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The Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center strengthens the impact of grassroots organizations in New York City’s low-income and other excluded communities. Read our misson statement. |
Community Lawyering
CDP’s team of experienced attorneys provide a wide range of legal assistance to help advance community groups’ campaigns for social and economic justice. ...
Participatory Action Research and Policy
CDP’s Research and Policy Initiative partners with and provides strategic support to grassroots community organizations to build the power of their ...
Technical and Capacity-Building Assistance
CDP offers grassroots community groups training and assistance related to their formation and operation as not-for-profit organizations. These services ...
Recent Achievements
Introducing a New Participatory Action Research Toolkit
Check out CDP’s Research for Organizing Toolkit, our new website and toolkit that provides resources for organizations to conduct participatory action research (PAR), a people-centered, power-building research method. We have compiled trainings, tools and tips from our work over the last decade into a web-based resource that includes case studies featuring CDP’s community partners, workshops, worksheets and templates. This toolkit is designed for organizations and individuals that want to use PAR to support their work towards social justice.
For more information, please visit: www.researchfororganizing.org.
Participatory Budgeting Results are In
CDP joined Council Members Brad Lander (D-Brooklyn), Melissa Mark-Viverito (D-Manhattan), Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) and Jumaane D. Williams (D-Brooklyn) on the steps of City Hall with partners from Community Voices Heard and the Participatory Budgeting Project to declare the results of the groundbreaking participatory budgeting vote held in early April. Participatory budgeting is a new process for capital budgeting in which voters directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars, a first in New York City and only the second such initiative in the United States. CDP coordinated research and evaluation for the process and collected over 4,000 thousand surveys to track participation, attitudes towards government, civic engagement and leadership skills.
Read coverage of CDP’s work in New York Times.
Listen to Alexa Kasdan, CDP’s Director of Research and Policy on WNYC.
Read CDP’s data summary.