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.
Youth Leaders Save Student Metrocards Thousands of students across New York City are celebrating their hard-won victory to preserve free school transportation for the city's K-12 students.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced June 18 that it would continue to provide free student Metrocards, after state legislators agreed to help fill the authority's budget shortfall.
Since December, when the MTA first proposed the cutting the program, youth leaders of Make the Road New York and the citywide Urban Youth Collaborative have sprung into action to get their message heard, that students have a right to free education, and free education means free transportation to school.
