Brochure listing Make the Road New York’s victories during 2010

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Dignidad, Comunidad y Poder: Make the Road New York 2010 Victories 
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Brochure listing Make the Road New York’s victories during 2010. 
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unions, labor movement, organizing, New York, representation, AFL-CIO 
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2010
Make the Road New York builds the power  
of Latino and working class communities to achieve  
dignity and justice.
We accomplish this through organizing,  
policy innovation, transformative education, and  
the provision of survival services.
In 2010, Make the Road New York (MRNY) won vital policy reforms at the city level and for the 
first time, brought our powerful combination of organizing and strategic policy advocacy to state 
and national struggles for immigration reform, worker’s rights, and educational justice, as well. 
We launched the Make the Road New York Action Fund, an independent 501 c4 organization, 
and built its membership to more than 1600, leveraging our capacity to influence public policy. 
And, we engaged our low-income membership in making our organization more financially 
sustainable by launching several highly effective new grassroots revenue generation strategies.
More than 1500 new members joined our organization in 2010. MRNY’s membership now includes 
more than 8,000 individuals and hundreds of small businesses in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten 
Island.  The power of our collective voice makes MRNY a leading force in shaping public policy 
decisions that affect our children, our families, and our communities.
DIgNIDAD, CoMuNIDAD Y PoDeR 
DIgNIDAD,
CoMuNIDAD
Y PoDeR
MAke The RoAD NeW YoRk
2010 vICToRIeS
MAKE THE ROADNEW YORK
DIGNIDAD, COMUNIDAD Y PODER
Queens
92-10 Roosevelt Avenue
Jackson heights, NY 11372
718-565-8500
WWW.MAkeTheRoADNY.oRg
staten Island
479 Port Richmond Avenue 
Staten Island, NY 10302 
718-727-1222
Brooklyn
301 grove Street
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Phone: 718-418-7690
Fax: 718-418-9635
ProMotInG aCCess 
to eduCatIon
MRNY’s student leaders and 
key allies won our campaign 
to stop the proposed 
elimination of free student 
Metrocards, ensuring free 
school transportation for 
hundreds of thousands of 
NYC students and protecting 
low-income families from 
unjust financial burden.
While historically only 8% of 
residents in our communities 
go to college, this year 
MRNY’s innovative youth-
led college access program, 
the Student Success Center, 
assisted 75% of graduating 
seniors from four Bushwick 
high schools in applying 
to six or more colleges. 
This fall, MRNY opened a 
second Center to serve four 
additional high schools in 
elmhurst, Queens.
We also preserved access to 
vital adult literacy programs 
citywide, by working with 
allies to prevent tens of 
millions of dollars in budget 
cuts to these important 
programs.
sHaPInG state &  
Federal PolICy
The Wage Theft Prevention 
Act, envisioned by MRNY 
members and drafted by 
our legal team, continues to 
ascend through the legislative 
process. The WTPA passed 
both houses of the New 
York State legislature in 
2010: representatives of the 
two houses are working to 
reconcile the two versions to 
make final passage possible. 
This innovative legislation 
will increase consequences 
for lawless employers who 
fail to comply with minimum 
wage and overtime laws and 
ensure justice for hundreds of 
thousands of immigrant and 
low-income workers in New 
York State.
At the federal level, MRNY 
continues to press for a 
fix to the nation’s broken 
immigration system. 
Members, allies and staff 
garnered national media 
attention through a 72-
hour fast to demand 
comprehensive reform and 
passage of the DReAM 
Act. MRNY also organized 
2,100 members—the largest 
delegation from New York 
City—to travel to Washington 
DC for a march for 
immigration reform that drew 
over 200,000 people. 
CoMBatInG Hate  
& dIsCrIMInatIon
After MRNY’s research 
uncovered systematic 
discrimination, with help 
from the New York State 
Attorney general, MRNY won 
a campaign to require more 
than 60 American eagle 
outfitters stores to revise 
their policies to ensure equal 
employment opportunities 
and respectful treatment for 
transgender employees.
In response to the wave 
of hate crimes against 
immigrants and LgBTQ 
residents of Staten Island, 
MRNY members organized 
massive demonstrations, 
bringing this problem 
to the attention of the 
international media, 
elected officials and 
the wider public. We 
are currently leading 
an intensive, grassroots 
community reconciliation 
process to address the 
root causes of tension on 
Staten Island.
seCurInG tenant 
rIGHts 
MRNY spearheaded the 
passage of the Multiple 
Dwellings Registration Act, 
city legislation that will end 
impunity for lawless landlords 
and help tens of thousands 
of tenants to better protect 
themselves and their families 
from hazardous housing 
conditions.
MRNY coMbatted hate 
cRiMes bY helpiNg to 
pass legislatioN to 
RequiRe iMpRoved 
RepoRtiNg aNd bY 
helpiNg to catalYze 
a MajoR public 
educatioN iNitiative to 
celebRate diveRsitY 
aNd eNcouRage victiMs 
to RepoRt hate cRiMes.
We placed 97 
iNdividuals iN jobs 
With aN aveRage Wage 
of $12.25 peR houR, 
aNd pRovided job 
ReadiNess tRaiNiNg to 
271 iNdividuals.  
afteR MoNitoRiNg NYc’s coMpliaNce With gRouNd-
bReakiNg laNguage access laWs WoN bY MRNY, We 
catalYzed MajoR NeW citY WoRk to iNsuRe coMpliaNce 
With all laNguage access RequiReMeNts.
We eNRolled 
200 coMMuNitY 
ResideNts iN fueRza 
coopeRativa, a 
NeW pRogRaM that 
pRovides access to 
baNkiNg seRvices foR 
MRNY MeMbeRs aNd 
iMpRoves MeMbeRship 
dues collectioN.
at ouR fiRst aNNual Walk foR justice Walk-a-thoN,  
300 loW-iNcoMe MeMbeRs Raised $50,000 to suppoRt  
ouR coMMuNities.  
pRovided cRitical 
legal seRvices to 
MoRe thaN 2,800 
households aNd 
helped 1,162 adults 
leaRN eNglish, develop 
liteRacY aNd coMputeR 
skills, eaRN a ged, oR 
becoMe citizeNs.


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