Morgan Stanley/ANHD Fellows for 2016/17

ANHD is very pleased to announce the 2016-2017 Class of the Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship.The Fellowship is designed to increase the capacity of New York City's community development organizations and to create a pipeline for the next generation of community development leaders. The Fellowship selects nine local graduate students studying urban planning or policy and individually pairs them with nine community -based organizations that have an especially compelling community development project. Each fellow has a significant role advancing that project, and receives a $20,000 stipend to serve in a half-time, year-long fellowship with a host group. This is the 5th annual cycle of the Community Development Fellowship - which to date has a 100% employment success rate - and the quality of the applications from both the fellows and the host groups was the strongest yet.  ANHD is very proud to announce that the winning host groups this year are:

• Cypress Hills Local Development Corp., matched with a student from Hunter College Urban Planning
• West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing, matched with a student from Rutgers University.
• Cooper Square Committee, matched with a student from The Pratt Center.
• Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizen Center, matched with a student from Columbia University.
• Northfield Community Local Development Corp., matched with a student from the NYU Wagner School.
• Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, matched with a student from NYU Wagner School.
• Chhaya Commmunity Development Corp., matched with a student from The New School
• IMPACCT Brooklyn, matched with a student from The New School.
• Fifth Avenue Committee, matched with a student from Rutgers University.

The community development projects include developing affordable housing, planning to improve the environmental efficiency of an affordable housing portfolio, planning to develop not-for-profit light-manufacturing space, among other important community development projects. Thank you to Morgan Stanley for making this important program possible. And on behalf of the ANHD Staff and Board of Directors, welcome to the 2016/2017 class. We look forward to working with you.