PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public, on Civil Service and Nonprofit Sector Employment
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3 min
Christopher Leon Johnson advocates for shifting focus from civil service to nonprofit sector employment opportunities for CUNY students. He argues that nonprofits are a growing industry with more accessible job prospects compared to the challenging civil service application process.
- Suggests collaboration between City Council, CUNY, and Small Business Services to create pathways for students in nonprofits and NGOs
- Highlights the difficulty in obtaining civil service jobs and the potential frustration for students
- Proposes training programs for people under 24 to work in city-funded nonprofits as an alternative to civil service careers
Christopher Leon Johnson
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Hey, hello.
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My name is Christopher Leon.
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Johnson, thanks for having this panel.
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I know they had us cross the other side with the sexual harassment stuff.
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A lot of people over there.
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I look.
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Here's the thing.
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Right?
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We're in the time where nonprofits are the ding right now.
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Is where the money's at is a $1,000,000,000 industry.
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Everybody's getting to nonprofit because it's where the money at and, you know, how to work McDonald's.
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I believe the city council should work with CUNY to is that I understand we need civil service But when you start training people for these college students for nonprofits, because a lot of these nonprofits need these type of minds and these type of attitudes in here, the problem with civil service is is too hard to get a job in civil service.
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There was a video that's viral on Instagram or somebody trying to get a job with the MTA, and they was told, like, oh, we had to they just made everybody goes to go scan thing and scan and apply.
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It's on Instagram.
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It's a viral video on Instagram.
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Like, somebody somebody scan and apply.
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And they were pissed off.
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I understand a lot of people need city jobs because it's where the money at and the benefits and never need benefits.
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But, look, it's hard to get it.
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It's hard to get civil civil civil civil civil jobs.
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It's easier to get a non profit job.
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Non profitless pop up like like, nothing these days, nonprofits open up every week.
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And I believe city council starting with this panel, like this 3 year, police issued a small business chair, nonprofits, summons, or small businesses.
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And Mister Dinwicks, you know, the the the CUNY chair and that arose you for labor.
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I think you should all get together and work with CUNY and small business services to open.
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But you people you people are Pathways at nonprofits, Pathways at NGOs because the city council they deliver all this money to these nonprofits.
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So you might as well start training these kit, these college students.
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Maybe people that's under twenty four years old, under twenty four to work for these nonprofits, the ones that you guys fund, like ballroom basics.
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I don't I don't borrowing basics and, like, low command or worker justice project.
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What else we got here?
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NMIC, you know, these, like, these like, maybe the, like, the this what is it?
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The human justice nonprofits.
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Like, just pay has to have just paid nonprofits.
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So I believe that we should go this route instead.
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We should really go this route.
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Because if you start telling these students to go apply for city jobs when they know they most of them are not gonna get because you got to know someone to get those jobs, they're gonna be frustrated.
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We got a mental health crisis in New York City.
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And that's that's gonna add add to the mental health crisis in the city.
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So there's a different way.
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It's nonprofits.
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I I'm a I I'm a journalist.
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I'm not in my journalist capacity, but is where is that right now?
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Is what the money's at?
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So we have to change course.
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I'm not saying it's gonna happen today, but I hope very soon that you give the speaker and and including the the majority leader because she owes the economic development of Meniferes to start having the all the other chairs like CUNY, Mister Felix, and the new chick, the the name to start again to nonprofit sector, start opening more opportunities for nonprofit sector.
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So thank you.
Carmen De La Rosa
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Thank you so much for your testimony today.
