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The All Along Project proposes to honor and celebrate the contributions of local women. This will be accomplished by an easy-to-deploy system of markers that can be installed into New York City’s existing green infrastructure.

This project aims to create educational literature and conduct informational sessions to educate the residents living within the designated areas. There is a real need to interpret complicated data into plain language.
We seek to explain the environmental contamination problems and what they mean for possible health impacts, now and in the future.

We are asking the questions:

• How can we help educate our neighbors? What questions should people be asking?
• How should people be tracking their health?

In short, we are developing plain language educational/collateral materials and holding informational sessions to help, educate, empower, and inform our community about how this may impact our families and us, providing real information that is based on science and trusted neutral third party medical/technical expertise provided by Mount Sinai.

National Congress of Neighborhood Women was proud to participate again and be represented by several members as ECOSOC delegates at the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women 67th session (UN CSW67). It was extremely well attended and an important two-week session as the first time being held in person since the onset of the global pandemic and other significant world events, highlighting the importance and impact of the use of online technology and how it impacts women around the world.

Coming in April 2023!! We’ve seen a rise in harassment and violence in our community – so, Neighborhood Women is collaborating with Right To Be (formerly Hollaback!) to train our residents and workers through the STAND UP FOR NEIGHBORS! Campaign.

Right To Be is a thriving nonprofit that has trained about 1.5 million people globally in Bystander Intervention Training by giving them the tools to combat harassment. They often customize trainings to address specific issues for trainees. Their conflict de-escalation methods use the 5 Ds:

Distract
Delay
Direct
Delegate
Document

Right To Be has a great track record! 98.8% of attendees leave the training feeling like they can do at least one thing when they witness harassment. 76% of attendees who saw harassment after attending one of our trainings reported that they had intervened.

Leadership Support Process Training (LSP) is a training model developed in 1979 by the National Congress of Neighborhood Women. As the women’s movement and their needs changed, the LSP simultaneously evolved to meet the new demands. This training process continues to be implemented and revised as a leadership model for women leaders.  It’s evolution is ongoing as it proceeds to influence the next generation of women.

1. We start with VALUES and VISION.
2. We set GROUP STANDARDS together.
3. We make BASIC AGREEMENTS.
4. We support each other as LEADERS.
5. We become allies and PRINCIPLED PARTNERS by honoring DIVERSITY.
6. We use APPRECIATION and PARTICIPATORY meeting methods.

The Neighborhood Women Living and Learning Center provides support for women who have made a commitment to community building and to share experiences among those with differing cultural, economic, race and gender backgrounds. It is designed to illustrate how the community can be a learning campus, how wealth can be created through pooling resources, and how intergenerational mentoring and support can sustain leadership and organizing for the long-term.

The mission of the Center is to continue the legacy of women’s activism in the community by creating an intergenerational public living, learning, and working space that celebrates the history of grassroots women who have taken leadership in their communities. The Center also supports the mission of local, national, and global grassroots women’s groups by providing a home for these organizations.

The space is used by grassroots and professional women who are members or guests of our networks. It is a safe space and power base for women of all ages and from diverse racial and ethnic, class and religious backgrounds, to visit and exchange experiences and skills.

Short Term Activities

It is open to women who organize or attend support groups and workshops.

Office Space

The Center hosts the offices of local and global women’s community development organizations. The NCNW and Neighborhood Women Williamsburg/Greenpoint are the national and local groups, with support from GROOTS International and the Huairou Commission (HC) at the international level. It provides a base for the accommodation of women from across the global south when they are in New York City to represent their development priorities at the United Nations. As the Secretariat of four organizations—local, national, and two international networks—it supports their activities, including:

• Local and global advocacy
• Leadership support and training

Housing

The Center also provides housing for women community leaders of all ages.

Similar centers are established or currently being developed in the Appalachian and Mid-Western regions of the United States, Africa, and Asia.