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NEDAP News | Vol. 5 Issue 11 | November 2010

Welcome to the November 2010 edition of NEDAP News

• Getting It Done in Albany
• Community Training & Outreach Highlights
• Media Round-Up

Getting It Done in Albany

Participants at NEDAP's Financial Justice Training Institute

NEDAP spent two action-packed days with groups in Albany this month, developing strategies to advance community financial justice in New York and beyond.

NEDAP held its first-ever Financial Justice Training Institute for community organizers and advocates.  The training exposed groups to big picture economic justice issues; ins-and-outs of state politics; and how to communicate effectively with legislators, media and other key audiences. 

A slate of dynamic guest speakers included Uriah King of the Center for Responsible Lending; Blair Horner of NYPIRG; NYS Assembly Program & Counsel's Ernest Amabile; Bill Hammond of the Daily News and Jimmy Vielkind of the Albany Times Union.  NEDAP's next Training Institute, on shaping the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will be held in spring 2011 in NYC - contact us for more info.

NEDAP's Susan Shin leading a group breakout discussion at NYRL's annual meeting

NEDAP also coordinated New Yorkers for Responsible Lending's annual statewide meeting.  More than 50 NYRL members participated in a lively day-long strategy session, sharing information and charting out the coalition's campaign priorities for the coming year.  U.S. PIRG's Ed Mierzwinski joined NYRL to talk about federal financial reform, and vital ways that state coalitions can help shape the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Community Training & Outreach Highlights

This month, NEDAP:

• Testified at several public hearings, on:

• The need for a local bank accountability ordinance, before the NYC Council Finance Committee. 

 

• Foreclosure prevention policy recommendations, before the NYS Assembly Committees on Banking, Housing, and Judiciary.

 

• Abusive practices by debt settlement companies, before the NYC Council Committee on Consumer Affairs.

   

• Conducted community know-your-rights workshops, for:

   

  • New immigrants at YMCA's New Americans Welcome Center in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
  • Women participating in Grace Outreach's GED Program in the South Bronx.
  • Women in Prison Project's ReConnect Leadership Training Program participants.
  • Students in NYC College of Technology’s Green Maintenance for Buildings Program.
  • Immigrants at Queens Community House in Jackson Heights, Queens.

• Held community legal clinics for low income New Yorkers, at:

• Women in Prison Project's ReConnect program
• Sunnyside Community Services Center
• Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp.'s Financial Empowerment Center

• Led capacity-building trainings for attorneys at the National Consumer Law Center's annual conference, on legal strategies to address abusive and illegal debt collection practices.

• Spoke on a panel at Brooklyn College, about the growing problem of sham trade schools targeting low income New Yorkers.

• Led presentations at Brooklyn Community Boards 8 and 9, in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, on fair housing, foreclosure prevention, and tenants' and homeowners' rights.

 

Media Round-Up

NEDAP appeared in the following media outlets in November:

• WBAI's Wakeup Call, on mortgage redlining
• Huffington Post, NYC Needs a Responsible Banking Act

• El Diario, Reembolsos para los inmigrantes

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