Community Engagement & Participation

Increase community-based referrals to prevention services that support families, minimizing the risk of involvement with child protection

Focus: Children & families

Support new and growing businesses in advanced manufacturing, clean technology, and emerging industries ecosystems by increasing awareness of opportunities for tenancy among potential small business tenants and positioning BNYDC to be a centralized and coordinating hub for small businesses, including M/WBEs

Focus: M/WBE owners

Develop culturally competent communication and outreach strategies that leverage the arts to engage New Yorkers of diverse backgrounds

Focus: General

Collaborate with other agencies to introduce and encourage the usage of participatory processes to determine agency resource allocation

Focus: General

Evaluate existing outreach strategies to determine whether and how they need to be modified to more effectively engage with tenants and homeowners in marginalized communities

Focus: Underserved communities

via work of DCP’s Community Planning and Civic Engagement Studio (CPE), continue to build relationships, to increase trust, and transparency, and to facilitate stronger partnerships with the communities we serve and our stakeholders to create avenues for share decision-making

Focus: General

Co-design, with people in custody, a racial equity and efficacy rubric for all programs offered across DOC facilities to ensure the needs of people in custody are met

Focus: People in custody / justice-involved

Increase awareness of grant opportunities in racially diverse and historically underserved communities to support access to cultural experiences

Focus: Underserved communities · Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)

Partner with advocates and community partners to address the disproportionate impacts of the rising cost of drinking water on low-income communities of color, and other vulnerable communities

Focus: Low-income New Yorkers

Enhance outreach efforts citywide, prioritizing historically underserved neighborhoods based on agency disparity analysis, to increase awareness of property tax exemption and rent freeze programs, payment plan options for property taxes and other city debt, and prevention efforts for deed theft

Focus: Underserved communities · Citywide

Support existing and cultivate new park partner groups through building capacity and providing technical assistance and resources to foster sustained civic engagement in parks within underserved communities

Focus: Underserved communities · Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)

Expand access to our library and archival collections by increasing partnerships with community-based organizations in historically underserved neighborhoods in the city so that all New Yorkers have the opportunity to readily learn and interact with the agency’s services

Focus: Underserved communities · Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)

Address racial inequities in access to stable housing through improving connections for clients in shelter to permanent housing and strengthening access to community-based homelessness prevention programs

Focus: General

Build meaningful relationships with underserved communities to be more responsive to local needs while fostering greater trust

Focus: Underserved communities · Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)

Support Veterans in gaining greater awareness of affordable and supportive housing opportunities, informed by agency disparity analysis

Focus: Veterans

Increase awareness and understanding of DYCD’s programs and strengthen community voice by expanding opportunities for input that informs decision-making

Focus: General

Foster an increased connection between the Law Department and community members, especially those marginalized, to build more pathways for community engagement in our work

Focus: Underserved communities · Underserved neighborhoods (unspecified)

Prioritize agency outreach in engaging underutilized vendors based on agency disparity analysis

Focus: Older adults

Increase awareness of agency programming in communities of color and immigrant communities to increase engagement with government-supported entertainment programs

Focus: Immigrants / LEP

Conduct outreach to attract diverse candidates for openings in the agency’s production/editing team and continue to help ensure that the programs broadcast on NYC Life represent NYC’s diverse population

Focus: General

Center community voices in the development of an equitable enforcement approach within the NYPD to address systemic issues while fostering trust and collaboration with the communities served

Focus: General

Increase NYCEM's community engagement and outreach to improve emergency preparedness in Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity (TRIE) neighborhoods

Focus: General · TRIE priority neighborhoods

Enhance heat season Cool Options messaging in TRIE neighborhood areas to reduce heat-related illness among vulnerable populations

Focus: Older adults · TRIE priority neighborhoods

Ensure that NYCPS makes consistent and timely payments to Community Based Organizations, Family Child Care Networks, and other partners who play a key role in serving communities of color

Focus: Children & families

Ensure all NYC employees maximize their benefits and obtain the full value of their employment by increasing participation in OLR programs through targeted and tailored outreach and program design

Focus: Agency staff / employees

Invest in Public Computer Centers (PCCs), digital skills training, and support awareness of their services

Focus: General

Strengthen and increase education for TLC-licensed drivers to reduce discriminatory service refusal and support drivers in knowing their rights and the resources they need in their career

Focus: TLC drivers