Together, these strategies enable Make the Road New York to transform lives and catalyze systemic change within our five Impact Areas:
1. Expanding Civil Rights and Civic Engagement
2. Promoting Health for all New Yorkers
3. Improving Housing and Fostering Environmental Justice
4. Winning Justice in the Workplace
5. Promoting Access and Opportunity in Education
Our multifaceted approach to promoting justice in each of these impact areas transforms individual lives and catalyzes broad-based policy change at the city, state and national levels.
Charges Against Innocent Young People Are Dropped In a vindication of what Make the Road New York and community allies have been asserting for months, charges have been dropped for all but ten of the thirty-two young people who were arrested last May on the way to a friend’s wake.
