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CFB's accomplishments and initiatives in fiscal year 2025
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Ryan outlines the CFB's major accomplishments and initiatives during fiscal year 2025, focusing on voter engagement and language access improvements during a high-turnout presidential election year.
- Implemented a seven-year strategic plan to leverage high interest in the presidential year
- Expanded language access practices, translating key resources into 13 languages
- Enhanced youth leadership programming and conducted extensive outreach events
- Collected and mailed thousands of voter pledge cards for the 2024 general election
Paul Seamus Ryan
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Fiscal year twenty twenty five represented the biggest year in the four year election cycle as it covers the November twenty twenty four presidential election and the June twenty twenty five citywide primary.
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Presidential elections are consistently the highest turnout elections in New York City with around 60% of the electorate participating which increases voter demand for our services.
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In the agency's seven year strategic plan adopted early in FY twenty five as one of my first priorities as executive director, we articulated a strategy to leverage high interest in the presidential year to spread awareness about NYC votes, the campaign finance board's voter education and engagement initiative, and build our audience so we can engage and encourage New Yorkers to participate in citywide elections.
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In FY twenty five, the CFB delivered on its mission to inform New Yorkers and engage them in elections during a high intensity, high visibility election year.
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Years ago, we collaborated closely with the city council on passage of Local Law 30 of 2017, a pivotal piece of legislation that significantly expanded and formalized our language access practice.
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FY '20 '5 saw the publishing of the agency's first language access implementation plan and the translation of key resources into 13 languages other than English.
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We set a new standard for accessibility at public events, developing internal expertise and securing vendor support to provide American Sign Language, live captioning, in language interpretation, and more.
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We further enhanced our groundbreaking youth leadership programming with an outstanding cohort of 16 youth ambassadors in 2024.
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The partnerships team held more than 400 events in our priority neighborhoods throughout 2024.
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We also scaled our outreach, sending millions of text, kept in touch with thousands of New Yorkers regularly by email, and for the first time we supplemented our on the ground outreach work with a paid canvassing operation.
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This outreach resulted in collecting and mailing more than 7,000 pledge cards to voters we spoke to in person and another 15,000 pledges we collected online for the twenty twenty four general election alone.