NEW WOMEN NEW YORKERS INC
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Mission Statement
New Women New Yorkers provides workforce development and other programs to empower immigrant women to obtain meaningful employment or pursue higher education in NYC, and offers a safe, inclusive space where immigrant women can build community and share their stories.
About This Cause
OUR CORE VALUES · Inclusion & diversity: We believe in the vast potential that every immigrant woman coming to New York can contribute to our city, regardless of her national origin, cultural background, or level of education. · Equality of opportunities: We endeavor to level the playing field so that gender, country of origin, ethnicity, socio-economic background, and other characteristics beyond an individual's control do not impact a person's outcomes. · Freedom to choose one’s professional path: We strive to offer participants with the resources and support they need in order to pursue their chosen professional path. STATEMENT OF NEED Immigrants are critical to NYC’s economy: They form over a third of the population and nearly half of the workforce. Almost half of NYC’s approximately 3 million immigrants are women. Women and men continuously face different expectations and challenges, and this is particularly the case in the workplace. Whether biases are intentional and malicious, or subtle and invisible, it is clear that ensuring gender equality in the workplace is a continued fight, especially for immigrant women and women of color. One in three immigrant women lacking US education are out of the workforce, and many more remain underemployed. In the past year, immigrant women have suffered enormous job losses as the result of the coronavirus pandemic. Key challenges immigrant women face when looking to enter the workforce in NYC include: Limited English proficiency; Limited knowledge of the job market and lack of familiarity with workplace norms; Lack of a local professional network and lack of experience networking; Difficulty transferring credentials for education and professional experience acquired abroad; Lack of training for job interviews; Lack of self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-expectations; Lack of education; Primary responsibility for care of children and older relatives. As a result, immigrant women are underrepresented in managerial and professional occupations, have lower earnings, and suffer from higher poverty levels. They are also much more likely to experience discrimination and abuse, both at work and in their household. WHO WE SERVE Our programming serves immigrant women from an incredible diversity of national origins and cultural heritage, English and education levels, and professional backgrounds. In 2020, we served nearly 200 new participants through our workforce development, community, and storytelling programs, along with 251 alumni. Nearly half of them came from Latin America and the Caribbean, a fifth from Asia, another fifth from Russia and Eastern Europe, and the rest from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Promoting cross-cultural dialogue, addressing intergroup prejudice and tensions, and ensuring inclusion and respect for immigrant women in the US workforce and society is critical for us. The awareness of the uniqueness of each participant’s experience of privilege and/or discrimination and the reciprocal respect we encourage shape a small-scale community model of diversity and inclusion that what we hope New York City can become. NWNY LEADERSHIP & TEAM NWNY is a woman- and immigrant-led organization. NWNY’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Arielle Kandel, is originally from France and twice an immigrant herself, as well as the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants and refugees. As of Spring 2021, 4 out of 11 Board Directors are immigrant women themselves and an additional 4 are first-generation women immigrants, from various countries in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Our work is driven by a small staff team and volunteers who are highly talented and passionate professionals, the majority among them women and immigrants. We encourage program graduates to stay involved in the organization and to gain further skills and experience through our Alumni Volunteer Program. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS NWNY provides innovative, year-round programming in two key areas: - Workforce development. We provide three workforce development programs: LEAD, We Speak We LEAD, and Bridge to LEAD. LEAD, our flagship program, provides participants with critical knowledge and skills to navigate the US job search and workplace culture. We create safe spaces for immigrant women to build meaningful relationships with professionals in their fields of interest while practicing job readiness skills and gaining confidence. We also provide individual support to participants such as tailored resume review, interview prep, and career counseling. The key purpose of these programs is to facilitate and support participants in transitioning to meaningful employment and achieving self-sufficiency, independence, and fulfillment. During the pandemic, these programs have become essential for our participants to cope with increasing economic uncertainty, social isolation, educational interruption, and other difficulties. - Community education, community building, and storytelling. We strive to guarantee that the support we provide through our services is holistic. Our community building programming serves as an additional platform for participants to shape their community’s identity based on both their experiences’ similarities and uniqueness. Our storytelling programming amplifies their voices, dreams, hopes, and the obstacles inherent to their identities so that they can build confidence and a stronger sense of self; dismantles societal prejudice against immigrant women as a monolithic to-be-empowered subject; and transforms the public dialogue into a more open, positive, and aware exchange. Similarly, our community education programming aims at serving both individual and community goals and outcomes. Once our community becomes a trustful and safe space and participants regain confidence in their stories’ power through sharing, NWNY’s community education programming delivers essential knowledge and resources for participants to navigate their rights as a group, exchange their points of view, and use these exchanges as a strength for reclaiming their role in society. PARTNERS & FUNDERS Collaboration is instrumental to our success. We partner with the three New York public library systems and other nonprofits to host workshops and offer referrals. In 2020 we launched a collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs for the development of We Speak We LEAD, combining workforce development with professional English learning. We collaborate with companies in diverse industries to offer practice and networking sessions, and other opportunities. We participate actively in several groups of workforce providers and other coalitions. The top funders of our programming include: Cathay Bank Foundation, Con Edison, Edward & Ellen Roche Relief Fund, Ford Foundation Good Neighbor Committee, Guardian Life, NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, QBE Foundation, TD Charitable Foundation, The New York Women’s Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.