Community Voices Heard Inc

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Causes: Civil Rights, Employment Preparation & Procurement, Job Training, Leadership Development, Women, Womens Rights

Mission: Community Voices Heard is an organization of low income people, mostly women on welfare and public housing residents, working together to improve the lives of our members'' families and all poor people in New York City and State. We are directed, run and being built by low-income people. We are a growing grass roots organization that uses public education, public policy research, community organizing, leadership development, voter education & mobilization, and direct action issue organizing to build our membership and to organize around issues that are defined by our membership. While we began with a focus on welfare reform, we broadly define "welfare activism" to be multi issue, and thus must include issues such as education, training, jobs, housing, economic development and other community issues. We fill a critical gap in that our organization connects public policy with grass roots organizing and leadership development.

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william.cerf

william.cerf Volunteer

Rating: 5

03/12/2013

Community Voices Heard (CVH) really is member led and there is training to help members develop leadership capacity. Additionally, the organization does serious advocacy work on behalf of low-income New Yorkers. Several policy reports and white papers have been issued. It appears to me that CVH is well respected throughout the Stae of New York.

I am editing this review because I strongly believe that Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a Top-Rated Nonprofit and is an outstanding candidate for the 2013 Top-Rated Awards

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