About the Campaign
The Campaign for Children (C4C) was formed in 2011 as early care and education and youth service providers, parents, and advocates joined forces to combat proposed reductions in these systems that would have decimated capacity and caused great harm. C4C benefits from the membership of more than 150 organizations, including advocates, civic leaders, early care and education, and after-school and summer camp providers.The C4C Steering Committee consists of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, United Neighborhood Houses, UJA-Federation of New York, the YMCA of Greater New York, Good Shepherd Services, Children’s Aid, the Day Care Council of New York, and Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA).
Since C4C’s formation, the campaign has strived to advance policies through effective public relations, community organizing, data and policy analysis, and messaging that illustrates the profound positive impact that high-quality early care and education and youth services have on children, families, communities, and the city’s economy. Our advocacy elevates the voice of parents, youth, and direct service providers across communities.
C4C has informed transformative policy and budget victories including preventing the loss of $150 million in resources over multiple years and securing permanent, baselined appropriation of these resources; securing state resources to permit the creation of universal pre-K for all New York City four-year-olds and city resources to permit the creation of universal afterschool for all middle schoolers. Our advocacy also informed the agreement through which a multi-year investment and a path to salary parity was established for the early education workforce and led to reforms of the Birth to Five and Head Start RFPs to ensure that the actual cost of care is reimbursed in city contracts. Finally, year after year C4C advocacy has resulted in needed budget restorations to support summer camp for New York City youth.
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Campaign for Children Partners
82nd Street Academics
Advocates for Children of New York
Alianza Dominicana
Alliance for Quality Education
Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA
Belmont Community Day Care Center
Bronx YMCA
BronxWorks
Brooklyn Center for the Independence of the Disabled
Brooklyn Community Services
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
CAMBA
Campaign for Summer Jobs
Campaign for Tomorrow’s Workforce
Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens
Center Against Domestic Violence
Center for Children’s Initiatives
Center for Family Life/SCO
Center for Youth Violence Prevention at Columbia University
Child Center for New York
Children’s Aid Society
Children’s Defense Fund-NY
Chinatown YMCA
Chinese-American Planning Council
Citizen Action of NY
Citizens’ Committee for Children
Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families
COFCCA (Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies)
Committee for Hispanic Children and Families
Cooper Square Committee
Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Cross Island YMCA
Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Day Care Council of New York
Dodge YMCA
East Calvary Day Care Center
East Side House Settlement
ECE Policyworks
Economic Justice and Social Welfare Network Child Care Committee
Educational Alliance
Emergency Coalition to Save Child Care
Episcopal Social Services
Family Dynamics/ SCO
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Flatbush Action Community Day Care Center, Inc.
Flatbush Development Corporation
Flatbush YMCA
Flushing YMCA
Fort Washington Collegiate Church
Friends of the Children of NY
Global Kids
Goddard Riverside Community Center
Good Shepherd Services
Graham Windham
Grand Street Settlement
Greenpoint YMCA
HANAC Youth Services
Harlem RBI
Harlem YMCA
Hartley House
Head Start Sponsoring Boards Council
Hebrew Educational Society
Helen Owen Carey Day Care Center
Henry Street Settlement
Hudson Guild
Human Services Council
Imani House
Inwood Community Services
Italian American Civil Rights League
Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House
Jamaica YMCA
Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services (JBCFS)
Jewish Child Care Association
Jewish Community Center of Staten Island
Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club
Lawyers for Children
Leake and Watts Services
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
Long Island City YMCA
LSA Family Health Service
Madison Square Boys and Girls Club
Manhattan Youth
MARC Academy and Family Center, Inc.
Maspeth Town Hall
McBurney YMCA
Middle Collegiate Church
Midwood Development Corp.
Nasry Michelen Day Care Center
National Council of Jewish Women
Neighborhood Family Services Coalition
Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corp
New Settlement Apartments
New York City Youth Alliance
New York Immigration Coalition
New York Junior Tennis League
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
New York Zero-to-Three Network
North Brooklyn Child Care Coalition
North Brooklyn YMCA
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
NYC Mission Society
NYU School of Law Family Defense Clinic
Operation Exodus Inner City, Inc.
Partnership for After-School Education (PASE)
Phipps Community Development Corporation
Police Athletic League, Inc
Professional Association of Day Care Directors of New York
Prospect Park YMCA
Queens Community House
Resilience Advocacy Project
Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc.
Ridgewood YMCA
Riverdale Neighborhood House
Riverdale YM-YWHA
Rockaway Artists Alliance, Inc.
Safe Space
SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action)
SCAN- New York
SCO Family of Services
Shorefront YM- YWHA of Brighton-Manhattan Beach
Sinergia
Southeast Bronx Neighborhood Centers
Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation
St John’s Place Family Center HDFC
St. Nick’s Alliance
Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Staten Island Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (SICCAN)
Staten Island YMCA
Sunnyside Community Services
Suspension Representation Project
The After-School Corporation
The Center for Independence of the Disabled — NY
The Children’s Law Center
The Door
UJA-Federation of New York
Union Settlement Association
United Activities Unlimited
United Community Centers
United Neighborhood Houses
University Settlement Society
Vanderbilt YMCA
VISIONS / Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
West Side YMCA
WHEDco (Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation)
YMCA of Greater NY
Youth Development Institute
