Executive Summary

Our community is mostly Latino immigrant women who live in one of the poorest and most neglected areas of New York City. Residents live in overcrowded apartments, lack the skills to secure living wage jobs, and don’t understand how to navigate the systems that educate their children, provide health care, and offer financial assistance. Many residents are undocumented and afraid to openly advocate for themselves.

We empower residents to achieve self-sufficiency by offering services that enable them to improve their skills and living conditions. Through our work, we envision residents who have agency and demand and receive the resources they need to live their best lives.

Our relationship to the community is rooted in our home grown and community-based origins. Since 1952, CLOTH has been led by immigrant women of color from the community. Today, just like in 1952, the community continues to shape and influence our direction. Fifty percent of our leadership team are women of color and 30% live in the community.

CLOTH contributes to the well-being of residents by delivering a set of services that address their foundational needs. We feed the hungry; 100,000 people a year are fed by our food pantry. We provide housing; we have developed over 3000 units of affordable housing. We invest in education; we have 500 students in our after-school programs and 750 students attend our award-winning middle and high school. We help people find jobs; we train and support more than 500 residents each year find a living wage job.

Organizations may provide budget and employee data based on this proposal or the organization as a whole. For more information on this proposal or organization, please email us.