Make the Road New York

“Make the road's independent cpa prepares the return and it is reviewed by one of its co-executive directors, its controller and its outside contracted accountant. The return is then reviewed in detail with the board finance committee and sent to the full board.”

“A digital copy of the documents is kept on the file server and can be printed at any of the organization's locations upon request by a visitor.”

“A majority of our board of director seats are filled by democratically elected board members. Every 3 years elections are held in each of the organization's standing membership committees to elect 1 board seat per committee.members are defined as those who elect to pay dues which are currently set at $20 per year.”

“The organization does have a written conflict of interest policy, and, officers/directors/trustees are required to disclose potential conflicts annually.”

“Ana Maria Archilla, Andrew Friedman, and Oona Chatterjee HAVE A Business relationship”

“Adult LITERACY - WE EMPOWER IMMIGRANT NEW YORKERS TO BECOME CIVICALLY ENGAGED, SECURE GOOD JOBS, HELP THEIR CHILDREN WITH HOMEWORK, AND MORE.ONE-THIRD OF NEW YORKERS-OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE-LACK EITHER ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OR A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, BUT INADEQUATE FUNDING MEANS THAT JUST 3% OF NEW YORKERS HAVE ACCESS TO CRITICAL CLASSES. MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK HELPS MEET THIS NEED BY PROVIDING ENGLISH COMPUTER, CITIZENSHIP PREPARATION, AND BRIDGE TO HEALTH CAREERS CLASSES TO OVER 1,300 ADULTS ANNUALLY AND BY WORKING IN COALIATION WITH OTHER PROVIDERS ACROSS THE CITY AND STATE TO PUSH BETTER FUNDING FOR ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES FOR ALL NEW YORKERS.”

“Other changes: Change in beneficial interest in trust -$3,824.”

“Legal and health services - we serve thousands of families each year with high quality legal and health access services, and work to change unjust systems through impact litigation, policy design, and working side-by-side with members and organizers on adoption of those policies. Our legal team works in the area of employment, immigration law, housing and benefits and tgnciq rights, helping to tackle crises like an impending eviction or an order of deportation. Our health team works to provide assistance so that community members can access healthcare services, avoid crushing medical debt and access nutrition. Thanks to the trust we build with community members, we are often able to avert crises before they spiral out of control and ensure that all members of a family get services they need to thrive over the long term. Our attorneys and advocates take the knowledge of overarching issues gleaned from thousands of individual cases and use them to design enforceable and far-reaching policies, working side-by-side with community members and organizers to secure their adoption. We also monitor government agencies to ensure good implementation, providing real-time, on-the-ground feedback.”

“Community organizing - we mobilize thousands of people each year to take to the streets, the microphone, and the halls of power, to win critical victories for our communities. We organize impactful community-led campaigns that make tangible changes in our people's lives and sustain broader movements for dignity and justice. We organize in our neighborhoods while helping to lead statewide and national movements for immigration reform, workers rights, and more. Our issue committees meet weekly and give members a chance to identity common problems, devise solutions, and wage grassroots campaigns to enact those solutions. In this way, we are able to cultivate grassroots leadership that ensure that our campaigns and movements are led by those most impacted.”

“Youth power project & school programs - we support and empower young people to become critical thinkers and effective leaders in the fight for dignity and justice. We give youth tools to shape their own future and the future of their community. Every year we reach 3,000 working class immigrants youth and youth of color with innovative peer-led college access support, creative arts and media programs, youth-focuses political education and more. In this way, we address the overlapping crises of under-resourced schools, biased school discipline, an lack of access to college and career opportunities that harm our communities.our youth-led organizing campaigns have helped reform biased policing, made schools more inclusive and supportive, and elevated the struggle of immigrant students to get into college. Our youth members are leaders of some of the city and state's most vibrant and effective campaigns on immigrant rights, criminal justice and more.”