The Culvert Chronicles “Coalition Of Twenty-Three Bedford Stuyvesant Non-Profits Is Urban Force for Change, Model for Other Cities”
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Brooklyn, New York- There is strength in numbers, and no better example of that strength is in the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant (CIBS). CIBS is comprised of 23 powerful community-based nonprofit organizations and government officials mobilized around a single purpose: to combine efforts and strengths in attacking major issues of concern to the community so as to increase leverage, increase opportunity and enhance the chances for successful results.
CIBS is structured like the five vertices of a pentagram. Each start point represents a Network committee focused on a major community enhancement object, including Business Vitality; Jobs Development; Money & Home; Social Services; and Environment & Housing. The Networks within CIBS are subdivided into the area that relates specifically to their specialties. "This way issues are attacked effectively and robustly with the community's best strategic… Click here to read more!
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(Left to Right) Richard Trouth, Exectutive Director of NHS of Bedford Stuyveant, Inc.; Jim Robinson CIBS Committee Member; Stanley Mezuem, Executive Director; Longlife Information & Referral Network; Brooklyn Assemlywoman Annette Robinson; Colvin W. Grannum, President/CEP, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation; (C) Victor Old, Attorney, Bed-Stuy Legal Services; Tracey Capers, Senior Vice President of Programs and Development, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation; Deb Howard, Executive Director; Pratt Area Community Council, Inc.; Job Mashariki, CEO, Black Verterans for Social Justice, Colette Gill Pierre, Senior VP Of Programs; Bridge Street Development Corporation; Samira Rajan, CEO, Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union and Jumaanae D. Williams, CIBS Program Manager.
