NWBCCC 2016 Gala
The Board of Directors of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is pleased to announce two important transitions in the organization. We have hired a new Executive Director of the NWBCCC and a new Director of Sistas and Brothas United (SBU). Both hires are strong leaders who come from our membership and have been leaders in our work over the last decades. Sandra Lobo, our current Board President, will be the new Executive Director of the organization. Jean Henry, one of Sistas and Brothas United’s founding members and a long time youth organizer, ...
Norwood News on housing work
The stems of a greenish, moldy plant were seen protruding from the bathroom ceiling cracks inside a Kingsbridge apartment belonging to a tenant named America. In the kitchen, pac
BronxNet on NWBCCC’s Healthy Buildings Program
Montefiore Health System, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, in collaboration with other local partners, have been awarded $250,000 by the BUILD Health Challenge to implement the Bronx Healthy Buildings Program. The new initiative will target deteriorating housing conditions in the Northwest and Central Bronx, with the goal of reducing hospitalizations due to asthma, while reducing energy consumption, creating green jobs and ensuring housing affordability.
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Bronx times on NWBCCC’s healthy Buildings Program
On Tuesday, June 9, Montefiore Health System, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, in collaboration with local partners, were awarded $250,000 by the BUILD Health Challenge to implement the Bronx Healthy Buildings Program.
This initiative targets the northwest and central Bronx’s deteriorating housing conditions, seeking to reduce asthma hospitalizations, lowering energy consumption, establishing green jobs and ensuring housing affordability.
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The Coalition Continues to Rock
The Coalition empowers everyday, ordinary people to take ownership of the community campaigns that have renewed life in the Bronx. Leaders of the Coalition have valuable lessons to teach other community organizations on how to win on a variety of issues ranging from affordable housing to improving local schools to passing national banking legislation. When community leaders talk about living in the Bronx in the 1970′s, they tell stories of entire neighborhoods abandoned. Fires broke out night after night leaving thousands of people homeless each year as absentee landlo...
Coalition Begins to Rock
Courageous voices rose from within the Bronx, voices not silenced by the raging fires and destruction. In 1974 the local Catholic Churches, led by Bishop Ahern, called together pastors and community leaders to launch the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. The Coalition proved to be the voice for community revitalization, launching direct action campaigns that won the creation or renovation of tens of thoasands of units of affordable housing to replace the apartment buildings that had been lost.
The Coalition Was Born
Founded in 1974 the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is a grassroots social justice organization that organizes residents to fight for long-term solutions to the problems in our community. The Coalition unites the Northwest Bronx communities and a youth organization, Sistas and Brothas United (SBU), in an effort to influence the most important decisions that are made about our neighborhoods; delivery of government services, private investment patterns, and major land use considerations.
