Welcome to our 2024-2025 CCL Organizing Academy Cohorts!

CCL began in 2009 as part of an effort to develop “infrastructure for recruiting, training, and supporting organizing that could dramatically build the power and capacity of the city’s community groups to tackle our most pressing issues, neighborhood by neighborhood and citywide.”

Today, the Center for Community Leadership continues to support organizers and organizing efforts throughout NYC. With over 300 graduates, our programs offer organizers an invaluable space to develop key skills, deepen their analysis, and strengthen their practices. In the midst of intensifying crises, we know how crucial it is for organizers doing the critical work of building and leveraging power to get care, support, opportunities to reflect and learn with others, nourish their visions, and sustain their capacity for and commitment to movement work.

This year, our Organizing Apprenticeship, Introductory Course, and Advanced Seminar cohorts include 25 organizers from 21 organizations. They are folks who are new to organizing, and folks who have been involved in movement work for a decade. As they embark on and continue their journeys as organizers, they are also parents, students, New Yorkers, immigrants, tenants, workers, queer people, young people, caretakers. 

They are committed to learning and honing their craft as organizers. They are grappling with questions about how to do strategy, political education, campaigns, communications, base building, and coalition work. Through training and connection with their peers, their participation in CCL is supporting their work in economic justice, tenant organizing, merchant organizing, tenant-labor solidarity, migrant justice, community land trusts, decarceration, education, environmental justice, violence prevention, and youth organizing throughout NYC.

Below are the organizations participating in this year’s cohorts:
 

Organizing Apprenticeship

• Housing Conservation Coordinators (HCC)

• Bushwick Housing Independence Project (BHIP)

• Chhaya CDC

• Goddard Riverside Law Project

• Supportive Housing Organized and United Tenants (SHOUT)

• Southside United HDFC - Los Sures 

• East New York Community Land Trust (ENYCLT)

• Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)

• Center for Nu Leadership
   

Introductory Course

• Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)

• Alliance for Quality Education

• Red Hook Initiative

• Housing Conservation Coordinators

• CASA (2)

• Neighbors Helping Neighbors

• Catholic Migration Services

• NYC Anti-Violence Project

• Chhaya CDC
   

Advanced Seminar

• Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

• VOCAL-NY

• Chhaya CDC

• Right to Counsel NY Coalition

• Mekong NYC