New Yorkers, including community, business, political, and philanthropic leaders will come together for a week of action throughout the five boroughs

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

8.09.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

7.26.22

Meet with CitizensNYC CEO Dr. Rahsaan Harris to learn how to connect with your local elected officials, get more funds for your group, and strengthen your social media presence!

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Join CitizensNYC to learn how to navigate local New York City government to protect the rights of all New Yorkers. Our special guest speaker, newly appointed Manhattan Community Board 1 member, Desi K. Robinson, will discuss how to mobilize our communities to understand and participate in hyper-local government to protect Black rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and Women’s rights.

CitizensNYC and Trinity Church Wall Street are proud to support Lower Manhattan business owners with $150,000 direct cash grants invested into 18 neighborhood businesses below 14th Street.

“Over a billion pounds of nutritious food goes to waste in New York City every year,” said Douglas Silver, co-founder of the Gotham Food Pantry, an organization that redirects food waste, after his organization received a $3,000 grant from CitizensNYC.

Violence Will Not Make Us Safe!

What does public safety mean to your community? Public safety is programs or activities implemented by a public agency (directly or indirectly) for the safety, protection, law enforcement and criminal justice of the public. Included in this should be mental health.

Mr. Deutch is the longtime Chairman of the organization’s fall fundraising event taking place this year on Monday, October 17 at its new location, Tavern on the Green.

Just in time for Small Business Week, Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC), a micro-funding organization supporting civic leaders and developing tomorrow’s leaders, is thrilled to announce that Wells Fargo has made another $250,000 investment in New York City’s small business community.

Community Gardens: Fertile Ground for Environmental Justice

Community gardens and the gardeners who care for them contribute to the environmental sustainability, public health, and community resilience of their neighborhoods and cities.

Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC), a long-standing micro-granting organization rooted in showing the resilience of New Yorkers, has had a long-time partnership with Allied World to mobilize volunteers and create educational and nutritional school programs.

#WomenSupportWomen: Network Weaving to Build Your Dream

We don’t go far without each other. Want to launch a business, nonprofit, or other dream?

Trinity Church Wall Street grants $200,000 to CitizensNYC to support neighborhood businesses below 14th Street via CitizensNYC Neighborhood Business Grant (NBG) program

Homeownership & Economic Justice

Economic justice is access to tools that build wealth, such as homeownership, education, and business ownership. When these tools are accessible to all, that is economic justice.

Electeds and New Yorkers Tackling the City’s Biggest Issues

How can you make your voice heard by electeds?

Leverage that Money!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Grantmaking season!

The micro-granting organization also announces the launch of their inaugural Advisory Council

All in for Community Health

Our one-day Ideas Summit convenes and connects grassroots community leaders, academics, elected officials, strategists, and community residents, working toward the public good of New York City.

New Yorkers, including elected officials, business leaders, philanthropists, will come together for a week of action throughout five boroughs, dedicated to rebuilding the city amid the pandemic