About the Campaign
Campaign for Children is a partnership between the Emergency Coalition to Save Children Care and the New York City Youth Alliance, which first came together in 2011 to stave off severe budget cuts proposed for child care and after-school programs. Together, the 150 members of the coalition include many of the advocates, civic leaders and early childhood education and after-school providers in New York City.
The Campaign’s successful advocacy saved child care and after-school programs for more than 47,000 children by securing more than $120 million of one-year City Council discretionary funds for the past two years, which then were successfully baselined. While the Campaign, the providers, and notably the children and the families remain incredibly grateful that these programs were saved through extensive advocacy efforts, the critical systems upon which children and families rely cannot remain dependent on annual advocacy efforts to survive.
Every child in New York City deserves access to safe, high-quality, and affordable and dependable early childhood education and after-school programs. New York City’s newly elected Mayor, as well as the Comptroller, Public Advocate and City Council members, must have a plan to create high-quality, sustainable, fully-funded early education and after-school systems for New York’s children and families. Enacting this plan must be a top priority for the new Administration. The Campaign for Children seeks to be a partner in this endeavor, but also to hold the Administration accountable for its implementation.
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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
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
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