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Rising Star

Isaac Adlerstein, Executive Director Liz Northcutt, Executive Director
Broadway Community City Living NY
601 West 114 Street, Basement, New York, NY 10025 505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1805, New York, NY 10018
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(212) 864-6100 ext. 120 | www.broadwaycommunity.org (347) 588-5080 | www.citylivingnewyork.org
Founded in 1982 by volunteers from Broadway Presbyterian Church, Union Theological City Living NY (CLNY) empowers youth aging out of foster care by providing essential resources
Seminary, and Columbia University, we have grown into what is now known as Broadway and in-depth support. In NYC ~400 young people “age out” every year, which means they
Community. We have grown from providing lunch meals three days a week to providing a broad were not returned to their parents, taken in by kin, or adopted into a family. After aging out of
range of programs serving New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty. care, these youth are released with minimal, and often no, support system. Our goal is to help
these young people achieve stability and to prevent or end homelessness. We serve any young
We empower one another with a welcoming environment for all, providing nourishing food – person 21-27 years old who has aged out of foster care in securing and maintaining housing
breakfast and lunch 4 days a week, food pantries – getting staple food as well as fresh produce and reaching education and employment goals. We also support our parents in keeping their
to those in need, and overnight shelter for 19 homeless individuals providing a clean, safe space young families intact. Our Alumni Program ensures there is no “second aging out” of CLNY; we
to lay their heads. We also provide support services - medical care, life skills practice, social continue to be the trusted adults every young person needs to succeed.
services support, and faithful accompaniment through these challenging times.
The outcomes that CLNY has been able to achieve since our founding demonstrate that when
Working tirelessly to break down the barriers of poverty, inequity, and privilege – until all we offer young people time, resources, and care we can break the cycle of unemployment
are fed, in body and spirit – Broadway Community provides countless opportunities to bring and homelessness for transitional age youth. While the homelessness rates for former foster
neighbors together across socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. Our entire community is youth are staggering, CLNY has never had a single young person evicted from their home.
dedicated to creating an environment where all feel welcome and valued. While nationally only 3% of former foster youth will graduate college, 68% of the youth in our
Education Program are currently enrolled in college, with 97% of them on track to graduate.
Dedicated to serving New Yorkers experiencing homelessness, hunger, and poverty, Broadway When foster care ends, our work begins.
Community sets an abundant table, believing that everyone deserves justice, dignity, health, and
wholeness. We empower one another with nourishing food, a welcoming environment, shelter,
medical care, life skills practice, and faithful accompaniment through challenging times. We
serve one another - breaking down barriers of poverty, inequity, and privilege - until all are fed,
in body and spirit.
Simply, we serve.

Emily May, Executive Director Amanda Rice, Founder & CEO, 3x Cancer Survivor
Right to Be The Chick Mission
www.righttobe.org 121 West 36th Street #333, New York, NY 10018
(512) 222-6613 | www.thechickmission.org
Right to Be (formerly Hollaback!)’s mission is to end harassment in all its forms by building the The Chick Mission is a nonprofit organization fiercely dedicated to brightening fertility futures
power of everyday people to create safe and welcoming environments for all. for women battling cancer. Our mission is to ensure every young woman newly diagnosed
The organization focuses on turning the care we have for each other into simple, creative, with cancer has the option to preserve fertility through direct financial support, educational
effective action. Together, they’re working to build a world that’s free of harassment and fi lled programs, and advocacy efforts.
with humanity. Right To Be works across sectors to prevent and reduce violence; they lead The Chick Mission idea “hatched” when Amanda’s fertility preservation coverage was denied
bystander intervention trainings to safely respond to hate, created the Hate and Hope tracker as by her insurance company. Staring down a long road of chemotherapy, radiation, and long-
a one-of-a-kind storysharing and anti-harassment mapping site, coordinate the Allies Solidarity term drug therapy, Amanda understood the high likelihood of infertility after her treatment and
Network to lead national anti-hate campaigns, deliver Right To Be YOUth programming to decided to move forward covering the costs on her own. The idea of other patients choosing
teach young people how to stand up against bullying, and recently launched the Expert Voices not to pursue preservation simply because of the cost barrier did not sit well – socioeconomic
Together system to support researchers and journalists facing online and hybrid harassment. standing should not dictate whether anyone has an opportunity to have biological children after
Right To Be has reached over 4 million people with effective, real-world tools to lead against they battle cancer.
hate. Over the past year, they’ve trained 35,000 New Yorkers to recognize, respond to, and After battling cancer 3x before her 40th birthday, Amanda founded The Chick Mission to right
heal from harassment. Their programs have a real impact in the city – outside evaluation shows these healthcare wrongs. Since 2018, the organization has directly funded fertility preservation
that 98% of Right To Be’s participants grow their ability to recognize violence and de-escalate treatment for nearly 700 newly diagnosed female cancer patients (and counting!) saving
violent situations - 76% have used bystander intervention tools to prevent an act of violence women and families across the United States over $9 million in medical expenses, while also
in their lives. championing grassroots advocacy efforts that have led to legislative change mandating insurance
Learn how you can stand up for your community, and get trained today at: companies cover the cost of egg freezing before fertility-jeopardizing treatment. We refuse to let
www.righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings the emotional, physical, and financial cost of a cancer diagnosis stand between young women
and a full life after battling this disease. Having cancer isn't a choice. Having kids still should be.
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