Nonprofits are calling on Congress to block funding for immigration enforcement
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Core Services Group has won a $9.8 million contract from the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. The money will fund non-secure detention for juvenile offenders, according to the City Record. The Department for the Aging has awarded a $250,000 contract for senior services to Selfhelp Community Services. NIA Community Services Network will provide similar services, per a $108,500 contract. Sunnyside Community Services got into the action, with a $123,784 contract to deliver senior services on behalf of the department. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has awarded a $1.5 million contract to Theracare Nurses Registry for nursing services.
New York City’s first snowfall of the year did not stop Covenant House supporters from sleeping on the streets.
200 people sleeping outside last night during NYC’s 1st blizzard- all in solidarity with and to raise $ for homeless young people. AMAZING. Grateful to see beauty in the world so up close. #CHSleepOut @CovenantHouse pic.twitter.com/iO6dmbZgPA
— Leslie Abbey (@leslie_abbey) November 16, 2018
Got an idea on how to use Governors Island? The Trust for Governors Island is inviting nonprofits to respond to a Request for Proposal on the best athletic uses for two locations on the island tucked between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Proposals are due by Dec. 21. More information is available here.
More than 200 organizations are calling on Congress to reject funding increases for immigration enforcement. Specifically, they don’t want Congress to boost the Department of Homeland Security’s budget in a short-term funding measure that will likely come up during the lame duck session of Congress.
“Any increase in funding will facilitate family separations, cause irreparable harm to the border region, and incentivize mass detention and deportation – policies that tear apart the fabric of our families and communities,” the letter reads. “We cannot treat funding for immigration detention and enforcement or border wall construction like business as usual.”
The New York Immigration Coalition, Make the Road New York, and the Buffalo Immigrant Leadership Team were among the New York nonprofits that signed the leader. See the letter and the full list of supporting organizations here.