First Step Graduates and Supporters Came Together at the 2025 Annual Women Mean Business Luncheon to Celebrate “Community” – and Raise Over $520,000 Posted on April 8, 2025 The Plaza Grand Ballroom buzzed with energy on Friday, April 4th, as over 300 professionals gathered for the Coalition for the Homeless’ hallmark spring event—the annual Women Mean Business Luncheon, now in its 29th year. This event gathers New York Ci ..Read More
Personal Needs Allowance (A. 8061) – Social Toolkit Posted on February 28, 2022 Twitter Graphic: Download Twitter graphic here. Sample Tweets: New Yorkers sleeping in certain shelters receive as little as $22.50 2x/month as a personal needs allowance. This amount hasn’t been raised in decades. Thanks to @LindaBRosenthal, this can change ..Read More
Home is Hope PSA and Statement Posted on November 10, 2021 EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A HOME Forty years ago, the Coalition for the Homeless secured the legal right to shelter for New Yorkers without homes, creating a baseline of decency in our city. We need now to build on that baseline, because people need home ..Read More
Today’s Read: Expansion of Federal Rental Assistance Would Bring Significant Drop in Poverty, Homelessness Posted on September 27, 2021 For decades, the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program has proven to be one of the most effective solutions to homelessness and housing instability, by subsidizing rents for low-income Americans. However, despite ample research on the program’s effectiven ..Read More
Helping Homeless New Yorkers During Cold Weather Posted on January 5, 2018 Each winter, thousands of homeless New Yorkers struggle to survive on the streets, while high winds, frigid temperatures, snow, and freezing rain can put them at risk of life-threatening illnesses like hypothermia and frostbite. The City declares a Code Blue w ..Read More
Why I Volunteer With The Grand Central Food Program Posted on October 29, 2014 by Arvind Singh Arvind Singh, a Senior Analyst at AIG, started volunteering with the Grand Central Food Program in 2004. Below, he shares why he has been such a steadfast GCFP volunteer for a decade. For almost 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity of volunteering as a dri ..Read More
Today’s Read: ‘Welfare-to-Work’ Has Failed, So New York City Is Trying Something New Posted on October 14, 2014 by Gabriela Sandoval Requena For nearly two decades, the Human Resources Administration (HRA) enforced punitive rules that coerced New Yorkers in need into dead-end training programs and mandatory work requirements in exchange for limited welfare aid, denying them the opportunity to ma ..Read More
Spread the Word Posted on September 8, 2014 Tonight more than 56,000 New Yorkers will sleep in homeless shelters – that includes nearly 24,000 children. Get the facts about homelessness in New York City with our new interactive charts, and please share with your friends. ..Read More
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