This section celebrates CRE's clients, staff, board and affiliates who are featured in news media.

March 10, 2008

CRE Executive Director Fran Barrett and Senior Fellow Barbara Turk are quoted in a City Limits article about new paperwork imposed on nonprofits in the name of exposing malfeasance.
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December 31, 2007

Former CRE staff member Ruth Ford is quoted extensively in an article about the Maura Clarke-Ita Ford Center.
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November 26, 2007

CRE Senior Fellow Dick Magat is quoted in a New York Times article about the group he helped fto create, "Life After the Ford Foundation."
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November 7, 2007

CRE Board member Angelo Falcón is mentioned in the New York Post's Top 25 Influentials.
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November, 2007

CRE allies Gray Matters appear in Kiplinger's Retirement Report.
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October 31, 2007

Andrew Friedman, executive director of Make the Road New York, is quoted in the New York Times article about a civil rights complaint against pharmacies brought by immigrant advocacy groups.
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October 12, 2007

The Weeksville Heritage Center is in a New York Times article about Underground Railroad sites in Brooklyn.
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September 19, 2007

CRE clients the Taxi Workers' Alliance are in the news again, with talk of another strike. Read the Daily News article here.
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September 17, 2007

Fran Barrett is mentioned by Liz Smith in a Variety column. It's not much, but CRE staff think Fran should be famous, so we're including it here.
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September 16, 2007

CRE Executive Director Fran Barrett is mentioned briefly in Liz Smith's New York Post column as one of the featured speakers at the Brooke Astor memorial.
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CRE Board member Angelo Falcon is quoted in a Daily News article about ongoing discrimination against Latinos.
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September 10, 2007

CRE client New York Industrial Retention Network contribute to a great New York Times article about the transformation of New York City's industries.
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September 4, 2007

Friends of Firefighters are the subject of a terrific New York Times article.
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As the prospect of a taxi drivers' strike looms, the Taxi Workers' Alliance is highlighted in a well-written article and followup in the New York Times CityRoom blog.
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September 3, 2007

Just Food play a part in a fascinating New Yorker article about local food in New York City.
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August 24, 2007

CRE clients The Taxi Workers' Alliance appears in articles about a proposed strike in both the New York Times and the New York Sun.
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Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE), Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), and the Urban Justice Center star in the Gotham Gazette's article The New Battle Against Gentrification.
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August 21, 2007

Former CRE client Advocates for Children helped convince the Bloomberg Administration to expand the high school experience for students in need. Read the New York Times story here.
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The New York Daily News mentions the Bronx Community Pride Center in an insightful article about gay teens in the Bronx.
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August 15, 2007

CRE client the Arab-American Family Support Center is quoted once again in a New York Times article following up on the Khalil Gibran International Academy controversy.
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August 14, 2007

CRE client the Arab-American Family Support Center is featured in a New York Times article about the embattled Khalil Gibran International Academy.
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August 13, 2007

A Newsday article about Latinos in Staten Island quotes CRE board member Angelo Falcón.
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August 7, 2007

CRE client Coalition for Asian American Children and Families is mentioned in a Daily News article about the lengths that Asian families have to travel to get medical and school services.
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August 6, 2007

CRE clients and frequent newsmakers Tenants & Neighbors are quoted in an article in Hartford Business about a notorious NYC slumlord who's expanded operations into Connecticut.
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August 2, 2007

CRE Project Director Kwame Banks is featured in the Gay City News article Black Gay Men Gather On HIV.
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July 30, 2007

CRE clients Tenants & Neighbors discuss the Starrett City sale in an article in CityLimits.
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July 16, 2007

Reverend John Powis, founder of the Bushwick Housing Independence Project speaks about the issue of affordable housing and the plight of low income tenants in this New York Times video.

In "Raising Young Voices for Illegal Mexican Immigrants", David Gonzalez of the New York Times writes about the children of undocumented Mexican immigrants. The article features four representatives of CRE clients working with the Mexican community in New York City: Esperanza del Barrio, the Mexican Education Foundation, Mixteca, and Asociación Tepeyac.
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July 12, 2007

Reverend John Powis, founder of the Bushwick Housing Independence Project speaks about the issue of affordable housing and the plight of low income tenants in this New York Times video.

June 28, 2007

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) was awarded the New York Times Company's First Nonprofit Excellence Award. The announcement is online here.
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June 27, 2007

CRE client Make the Road by Walking is in an article on Bushwick gentrification in the Village Voice. Read it here.
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June 19, 2007

Former CRE client Girls for Gender Equity is featured in an article in the Village Voice.
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June 18, 2007

CRE Clients The After School Corporation comment on after-school program cutbacks in a great article in the New York Times.
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City Limits Weekly discusses the work of a new tenant coalition fighting asthma in an article that mentions CRE client the New York City AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN) as a coalition member.
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June 12, 2007

Juan Haro, leader of Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio, is quoted by AM New York. Read it here.
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June 4, 2007

It may just look like graffiti to you, but to a group of dedicated New Yorkers, and CRE clients, its art. And they are determined to protect it. David Gonzales of the Times writes about the efforts of CRE client Groundswell to protect their work from copyright infringement. It's a great story -- and more great coverage for CRE clients.
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May 29, 2007

CRE client Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps was featured on NY1.
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A Village Voice article on new development in Brooklyn features CRE Client Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE).
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May 28, 2007

The New York Times discusses the work of CRE client Harm Reduction Coalition in an article about Washington DC being barred by federal law from using local tax money to finance needle exchange programs.
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May 25, 2007

An article in the Staten Island Advance mentions CRE client Concerned Citizens for Family Preservation.
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May 24, 2007

Benita Miller of CRE client Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective -- a nonprofit that works with young, pregnant women, is quoted in the New York Times about the closing of schools for pregnant teens. (She was also featured for the Quotation of the Day).
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May 17, 2007

CRE client The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is featured in a brief news item on WNYC about local immigrant groups' response to the proposed federal immigration policy overhaul.
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CRE client Tenants & Neighbors is featured in an Indymedia article about rent stabilization and deregulation.
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May 8, 2007

CRE clients Sustainable South Bronx, Rocking the Boat, and For A Better Bronx are quoted in the New York Times article about the Hunts Point Riverside Park.
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CRE board member and Columbia Business School Professor Ray Horton was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about MBA students from Columbia working with large nonprofits in New York City.
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May 4, 2007

Camba is quoted once again in the New York Times, in an article about the controversy surrounding the Khalil Gibran International Academy.
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April 30, 2007

CRE client Tenants & Neighbors discusses the new Rent Guidelines Board in a City Limits article.
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April 29, 2007

Camba is the subject of a terrific New York Times article about their work preparing immigrants for jobs with Whole Foods.
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April 24, 2007

Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) is one of 10 semifinalists for the New York Times Company's First Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The announcement is online here.
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The New York Times features a moving article about CRE Client Africans In America.
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April 23, 2007

In the New York Times, a traumatic article about exploited children that features quotes from CRE Clients the Correctional Association of New York and Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS).
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April 10, 2007

ReServe and United Neighbors of East Midtown are in the news, getting seniors involved in their community.
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April 9, 2007

CRE client New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project has an ad campaign to help teens protect themselves from domestic abuse. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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Third Wave Foundation co founder Amy Richards makes the news in Arkansas.
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April 4, 2007

CRE board member Angelo Falcón has written a story for El Diaro/La Prensa about the dearth of Hispanic-American judges. "While more than 48 million Latinos in the United States presently make up 14 percent of the country's population, only 4 percent of state judges are Latinos," writes Falcon. And in New York, where Latinos make up 16 percent of the population, less than 5 percent are represented on state court.
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If you know of a CRE client or affiliate in the news, let us know!