plan, which
is still being ironed out by consultants and the
community, is expected to include everything
from basic infrastructure investments designed
to make the major commercial scrips more
attractive to sprucing up the boardwalk and lur-
ing new entertainment uses to the area.
"The Giuliani administration built the sta-
dium, and there was talk of setting up the
CIDC, but it never got off the ground," says
Judi Orlando, executive director of Astella
Development Corporation and a board mem-
ber of the CIDe.
The push for a
publiC!ly funded stadium
on the West Side makes
little eC!onomiC! sense, but
even some of Bloomberg's
C!ritic!s say he has done
some things right.
In the Bronx's Hunts Point, the Bloomberg
adminiscration has also shown some thoughtful
planning. The neighborhood has been a focus at
EDC since the Giuliani administration
announced that the Fulton Fish Market would
be moving there from lower Manhattan. In the
past, however, it would have been surprising for
EDC to do anything more than dedicate the
funds necessary to erect a new warehouse and
distribution center. The Bloomberg adminiscra-
tion instead is coupling the relocation of the fish
market with a multi tiered initiative to reinvigo-
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rate the Hunts Point community.
In mid-March, the mayor
announced a "vision plan" for
Hunts Point and committed an
additional $27 million beyond
funding already invested in the
fish market development. Accord-
ing to the plan, the city will create
new wning that supports more
food-related industry in Hunts
Point and will aggressively market
vacant parcels within the area's
Food Distribution Center to
food-related manufacturers and
distribution companies.
The plan also attempts to cre-
ate better connections between the
growth occurring at the various
food markets in Hunts Point and
the adjacent residential neighborhood, a facet of
economic development that was almost com-
pletely neglected in prior administrations. For
instance, the city opened a new employment and
training center that aims to ensure more local
residents have the skills to fill job openings at the
market. The city also plans to make streets and
sidewalks more pedestrian friendly, through new
Lighting, streetscape improvements and new
truck routes.
"I give [Bloomberg] major props for listening
to us and actually acting on it," says Majora
Carter, a longtime environmental justice advo-
The Economic
Development Agency
spends 47 percent of its
capital budget in the
outer boroughs.
cate who runs Sustainable South Bronx, a Hunts
Point-based organization that promotes sustain-
able development. "It's a total change. I don't
think under another administration this would
have happened at all."
Satisfying changes have come at the
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Department of Small Business Services (SBS)
as well. Under other mayors, the agency-
then called the Department of Business Ser-
vices (DBS)-had little direction, even less
visibility and was universally derided by busi-
ness leaders and economic development offi-
cials. "It was a joke," says the director of one
Brooklyn local development corporation.
Today it's difficult to find a local economic
development practitioner who doesn't give
high marks to the agency. Indeed, even those
who criticize EDC for focusing too much of its
resources on the West Side redevelopment
acknowledge the dramatic and positive
changes at SBS. "Now, the agency is
respected," says the Brooklyn official.
"Bloomberg and his staff take these issues seri-
ously. They really are trying to bring economic
development out to the neighborhoods."
SBS Commissioner Rob Walsh revamped
the agency's commercial revitalization program,
aggressively supported the formation of new
business improvement districts (BIDs) and
opened a business solutions center in each bor-
ough in an effort to improve how it provides
assistance to business owners and entrepre-
neurs. The agency also took over the city's
workforce development programs from the
Department of Employment, and, for the first
time, created a system linking new economic
development projects-like the Steiner Studios
project in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the
Atlantic Terminal project in Fort Greene-with
job training and placement programs.
Of course, the BLoomberg administration
hasn't gotten everything right.
Undoubtedly its obsession with the Jets sta-
dium and the Olympics distracts administra-
tion officials from other wor-
thy economic development
projects. The administration
has also made numerous other
blunders, such as unleashing a
ticket blitz that disproportion-
ately hit small businesses. Most
frustrating, however, is the
handling of large-scale devel-
opment projects.
In almost every neighbor-
hood where prominent real
estate developers have
expressed an interest-includ-
ing Greenpoint and Williams-
burg, Atlantic Yards, Red
Hook, the far West Side of
Manhattan and the Bronx Ter-
minal Market-the adminis-
tration takes a distinctly top-down approach to
economic development. Though the prospect
of significant private investment in these long-
overlooked neighborhoods is in many ways a
welcome sight, the administration often seems
overeager to cut deals with developers and
uninterested in whether a project will displace
existing businesses or significantly alter the
unique character of a neighborhood.
One example of this is the city's plan to
redevelop the Bronx Terminal Market, a 31-
acre wholesale produce center that fell into dis-
repair over the past three decades. The admin-
istration deserves credit for wresting control of
the site from its longtime owner, who let the
market deteriorate and exploited the mer-
chants who operated there. But the city appar-
ently didn't even consider renovating the pro-
duce market or keeping the more than 20
remaining merchants at the facility. Instead,
without public bidding and with no meaning-
ful input from the merchants and the commu-
nity, it turned over the property to a developer
with close ties to Doctoroff, who will build a 1-
million-square-foot retail complex with the
help of lucrative city incentives.
"They could have revitalized [the produce
market]. They could have integrated it into their
plans," says Ron Shiffman, a professor at the
Pratr Institute and a former member of the New
York City Planning Commission. Shiffman,
whose father managed a manufacturing com-
pany six blocks away from the market, generally
supports the city's initiative. But he questions
why EDC didn't involve the merchants: "It
could have added value to the development."
Indeed, many of the administration's
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Ending Workfare
as We Know It?
By Tracie McMillan
Photographs by Angela jimenez
I
t stares before Benita Andrews even makes it home. Five
0' clock finds her walking co her South Bronx apartment, a
ramshackle three-family covered in aluminum siding. Her
kids-nine in all-spot her from their third-floor window,
and they are already calling for her when she is half a block
away. By the rime Andrews passes the corner house, known as
a drug spot, and a scoop blaring salsa music, her front stairs are
lined with children. "It gets kinda crazy when I get home.
Everybody's all 'Mommy, mommy, mommy.'" says Andrews,
feigning irritation. "I about fall inco a coma come 10:00."
So far, the only sign of exhaustion from Andrews is a deep
breath before the onslaught from her children begins. "I
want to be working, but there's too many loose ends at
home, " she says matter-of-factly. Asked what it would take
After eight years on
welfare, Benita Andrews
doubts she'll/eave
anytime soon. The city
says it can provide
enough help to prove
her wrong.
for her to leave welfare, Andrews raises her eyebrows-I have
tried and it does not seem possible, her look says-and pon-
ders the question. "If I do Scratch n' Match [a state lottery
game], that might cover me for three or four years," she says.
Pressed for specifics, Andrews launches into a list.
She'd have to fmd affordable child care for her children;
the biggest worry is Bianca, a timid 3-year-old with caramel
skin, who's been plagued with neurological, renal and devel-
opmental problems. But then there's Alexis, a wide-eyed 10-
year-old with seizure problems, and Carnron, a startlingly
prerry 8-year-old boy who has difficulty communicating.
She'd have to close her preventive services case with the
Administration for Children's Services, a lingering threat
that she could lose her children.
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She'd have to get Louis, her children's father
and her partner for 20 years, off her Section 8
case and lease so his sporadic paychecks aren't
counted against her housing benefits; she
threw him out last year, after foster care work-
ers explained that his drug use could lead to
her losing her kids.
She'd have to fmd someone to help care for
her ailing mother.
She'd have to get her blood pressure, so dan-
gerously high that it causes pounding
headaches that force her to lay down, under
control.
She'd have to figure our a way to keep up her
new apartment, the first she's had since entering
the shelter system three years ago.
Bright, no-nonsense and world-weary,
Andrews considers employment out of her
reach. "What job am I gonna do with all these
appointments?" she says, pulling a cheap cal-
endar out of a plastic bag serving as her brief-
case. Notes like "Bianca, neurologist" and
"FEGS 1 0:30 AM" leave April and May cov-
ered in scribbles; fewer than seven days are free
over-me course of the rwo months.
At 38, Andrews has been a part of the city
welfare system almost as long as welfare
reform. In 1998 she joined the l.l million
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New Yorkers who began to shuffle berween its
confines and the world of work after the pas-
sage of federal welfare reform in 1996.
Andrews likes the idea of supporting herself,
and has done so in the past, but she's grown
jaded. "My experience is, the minute you get
close to [getting off welfare]' something hap-
pens-paperwork, a computer error-and
you get screwed," she says. "There's nothing
wrong with workfare, per se, but each individ-
ual case is different. "
It's a declaration some people in the city's
welfare office might agree with. This past Feb-
ruary, the city Human Resource Administra-
tion (HRA) launched WeCare, an ambitious
initiative intended to move the most challeng-
ing welfare clients into work using a careful,
case-by-case approach. The program relies on
rwo premises, the first of which is that a
majority of New York's welfare population-
56 percent in May-is at least partly unable to
work, due to what policy wonks call "multiple
barriers. " These include anything from drug
addiction to housing problems, domestic vio-
lence to mental illness, physical infirmity to
child welfare problems. The second echoes
Andrews' observation: In order to move peo-
ple facing multiple barriers to work, the city
will need to pay close attention to the details
of their lives.
THE CITY STARTS WITH THOROUGH EVALUATIONS
("biopsychosocial assessment" is the official
term), conscientious casework and planning,
linking those eligible to Social Security disabil-
ity, day care assistance or uaining. By so doing,
the city says it can reduce, if not eradicate, the
use of public assistance.
Ten years after Mayor Giuliani won
national notoriety for the city's strict work-first
ethos and near-evangelical belief in the power
of work alone, New York has found a new
gospel: meeting its clients where they are at.
Welcome to round rwo of welf.ue reform in
what, despite 740,000 recipients having left the
rolls, remains one of the nation's largest public
assistance caseloads. In place of the ideological fury
that marked the Giuliani years are matter-of-fua
discussions about helping clients achieve "maxi-
mum self-sufficiency," a rhetorical framework that
plays well among conservatives and liberals alike.
Though it's fur ftom reversing course, the shift is a
seismic change in the city's approach to welf.ue.
New York is hardly the first state to try some-
thing besides sending irs welfure recipients to
sweep the streers for their check. Many states
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bypassed workfare from the start; for instance,
Washington and Vermont created publicly
funded jobs that paid clients a real wage, a strat-
egy that successfully moved people into work.
Others, like Tennessee, created intensive service
programs for the toughest cases in the late 1990s,
afrer caseloads plummeted. New York, whose
welfare chief Jason Turner famously said "work
sets you free," mostly stuck with a strict "work
first" approach. But if Turner's critics argued that
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native-a former public assistance beneficiary
herself-took the reins of HRA in 2002 and
now heads the nation's largest municipal pub-
lic assistance program. A former nonprofit
executive director, Eggleston keeps a low pro-
file. Nonetheless, her few public appearances
have yielded frank criticism of the prior
administration's weaknesses, particularly its
work-first myopia and "one size fits all"
approach. At a February forum at New School
With thorough evaluations,
conscientious casework and planning, the city
says it can reduce, if not eradicate, the use
of public assistance.
his system all but closed the door in clients' faces,
they might agree that current Commissioner
Verna Eggleston is at least cracking it back open.
Keeping the door ajar won't be easy. Even as
New York has quietly acknowledged that its
approach of 10 years ago makes little sense
today, conservative Washington is angling to
enforce the work first gospel in the states. For-
mer Gothamites, most notably Turner from his
perch at the Heritage Foundation, are now
lauding New York's success at shrinking the
tolls, and are encouraging a TANF reauthoriza-
tion law that would channel everybody into
work, like New York circa 1999. Ifhe succeeds,
the ciry might be forced to either abandon
WeCare or face serious fiscal penalties (see box).
Just how risky a wager is WeCare for those
in its path? The worst case scenario, say advo-
cates for the poor, would likely be a variant of
the status quo: cumbersome, inconvenient and
too ofren more of a hindrance than an aid.
If it succeeds, .WeCare could launch a new
era in how New York City takes care of its poor.
VERNA EGGLESTON MAKES SOMETHING OF A case
for the term "compassionate conservative."
Black, openly gay and Republican, the Bronx
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University, Eggleston recalled her response to a
colleague who urged her to focus on reducing
the welfare rolls even further: "I said, 'Why? To
do what? To serve who? To say that I had a suc-
cess like the Giuliani administration?' I don't
think so. That's not how we're doing it."
Instead, says Eggleston, here's how they will
do it: by working carefully with clients to
determine the surest path to "maximum self-
sufficiency." Though the phrasing makes advo-
cates for the poor leery-it's common among
supporters of the work-first approach-Eggle-
ston promises a more thoughtful commitment
to the idea.
Under Eggleston's watch, the agency has dra-
matically expanded outreach efforts around food
stamps; at nearly 1.1 million, the rolls have
grown by more than a quarter during her tenure.
HRA has explored ways to offer child care to
extremely low-income workers, and created a
new division, Customized Assistance Services, to
coordinate comprehensive and individualized
client services. Most notably, the agency has qui-
etly begun to chip away at the assumption that
education should always be secondary to work
experience. Afrer successfully lobbying the state
to expand education and training options for
single, childless welfure recipients, the agency
began to offer the option early this year.
The central theme, says HRA, is that its
current clients are a mixed bunch, and efforts
to move them to work will necessarily need to
address that. "We shouldn't be in a position
where we're regulating what someone's self-
sufficiency looks like. Everybody's level. . .is
different," said Eggleston. "I will not put
down a gauntlet and [say] 'Our thing is work
first.' It's more than that."
WeCare is the flagship initiative of this new
approach, with a $200 million price tag for its
first three years. Afrer bearing years of criticism
that the welfare system is too simplistic and too
punitive, the city proposes to approach its
clients in a "very holistic way ... dealing with
the family as a whole," says Pat Smith, HRA's
first deputy commissioner who also served
under Giuliani. Slated to be in full swing by
July 1, WeCare is expected to screen nearly
46,000 clients in its inaugural year, more than
one-fifrh of the city's welfare cases.
The approach is straightforward: IdentifY
what's keeping people from working and spend
the time and money necessary to really fix it.
That includes trouble-shooting problems that
could make it hard to keep a job, like housing
or child welfare. Then work to get clients into a
job, even just part-time, or onto federal disabil-
ity rolls. Even advocates for the poor, who've
long criticized the city's welfare programs, find
the proposition encouraging. "We have an
administration that at least recognizes very
explicitly that the people they serve have a vari-
ety of abilities and needs," says Ricky Blum, a
Legal Aid lawyer who's tangled with the city
over welfare policy. "That's a very positive step."
If the city's plan sounds familiar, it should.
New York has long used city-regulated "wellness
plans" for disabled citizens on welfare. A med-
ical evaluator, HS Systems, assessed clients,
handed them a plan to get well and sent them
on their way-an approach characterized as
"rather laissez-faire" by Dr. Frank Lipton, an
executive deputy commissioner. It didn't run
smoothly. Advocates filed a civil rights com-
plaint, alleging the system discriminated against
people with psychiatric disabilities. Some clients
fued suit; one judge, ruling in favor of a client
last year, found HS Systems had been "arbitrary
and capricious. " The starkest example of the sys-
tem's flaws came in 1997 when a welfare recipi-
ent died of a heart attack at her welfare work
assignment. Despite a history of serious chronic
heart disease, HS Systems sent her to work.
Though the system was flawed, it was not
cheap. When Eggleston took over her post, she
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ordered a study of the city's welfare recipients
to help inform policy. The numbers spoke for
themselves: In one instance, said Eggleston at
the February forum, the city had spent more
than $300,000 running a client through assess-
ments, trying to prove the person could go to
work. "I don't want to spend time having a
debate with people who are chronically ill and
critically ill, wasting government money, " said
Eggleston. "If 1.. .got up enough gusto to come
to you and ask you for anything, then let's just
make the assumption that I need something."
WeCare is making an effort to do just that.
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At the end of it all, Andrews was judged to
be "employable with minimal accommodation."
She's been linked with a city doctor, who's sug-
gested a stronger dose of her blood pressure
medication. Five days a week, she sits through
six hours of vocational evaluation and job readi-
ness courses--one hour and two buses away.
Andrews isn't entirely sold on the program. Her
own doctor advised her to stay home, she says,
and, with a work history that includes eight
years as an administrative assistant, she's found
the vocational program a bit basic. One day saw
her class counting hundreds of screws, nuts and
Multiple Barriers: Leaving welfare while caring for nine kids, says Andrews, would require winning the lottery.
When Andrews complained to her caseworker
in April that she had strained her back, and that
her high blood pressure was bothering her, the
city transferred her case to WeCare; by rnid-
May, HRA had referred 5,164 cases to the pro-
gram. Instead of going to her local job center,
Andrews headed to one of the city's three
WeCare hub centers. (Two longtime welfare ser-
vices contractors, Arbor and FEGS, are running
the program.) There, Andrews got an appoint-
ment for a physical. She also sat down with a
social worker to undergo a screening for mental
health and social issues-child welfare, housing,
child care, legal problems, substance abuse.
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bolts; they later moved on to setting tables.
Still, says Andrews, it's better than before.
She goes to WeCare six hours a day instead of
eight, and the city covers her child care. It's also
more flexible than she ever found regular wel-
fare to be. Whenever she has an appointment
to go to for her kids or herself, "it's just a mat-
ter of bringing them a letter, " says Andrews. "I
couldn't do that on a regular job."
Apart from her large family, Andrews is fairly
typical of the clients expected to be in WeCare:
facing many problems, of which medical or
mental health is but one. These problems place
her at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to
getting a job, according to a 2003 Mathematica
study. According to the model set in the study,
Andrews' likelihood of finding full-time work is
roughly 23 percent.
Moving Andrews into a job will be a tall
order, and the city has been careful to phrase its
goals in terms of "maximum" self-sufficiency, a
subtle admission that not everyone will end up
employed. While the city would not comment
about its goals for the fledgling program as it
unfolds, an examination of the WeCare con-
tracts suggests as much. In its first year, the pro-
gram is expected to screen more than 45,000
clients; of those, the contractors estimate that
about 3 percent will get jobs and another 10 to
11 percent are expected to end up on federal dis-
ability. The remaining 39,000 will likely be
"engaged" in some kind of activity in exchange
for their check, and will count toward federal
work requirements-something many of the
target cases fail to do (see "Roadblocks From
Washington," next page).
It may not be a revolution, but it's a big
enough shift that frequent critics of the admin-
istration are willing to wait and see. So far the
only public criticism has come from advocates
concerned about the consolidation of the pro-
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Roadblocks From Washington
The greatest hurdle in WeCare's path
may not be the devil in the details but a
federal administration intent on revamping
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families,
the federal welfare program, and pushing
work-first even as New York tries to leave it
behind. In Washington, D.C., "the general
accusation is that the Bush plan is trying to
make everyone run a New York City pro-
gram" from the old days, says a Democratic
Senate staffer who worked on reauthoriza-
tion in 2002.
It's hardly a coincidence. A Guiliani wel-
fare aide, Andrew Bush, was reputed to
have crafted the strategy while a top official
at the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
For WeCare, the most important challenge
comes from the heightened work require-
ments Congress is considering. Currently, less
than half of New York's welfare recipients
meet federal work requirements; once reau-
thorization hits, the city will likely be required
to have 70 percent do so. The increase in
work rates is a "foregone conclusion," says
David Hansell, HRA's chief of staff, but what
New York is most concerned about is what
will count as work.
Currently, most of the activities that
clients will perform under WeCare-
notably rehabilitation--don't count as
work. So far, that hasn't mattered because
existing law reduces states' work require-
ments- 50 percent-by one percent for
every percentage drop in the welfare case-
load since 1996. After seeing its welfare
cases drop by 64 percent, New York doesn't
have to have anyone in work activities.
The Senate would set a six-month limit on
rehabilitative efforts that could be extended,
and provides for up to a year of vocational
training. The House is far more restrictive,
limiting rehabilitative activities to three out of
24 months, and excluding training.
If New York can't meet the new work
rates-far more likely under the latter sce-
nario than the former-the city could face
serious fiscal penalties. "Something that
looks like the House proposal would put the
WeCare proposal in real jeopardy," says
Margy Waller, a fellow specializing in welfare
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and workforce at the Brookings Institute
who has followed the New York program.
Resistance to the direction of federal reau-
thorization crosses party lines. New York
State Senator Raymond Meier, a lifelong
Republican and chair of the body's social ser-
vices committee, has been a vocal critic, testi-
)ring before Congress. Even the conservative
Pataki administration has sought greater flexi-
bility and child care, though "the No. 1 pri-
ority [is) level funding. It's too important to
get overly obsessed with little details," says
Robert Doar, Commissioner of the Office of
Temporary and Disability Assistance, New
York State's welfare agency.
For its part, the city is actively selling
the WeCare program to legislators. HRA
Counsel Hansell 's testimony before
Congress in February lauded the pro-
gram and called for more flexibility on
the local level. At the same time, the
city's Washington, D.C. office has
devoted a staffer to the issue; she meets
regularly with staff from the New York
Congressional delegation in the House
and Senate, as well as interested legisla-
tors from other states; has brought HRA
in to talk to staffers and to testify on
the Hill; and has convened an informal
working group of policy makers, Hill
staff, and advocates.
Mayor Bloomberg, after setting forth
the administration's priorities for reautho-
rization in 2002, has since left the issue to
lobbyists and program administrators.
When he visited Washington, D.C. in
April to meet with legislators, "he didn't
actually bring up TANF issues, which we
thought he would," says a Senate staffer.
"He brought up something else, a sta-
dium. " Nonetheless, New York "is on the
forefront of this," says Jennifer McGee,
senior legislative counsel at the National
League of Cities.
The push for legislation friendly to
WeCare has also generated an unusual
common ground between HRA and
advocates for the poor. "We very much
stand with HRA in their insistence that
any federal law not make it more difficult
to serve people with disabilities, " says
Ricky Blum, a Legal Aid lawyer and fre-
quent critic of the agency. "We don't
want to see the city penalized for doing
the right thing. "
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gram into three centers, which requires many
disabled recipients to travel farther than before.
The city says it will deal with access issues on a
case-by-case basis, though advocates are skepti-
cal. "That was not a good sign for how that
stuff on paper will play oue," says Don Fried-
man, a senior policy analyst at the Community
Service Society. Bue he's found the initiative
encouraging nonetheless. "If they make a real
effort to address those limitations, and go the
extra mile to avoid punishing people for the
first time they slip up, it might be as good as I
can hope for," says Friedman.
There's no guarantee that WeCare will live up
to its marketing. Done poorly, it could create little
more than a churning army of WEP assign-
ments--though, ie's worth noting, that's roughly
where most ofWeCare's target clients have resided
for years. Despite Eggleston's rhetorical shift, the
program still mandates participation and retains a
focus on moving people to work-hardly a rejec-
tion of Turner's approach. "The way [HRA has)
developed the Giuliani policy and the way they've
defended it is very effective," says Larry Mead, a
professor of political science at NYU who was a
regular consultant to HRA under Turner. "What
Verna is doing is basically downplaying [enforce-
ment) in favor of the service orientation. "
Yet it's a frank admission that, for many on
welfare, having one rule-work first-and
being expected to follow it without help and
without fail, has been anything bue effective.
SUNLIGHT IS STREAMING INTO BENITA ANDREWS'liv-
ing room as her children hurtle down the short
hall nearby. After nearly a year in her apartment,
Andrews still hasn't been able to afford any furni-
cure besides the beds, two tables and a dresser;
most of the clothing sits in bags neatly stacked in
the corners. Andrews barely registers the squeal-
ing in the &ont room and doesn't miss a beat as
she talks aboue why she went on welfare.
"I could talk you into tomorrow," she cau-
tions, patting down her jeans and T-shirt. "I
had five children at the time, and I'd already
been oue of work for three years," when she
opened her first welfare case, says Andrews,
who'd le& an administrative position to care for
her ailing mother. "When 1 resigned, I had a
401k and a pension, so 1 lived off that first.
Then 1 did babysitting. And when the babysit-
ting ran out, I ended up on P.A."
Andrews' prospects under WeCare are still
uncertain, but there are a few hopeful signs.
For one, the city paid attention when she
explained her situation to her caseworker.
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THE PEOPLE'S MAYOR?
Better Off: Andrews hasn't been able to afford much furniture but hopes WeCare
will help her get a job to change that.
Her WeCare assessment frankly lists positive
attributes-(work history, household man-
agement skills, a high school diploma) and
charts them against her problems (special
needs children, health problems, signs of
depression) . The recommendation goes on to
note that her major difficulties are "more
psychosocial than medical, " and that a thera-
pist might help her deal with stress. "Before,
it used to be that they just throw you in a
program," says Andrews warily. "This is bet-
ter, but I'm waiting to see what rype of job
interviews they send me on."
It's a telling moment, one when the shaky
evolution of welfare reform meets the anger of
someone who's found little hope in its past incar-
nations. Even at its best, the city's innovation
won't be nearly as giving as Andrews would like;
with some prodding, Andrews says that she'd
prefer to just stay home with her kids until they
go to schooL The fmt round of welfare reform
removed that option forever for poor families.
But within that reality, WeCare might begin
to shift welfare toward something entirely unex-
pected, at least for New York City: a government
program that thoughtfully sets realistic goals for
its clients, and offers concrete help to achieve
them. It's a lofry approach, and one that garners
raised brows &om liberals and conservatives
alike. Andrews, ever the skeptic, and a little
embittered, isn't so sure aboue that, bue she's will-
ing to give it a shot. "You got to play the hand
you're dealt," she says. "And that's the hand 1 was
dealt."
The city has been
careful to phrase its
goals in tenns of
"maximum" self-
sufficiency, a subtle
admission that not
everyone will end up
employed.
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INTER VIEW
Q&A: Can the South Bronx be a New Beacon of Growth?
Local development expert Neil Pariser has watched one of New York's most
notorious areas go from not to hot-and says it's only the beginning. Interview by Jonathan Bowles
ONCE A SYMBOL of all that was wrong
with New York, the Bronx actually
created a majority of the new private
sector jobs in the city over die past
three years. Much of the borough's
growth is occurring in the South
Bronx, which, partly with city help,
has attracted significant new retail and
industrial deve10pment, as well as a
growing cluster of artists. With so
much going on, the Center for an
Urban Future went to speak with Neil
Pariser, senior vice president of the
South Bronx Overall Economic
Development Corporation (SoBRO),
one of several groups involved in the
revival, to &et his thoughts on the
South Bronxs future.
CUF: What's changed about the Bronx that most
New Yorkers don't yet know about?
NP: We're no longer the same borough they saw
back in the '70s when [sportscaster] Howard
Cosel! talked about the Bronx burning. We
have turned a huge corner in the economy. Just
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recently, the Fulton Fish Market moved to the
Bronx. The borough has one of the fastest ris-
ing populations in the city and land here is
becoming increasingly scarce. We're not the
stereotypical South Bronx.
How important is the relocation of the Fulton Fish
Market's to Hunts Point?
Number one, it's a national name. It also really
puts the Bronx in the center of the food indus-
try. And the food industry is a growth industry.
Having had the [city's largest] meat and pro-
duce markets, now we've got the fish market.
Hunts Point has become the city's supermar-
ket. You have Citarel!a, which has moved here.
You have Baldor Specialty Food. Two of the
largest, high-end food purveyors in the city and
the tri-state region are now home in the Bronx.
That means more jobs for people.
Over the years there has been a disconnect
between the businesses in Hunts Point and the
community. Is this still the case?
It's still an issue, but I think people are much
more sensitive to it now and I think there's
more of a response. When SoBRO was cre-
ated 30 years ago, one of the things we
learned was that, yes, we can help businesses,
but if we're not doing something for the peo-
ple in the community, then what are we doing
this for? We started education and employ-
ment programs, so that when we kept a fac-
tory here or built a distribution facility, we
had a mechanism to bring people to those
jobs. Is there enough of that? Probably not,
but there is certainly a lot more thought on
the city side, in terms of making the connec-
tions between local industry and local people,
and I think it's working.
What else has changed in the South Bronx?
There's been this huge turnaround in the
Bruckner Boulevard area, which was the site of
Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. [In the
novel] Sherman McCoy got lost, got into trou-
ble, and it was on Bruckner Boulevard in Port
Morris. You go to Port Morris today and it's a
thriving antique center. Zoning now allows a
mix of industrial, commercial and residential
uses, and it's booming. If Sherman got lost
today, he'd end up buying a painting.
The Bronx still has its share of problems. The
unemployment rate, for instance, is the highest in
the city. What else needs to happen?
We need to make this borough internet smart.
We are antiquated when it comes to broadband
access. It's a problem for our businesses that
can't get into e-commerce. That's going to drag
us down. I also think that we need to address
some issues surrounding moving our young
people from school into the workplace ethic. I
think we need to work more closely with the
school system, preparing young people for
what's the next step. Hopefully college, but if
not, then what? We can't have a population of
young people who aren't trained in the manner
that businesses need them to be trained. So we
need to make alliances between businesses and
our school systems. We've always talked about
it and we've given it lip service, but that's all
we've given it. We need to really make it hap-
pen, because that's going to determine whether
a business stays in the Bronx over the next 15,
20 years .
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Bad Medicine
continued from page 17
Back at the New York Diagnostic Centers,
Binford recognizes that sometimes, regard-
less of how closely she monitors her clients,
there isn't much she can do. Rashid (not his
real name) is one of them. Binford has been
working with Rashid for a year. He is one
of her favorite patients, and he is dying. He
has sold his meds on and off, but more
often than not he just doesn't feel like tak-
ing them.
The rear entrance to the center on West
37th Street is a narrow wedge of black marble
flecked with silver, jammed between an empty
storefront and a discount clothing store. Wait-
ing in the doorway is Rashid.
He is little more than a stack of bones
and a cigarette slumped against a waU. The
marble looks like a tombstone, as it props
up Rashid's body, full of 180 ml of
Methadone and 12 ml of Xanax. His
sunken cheeks inhale from under the collar
of a huge black leather jacket; he shudders,
winces and sinks deeper beneath his base-
ball cap.
Rashid has just resurfaced at the center after
disappearing for two weeks in what Binford
described as "a last hurrah." When he turned
up, he was barely conscious.
He says that his uptown SRO is "infected"
with drugs. According to Binford, he has been
repeatedly robbed and attacked by the local
dealers. Rashid's fingers are swollen and cov-
ered in bandages. It was his frustration with
finding a safe home, says Binford that sent
him on a two-week bender.
Bur Binford is thrilled to see him. She has
just found him a place at a nursing home.
Now all sJ:e has to do is help fold him into a
cab and take him there. "His disease is so our
of control I can't manage him in the commu-
nity, " she says. ''This guy won't make it
through the summer on the streets."
As the taxi creeps downtown to the bed
that Binford has found for him at Riving-
ton House on the Lower East Side, Rashid
moans and his head lolls back against the
seat as he slips in and out of conscious-
ness. Virtually all that is visible of his face
are the three blue teardrops tattooed under
the corner of his left eye. ''I'm going to
lose every little thing I got, " he mumbles.
"It's chaos. "
JULY/AUGUST 2005
City
continued from page 19
explained the mayor upon announcing the fund.
Some Battery Park City revenues remain
untapped, including a $45 million "special fund"
that is expected to grow in coming years. And as
of mid-May, there was srill that little maner of
securing the governor's suppon.
But advocates involved consider it a huge
success. Housing Here and Now also prevailed
on two other demands that the Bloomberg
administration had previously resisted: inclu-
sionary zoning in GreenpointlWiliamsburg
and the Hudson Yards, and permanent hous-
ing for people with AIDS.
Still, getting Battery Park City was espe-
cially satisfying. "Battery Park City had been
the holy grail of the affordable housing com-
munity for quite a long time," notes David
Greenberg, policy director of ANHD. "With
it I think there has been a vision, in part real-
ized through this announcement, that eco-
nomic development as promoted by the city
can be done in a way where benefits really
come back to low-income communities."
Stadium
continued from page 22
biggest plans are likely to generate widespread
displacement oflocal small businesses, often in
favor of developing neighborhoods into resi-
dential-instead of mixed use-communities.
The city's plan to rezone 175 blocks in Green-
point and Williamsburg will likely push out
more than 100 woodworking companies, spe-
cialty food manufacturers and other industrial
businesses. According to the New York Industrial
Retention Network (NYIRN), these companies
employ roughly 2,800 people. Meanwhile, the
Bloomberg administration implemented or is in
the process of executing at least five other rezon-
ing plans that conven manufacturing neighbor-
hoods to residential or office districts, risking
thousands more blue collar jobs around the city.
And there are indications that other neigh-
borhoods are next. In Red Hook, the adminis-
tration's 2003 decision to hire a consultant to
determine the best fUture use for six water-
front piers was seen by many local businesses
and residents as a naked anempt to replace the
neighborhood's working waterfront-includ-
ing an active container port that supports
roughly 500 jobs-with luxury condos.
Shiffman, who gives "high marks" overall to
the Bloomberg administration's work on eco-
nomic development, believes the administration
has been too quick to turn over public assets to
the highest bidder and is overly focused on real
estate appreciation. Most disappointing, he says,
is the fact that this type of thinking was all but
adopted by the Department of City Planning,
the agency with a prominent role in reshaping
neighborhoods from Greenpoint and Williams-
burg to Hunt's Point and the far West Side.
"Zoning should be for the health and welfare
of the city, and that is not always the highest
return on the property," says Shiffinan. "City
Planning didn't have any vision of creating a
socially integrated community. They think their
job is to work with the development community."
Shiffman is far from alone in singling out
City Planning for criticism. "If a sector cannot
absorb quadrupling of its rents, City Planning
assumes that it's not a strong seaor and not a
viable economic activity," says another promi-
nent New York urban planning expert.
"They're measuring it solely on its ability to
pay whatever the real estate sector asks for."
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ADDICTION COUNSELOR-Women In Need, Inc.-MUST HAVE MAS-
TER'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK OR BA WITH CASAC CERTIFICATION
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AFTERCARE CASE MANAGER- The Doe Fund, Inc.-Aftercare Case
Manager - The Doe Fund is a non-profit organization that empowers peo-
ple to break the cycles of homelessness, welfare dependency and incar-
ceration through innovative work and housing programs. We seek a Case
Manager 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 experience with strong interpersonal ,
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of Aftercare events. Excellent record keeping and computer skills are
essential (Microsoft Office). Bi-lingual a plus. A comprehensive benefits
package is included. Please forward resume and cover letter to Human
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to (212) 570-6706 or e-mail to hr@doe.org, or see www.doe.org. EOE.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR BUSINESS OPERATIONs---{;ABS Home
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in management of financial operations including supervision and pro-
cessing of payroll,medicaid billing and accounting and budgeting. Suc-
cessful applicant must have BA in accounting, business administration
or related field and at least 3 yr full time experience. Send resume and
salary history to Dirctor of Business Operations, CABS Home Attendants
Service Inc., 545 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11206 or FAX to 718 3881428
ASSISTANT DlRECTOR-Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic
Assist in developing/managing NYC's first Family Justice Center. Experi-
ence working in DV-field, strong knowledge of City gov't/agencies pre-
ferred. Qualifications: BAIBS and minimum one year management expe-
rience. Salary: $50-$65K. Submit cover letter/resume/writing sample13
references to: S.Lyman, Office to Combat Domestic Violence, 100 Gold
Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10038. EOE
ASSISTANT MORTGAGE OFFICER- The Community Preservation Corpo-
ration, a leading affordable housing lender, seeks an Assistant Mortgage
Officer for their Bronx office. Responsibilities will include providing
administrative support to Mortgage Officers, and involvement in all
aspects of loan production, due diligence, the preparation of closing
packages and the monitoring of existing loans. The position will be
responsible for daily coordination 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 con-
struction 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 excel-
lent benefits. Send cover letter, resume, wri ting sample, and a list of
three references to Bruce Dale, CPC, 3154 Albany Crescent, Bronx, NY
10463 or fax to (718) 543-3437 or email bdale@communrtyp.com.
ASSOCIATE ACCOUNTANTIFJ.- FAMA-VIP COMMUNITY SERVICES is a
progressive and accredited behavioral organization. We have a
new and exciting opportunrty for an experienced Accountant to assist
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to develop programs & counsel students and grads. of leading public
service law school on career dev. issues. JD, public interest expo pre!.,
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ASSOCIATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR-The Bridge Fund of NYC seeks expe-
rienced individual to work as Associate Program Director for unique
homelessness prevention program. Good understanding of Housing
Court proceedings and government benefits required. Strong
writing/computer skills and Bachelor's degree. Salary commensurate
with experience. Fax letter and resume to 212-674- 0542.
BID OPERATIONS MANAGER-Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn
Myrtle Avenue in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill ; will be responsible for manag-
ing all maintenance, sanitation, and security services within the BID
boundaries and their respective program budgets. Please see full job
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CASE MANAGER - ASP- The Doe Fund is a non-profit organization that
empowers people to break the cycles of homelessness, welfare depen-
dency and incarceration through innovative work and housing programs.
We seek a Case Manager 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 experience in servic-
ing a community of homeless men and women living with AIDS, prefer-
ably in a residential environment. Strong interpersonal and written/ver-
bal communication skills. Responsibilities include maintaining consis-
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ing client needs. Excellent record keeping/reporting abilities are essen-
tial. 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 ore-mail
to hr@doe.org. or www.doe.org EOE.
CASE MANAGER - PORTER-The Doe Fund is a non-profit organization
that empowers people to break the cycles of homelessness, welfare
dependency and incarceration through innovative work and housing pro-
grams. We seek a Case Manager who has a strong connection to The Doe
Fund's mission to work in our East Williamsburg facilrty. The Ideal can-
didate would possess a college degree and at least 2-3 years human
service/case management experience in servicing a communrty of
homeless men, preferably in a residential environment. CASAC is
required. Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities include maintaining consistent client interaction and
coordinating all social services for addressing client needs. Bi-lingual a
plus! Excellent record keepi ng/reporti ng abilities are essential. Salary is
mid 30'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. or www.doe.org EOE.
CASE MANAGER- INTAKE- The Doe Fund is a non-profit organization
that empowers people to break the cycles of homelessness, welfare
dependency and incarceration through innovative work and housing pro-
grams. We seek a Case Manager for our Intake Department at our East
Williamsburg facility that 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 experience in servic-
ing a community of homeless men, preferably in a residential environ-
ment. Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities include maintaining consistent client interaction and
coordinating all social services for addressing client needs. Bi-lingual a
plus! Excellent record keeping/reporting 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.or at www.doe.org EOE.
CASE MANAGER, 3RD STREET MEN'S SHElTER---l'roject Renewal's mis-
sion is to renew the lives of homeless men and women in New York City.
We focus our efforts on the neediest and least-served of the city's indi-
gent population - men and women who, in addition to being without a
home, cope with mental illness and/or addiction to drugs or alcohol. We
are currently seeking a Case Manager to work at our 3rd Street Men's
This is a hands-on position working directly with chemically
dependent, homeless men in a 24-hourfaci lity. Reporting to the Depart-
ment Supervisor, duties include but are not limited to: case manage-
ment for a caseload of approximately 25-30 men; conducting 2-4 ther-
apy/caseload groups per week; preparing psycho-socials and developing
service plans as well as conducti ng individual counseling sessions;
maintaining and updati ng client charts on a bi-weekly basis; attending
weekly case conferences. This position offers a competitive salary, com-
mensurate with experience and an excellent benefits package. To apply,
please send a cover letter indicating and salary req's to: HR
Department, Project Renewal, 200 Va rick Street, NY, NY 10014; jessi-
caa@projectrenewal.org; fax: 212-243-4755.
CASE MANAGER---{;atholic Charities---l'rovide comprehensive case
management services to primarily geri atric popul ation. Bachelor'S
Degree in Social Services or related field, plus experience with target
population required. Fax resumes (718)722-6254. EOEiM
CASE MANAGER-tiELP USA, a nationally recognized leader in the pro-
vision of transitional housing, residential & social services, is seeking a
Bachelor'S level professional to provide comprehensive case manage-
ment services to fami lies residing in domestic violence transitional shel-
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violence and homelessness and the ability to multi-task are essential.
Negotiation of the service delivery system, with families, to ensure
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families to assist in meeting goals and act as liaison between shelter
and other agencies involved in program. Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to perform in
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ties for professional development and advancement. Salary: $26,000+,
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tawilliams@helpusa.org. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace.
CASE MAHAGER-HELP USA, a nationally recognized leader in the provi-
sion of transijional housing, residential & social services, is seeking a
Case Manager to be responsible for conducting program outreach activ-
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new clients, & developing service plans designed to reduce risk factors.
Will also accompany clients to housing court and/or other agencies;
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services preferred. Abilijyto be a team player in a fast paced environment
highly recommended. Salary commensurate with experience. Forward
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Crotona Park North, Bronx, NY 10460. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace.
CASE MANAGER-HOUSING---{;LUSlER, Inc.-frovide case mgmt. sves.
to clients transitioning to permanent housing, assist in self-sufficiency
efforts, provide advocacy. Recordkeeping, writing reports req'd. Assoc.
degree and related exper., good writing ski lls, computer literacy, able to
work flexible hours. Bi-lingual SpanJEng. helpful. Fax/mail resume:
(914)376-1336 Att: J. Shenk, CLUSTER Housing Resource Center, 504
So. Broadway, Yonkers, NY 10705
CHARTER SCHOOL JOBS-K12connect, Inc.- EXPERIENCED EDUCA-
TORS WANlED!! ! 150+ public charter schools in MA. RI, NY, NJ , CT and
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teacher assistants; special education coordinatorsiteachers; Trtle I coor-
dinatorsiteachers; bilinguallESL teachers; school psychologists and
social workers; and business managers (finance/accounting back-
grounds required). To apply, register for the 3rd Annual NE Regional
Charter School Career Fair at www.charterschooljobs.com.
CHEF TRAINER-foodChange is dedicated to improving the lives of
New Yorkers through nutrition, education and financial empowerment.
We are seeking a Chef Trainer to provide culinary training to students
enrolled in the CCTC, as well as developing relationships with the local
restaurant industry for job placement. Job responsibilities include the
following: Teach the culinary training class on a daily basis. Develop and
current culinary curriculum. Meet production manager to
place the students in the kijchen. Ensure that HACCP standards are met
daily. Assist in recipe development with the Production Manager. Assist
in the development of empl(1jment for program graduates. Assist Pr(}-
duct ion Manager with integration of culinary trainees into overall food-
service operation.You must have complete culinary training from certi -
fied institution, plus five (5) years relevant work experience.Please fax
your resume and cover letter to: 212-616-4988
CIRCUIT RIDER-Welfare Law Center--National project empowering
grassroots organizations through technology, seeks individual with
experience in technology and communijy organizing. Salary to $38K;
good benefits. Persons of color, formerly on welfare or low-income are
encouraged. EOE. See application requirements at: httpJ/www.lincpro-
ject.orglaboutlhiring.shtml. Welfare Law Center, 275 Seventh Ave. ,
#1205, 10001. Fax 212-633-6371, linchire@welfarelaw.org
CIVIL RIGHTS TESTERS--Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New
York- Testers are trained to act as apartment or house seekers and to
follow the instructions given by the Anti-Discrimination Center. Qualifi-
cations: committed to civil rights, articulate, conscientious, detail-ori-
ented, and able to enact a role according to guidelines given. Testers are
called upon only intermittently; this position should not be considered as
a substitute for empl(1jment. Candidates who are empl(1jed part-time or
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CLIENT SERVICES COOROINATOR--Nonprofit Connectioll-A leading
nonprofit management consulting firm, Nonprofij Connection, seeks
Coordinator of Client Services. Responsibilities: Provide external cus-
tomer service related to client intake, contracting, monitoring of client
satisfaction. Manage administrative processes including contract
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Requirements: Three years experience in nonprofit environment, with
exposure to contract management, customer service and marketing.
Strong communication skills; computer competency; ability to work in a
team-oriented, multicultural environment; familiarity with New York City
neighborhoods, and sensitivity to the diverse ethnic and milieu
of New York City. Send resume and salary history to: CSC Search, Non-
profit Connection, 50 Broadway, Suite 1800, New York, NY 10004. No
phone calls. Deadline: April 15, 2005
CLINICAl SOCiAl WORKER-HELP USA, a nationally recognized leader in
the provision of transijional housing, residential & social services, is
seeking a Clinical Social Worker to provide short term individual counsel-
ing and to facilitate support groups for adults and children in our domes-
tic violence transitional shelter. Responsibilities include the development
of therapeutic goals and objectives to assist clients as they begin to heal
from the trauma of abuse. The ideal candidate should have hands-on-
experience with the population and a thorough understanding of issues
specific to domestic violence and homelessness. Organizational skills
and the ability to multi-task are essential. Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills (written and verbal) needed, as well as an ability to
work in a fast paced, changing environment with deadlines. Master's
Degree in Social Work required; NYS Driver's License, proficiency in com-
puters and Windows based application necessary. Bilingual skills (Eng-
lishiSpanish) a plus. Excellent benefits and opportunity for professional
development and advancement. Salary is in the mid $30s. Email resume
to: neason@helpusa.org. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace.
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Seek experienced organizer to oversee day-to- day management,
including internal communication, organizing strategy and cam-
paign development, and fundraising. Based at NYU IESP; spend up to
three days/week visiting each organization. 2 years + organizing
experience, preferably with youth, prefer Spanish fluency, fundrais-
ing/grant management experience. Send resume and cover letter to
kavitha_mediratta@yahoo.com ASAP.
COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE-Applied Research Center-NY/ Color-
Lines magazine- Duties include, but are not limited to, conducting
media outreach, distributing ARC products, fund raising, and general
staff duties. Applicants with four or more years experience, women and
people of color are urged to apply. Contact Donna Hernandez,
212.513.7925.
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATE---Manhattan Community Board No. 4-Trou-
ble-shoot problems elected officials, government agencies, residents,
businesses and service providers. Also responsible for community out-
reach, planning and advocacy. $28- 35,000, excellent Start on or
about June 1. More info at httpj/www.manhattancb4.org/News.html.
Apply to job@ManhattanCB4.org.
CONSERVATION ORGANIZER-Sierra Club's NYC Field Office seeks envi-
ronmental Conservation Organizer: organize and implement public out-
reach campaigns, phone banks, rallies, media events. Requires com-
puter and writing skills, one or more years experience in
organizing/advocacy, and fluency in Spanish. E-mail cover letter plus
resume to suzanne.mattei@sierraclub.org or fax 212-791-0839. con-
sidered) to ddresumes@Verizon.net. EEO.
CONSTRUCTION SITE SUPERVISOR-Habitat for Humanity-NYC seeks
Construction Site Super to oversee field operations & work 20-30
volunteers per day. Min. 5 years experience required. Experience in
apprenticeship training is a plus. $50K range. Fax resume to: 718-246-
2787 or See www.habitatnyc.org
COORDI NATOR OF ORGANI ZING---Make the Road by Walking, a
grassroots CBO in Brooklyn that builds people power through base-
building organizing and leadership development seeks a Coordinator
of Organizing. Responsibilities include: serving as lead organizer on
multiple organizing projects, supervising community organizers,
improving core organizing and political skills of organizers and lead-
ers, and extensive campaign planning, implementation, coalition
organizing, fund raising and media work. B.A., minimum of 3 years
organizing experience, Spanish/English bilingual and supervision
experience required. Organizing experience and public policy advoca-
cy experience preferred. WomenIPOC/LGBTQ candidates encouraged
to apply. Submit cover letter/resume to andrew@maketheroad.org.
No phone calls please.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans-
gender Community Center-Seeking an experienced development pro-
fessional to cany significant management responsibilities including all
aspects of the Center's major donor relations, as well as staff supervision
and support of the Center's membership program. The Deputy Oirector
will assume day-to-day management of the Development department in
the absence of the Director. Qualified applicants will have a minimum
four (4) years fund raising experience, including in a senior level , super-
visory capacity; substantial high dollar fund raising experience with a
proven record of success and accomplishment; minimum two (2) years
Raiser's Edge experience, including gilt/appeal coding, queries and
reporting; excellent interpersonal and team building skills; knowledge of,
and commitment to, LGBT issues and communities. Qualified candidates
should submit a cover letter (stating desired 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. EOEIM
DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS MANAGER-tommon Cause/New
York, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works for openness,
honesty and accountability in New York government, seeks a Develop-
ment and Operations Mangager for our New York City office. For more
information, please our www.commoncause.org/neWYOrk.
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE---Mount Hope Housing Company, Inc.-
Results-oriented person needed to do: grant-writing, relationship build-
ing, identifying prospective donors (foundations, corporations, individu-
als), tracking donor progress, some public relations and marketing.
Requires: 3-4 years in development; Bachelors, advanced degree a plus;
program development skills; and exceptional analytical and interper-
sonal skills. For extensive job description email
Zuleika_DeJesus@mounthopehousing.org. Send resume and
sample by May 20, 2005 to: Zuleika_DeJesus@mounthopehousing.org
or fax to 718 299-5623.
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE-The Bronx River Alliance seeks a Develop-
ment Associate to work with a team to raise money to support the
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Alliance's programs and events. The Associate will be responsible for
donor correspondence and proposals, tracking fund raising goals
and schedules, and managing a contact database. Qualifications
include excellent writing and communications skills; 2-3 years experi-
ence in not-for-profit organizations; strong attention to detail ; and
familiarity with Word, Excell, and database software. 3/4 to full time
staff or consultant position; $35-$40Klyear. For a full job description,
see www.bronxnver.org. E-mail a cover letter, resume and a writing sam-
ple to resa.dimino@parks.nyc.gov or mail to Resa Dimino, Bronx River
Alliance, 1 Bronx River Parkway, Bronx, NY 10462.
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR-The Housing & Community Develop-
ment Network of New Jersey seeks a part-time Development Coordinator
to join our growing staff. Responsibilities include: writing grant propos-
als and reports, conducting research on new grant sources. Candidate
will help design long-term sustainable development plan. Qualifications
include: strong writing and communication skills and grant writing
experience. Media experience and familiarity with community develop-
ment/advocacy preferred. Please submit resume and cover letter to:
Elizabeth Smith, Associate Director, Housing & Community Development
Network of New Jersey, 145 West Hanover Street, Trenton, New Jersey
08618. Competitive salary and flexible hours. Persons of color and
women encouraged to apply.
DEVELOPMENT DlRECTOR-A prominent social service agency that
works to reduce homelessness, advance effective housing and service
initiatives, and provide supportive services to people mental ill-
ness, AIDS, alcohol and drug problems and other special needs. The
Development Director is responsible for the organization's private sec-
tor fund raising program to include foundation and corporate solicita-
tions, special events, annual appeals and capital campaigns. In addi-
tion, the Development Director works in collaboration with the Commu-
nications Manager in order to raise the visibility of the organization and
to promote fund raising efforts. The director's key responsibilities
include: Creating an annual fund raising plan to meet the annual needs
of the organization; Research, outreach, relationship building, grant
writing and reporting in order to build foundation and corporate sup-
port; Planning and implementing at least one fundraising event per
year; Planning and implementing at least one annual appeal; Building
an individual donor program; and SuperviSing the development asso-
ciate position. Requirements: Bachelor's Degree. At least five years of
successful fund raising experience. Planning and implementing annu-
al 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 orga-
nization. Eagerness to work in a non-profit environment, in which much
must be accomplished with limited resources. Competitive salary and
benefits. How to Apply: Please submit cover letter, resume, writing
sample and salary requirements (you must submit all four to be con-
sidered) to ddresumes@verizon.net. EEO.
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR-Human services organization based in
southern Westchester.-Social service agency in southern Westchester
seeks an experienced fund raiSing professional responsible for designing
and implementing a successful , comprehensive fundraising program
for a community based human services organization which provides
youth, housing, mediation and mental residential programs.
Experienced in annual and major giving, special events, grants and
donor and stewardship. Salary commensurate with experi-
ence. Equal opportunity employer. Fax resume with cover letter and
salary requirements to: Development Search, 914-963- 4566.
DIRECTOR OF CDMMUNICATIONS-tesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgen-
der Community Center-Seeking an experienced public relations pro-
fessional for senior level to direct public and media relations
and brand management for one of the nation's largest LGBT organiza-
tions. Principle duties will include creation and oversight of all Center
produced publications, including monthly newsletter and annual report,
and supervision of the advertising coordinator, graphic designer and
web developer. Requirements include 4+ years public relations and/or
media experience in a leadership capacity; command of related public
policy issues; established press contacts; knowledge of advertising and
marketing strategies; excellent written, verbal and public speaking
skills; knowledge of, and commitment to, LGBT and issues.
Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter (stating desired posi-
tion and salary requirements) and resume by mail or fax to: Center
Human Resources, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Fax:
212.924.2657. EOEIM
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING-l'ratt Area Community
CounCil, seeks a Dir. Of Organizing. Responsibilities: Direct housing and
environmental justice campaigns. Supervise organizers and volunteers
to work on problems: childhood lead poisoning, code enforcement, dis-
placement, and lack of affordable housing. Need experience running
campaigns, leadership development and base-building, working
media, conducting research and policy analysis. Responsible for work-
ing within existing coalitions, fund raising, and managing contracts.
Qualifications: Minimum of 4 years organizing experience, at least 2
supervisory; excellent writing, communication, organizational and bud-
get skills; willing to work evening/weekend hrs. Bachelors Degree. Eng-
lish/Spanish. Mail or fax cover letter including salary requirements and
resume to PACC- JOB SEARCH, 201 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205,
Fax: (718) 422-0413. emaillori_cottrell@prattarea.org.
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT-Friends and Relatives of Institutional-
ized Aged (FRIA)-FRIA is a small but dynamic non-profit providing
direct service and advocacy to seniors and caregivers and works to
reform long term care concerns. Director is responsible for seeking and
growing individual and corporate funding through research, cultivation
and solicitation. Qualifications: 2-5 years experience with major gifts,
prospect research and proposal drafting. Experience with Boards and
volunteers required. Flex hrs. Send resume and salary history to
apaul@fria.org
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT-lSA Family Health Service-little Sis-
ters of the Assumption Health Service, Inc., a community -based orga-
nization that works the people of East Harlem to address the phys-
ical , emotional, educational and spiritual dimensions of family health,
seeks a highly qualified Director of Development to coordinate all
aspects of LSA's fund raising activities: annual fund, major donor solic-
itation, publications, planned giving, special events, grant writing.
Requires Bachelor's degree, five+ years of development related experi-
ence, excellent oral and written skills. Salary commensurate expe-
rience. For more information visit httpj/www.littlesistersfamiiy.org.
Send resume and salary history by e-mail ijgarson@lsafhs.org) or fax
(212-348-8284) to Sr. Judith Garson, Executive Director. EOE
DIRECTOR OF EVAlUATION--tommon 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 pro-
grams including regular surveying of key stakeholders such as tenants,
neighbors, and funders; analyze research results and make program-
matic recommendations. Must have management level experience in
00, QA and/or process improvement. Experience with program plan-
ning and/or service delivery to homeless population helpful. MPA, MPH
or related masters level degree required and expertise in statistics and
evaluation methods. PLEASE SEND A COVER LETTER WITH YOUR
SALARY HISTORY AND A COPY OF YOUR RESUME: Human Resources
DeptJGD Common Ground Community 505 Eighth Avenue. 15th Floor
New York, New York 10018 Facsimile 212-389-9313 Email:
GCresumes@commonground.org
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ADMINISTRATlON--tommunity Based Orga-
nization-Finance - Director of Finance & Administration Growing Bronx
non-profit agency seeks expo professional w/ strong analytical & man-
agement skills to oversee administrative operations including finance,
HR, IT, & office systems. Ideal candidate is hands-jm problem solver w/
thorough knowledge of nonprofit finance & accounting and audit prep,
internal controls & organizational procedures, superior communication
skills, advanced computer skills, knowledge of network and database
software. Excellent opportunity for career advancement.
salary. Resume/cover letter w/ salary requirements. FaX: 718.824.0532.
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE-WomenRising, Inc.-Women services/advo-
cacy organization seeks a Director of Finance to oversee and manage all
financial operations. Responsible for: financial operations, asset man-
agement, budget creation,lT, purchasing, financial reporting, and man-
aging relationships with financial institutions. Ideal candidate will have
financial management and accounting ski lls (emphasis on case man-
agement, grant and fund accounting); strong adminsitrativelorganiza-
tional skills; ability to work well with others, oral and written communi-
cation skills; ability to manage & develop others and desire to work in
partiCipative and team-oriented environment. Requirements: College
Degree with Major in Business or related area, (MA, or MBA preferred); 3
years experience managing financial operations in organization empha-
sizing cash management and grant fund accounting; 1 year experience
managing small IT PC based environment; and experience supervising
or managing people. salary and benefits. EOE. Send or fax
cover letter and resume to: WomenRising,lnc., Attn: Rose Davis, 270
Fairmount Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. 07036 Fax-201-333-9305
DIRECTOR OF GROUP HOME PROGRAll.-WomenRising,lnc.-Women
services/advocacy organization, seeks capable leader to manage Group
Home for girls. Responsible for program management; administration;
and community relations. Ideal candidate will have knowledge of and
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passion for worl<ing with young women; leadership ability with emphasis
on advocacy,persuasive oral & written communication skills, administra-
tive/organizational skills; ability to manage and develop others; and
desire to worl< in participative, team-oriented environment. Require-
ments: college degree with MMIi':NI preferred in related field; experience
in the group home environment; experience in grant writing and manag-
ing/supervising people; computer literacy. Competitive salary and bene-
fits. EOE Send Cover letter and resume to WomenRising,lnc. - Attn: R.
Davis - 270 Fairmount Ave., Jersey City, NJ. 07306 Fax#: 201-333-9305
Candidates strongly encouraged to review employment and WR vision
sections on www.womenrising.org
DIRECTOR OF HOMEDWNERSHIP PROGRAMS-Neighbors Helping
Neighbors-NHN is an energetic and proven nonprofit housing organi-
zation in Brooklyn. Supervise staff and manage program
developmenVimplementation. Seek proven manager with 5+ years rele-
vant experience. Residential lending experience and bilingual ,
English/Spanish, highly desirable. Salary: mid-40s, excellent benefits.
Visit www.nhnhome.org for information.
DIRECTOR OF HOUSING--St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Cor-
poration seeks to fill its Director of Housing position with an experienced
manager with broad understanding of housing management, housing
development, community organizing and special-needs housing, includ-
ing coordination of social services. The position reports directly to the
Executive Director. St. Nicks serves the greater Williamsburg/ Greenpoint
community and has led a successful comprehensive revitalization initia-
tive. That revitalization strategy includes focus on youth, employment,
economic development, health care, as well as housing. Community
needs have changed and the organization is engaged in addressing a
new set of affordable housing challenges. This position requires a person
with demonstrated management experience, knowledge of housing, as
well as leadership and strong communication skills. Qualified individu-
als should have a Master's degree in a pertinent area, or a BA degree and
five or more years of relevant experience. No phone calls or e-mails. Send
resume and cover letter no later than April 28, 2005 to: Michael Rochford
Executive Director St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation 11
Catherine Street Brooklyn, New Yorl< 11211
DIRECTOR OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES-Mount Hope
Housing Company, Inc-Search Re-opened: Bronx non-profit CDC seeks
Director of Real Estate Development Initiatives wI strong 3-5 years pro-
ject management experience. Responsibilities: oversight of pre-develop-
ment, construction, & completion of RE projects; identification of new
development projects; & conduct feasibility analyses. Qualifications:
proven ability to multi-task. Excellent written/verbal communication
skills. BA req.; MA in Urban Planning or related field preferred; knowledge
of RE finance. Salary: mid $60's. Fax cover letter & resume: Z.DeJesus,
718-299-5623.
DIRECTOR OF YOUTH SERVICES-Henry Street Settlement-Director of
Youth Services Henry Street Settlement seeks a dedicated professional to
manage its youth services division, which services over 3000 youth
annually of all ages. Candidate must have an advanced degree in
human services, 15 years experience in a social services agency, 10 yrs
management experience, 5 yrs experience working with youth, and strong
management, communication, planning, and budgeting skills. HSS
offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. Please mail
cover letter and resume to Verona M. Jeter, Executive Director, 265 Henry
Street, New Yorl<, N.Y. 10002 or email www.ca99@henrystreet.org.NO
PHONE CAlLS PLEASE. For additional information about our programs
and employment opportunities visit www.henrystreet.org.
DIRECTOR, CDCU MORTGAGE CENTER(TM)--National Federation of
CDCUs-The National Federation of Community Development Credit
Unions is seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial mortgage lender for
our CDCU Mortgage Center(tm), an exciting new secondary-marl<et pro-
gram for credit unions that lend in low-income communities. Founded in
1974, the Federation serves more than 200 community development
credit unions (CDCUs) throughout the U.S. We are a leader of the CDFI
movement nationally and in New Yorl< State. The CDCU Mortgage
Center(tm) will launch by October 1, 2005. It will purchase, aggregate,
portfoliO, and resell affordable mortgages originated by credit unions in
low-income and minority communities. The Director will be responsible
for purchasing mortgages, establishing underwriting standards, assist-
ing in portfolio management, and managing relationships with servicers
and investors. Requirements: Extensive experience (5+ years) in the
mortgage business and the secondary market. Good writing, presenta-
tion, and financial skills. Experience in credit unions, banking, nonprofit
housing organizations, finance, and/or capital marl<ets is desirable.
Position Description: full-time, but will consider candidates who are
interested in worl<ing 75-80% time and/or on a flexible schedule. Com-
pensation: $60 - $7511, plus excellent health and other benefits. Location:
Wall Street, but will consider outstationed candidates who can spend at
JULY/AUGUST 2005
least two days a month at our offices. Some national travel required.
Additional information: www.cdcu.coop. To respond: please send cover
letter describing your specific experience, interests, and work location
and schedule preferences, to: Mortgage Director, NFCDCU, 120 Wall
Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Equal Opportunity Employer.
DIRECTOR, LEGAl SERVICES-Gay Men's Crisis seeks a Director
of Legal Services to provide leadership and vision to the staff and volun-
teers of GMHC's Legal Services Department. The Legal Services Depart-
ment has been providing free legal services to thousands of HIV infected
individuals since 1983. Responsibilities include managing a staff of
attorneys, paralegals and peer educators, ensuring the highest quality of
direct legal services to GMHC clients, worl<ing with pro bono counsel on
more complex litigation, overseeing departmental operations and budget,
ensuring that services are delivered in compliance with government con-
tracts and private grants, and implementing efficient systems for all
departmental functions. Requirements include JD from an accredited law
school and admission to the New Yorl< State Bar. Proven managerial expe-
rience in a legal services environment or social services organization.
Proven civil litigation experience with substantive experience in HIV relat-
ed areas of practice also a must. Practice areas include immigration,
housing, family law, employment, diSCrimination, bankruptcy, insurance,
government benefrts and entitlements, estate planning and HIV confiden-
tiality. The successful candidate will have outstanding analytical and
research skills, oral and written communication skills and the ability and
desire to worl< with and supervise a diverse staff in a fast paced worl<
environment. Commitment to advancing the rights of people living with
HIV/AIDS and using the law as an instrument of social change is essen-
tial. Qualified individuals should send a resume with cover letter to
GMHC-HR Department, 119 West 24th Street, New York, New Yorl< 10011,
or electronically to jobs@gmhc.org. GMHC offers a competitive compen-
sation package and is committed to staff development. We value diversi-
ty and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
DIRECTOR, SYSTEMS & for New Yorl< City-
The Director is responsible for managing design, development & mainte-
nance of the multimedia, print communications & information technolo-
gy needs of the Partnership(www.pfnyc.org), the city's leading business
organization. These needs may include but are not limited to the Partner-
ship's websites, databases, programs for annuaVmonthly meetings,
advertisements, invitations, announcements, logos, and letterhead &
PowerPoint presentations. Will also assist in the supervision of the IT
team as well as be responsible for outsourcing website, print production,
design & other or technological needs. The ideal candidate
will have a bachelor'S degree and a minimum of 2-3 years high-
tech/communication experience;excellent communication and writing
skills; experience with graphic design and layout; familiarity with Access
& SQL; as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver,Flash, and HomeSite; profi-
ciency with HTML, Javascript, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and
Quarl<; and worl<ing knowledge of Microsoft office. An interest in and
knowledge of NYC public policy helpful. To apply:email cover letter,
resume and salary requirements to: jobs@pfnyc.org.
DIRECTOR, THIRD PARTY TRANSFER PROGRAM-NYC Department of
Housing Preservation and Development-Salary - $55,000- $65,000.
HPO's Division of Housing Finance seeks a Director for its Third Party Trans-
fer Program (!PT') to manage post-foreclosure program activity. Respon-
sibilities include but are not limited to: overseeing the prequalffication
process, determining development clusters, preparing related CitY land use
approval submissions and wor1<ing to move projects through City Council
approval process, overseeing budget and worl< of nonprofit entitY with
interim title to TPT buildings, coordinatingltroubleshooting with rehabilita-
tion financing programs on underwriting, design, tenant and other pre-
financing issues, communicating with elected officials, tenants, develop-
ers, and communitY groups, program evaluation and policy development,
and reporting, budget preparation and project tracking. *Through TPT, the
City transfers title of distressed residential properties that are foreclosed
based on tax delinquencies to new responsible private ownership. Candi-
dates require excellent writing, communication and analytic skills. Prefer-
ence will be given to those with a background in housing finance and/or
housing policy, communitY development and planning, and project man-
agement. Fluency in Microsoft Office preferred. Periodic fieldwork, includ-
ing evening meetings with tenants, is required. Qualifications: 1. Master's
degree (in economics, finance, accounting, business! personnel/public
administration, HR management. management science, operations
research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, admin-
istration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources develop-
ment, political science or related field), and 2 years experience (in budget!
personneV public administration, accounting/economic! financial admin-
istration, management or operations, organizationalllabor marl<et
research; management! methods analysis, program evaluation, research,
economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, related
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area), with mini mum18 months executive, managerial , administrative or
professional staff supervisory responsibility. 2. BAIBS & 4 years experience,
with 18 months requirement as detailed above. NYC residency required
within 90 days of appointment HPD and the CitY of New York are Equal
OpportunitY Employers To apply, please send resume and cover letter to:
Department of Housing Preservation and Development. 100 Gold Street,
Room 9-P4, New Yorl<, NY 10038, Attention: Mr. Yonatan Jacobs
DIRECTOR-I'roject Life-Director for community-based program serv-
ing homebound seniors. Experience in the human service field required
with at least 3 years in supervision and administration., preferably in the
field of aging. Salary 45,000+. Send resumes or fax to 212-427- 0118.
Betsy Tuft Project Life 312 E109 St. NY,NY 10029
DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATE-NY Lawyers for the Public Interest-Will
provide front-line assistance to individuals who contact NYLPl's Disabili-
ty Law Center for help. Majority of time will be spent speaking with callers,
assessing their needs, then providing either advocacy or information and
referrals. Will worl< collaboratively with NYLPI's staff attomeys. Responsi-
ble for maintaining the office referral guide and resource materials. flu-
ency in Spanish required. Strong organizational, analytic, and communi-
cation skills; the abilitYtoworl< well with others and as part of a team; and
an interest in providing direct services to clients are required. Familiarity
with education and/or housing issues faced by people with disabilities is
helpful, but not required. Salary commensurate with experience. Send
resume to "Attention: DisabilitY Rights Advocate Position, Liana Harper,
NYLPI , 151 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, NY, NY 10001", by May 20, 2005.
Include cover letter, resume, and three references (including daytime tele-
phone numbers). NYLPI is an affirmative action employer.
EMPLOYMENT SPECIAlIST-tiELP USA. a nationally recognized leader in
the provision of transitional housing, residential & social services, is
seeking an Employment Specialist. Responsibilities include, but not lim-
ited to: participation as a member of an interdisciplinary team responsi-
ble for providing vocational and educational assessment, assistance,
counseling and referral services to residents residing in a domestic vio-
lence shelter. The ideal candidate will be able to facilitate appropriate
informational worl<shops, act as liaison and will develop linkages with
employment, educational and training providers throughout the metro-
politan area. Organizational skills, knowledge and understanding of
issues specific to domestic violence and homelessness and the ability to
multi-task are essential. Candidate should have strong interpersonal
and communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to perform
in a fast paced environment and meet deadlines. The organization pro-
vides excellent compensation package, tuition reimbursement and
opportunities for professional development and advancement. Salary is
$29,000 plus, depending on experience and education. Must have a SA
Degree in Human Services, a BSW or a Baccalaureate degree in related
field; minimum of one year experience in the field of employment with
experience providing related activities. NYS Driver's License (unrestrict-
ed) and proficiency in computers and Windows based software required.
Recent graduates welcome. Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus. Email
resume with cover letter and salary requirement to: tawilliams@hel-
pusa.org. EOE. A Drug Free Worl<place.
ENVIRONMENT AND HEAlTH PROJECT MAHAGER-Make the Road by
Walking-This position will worl< with the Environmental and Housing
Justice Project organizer to develop a grassroots, research-
based campaign against childhood asthma. The manager will worl< close-
ly with MRBW organizers and leaders; coordinate and supervise data col-
lection from community members and a local hospital; analyze data with
a researcher and develop policy proposals and communitY environmental
trainings. Manager will also be responsible for daily and grant
management forthis project. Requirements: Spanish- English, organizing
experience and a commitment to resisting oppression. Hourly rate based
on experience. POC/GLBT encouraged to apply. Send CLlResumelRefer-
ences to andrew@maketheroad.org or to Andrew Friedman, Make the
Road by Walking, 301 Grove Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237.
EVENTS ASSOCIATE-The American Civil Liberties Events
Manager coordinate all aspects of national conferences!regional train-
ings (500-2000 attendies.) Provide Administrative, Logistical,Organiza-
tional support. Min 3yrs experience in events planning, preferably non-
profit setting. Extensive software experience, Microsoft Office, and
preferably with database event software and document design program.
Resume/Cover Letter To: Heather Artemis,American Civil Liberties Union,
125 Broad Street,18th Floor,New York, NY 10004 OR
ACLU is EEO/AA
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT-tiabitat for Humanity NYC
seeks an Executive Assistant to support the Executive Director and COO
of this 40 person, $6million housing development and advocacy organi-
zation. Responsibilities include arranging extemal and internal meet-
ings, recording meeting minutes, preparing board documents, maintain-
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ing the organization calendar, arranging travel accomodations, assist-
ing with events, and monitoring staff performance. Applicants should
possess excellent writing and speaking skills and be highly-organized
and efficient. Familiarity with WordPerfect, Excel , PowerPoint and
Microsoft Outlook required. Habitat for Humanity -mc is an equal
opportunity employer. Salary range: $30,000 - $35,000. Email resumes
to: rlewis@habitatnyc.org
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - JAMAICA YMCA-The YMCA of Greater NY is a
community service organization that promotes positive values through
programs that build spirit, mind and body, welcoming all people wtth a
focus on youth ... since 1852. We are seeking an Executive Director to
manage our Jamaica branch. In this position, you will oversee all facili-
ty development and operations for the Jamaica YMCA branch. This
branch has a pool , community facilities, and multiple program sites
throughout Queens. We are seeking a community-oriented, dynamic
leader with experience in leading programs, boards, and/or fund raising
events. You must possess a college degree, 5 years of operationaVcom-
munity experience, and a proven track record of success. Excellent com-
puter, organizational , interpersonal , and motivational skills are required.
Bilingual is a plus. We offer a competttive compensation package and
comprehensive benefits. Please send your resume, indicating your salary
requirements to: bjacobs@ymcanyc.org. Please indicate "Executive
Director' in the subject line of your email. EOE www.ymcanyc.org
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR- Fordham Road BID-Position requires experi-
ence in community-based economic development, administration, mar-
keting & government affairs. Salary commensurate with experience. For
complete job dscription or questions, send email to
FordhamRoadBID@aol.com. Submit cover letter, resume, salary history
and requirements electronically to FordhamRoadBID@aol.com by April
4.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR----{;ity-Wide Task Force on Housing Court-
Esl.1981 to provide unrepresented litigants access to justice in NYC's
Housing Court; promote court reforms that address the need for proce-
dures that prevent homelessness and evictions and increase the
enforcement of housing maintenance codes (see www.cwtfhc.org).
Responsibilities: work wtth Board to develop and implement strategic
plans for programs; supervise programs including the Housing Court
Information Table Project and telephone hotline with assistant director,
staff of borough coordinators, support staff and volunteers; maintaining
contact with Government and private funding sources and preparing
administrative, legal , and fiscal reports as required; grant- writing.
Qualifications: supervisory and administrative experience; excellent
grant-writing and fund-raising skills; experience in board development
and program planning; ability to organize around policy issues, prefer-
ably housing, court reform, eviction prevention or related areas. Salary:
$55T+. Position available 6/05. Resumelcover letter to: Search Commit-
tee, CWTFHC, 125 Maiden Lane, 3rd fir, NY, NY 10038 or email:
stephaniet@cwtfhc.org
EXECUTIVE DlRECTOR-Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence---
Develop/manage NYC's first Family Justice Center. Experience working in
DV-field and strong knowledge of City gov't/agencies preferred. Qualifi-
cations: J.D. or related graduate degree;minimum 3 years
supervisory/senior management; proven success developing & manag-
ing innovative programs. Submit cover letter/resumelwriting samplel3
references to: S.lyman, Office to Combat Domestic Violence, 100 Gold
Street, 2nd Floor NYC 10038. EOE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-The Hoboken Homeless Shelter seeks an Exec-
utive Director. Professional degree and related experience that demon-
strate applicants leadership, knowledge and commitment. Responsibil-
ities include: program development and administration; communica-
tions with funding agencies; and establish budgets and maintain fiscal
oversight. Email : (or) Mail: Resume, PO Box
1776, Hoboken, NJ 07030
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-The Women of Color Policy Network, an organi-
zation housed at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, is seeking an
Executive Director. The Women of Color Policy Network is dedicated to
ending the invisibility of women of color through policy research, advo-
cacy and public education. For job deSCription and application submis-
sion details, please visit the website www.nyu.edu/wagnerlwocpn
FINANCIAL MANAGER! EXECUTIVE Employment
Law Project (NELP), a national advocacy organization for low wage work-
ers and the unemployed, seeks a financial manager/executive assistant.
He or she will have primary responsibility for a diverse set of financial
tasks, including bookkeeping, processing bills and budget reporting. In
addition, he or she will work on a range of operational tasks and projects.
This full-time position starts in April 2005. Salary: $36-$41,000K. The
full description is available at httpJ/www.nelp.org. To apply, send
resume and cover letter to nelp@nelp.org or mail to 55 John Street, 7th
36
Floor, NY, NY 10038.
FUNDRAISING COORDINATOR-South Bronx Overall Economic Develop-
ment Corporation (SoBRO}--- Seeking an individual to coordinate spe-
cial events and public relations in the fund development department.
Responsibilities include: Special Event Coordination Press Relations
Communication Materials Special Projects Send Resume to: Van-Nessa
Brown vbrown@sobro.org (718) 732-7693 (fax)
GRANT York City Employment & Training Coalttion
(NYCETC) is an association of 180 organizations providing job training
and employment services to low-income New Yorkers. The Coalition
seeks an experienced, creative and committed development profession-
al to expand our fundraising efforts. Responsibilities: Research founda-
tion, corporate, and government funding opportunities; Write grant pro-
posals,letters of inquiry and report on grants; Prepare packets to accom-
pany proposals, reports, and meetings with prospects; Maintain donor
information in databases; Ensure deadlines for proposals/reports are
met and Help develop short/long-term funding strategies. Qualifica-
tions: Minimum of BA degree; 2 plus years experience writing grant pro-
posals and prospecting funding opportunities; Excellent writing, oral
communication and research skills; Knowledge of workforce develop-
ment a plus. Salary: Commensurate w/experience: and attractive bene-
fits package. Send resume, letter, salary requirements to: Ann Dusek,
NYCETC,I1 Park Place,Suite 701 NY,NY 10007 adusek@nycetc.org
HEAD START DIRECTOR-Phipps Community Development Corpora-
tion- Position-Phipps Head Start Director Qualifications:MA in Early
Childhood Education New York State Certification: N-6 Required Bilin-
gual Spanish/English Preferred Extensive Experience Teaching in an
Early Childhood Environment Desired Administrative Experience a Plus
Reports to: Director of Youth Services (Jeannette Corey (f.)
718.364.2643) Primary Function: To coordinate all components of the
Phipps Head Start. To develop a program that is in compliance with the
Head Start Performance Standards, Department of Health regulations
and Phipps CDC policy.
HEALTH CARE COORDINATOR- Health Services Coordinator - The Doe
Fund is a non-proftt organization that empowers people to break the cycles
of homelessness, welfare dependency and incarceration through innova-
tive work and housing programs. We currently seek a Health Services Coor-
dinator. The Health Services Coordinator provides medical treatment care
services to consumers in a residential setting for formerly homeless per-
sons with HIV/AIDS. Posttion responsible for insuring that consumer's
needs are met in accordance with instruction of physician and agency
administrative procedures. Ideal candidate must have LPN license with
two years of related experience and/or training. Computer literacy with an
abi lity to document consumer interactions and respond to internal and
extemal reporting a must. Salary in mid 40's with comprehensive beneftts
package. Please forward resume and cover letter to Human Resources, The
Doe Fund, lnc., 341 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10021; fax to (212) 570-6706
or e-mail to hr@doe.org. or see www.doe.org EOE
HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNSELOR AND MARKETER-llridge Street Develop-
ment Corporation (BSDC) is seeking a Homeownership Counselor and Mar-
keter. Responsibilities: Provide individual counseling to prospective home-
buyers from application through contract signing. Develop and coordinate
educational workshops. Market BSDC's counseling services and educa-
tional programs. Pre-qualify applicants for competitive mortgage prod-
ucts. Market BSDC's available properties. Qualifications: Bachelor's
degree. At least two years demonstrated experience in homeownership
counseling or sales. Strong quantitative and analytical skills. Self-starter,
computer Itterate with excellent communication skills. Salary: Commensu-
rate with experience. Send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to
maininfo@bsdcorp.org or (718) 573-6874. Women, people of color and
neighborhood residents are strongly encouraged to apply. EOE.
HOUSING ATTORNEY-RBSCC- Large Brooklyn-based social service
agency seeks Attorney to represent tenants in Brooklyn Housing Court.
Position will involve representing tenants in holdovers, non-payment
proceedings and "HP actions." Should have 1-4 years experience advo-
cating on behalf of low-income tenants. Salary low-mid 40s. Bilingual
Spanish strong plus. Email resume and coverletter to sbulZio@rbscc.org
HOUSING COORDINATOR-supportive housing-Outreach, intake
and rent collection for permanent supportive housing. Must have: expo
with hsg, rent-up, social services, special needs (drug abuse,
HIV/AIDS, mental illness, homeless); BA degree. Team player wtth
excellent computer and paper work sk(lIs; organized & deadline orient-
ed; interest in diverse and challenging work environment. Salary:
$35K+ & benefits. No. Manhattan location. Fax cover letter of interest
and resume to: 212-781-6193.
HR DIRECTOR-Women's Prison Association (www.wpaonline.org)seeks
HR Director to manage effective delivery of HR programs and support
Executive Team in developing strategies for high performance. Will man-
age recruitment, compensation, benefits, performance evaluation,
employee relations, staff development and compliance functions.
Require at least 5 years HR generalist experience with specific expertise
in staffing, recruttment, employee relations, compensation and benefits.
Strong relationship skills, effectiveness in diverse culture, multi-tasking,
strategic perspective, knowledge of HR best practices. College degree
important. Salary commensurate with experience; excellent benefits
package. Equal opportunity employer. Resume and cover letter to: WPA
Search, Community Resource Exchange, 39 BroadwaY,lOth floor, NY, NY
10006. Fax: 212-616-4994. E-mail: wpasearch@crenyc.org.
JOB DEVELOPER-South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corpora-
tion (SoBROHdentifies potential employers focusing on developing
employment opportunities for participants Conducts visits/phone con-
tacts to establish new and/or renew existing accounts Help determine
types of jobs to developed for participants Prepares reports Contact Van-
Nessa Brown vbrown@sobro.org (718) 732-7693 (fax)
JOB DEVELOPER-Wildcat Service Corporation-llase Salary Up to
$45,000 Per Year Plus Bonus Excellent Benefits Package Convenient
Lower Manhattan Location Wildcat Service Corporation is one of the
largest workforce development organizations in the NY metro area pro-
viding job training and job placement services to populations with bar-
riers to employment. Wildcat currently seeks Job Developers to place the
agency's customers in jobs in a variety of industries in the private, pub-
lic and non-profit sectors. Requires job placement experience and an
active job bank (i.e., active accounts). Prefer experience working with
welfare-to-work population. Wildcat Service Corporation is an Equal
Opportunity Employer. Send resume by mail, fax or email to: Jameka
Knott Personnel Department Wi ldcat Service Corporation 2 Washington
Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10004 Fax: 212-635-3872 Email :
jknott@wildcatatwork.org Learn more about Wildcat Service Corporation
at www.wildcatatwork.org.
JOB DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR-Family Support Center of Lutheran
Family Health Centers-Seeking FT job development coordinator to over-
see job readiness education, vocational training & job placement activ-
ities for community members in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Primary respon-
sibilities include developing employment opportunities & linking partic-
ipants with these opportunities as well as with appropriate training pro-
grams. Also design & implement curriculum, assessment & training
materials as well as job readiness & retention workshops. Must have rel-
evant experience & work well as part of a team. BA req. MA pre!. Bilin-
gual(Spanish, Chinese, or Arabic) pref. Resume & cover letter to Stacie
Evans, Adult & Family Education, LFHC, 6025 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
11220. Fax 718-630-7816. E-mail sevans@lmcmc.com.
lEAD ORGANIZER---l..atin American Integration Center---lmmigrant rights
organization in Queens and Staten Island is looking for a cool & experienced
organizerto lead neighborhood and issue organizing campaigns and devel-
op LAIC's community organizing structure. Minimum 2 years organizing
experience, Spanish a must! WomenlPOCILGBTQ candidates encouraged to
apply. Visit www.laicnyc.org. Send letter/resume to ana@laicnyc.org.
LEGISLATIVE York City Employment & Training Coali-
tion (NYCETC) is an association of 180 organizations providing job train-
ing and employment services to low-income New Yorkers. The Coalition
seeks a Legislative Director with legislative experience at the city and
state levels. Responsibilities: Analyze proposed city, state and federal
legislation, regulations and budgets and develop positions on proposals;
Analyze enacted legislation, regulations and budgets; Draft legislative
testimony and related correspondence; Mobilize members for legislative
visits, letter-writing campaigns and continuous relationship-building
with legislators; and Work in coalition with other advocates on workforce
development and welfare-to-work issues. Qualifications: Minimum of
BA degree; Experience and knowledge in NYC workforce development
and/or welfare reform field, or at minimum, other human services field;
Firm understanding of city, state and federal government and legislative
issues; and Excellent writing, analytical and speaking skills. Salary:
Commensurate w/experience; attractive benefits package. Send resume,
letter, salary requirements to: Rebecca Brown, NYCETC,l1 Park
Place,Suite 701 NY,NY 10007 rbrown@nycetc.org
LOAN OFFICER----{;ommunity Development-The Low Income Invest-
ment Fund seeks an experienced Loan Officer for its New York CrIy office.
THE POSITION The Loan Officer is responsible for a wide range of tasks
related to UIPs affordable housing and community facilities lending pro-
grams, including loan underwriting, loan closings, credit reviews, rela-
tionship management, and, to a lesser extent, servicing and reporting.
The successful candidate will be an energetic, organized self-starter
experienced with real estate underwriting, proficient with financial data-
base systems and software. Excellent teamwork and communication
skills are essential. The position reports to the New York Regional Direc-
CITY LIMITS
tor. The ideal candidate for this position will have these key qualifica-
tions: Experience in real estate-based lending, including credit analysis,
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 federal, state, and local gov-
ernment funding sources for capital and operating needs of multi-fam-
ily housing, special needs housing, and community facilities (e.g. child
care centers, educational programs, etc.); W0I1Iing experience with both
private sector financial institutions and public agencies; Computer apti-
tude including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite Programs, and other
data'base software; Excellent skills in managing multiple tasks requiring
strong attention to detail; Self-motivation, dedication, and flexibility THE
COMPANY The Low Income Investment Fund (LlIF) is a non-profit com-
munity development financial institution, with headquarters in Oakland
and offices in San FranCiSCO, Los Angeles, and New York. Ll IF bUilds
healthy communities by investing capital in affordable housing: child
care, education, job training programs, and other community initiatives
serving low-income populations. APPLYING Forward cover letter (includ-
ing salal)' expectations) and resume by mail to HR, Low Income Invest-
ment Fund 1330 Broadway, #600 Oakland, CA 94612; or by emai l:
hr@liifund.org; or by fax: 510- 893-3964. LlIF, an EOE, believes that
diversity ensures excellence. This position is open until filled.
MANAGER OF DONOR RELATIONSHIPS-The Bowel}' Mission & Kids Wrth
A Promise, a fast growing, faith- based, non-profit organization seeks a
Manager of Donor Relationships. The Manager of Donor RelatIOnships
would be responsible for developing and maintaining the system by
which the Board of Directors, President and Director of Development and
other caseload managers find, cultivate, ask, and thank significant indi-
vidual contributors to the ministl}'. Salal}' commensurate with experi-
ence. Comprehensive benefit package. Please send resume and cover
letter to malcorn@chaonline.org or fax to 212-684-3396, Attn: Human
Resources
MANAGER OF INSTITUTIONAl GIVING-The Bowel}' Mission & Kids With
A Promise, a fast growing, faith-based, non-profit organization, seeks a
Manager of Institutional Giving to be responsible for managing and
growing all Institutional funding for the organization, through effective
of new and existing foundation, corporation and public fund-
ing sources. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Creating
a yearly budget and managing and growing the circle of successful rela-
tionships with foundations, corporations and public funders. leading the
process of opportunity seeking, relationship building, proposal writing
and preparing customized reports. Operating as Departmental collector
and organizer of ministl}' operating facts, stories and statistics includ-
ing needs of the clients. Maintaining professional relatIOnships With
peers at other ministries. Salal}' commensurate With expenence. Excel-
lent benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to mal-
corn@chaonline.org or fax to 212-684-3396, Attn: Human Resources
MANAGER OF SPECiAl EVENTS-The Bowel}' Mission & Kids With A
Promise, a fast growing, faith-based, non-profit organization, seeks a
Manager of Special Events. The Manager of Special Events will plan and
implement events which provide a growing stream of Income a
stream of significant corporate and individual contacts for the organiza-
tion. The candidate must be familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel.
Experience in event planning preferred. Strategic donor mindset for
fundraising, a must. Salal}' commensurate with experience. Excellent
benefit package. To apply, please send resume and cover letter to mal-
corn@chaonline.orgorfaxto 212-684-3396, Attn: Human Resources.
MANAGER COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS-FoodChange is dedicated to
improving'the lives of New Yorkers through nutrition, education and
financial empowerment. We are seeking a Manager, Community Partner-
ships to help facilitate and coordinate the collaboration between F
ood
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Change and other community based organizations. ResponSibilities
include: Work with department and program directors at FoodChange to
establish community partnership goals. Identify, contact and build rela-
tionships with targeted community organizations, other non- profit orga-
nizations, government and elected officials, businesses, etc: to promote
the goals of FoodChange and its various programs including, but not
limited to the earned income tax credit, food stamp prescreenlng and
CookShop' programs.BNBS degree or equivalent combination of educa-
tion training and work experience. Experience within the public or non
profit sectors, particularly at a coalition-oriented organization preferred
but not required. Excellent interpersonal and commUnication skillS. Abil-
ity to interact with all levels of management, Board of Directors and
staff. Must be well organized and able to establish prlontles and a
course of action for handling tasks. Ability to work in a team-
oriented environment. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
Excellent benefits, EOE.Please send your resume and cover letter to:
FoodChange-Human Resources Dept. 39 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York,
JULY/AUGUST 2005
NY 10006 or e-mail : jobs@foodchange.orgorfaxto: (212)616-4988.
MANAGER, RESEARCH-National Urban League-The Research Man-
ager provides integral support material, which is used for solicitations,
concept papers, and other printed materials. The Manager plans, orga-
nizes and conducts research in support of the solicitation of gifts from
individuals, foundations and corporations; Reviews and/or develops
solicitation strategy recommendations and participate in
developmenvtund-raising strategic planning; Analyzes and evaluate
financial statistical and narrative documents to compile research data
and determine a targeted prospective individual , corporate and founda-
tion donor's philanthropic propensity and financial ability to give; Pm-
vides in-depth, reports and executive summaries on prospects; Identifies
qualified individuals, corporations, and foundations as prospects and
aid in the development of cultivation strategies for identified prospects;
Develops and maintain relationships and negotiates with vendors;
Bachelors degree is required. Three years experience conducting donor
research, campaign experience; Must have stmng written, verbal and
organizational skills and libral)' skills. Familiarity with LexislNexis, Dia-
log, computer and on-line expertise and bmad knowledge of research
tools. Must be able to glean information fmm penodlcals, newspapers,
Raiser's Edge (fundraising software), internet, Lexis Nexis, Hoovers
Online, The Foundation Directol}' Online, Raiser's Edge and other sources
of information. Salal}' $50k-$60k. To apply submit cover letter and
resume to recruitment@nul.org. Please mention you were referred by City
Limits. The National Urban League is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT-The Jewish Funders Network seeks a Mem-
bership Assistant for this international organization of family founda-
tions, public philanthropies, and individual funders dedicated to
advancing the quality and growth of philanthropy rooted In JeWish val-
ues. Responsibilities include managing all aspects of membership
administration including member/prospect correspondance, data entl}',
dues processing, grant reports, renewals, record keeping: member
invoices. Applicants should poscess outstanding computer skills includ-
ing Access, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel); excellent written and verbal
communications skills; strong administrative skills with the abi lity to
interact professionally with members; excellent customer service. JFN
offers excellent benefits, salal}' range: $30-35,000. Email resumes and
cover letter to search@jfunders.org
MEMBERSHIP COOROINATOR-Make the Road by Walking seeks a part-
time (20 hrs per week) membership coordinator. Experience in commu-
nity organizing, outreach, and training and facilitation a plus. Fluency in
oral and written English and Spanish required. Competitive hourly wage.
Please emai l resume to oona@maketheroad.org with the Job Title in the
subject. No phone calls or faxes.
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
bui ld NYC chapter. Activities include membership recruitment, leader-
ship development, fundraising, lobbying and electoral work. Qualifica-
tions: . Verbal and written communication skills Computer skills
Problem-solving, analytic, strategic and planning skills Ability to trav-
el, work evenings and weekends Salal}' is competitive, with full health
benefits. Send resume and cover letter to: Davia COllington, 94 Central
Ave, Albany, NY 12206, fax: 518 465-2890, email dcollington@citizen-
actionny.org.
NYS lIC. RN, CONSULTANT, 15 HRSlWEEK---Vrban Pathways, Inc. an EOE
and provider of services to homeless single seeks a RN
licensed in NYS to provide 15 hours of service, scheduled in a mutually
convenient way, at its 55 unit coed psych rehab residence for formerly
homeless mentally ill clients. RN will oversee meds; client education;
some charting; advocate for clients w/pharmacies, psychiatrists, etc.
Work as part of clinical SW team; requires good organizational skills;
client counseling/education ability; sensitivity to population; current
knowledge of psych meds; spirit of optimism. Demonstrated experience in
related work needed. BSN min. requirement. Send resume/cover letter to
hr@urbanpathways.orgor212-736-1388. Nocallsoragencies, please.
OPERATIONS MANAGER-Fenton Communications-Dperations Man-
ager, progressive NYC PR organization. 6+ yrs operations, financial , HR
expo Strong leader, exp in team building, organ devel. Detall-orlented,
great w/numbers. Resume, cover letter, sal req to OM@fentonwest.com.
Fax: 415-901-0110. EOE. Full JD at www.fenton.com
PERSONNEL ASSOCIATE-St. Vincent's Services is searching for a ded-
icated professional to recruit & screen applicants for direct care, cleri-
cal & other paraprofessional positions. Recruit for other positions as
as;igned. Assist in presentation of new employee orientations. Repre-
sent SVS at career fairs. Assist w/benefits administration or other duties
as needed. Master's Degree preferred (BA req'd) + 2-5 years related expo
CLASSIFIEDS
Must have an understanding of services to children & other vulnerable
populations, + EEO & other employment laws. Must have flexible hours
& be able to function in a fast-paced pmfessional environment, w/mul-
tiple priorities. Benefits include MedicaVDental & other insurance, 4
weeks vacation + personal days & holidays, pensIOn plan, etc. Mall/fax
resumes to Assistant Director, Office of Personnel Affairs - St. Vincent's
Services, Inc. - 66 Boerum Place - Brooklyn, NY 11201- (718) 422-2312
- EOE - MlFIDN - Visit us at svs.org - Diversity is part of our mission.
POLICY MANAGEMENT-NYC Office of the Comptroller-Diverse govern-
ment agency seeks Directorto oversee staff undertaking studies on numer-
ous public policy issues. See www.comptroller.nyc.gov and click Jobs for
full details and qualification requirements. Salal}': $110-125k. EOE
POLITICAL ORGANIZER FOR NYC COMMUNITIES OF COLOR-Working
Fami lies Party-Founded by unions and community groups in 1998,
WFP runs dynamic campaigns to increase the minimum wage, reform
the Rockefeller drug laws and elect progressive candidates. WFP is hir-
ing political organizers for NYC and LI to build political power for work-
ing class/low-income NY communities of color. Organizers build local
chapters by recruiting, training and mobilizing volunteers; involVing
affiliated unions & community groups;planning and implementing elec-
toral and issue campaigns. POClWomen strongly encouraged to apply.
Fax cover letter and resume: 718-246-3718 or email: rberkson@work-
ingfamiliesparty.org
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE AND EDUCATION PRO-
GRAMS-The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP}-
CGP supports collaboration between US and Japanese nonprofit sectors
on a wide variety of issues, such as volunteerism, disability rights, and
HIVIAIDS, and supports education about Japan at the K-12 level in the
United States. See www.cgp.org for more information.
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE-Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shel-
ter Rock-Provide program, communications and administrative sup-
port for progressive faith-based national grantmaker. Entl}'-Ievel profes-
sional opportunity with career track potential. Assist program staff in
grantee evaluation process; plan annual board meeting; write and edit
publications; provide executive assistance to Director; special pmJects.
Requirements: Great writer, good judgment, patience,. demonstrated
commitment to social justice, belief in and support for pnnclples of Uni-
tarian Universalism and Veatch Program priorities. Experience in com-
munity, union or political organizing desirable. Car necessal}'. Salal}'
range: low $40,000s, competitive benefits package. Send resume, cover
letter, three references by May 20th to: Program Associate Search, UU
Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, 48 Shelter Rock Rd., Manhasset, NY
11030. FaX: 516-627-6596. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at
Shelter Rock invites applications from candidates regardless of race,
gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.
PROGRAM York District Council of Carpenters-
Federally-funded job training initiative partnered with organized labor
and academia seeks full-time coordinator, reporting to the program
director. Duties include: coord. outreach/recruitment, maintaining stu-
dent records,liaison with students & admin. on personal & behavioral
issues, & job placement. Salal}' $35-43K. Email resume to
dkillinger@nyccbf.org.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR-DEVELOPMENT-Church Avenue Merchants
Block Association, Inc.-CAMBA, one of Bklyn's largest social service
agencies, with 97 programs in nine program areas: Adult &. Family lit-
eracy; Business & Community Economic Development; Family Services;
HIVIAIDS & Health-Related Services; Homeless & HOUSing ServiceS;
Immigration & Refugee Services; Legal Services; Workforce Develop-
ment and Youth Development is seeking a DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
to the agency's fund raising efforts, including: foundation and
corporate giving; city, state, and federal government contracting oppor-
tunities; special events; individual giving; and marketing and communi-
cations. Competitive Salal}' & an excellent benefits package. BA Degree
& 5 yrs applicable exp req'd. Proven exp in all aspects of fund raising pre-
ferred. Send cover letter & resume to: CAMBA, Inc. 1720 Church Ave, 2nd
fl, Brooklyn, NY 11226. E-mail: MariIynG@camba.org, FaX: 718-639-
3576. EOE
PROGRAM DIRECTOR-Financial Pathways-The Program Director of
Enterprise Financial Pathways Corp. will be responsible for the success-
ful operation of the MoneySite program. MoneySite is unique among
financial and financial literacy services because it uses a mandatol}'
and information- rich event-income tax preparation- to start a high-
ly tailored financial dialogue with a low-income client in a trusted, non-
commercial environment. Reports to the President, Financial Pathways
Corp/NYC LOD.Please visit www.enterprisefoundation.orgABOUTUS and
find out more.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR-{;oodwill Industries of Greater New York &
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CLASSIFIEDS
Northem NJ, management position in fast-paced,
dynamic environment with strong knowledge of NYC-funded Welfare to
Work services with a minimum of 3yrs of supervisory experience in man-
aging employment program operations and achieving performance-
based contract goals. Experience with HRA funded programs and
NYCWAY systems a must. Ideal candidate will develop and maintain
proactive relationships with key agencies and organizations, lead staff
in high quality client assessment, placement and retention services
achievement. Requires excellent motivation and communication skills
to implement job readiness initiatives and placement strategies for
participants, with employers. Proven record in developing and manag-
ing budgets, performance planning, program organization and staffing,
directing and coordinating staff for placement goal achievement, and
preparing timely and accurate reports for management and funder. BA
required. Knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access
required. Fax resumes and salary requirements to Human Resources
Attn: BO at 718-777-5949.
PROGRAM OFFICER FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT---local Initiatives Sup-
port Corp.-Seeking experienced, people-1lriented, and creative1iflancial
professional to join Ll SC's Organizational Development Initiative. Program
Officer wi ll provide hi gh level consulting services and technical assis-
tance on a wide range of financial management and accounting issues
to local LlSC program staff and to community development organizations
across the country, and will develop innovative trainings and publications
for this audience designed to increase competency. Complete job descrip-
tion available a\: www.liscnet.org. Competitive salary and benefits. Send
resume and cover letter to: Hilary Greer, hgreer@liscnet.org.
PROGRAM OFFICER-New York Foundation-Seeking program officer
to evaluate proposals, manage grants, and oversee small grants pro-
gram. Must have commitment to social justice and a familiarity with
NYC. Experience with community organizing and small non prom organi-
zations desirable. Requires excellent writing and communications skills
and the ability to review large amounts of written materials. Candidates
should work well under pressure, be self-motivated and highly orga-
nized, and wi lling to work flexible hours. NYF seeks a diverse staff: pe0-
ple of color urged to apply. No phone calls or email. Send resumes no
later than Monday, April 25th to: New York Foundation Program Officer
Search rJo K.w. Mumion & Associates Inc. 50 Park Avenue -17C New
York, New York 10016
PROJECT MANAGER- Economic Development Public Benefrt Corporation
seeks highly motivated, well organized, articulate indv. to review applica-
tions for financial assistance, write up request for project approval and
present project to Bd. of Oirectors, develop disbursement documents, and
manage projects through final disbursement. Prefer 3 - 5 yrs exp in ec0-
nomic develop, public admin, planning, real estate develop, business
finance, or govemment. Requires BA in related field (Masters degree and
familiarity with non profit agencies a plus); excellent written and verbal
skills; MS Word and Excel. Send resumes with salary requirements via:
Email: resumes@empire.state.ny.us [Place job title in subject line.] Fax:
(212) 803-3210 Mail : Human Resources Dept., 633 Third Ave., NYC
10017, 32nd Floor. We are an equal opportunity employer
PROPERTY MANAGER-RESIOENTIAl-Staten 1.- R.E. Mgmt. Co has open-
ing for experienced Residential Property Manager for 536 unit complex on
Staten Island. Ideal candidate should have extensive knowledge of Rental
and Recertification of subsidized housing (RAP, 236, Section 8). Conduct
lease signi ng and complete move-in/ move-1lut procedures. Must possess
strong customer service, communication & supervisory/managerial skills.
Experience supervising maintenance staff (32BJ Union Members), com-
puter literate. RAM/ARM Designation prefenred, Real Estate license a plus.
Bilingual a plus. Fax resume to GRBR at 718-642-6910
PROPERTY MANAGER-Westhab Inc-Westchester non-prom agency
has an opening for a hands on person for affordable housing portfolio of
owned and managed units. Duties include marketing, tenant relations,
billing/collections, legal, regulatory compliance/reporting, unit/property
inspection & special projects. Must have working knowledge of tax cred-
it, Section 8 & other housing subsidy programs as well as good commu-
nication/computer skills & a working knowledge of M.R.I or equiv. BS
with 5 yrs of related exp reqd. RAM & LlHTC cert a +. Must have own
car. We offer a competitive salary & excellent benefits including a com-
pany paid retirement plan. Send resume/letter/salary req to Dir Human
Resources Westhab 85 Executive Blvd Elmsford, NY 10523 Fax 914 345-
3139 e-mail h.r@westhab.org EOE
PUBLIC BENEFITS STAFF ATTORNEY-Urban Justice Center's Homeless-
ness Outreach and Prevention Project seeks an attomey witlfone to four
years experience in poverty law work to represent welfare recipients and
low-wage workers on a full range of public benefits issues. Strong writ-
ten, verbal, individual advocacy and affirmative litigation skills are
strongly desi red. Admission to the New York State Bar is mandatory.
Spanish language proficiency is very helpful. Submit cover letter detail-
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ing public interest experiencelinterest, resume, brief writing sample, and
references to HOPP Attorney Search, 666 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York,
NY 10012. Salary commensurate with field; generous vacation, full med-
icaVdental benefits.
QUEENS BOROUGH ASSISTAHT---tity-Wide Task Force on Housing Court,
Inc.- PART-nME BOROUGH HOUSING ASSISTANT Responsibilities: Dis-
tribute information to unrepresented litigants in borough housing courts.
Provide general assistance at the Task Force information table and with
the telephone hotline. Assist Borough Coordinators in obtaining docu-
mentation of problems from unrepresented litigants, and monitoring the
courtrooms and hallways of housing court to determine problems expe-
rienced by unrepresented litigants. Please see our web site,
www.cwtfhc.org, for a full description.
RESEARCH ANALYST-Good Jobs New York- Dynamic project focused
on making economic development programs in New York accountable to
the needs of working New Yorkers seeks a full-time research analyst.
GJNY is a clearinghouse on corporate and govemment accountability in
the use of economic development subsidies, aiming to ensure that fam-
ily-wage jobS'"are created when public money is used to subsidize corpo-
rations. Requirements: Commitment to social and economic justice;
familiarity with pol icy issues and political context; undergraduate degree
required - graduate degree or coursework deSirable, data analysis skills,
written and communications ski lls, experience with website mainte-
nance a plus. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply. More
information at www.goodjobsny.org.
RESIDENCE SERVICE DIRECTOR-The YMCA of Greater NY is a commu-
nity service organization that promotes positive val ues through programs
that build spirit, mind and body, welcoming all people with a focus on
youth ... since 1852. We are seeking a Residence Services Director to work
at our Prospect Park branch located in Brooklyn, NY. In this position, you
will manage a Community House, a 138-room supportive housing resi-
dence. Candidates must have three to five years of leadership experience
in the supportive housing field with strong knowledge of contract man-
agement and ability to provide high quality services to residents. MSW
required. We offer a competitive compensation package and comprehen-
sive benefits. Please email resumes to sandrews@ymcanyc.org or fax to
(718) 499-0425. EOE www.ymcanyc.org
RESIDENT SUPER FOR MID-TOWN LOCAnON---tHDC-fxcellent trade
skills and attention to detail a must. Exp. Wrth #6 boilers 8am-5pm
schedule+on-cail 24n. Sal 20klhealthlapt/util. Eng. Speaking. Fax
resume to: 212-967-1649 or email to: rs@clintonhousing.org
RESIDENTiAl SUPERINTENDENT/ASST. RES. SUPER.-fosition 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. boilers license,
standpipe/sprinkler certification, etc. Union poSition - Local 32BJ. Fax
resume to GRM at 718-642-1963 EOE '- ,.
SCHOOL MANAGER---tharter School-Seeking energetic professional
to oversee all non-educational aspects of a new Charter School. Position
requires passion for education, strategic thinking and hands-dirty prob-
lem solving. Responsibilities: oversee budget, accounting, purchasing,
payroll, records, reporting, maintenance, transportation, and food ser-
vice. Qualifications: BA, 2 years management experience, and prior expe-
rience with budget/accounting required. MBA is a plus. E-mail
resume/cover letter to louise@fssny.com.
SECURITY MAINTENANCE: TEMP-Urban Pathways, an EOE and provider
of services to homeless single adults, seeks summer coverage for its
securityl1ight maintenance positions in several of its programs. Requires
min. GED, superior references, may be subject to fingerprinting/criminal
background checks. All 3 shifts available; must be able to do light main-
tenance, cleaning and taking over some security post coverage. Comput-
er literacy; second language helpful. Send resume/cover letter to 212-
736- 1388; email to hr@urbanpathways.org; no calls or agencies please!
SENIOR LEGISLATIVE INTERN--ASSEMBLYMAN STEVEN SANDERS,
Chairman of the Education Committee, seeks very bright, articulate,
energetic, confident, sharp individual for research, writing, policy
analysis and investigative work. No pay, open-ended, schedule neg(}-
tiable. Must be an excellent writer, have an engaging personality and be
at ease with complex assignments and independent work. This is an
extraordinary opportunity to make a difference and gain highly valuable
experience. Knowledge of state or city government, experience with pub-
lic education a plus. Email cover letter and resume or questions to
SANDERSsCHIEF@aol.com or fax "Att: SBK" to 212. 979-0594. PlEASE,
NO CALLS.
SENIDR LEVEl JOB DEVElOPER-United Jewish Organizations of
Williamsburg-Seeking Senior Level Job Developer for challenging
opportunity to new job training programs in underserved area.
Must be entrepreneurial, a self-starter, have strong organizational, com-
munication and community planning skills. Will be responsible for culti-
vating new business opportunities and connecting to potential employ-
ers. Must present strong references evidencing track record of success
in community organizations and management. Resume and references
can be sent to: United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, Attn: Rabbi
David Niederman a\: workforce@unitedjewish.org
SENIDR PROGRAM ASSOCIATE-Nonprofit Connection-A leading non-
profit management consuning firm, Nonprofrt Connection, seeks an expe-
rienced Senior Program Associate with a minimum of five years' experience
in nonprofit management. Responsibilities: Provide services to
nonprofit organizations in the areas of organizational development, includ-
ing, but not limited to: board development, program development, human
resources administration, strategic planning, fund raisi ng, and organiza-
tional design; develop curriculum for and deliver group training sessions
in various areas of organizational development. Requirements: A mini-
mum of five years' experience in nonprofit management with senior man-
agement responsibility, or experience in technical assistance or manage-
ment consuning. Excellent training, writing and interpersonal skills;
knowledge of organizational structure and govemance; fami liarity with
funding resources and development strategy; computer competency; abil-
ity to work in a team-1lriented, environment; familiarity with
New York City neighborhoods, and sensitivity to the diverse ethnic and cul-
tural milieu of New York City. Send resume and salary history to: Sr. As$(}-
ciate Search, Nonprofrt Connection, 50 Broadway, Suite 1800, New York, NY
10004. No phone calls. Deadline: April 15, 2005
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER-United Hospital Fund of New York (Aging-
in-place InitiativeJ--Excellent opportunity for seasoned, accomplished
social services/public professional to work in expanding program
that addresses heanh and social issues affecting aging New Yorkers. AlPI
promotes the development of formal programs in NYC to provide heanh
and social services to seniors in "Naturally Occurring Retirement Commu-
nities (NORC)". These programs help aging New Yorkers remain in their
homes as their need for assistance increases. The Senior Program Man-
ager will manage and provide day-t(}-day coordination of the NORC Pro-
gram Blueprint project. The Blueprint project will develop a national con-
sensus on the definitions and standards for the development, operation
and evaluation of NORC programs. 'program development, evaluation
and analysis 'workgroup and stakeholder group development ' report
and work product development and dissemination ' analyze and research
materials 'track legislative activity and public policy that address aging
issues 'participate in team site visits' represent AIPVUHF in outside
forums' act as information resource for NORC program development
Requirements: MA. 5+ years experience in program development,
care administration, social service, or urban planning field. Program
analysis and quantitative skills, excellent written and oral communica-
tion skills. Leadership skills and teamwork spirit, ability to organize mul-
tiple activities Mail, fax or email cover letter and resume to: Human
Resources Department United Hospital Fund of New York 350 Fifth
Avenue, 23rd FI New York, NY 10118 Fax: 212-494-0800 emai l: employ-
ment@uhfnyc.orgfor more information, visi t www.uhfnyc.org
SOCIAL SERVICES DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ACCESS TO LONG TERM CARE
PROGRAM-The NYC Department for the Aging seeks candidate with
administrative, case management experience; strong skills in budget-
ing, problem solving, staff development, to assist Director in all aspects
of Access to Long Term Care Program. BA + 4 years experience in social
services; 1 year in agi ng. NYC residency required. Send resumes to Jean
Weber, NYC Dept. for the Aging, 2 Lafayette St., 9th FI., NY. NY 10007
FAX 212-442-1153 EOE MlFNID
SOCiAl WORKER---tatholic Charities, Brooklyn seeking dynamic indi-
vidual to join Supportive Housing team. UMSWILCSW responsible for
intake, group work, community resource development, consunive super-
vision for case management staff, linking on-site psychiatrirJnursing
services; travel between three sites. Experience w/homeless, mentally ill,
MICA populations. SIFT eligible; bi-lingual Spanish a plus. Send cover
letter and resume by fax to 718-722- 6134. Attn: Patricia Dawson, Car-
ing Communities. EOEIM
SOCiAl WORKERS-NYC Department of Homeless Services-Salary
Range: $46,875-$64,366. The New York City Department of Homeless
Services (DHS), a City agency working in partnership with other public
and private organizations to provide temporary emergency shelter and
support services for eligible homeless individuals and families, is seek-
ing qualified social workers to serve in our Bronx office of Prevention
Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH). Posting #: DHS-071-05-
9022-785-CityLimits. Selected individuals will serve as counselors in the
PATH Resource Room, where they will provide basic and rapid support
services to connect clients with community resources that will enable
them to return to their communities. The PATH Resource Room generally
provides services to those candidates that have been deemed ineligible
CITY LIMITS
for temporary housing through DHS. Services provided to these individu-
als will include counseling, mediation and referrals to neighborhood-
based organizations. QUALIFICATIONS: A Master's Degree in Social Work
from an accredited school of social work AND two years of full-time sat-
isfactory experience practicing social work utilizing one or a combination
of: casework, group work, and community organization methodologies,
one year of which must have been spent in a supervisory capacity. Can-
didates skilled in rapid assessment, management and crisis interven-
tion are strongly preferred. CERTIFICATIONILICENSURE REQUIREMENTS:
A valid Certified Social Worker (CSW) certificate or Licensed Master of
Social Work (LMSW) license issued by the NYS Department of Education
must be obtained within one year of the date of appointment. For imme-
diate consideration, please send !we copies of a cover letter (indicating
the posting number of the position as listed above); along with !we
resume copies no later than May 9, 2005, to: New York City Department
of Homeless Services, Recruitment Coordinator, 33 Beaver Street - 12th
Floor, New York, NY 10004. New York City Residency is Required. The NYC
Department of Homeless Services is an equal opportunity employer.
SOCIAL WORKER-The Office of the Appellate Defender-SOCIAL
WORKER for non-profit law office to assist clients preparing for release
from prison and provide information to prisoners, families and relevant
organizations on prisoner re-entry issues. MSW required; experience with
criminal justice system preferred. Resume, writing sample & three refer-
ences to: Maisy Card, Office of the Appellate Defender, 45 West 45th
Street, 7th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036; mcard@appellatedefender.org;
fax: 212-764-0236. For more information, go to http://www.appellatede-
fender.orglemployment.html.
SR. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT- The Enterprise Foundation-This
position is located in the NYC office at 80 5th Ave, NY, NY 10011. The
Senior Administrative Assistant primarily provides administrative and
clerical support to the local office director (LOD) and provides adminis-
trative support secondarily to other New York office staff. The position
requires strong administrative skills and the ability to work with limrted
supervision. Reports tothe LOD. Responsibilities: Provide general admin-
istrative support to the LOD and staff of NYC to ensure efficient opera-
tions Maintain LOD's calendar; arrange travel and detailed itinerary
Maintain schedule of staff members; schedule meetings and conference
calls for both internal and external attendees, including off-site meet-
ings Manage local office paperwork and administration, including
timesheets, expense reports, expenses and invoices Provide high degree
of customer service and quick courtecus response to requests for assis-
tance and information from internal and external customers Perform
other duties as assigned Qualifications: Business or appropriate voca-
tional school training; post- secondary education preferred Three (3)
years relevant experience providing strong business, organizational and
clerical skills Ability to be flexible, anticipate and initiate tasks necessary
to maintain, update, and prepare for daily, on-going and non- routine
team tasks Excellent skills in customer service, collaboration, and prob-
lem solving. Demonstrated skill in collaboration, verbal communica-
tions, and problem solving. Demonstrated organizational skills; ability to
prioritize and manage multiple projects and assignments and meet tight
deadlines. Excellent skills with word processing using Microsoft Office
software, including Excel and Power Point; and general knowledge of
databases and other information technology systems. Evidence of com-
mitment to public service. Desire to learn and master new challenges.
Please fax (410.772.2702), email (hr@enterprisefoundation.org) with
SrAA-NYC in the subject line or mail resume with cover letter and salary
requirements to: The Enterprise Foundation Attn: HR DeptlSrAA-NYC
10225 Wincopin Cir, Ste 500 Columbia, MD 21044-3400 The Enterprise
Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
SR. HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE-Westhab Inc-Westchester
County's largest non-profit hsg development corp seeks a highly skilled
individual to assist the VP in securing government and/or private financ-
ing for the acquiSition & construction of residential & Mixed-use projects
serving la/moderate income households. Responsibilities include prepa-
ration of project development & operating pro form as, preparation of
applications for public financing, private financial intermediaries &
commercial banks, over-site of projects during construction & planning
new community initiatives. MS degree with emphasis on real estate
finance & community planning or 5 yrs equiv expo Excellent written/ver-
bal/computer skills a must. We offer a competetive salary and a compa-
ny sponsored retirment plan. Send resume/ltr to Dir Human Resources
Westhab 85 Executive Blvd Elmsford, NY 10523 Fax 914 345-3139 e-
mail h.r@westhab.org EOE
STAFF ASSOCIATE FOR COMMUNICATlON5---{;itizens' Committee for
Children of New York Inc. (CCC) is a 60 year-old non-profit, public inter-
est organization that works to improve the quality of life for New York City
children. We seek a Staff Associate for Communications to coordinate the
organization's communication and public education activities. The Staff
JULY/AUGUST 2005
Associate for Communications will be responsible for: producing three
newsletters each year and annual report; producing agency brochures;
managing CCC's websrte; producing information and education materi-
als; planning and coordinating CCC's lecture series and special events;
and coordinating the curriculum and site visits for a community leader-
ship course. The posrtion requires a college degree, website management,
and computer skills (Quark, HTML, Photoshop, Publishers ... ), knowledge
of and demonstrated commitment to child and family. Applicants should
be highly motivated and organized with excellent written and verbal skills.
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience. Competitive benefit pack-
age. Reference Required: Provide three references, a writing sample, and
salary history. Submit resumes to: Rose Anello Associate Executive Direc-
tor for Public Affairs Citizens' Committee for Children of New York, Inc. 105
East 22nd Street, 7th FI. New York, NY 10010 ranello@cccnewyork.org
STAFF ASSOCIATE FOR HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH ANO CHILO WELFARE
SERYICES-Multi-issue child advocacy organization-Staff Associate
for Health, Mental Heaijh, and Child Welfare responsibilities include: pol-
icy and program analysis and development, research and fact-finding;
data analysis; community outreach and consmuency building; budgets
and legislative analysis, extensive writing (testimony, policy reports,
briefing papers, articles); and public speaking. Email jmarch@ccc-
newyork.org. No phone calls.
SUPERINTENDENT FOR UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT-Educational
Institution-Superintendent for Utica City School District The Utica City
School District is seeking a highly qualified educational leader to serve
as Superintendent of Schools. The successful candidate will have a
strong background in curriculum, instruction and assessment, possess
excellent communication skills, be a visionary leader, possess in-depth
knowledge in educational finance and budgeting and have a strong
commitment to academic excellence. Experience in urban and multi-cul-
tural education preferred. The district serves more than 9,500 students
in 12 schools with 1,500 employees and an annual operating budget of
$98M. NYS SDA required. Residency recuired. Salary range $150,000.
Position to start 11212006. Send letter of interest, resume, and copy of
certification by June 30, 2005 to: Mr. Howard D. Mettelman District
Superintendent Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES Box 70 Middle Settle-
ment Road New Hartford, New York 13413 ece
TEAM LEADER---1-iELP USA, a nationally recognized leader in the provi-
sion of transitional housing, is seeking an organized and versatile Team
Leader to lead team of social service professionals in the provision of
quality client services in a domestic violence emergency shelter. The
ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, clinical and supervisory
skills. Knowledge and understanding of issues specific to domestic vio-
lence and homelessness and the ability to multi-task are essential.
Responsible for overall leadership of interdisciplinary team; providing
crisis intervention as needed, and ensuring successful transition back to
community. Organization provides excellent compensation package,
tuition reimbursement and opportunities for professional development
and advancement. Salary 37K + based on experience and qualifications.
An MSW Degree required, SIFI certified desirable; NYS Driver's License
(unrestricted) necessary; proficiency in computers and Windows based
software plus 3 years supervisory experience a must; Bilingual (Eng-
lishlSpanish) a plus. Email resume with cover letter and salary consid-
erations to: tawilliams@helpusa.org. EOE. A Drug Free Workplace.
VICE PRESIDENT DEVELOPMENT-Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson
Valley-Oynamic, growing community-based non-profit company seeks
an experienced professional to join the senior management team. This
creative position will manage the staff and activities related to the
analysis, planning and execution of all fundraising, public relations,
advertising and marketing activities. Responsibilities also include spe-
cial events, grants, planned and major giving. Candidate must have 5
years experience and a BA degree in related field, excellent communica-
tion and organizational skills, and ability to work with various publics
including Board members, volunteers and donors. Send resume to
Human Resources, Visting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley, 100
South Bedford Road, Mt Kisco, NY 10549 Fax 914-666-9514 EOE
VOLUNTEER AND TRAINING COORDINATOR---Mayor's Office to Combat
Domestic Violence-RecruitJmanage 300+ volunteers for new Family
Justice Center. Experience working in DV, healthcare, human services.
Strong knowledge of City gov'tJagencies preferred. BAlBS, min. 2 years
management experience. Salary: $40-$50K. Submit 1 page cover letter,
resume, writing sample and 3 refs to: S.Lyman, Office to Combat Domes-
tic Violence, 100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10038. EOE
VOTER ENGAGEMENT PROJECT DlRECTOR--l..ow-income Grassroots
Organization-CVH Voter Engagement Project Coordinator CVH is a city-
wide membership organization of low-income people organizing on eco-
nomic justice, job creation, welfare and access to education and training
services. We are seeking to hire a coordinator for our non-partisan Voter
CLASSIFIEDS
Engagement Project. The goals of the project are to increase turnout in
low-income communities and to educate, train and develop community
leaders. The responsibilities of the position will include: Outreach to Vot-
ers in low-income neighborhoods in NYC; Building a base of active com-
munity volunteer leaders: Organizing trainings, strategy meetings and
mass public actions connected to the project and the NYC Mayoral cam-
paign. Qualifications: Minimum 2 years in a community organizing or
electoral setting that included base-building, door-knocking, leadership
development, mobilization, and strategy development. Hard working, will-
ing to work long hours including some weekends, and ability manage a
diverse set of tasks. Spanish speaking is strongly desired. Salary is com-
mensurate with experience - healthcare included. CVH is equal opportu-
nity employer. We strongly encourage women and people of color, LGBT,
low-income, immigrants and people with experience with public assis-
tance to apply for this position. Fax Resume and Cover Letter to (212)
996-9481 or email to henry@cvhaction.org (Website: www.cvhaction.org)
VP FOR DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS-Women's Housing and
Economic Development Corp---;\ward-winning Bronx non profit housing +
economic development organization seeks high-energy seasoned develop-
ment professional with significant managerial experience to direct all
fund raising and resource development; create fund raising strategy; super-
vise a staff of four; manage/raise foundation, corporation, government,
special event and individual donor revenues; interface with highly motivat-
ed and well-connected Board of Directors and dedicated staff. Raise visi-
bility of organization. Minimum 8 years senior development experience;
self-starter with sense of humor and desire to participate in the renais-
sance of the Bronx. Excellent salary and benefits commensurate with expe-
rience. Resumes with cover letter via email to Kate Weingarten,
kategw@aol.com . No phone calls please Closing date May 30, 2005
WESTCHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZER- Grassroots Eco-
nomic Development Organization seeks Westchester County Community
Organizer. Experienced organizer wanted to conduct an assessment and
research project of potential organizi ng campaigns and the potential to
develop a Westchester- County based chapter of successful New York City
Economic Justice Organization. Community Voices Heard, a membership
organization, is exploring the potential of developing 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 advo-
cacy, and or project development management experience required. The
position would be based out of our New York City office in Upper Manhat-
tan, but would recuire a significant amount of independent work and
travel in Westchester County - including evening meetings. A car is
recuired. 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 information please check out our
web page at www.cvhaction.org. Hiring for this position is ASAP
YOUTH LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR--{;ouncil for Unity-Youth leader-
ship Coordinator (20 hrsiwk) Oversee all aspects of program including
coordination between staff, schools, community based organizations,
and volunteers, recruitment and outreach, workshops, after-school
meetings, project implementation, reporting and evaluation. BA pre!.
Req 2 yrs related exp in structured after-school programs, excellent com-
munication & organizational skills, experience w/ at-risk youth. Some
weekends, evenings, and travel necessary. Fax resume to (718)714-7187
or email DSaunders@CouncilforUnity.org
YOUTH LEADERSHIP COORDINATOR-The Juvenile Justice Project seeks
a committed, dynamic individual to coordinate Each One, Teach One, a
comprehensive youth leadership initiative that seeks to train young peo-
ple to become advocates and leaders in juvenile justice reform efforts.
Responsibilities include: working with young people to develop skills and
knowledge in advocacy, political education and community organizing;
coordinating advocacy activities and projects with program alumni ; and
training and supervising youth interns. Email resume and cover letter to
Ms. Mishi Faruqee, Director of the Juvenile Justice Project,
mfaruqee@correctionalassociation.org.
YOUTH POWER PROJECT COOROINATOR---Make the Road by Walking
seeks a full-time Youth Power Project Coordinator to manage and grow
our youth programs. Sixty teenagers currently participate in these pro-
grams. Experience in job development for teenagers, college placement,
and fundraising a plus. Minimum three years work with teenagers, man-
agement and supervision experience, and Bachelor's degree required.
Competitive salary and benefits. Email resume and cover letter to
oona@maketheroad.org with Job litle in subject line. No faxes or phone
calls.
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