 NEDAP News | Vol. 1 Issue 5
Welcome to the fifth issue of NEDAP News, the monthly e-newsletter of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project.
NEDAP Opens New Staff and Intern Search
NEDAP is now accepting applications for two full-time staff and one summer internship position. The Financial Justice Organizer will coordinate several of NEDAP's policy and advocacy initiatives and the Community Education Coordinator will conduct outreach and training that supports grassroots organizing, community education and asset building. The Summer Organizing Intern position is open to 15 to 23 year olds (age range set by funding source) and the application deadline is May 15, 2006. For information about the positions, click here.
NEDAP Does Justice to Community Financial Education
NEDAP will conclude its 9th Annual Community Reinvestment Workshop Series with Community Financial Education: A Justice-Based Approach. Registration is required. This session, to be held on Tuesday, May 9, 2006, will explore approaches to community financial education that incorporate social justice, neighborhood equity, and consumer rights components. The Workshop Series is open to community groups and advocates only. Register online for this workshop.
On the Air and in the News with NEDAP
NEDAP's work continues to garner public attention: Deyanira Del Río addressed immigrant access to banking services and credit on the HITN television network show, Diálogo de Costa a Costa, and on Radio Campesino; Co-Directors Sarah Ludwig and Mark Winston Griffith were quoted in an April Crains' New York piece on the check cashing industry; NEDAP's participation in Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's press conference, in which he announced his lawsuit against H&R Block for deceptive marketing of IRAs, was featured in newspapers across the country. Adding to its growing viewership in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx, NEDAP's television show, On The Money, can now be seen in Westchester County, on Ossining public access television. You can see all of the press coverage in NEDAP's media archive.
NEDAP Community Training Round-Up
NEDAP celebrated fair housing month with community workshops across New York City. During the month of April NEDAP moderated a panel in the Bronx for the University Neighborhood Housing Program’s 2006 Affordable Housing Forum. In addition, NEDAP conducted anti-predatory lending trainings in Flushing, with the Asian Americans for Equality Community Development Fund; Far Rockaway, with Margert Community Corporation; Flatbush, with the Erasmus Neighborhood Federation; and Bushwick, with the Brooklyn Cooperative Credit Union. NEDAP also conducted workshops for the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation and the Local Development Corporation of East New York's Total Women Business Conference.
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