About the Campaign

The Campaign for Children is a coalition of over 150 child care and after-school advocacy and provider organizations, who united in 2012 to fight the proposed budget cuts. Following over 30 rallies and press events, 60,000 letters and 4,500 phone calls to city leaders, the Campaign’s efforts resulted in an unprecedented victory – the City Council and Administration restored $150 million to prevent the elimination of programs for more than 47,000 children.

Despite this victory, the child care and after-school systems in New York City are fundamentally under-funded and unstable. With the belief that every child in NYC deserves access to a safe, high-quality, affordable, and educational child care and after-school program, the Campaign for Children calls for current elected officials, as well as candidates for Citywide office and City Council, to have a plan to make long-term investments in stable, reliable, and sustainable child care and after-school systems for New York’s children and families.

 

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 House

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 Jewish Organizations of Flatbush

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 Council of Greater Coney Island

Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst

Jewish Home Lifecare

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

Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty

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

Samuel Field Y

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 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

YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood

YMCA of Greater NY

Youth Development Institute

 

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