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- EIN 20-0092728
- info@furee.org
- 718-852-2960
- 81 Willoughby St Room Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
- www.furee.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Community Coalitions, Minority Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights
Mission: Based in Brooklyn, FUREE is a membership organization that is organizing to build power so that low-income families can change policy in order to win permanent exits from poverty. FUREE has a base of several hundred families, almost all of whom are headed by low-income women of color. FUREE is led by its members, who are the real experts on the policies that affect low-income families.
Results: We have spent a lot of time working on planning and launching our five year plan to expand our work beyond our city. We are currently raising funding to help us increase our capacity by hiring members from our base to come onboard as community organizing staff
Target demographics: low income and working individuals; youth between 14 - 24 years old; public housing residents; child care providers;
Geographic areas served: Brooklyn communities including Fort Greene, Downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Flatbush, Red Hook
Programs: - increasing access to affordable housing for low income families - increasing access to good jobs with living wages and health benefits - protecting and preserving public housing - addressing barriers to unemployment for young people of color in New York City - organizing low income voters to build power to move families permanently out of poverty
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