Our new report analyzes the increase in NY’s aging population, their needs, & highlights the vital role NORCs play in combating loneliness. More funding is needed to ensure that older people thrive in their communities.

Read it here: unhny.org/reports

Have you voted yet on how up to $1 million should be spent in your community? #PBVoteWeek is happening from now until April 14!

Voting online is easy and takes just a few minutes! Cast your ballot now at vote.pbnyc.org

Learning to Work (LTW) is a transformative initiative designed to empower and support young people in their educational and career journeys. We are calling on @nycmayor to #SaveLTW and ensure it can support the youth for years to come. Chancellor David C. Banks NYC Public Schools

Thank you CM Jen Gutiérrez for highlighting this issue. Child care workers help keep our city running and care for our youngest learners. They deserve to have health insurance! Mayor Eric Adams

Like Elsa, thousands of New Yorkers pay taxes, but get little aid in return and are struggling to make ends meet.

With the Working Families Tax Credit, ALL low and middle-income New York families will receive an even bigger, better tax credit! NYS, the time to act is now! #WFTC

Your VOTE is your VOICE. Make sure it’s heard at the polls during this year’s presidential primary election today. See you at the ballot box, New York! #gotv

Many thanks to Adrienne Adams Justin Brannan & New York City Council for prioritizing working and middle class NYers in today's budget response. From preserving child care, to restoring cuts to DYCD, to supporting older adults, we must keep our neighborhoods strong in the FY25 budget.

Last Thursday, UNH’s Settlement Houses Advancing Racial Equity (SHARE) Group met for dinner The Cabin NYC! For the past three years, the group has been working tirelessly dismantling systemic racism and DEIB initiatives within the settlement house network. 👏👏

NEW: Senator Rachel May and I have been calling for an increase to the SNAP minimum benefit so we decided to SHOW you why we need it.

Watch as Jack Arpey from Spectrum News 1 Albany joined us at Honest Weight Food Co-op to see why $23 isn't enough and why we need Governor Kathy Hochul to raise it to $100.

We thank the Council for filing an appeal on Our City, Our Vote. Our neighbors deserve a chance to vote in elections that impact their lives.

Read more: tinyurl.com/46dfhuty

Thanks to Chris Sommerfeldt & New York Daily News for highlighting this!

Today we joined our partners at New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) & LatinoJustice PRLDEF ⚖️ to support Local Law 11, which would grant municipal voting rights to nearly a million lawfully present NYers. Many thanks to Alexa Avilés for joining us and Adrienne Adams and New York City Council for continuing this fight!

LatinoJustice PRLDEF ⚖️ ✨ 🦋 Eva Santos Veloz 🦋 Alexa Avilés Thank you to our fearless partners and co-leads UNHNY since 2005.

✅Quality of our schools
✅Safety of our streets
✅Countless other ways the city government impacts our lives

We call on court officials to protect our local democracy & reinstate #LocalLaw11 .

Thanks Assembly Member
Linda B. Rosenthal “the #OriginalRosenthal” for fighting to secure $5 million for the Settlement House Program in the Assembly's Budget proposal! We're one of the settlement houses that receives this vital funding to enhance our services to the community. UNHNY

Are you ready to VOTE? Early voting has begun for NY's Presidential Primary Election, Tuesday, April 2, 2024! Check your voter registration status & look up your poll site using this link: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

See you at the polls!

You’re invited to the 9th Annual Lillian Wald Symposium titled “Welcoming New Migrant Neighbors: Can NYC Live Our Ideals?” Join us at Abrons Arts Center on April 17 at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public, but you must RSVP. Register now at HenryStreet.org/Symposium

Last night in the Bronx, I spoke with parents and school leaders about universal afterschool and the affordability crisis.

While City Hall cuts back on afterschool, working families need these programs more than ever.

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We support our #WHY15 partners. Providers deserve to be paid on time, every time.

QCH is proud to be standing with CAMBA Inc. GoodShepherdNYC St. Nicks Alliance and so many others at City Hall today urging Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Council to #SaveLTW !

“Find money now!” We’re at City Hall with other Learning to Work advocates asking the City to save youth job training programs! #saveLTW

This week, UNH testified before @nyccouncil about the value of ECE programs. By funding fair wages for educators and staff and restoring cuts to 3-K and Pre-K, the City can make sure children receive the education they deserve!

Read more: unhny.org/testimonies