Linda Tigani
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So one of CORE's central pillars is dictated by the city charters to increase community voice and government decision making.
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Our organizing and engagement team is focused on ensuring that the needs and the campaigns for change in government are heard and supported by all of CORE staff.
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In fiscal year twenty twenty five, CORE wrapped up our first round of organizing and engagement reaching over 4,000 people, 40 organizations across New York City, and we are continuing to build relationships with organizations fighting for economic and environmental justice as well as the rights of LGBTQIA plus community members.
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We have reached approximately 700 New Yorkers in addition to the 4,000 that we reached in our first cycle and have attended over 73 events, some of which were facilitated by CORE.
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Our hyper local community conversations on equity priorities will relaunch by April 2025.
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Starting in April, we will ensure that we close out and finalize community equity priorities by October first of twenty twenty five, which will also mark the beginning of the next racial equity planning process.
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CORE will circle back with our partners with an improved community feedback form to tell us to help us better understand the level of urgency that New Yorkers associate with each priority.
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Engagement will span all five boroughs and be offered in multiple languages.
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We will be hosting person and virtual conversations some of which will be led by CORE and some will be led by community organizations.
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Organizations may receive funding up to $2,500 per conversation which includes $20 a stipend for each community member that participates.
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Core funding or rather funding provided by core covers all costs associated with each conversation.
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In fiscal year twenty twenty six, our community organizing and engagement portfolio will expand to include the engagement work for local law 91, establishing a truth healing reconciliation plan and local law 92, formulating pathways for engagement.
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To begin, CORE will continue the CEP community conversations to receive ongoing feedback from New Yorkers on how government should solve the inequities our priorities seek to address.
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We will ask community members how they would like to measure change, what goals and strategies and what goals and strategies they would like to see government implement.
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CORE will work closely with community to co develop curriculum, workshops, and toolkits to peel back the history of racial capitalism, develop a deeper understanding, and increase community participation in racial equity and social justice campaigns within government and campaigns seeking to change how government operates.
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The curriculum will incorporate community equity data profiles, research conducted by core research and policy team, and provide relevant historical information.
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For example, core and the community can collaborate on a short curriculum that explains the difference between racial equity and equality in the fight to end segregation and disinvestments in our school system.
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This comprehensive curriculum will be used to increase community consciousness on the role that government plays in creating, sustaining, and exacerbating exacerbating racial disparities, gather feedback from New Yorkers about local disparities and how communities can grow their advocacy power to concentrate to sorry.
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To concretely shape government decisions related to policy, budgeting, and accountability.
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Core community sessions across both pathways are designed as hyper local conversations serving 15 to 25 unique participants in each session for at least one hour.
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As CORE awaits the release of the preliminary 2024 racial equity plan, we've developed a robust and clear process voices to provide feedback that will incorporate CORE's response that we will incorporate in CORE's response to the plan.
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However, at this time, the city has failed to specify a release date.
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The city's failure to abide by the timeline prescribed in the charter will require CORE to simultaneously review and respond to the inaugural foundation for the f y twenty six plan inevitably straining our already overextended staff.
