Family Council

Events and Alerts:

• Next meeting: April 25
  Campaign for Childern Upper Manhattan Townhall at Goddard Riverside’s Benie Wohl Center, 6:30 PM

To find out who represents you:

•  Contacting Elected Officials
• Contacting the President and Congress
• NYC Board of Elections: link to register to vote: http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/register.html
• League of Women Voters: link to find out who represents you: http://www.lwvnyc.org/try.html

Advocacy Resources and Issue Campaigns:

• Guide to Affordable Housing Information
• Guide to Public Education Advocates

Contact Information:
Larry Wood
Email: larryw@goddard.org
Phone: (212) 799-9400 ext 216
Address: 647 Columbus Avenue at 91st Street New York, NY 10025

About:

The Goddard Riverside Family Council is a forum for advocacy and community education on local, state, and federal policy issues of concern to our neighbors, program participants, staff, and friends of Goddard Riverside. Membership is open to anyone who is interested.

At monthly meetings, members organize and encourage participation in a range of activities that serve to keep policymakers aware of citizens’ views. The activities include voter registration/get-out-the-vote campaigns, rallies, demonstrations, community forums, testimony before legislative bodies, and letter writing campaigns. The Family Council collaborates with numerous other groups to target such issues as housing, rent laws, Medicare, school governance and funding, immigration and summer jobs for teens.

Family Council committees are involved in day-to-day organizing work. They are Voter Registration, Public Issues, Jobs, Housing and the Youth Council. The Youth Council provides an opportunity for young people in our programs and from the broader community to speak out on issues of relevance to them and to learn the basics of grassroots community activism and leadership.