Combating Discrimination, Promoting Equal Access
Make the Road New York has demonstrated strong leadership in both documenting and combating national origin discrimination within the administration of New York City public schools and government agencies.

As a result, New York City’s government is significantly closer to ensuring equal access to vital government services, like Medicaid, Food Stamps and public assistance, by providing language assistance services to the twenty-five percent of New Yorkers who are still in the difficult process of learning English.

Building an active, politically conscious voting base
Make the Road New York’s Voter Power Project provides our members and community residents with effective outreach skills to educate their neighbors about critical issues and make sure that infrequent voters get out and vote. We are also a founding member of NY VOTE, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions that focuses on voter turnout in neighborhoods with historically low voter participation.

In 2006, Make the Road New York knocked on close to 10,000 doors during the primary and general elections, and spoke with over 2,700 progressive voters who committed to going to the polls, effectively ensuring a stronger role for low-income voters in Brooklyn and Queens.

Additionally, throughout our organization’s history, we have supported over 13,000 immigrants in becoming citizens of the United States.

Defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and adults
Globe (formerly Gays and Lesbians Of Bushwick Empowered) is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer people primarily from communities of color in New York. The mission of the project is to empower these communities through organizing, outreach and education.

The project started ten years ago by a transgender Latina from Bushwick, Brooklyn to provide a space where LGBTQ community members can meet to confront oppression and discrimination within our schools, on the job, in the streets and in our government.

Globe is one of the few New York City groups led and constituted by low-income LGBTQ people of color fighting on issues of public policy that have impact at the city-wide, state-wide and national level.