What We Do CommunicAIDs full-time staff, volunteers

and affiliate organizations provide food items, clothing, shelter and literacy training to needy individuals in stations throughout the area. CommunicAID strives to assist homeless, hungry and illiterate New York residents while empowering them with various training and workshop programs to embark on a path to financial independence so they can become successful contributors to the greater New York community. A CommunicAID graduate is employed in a position that satisfies his or her personal and professional long-term strategic goals.

Contact:

Abigail Jaffe Public Relations Coordinator abigailjaffe@communicaid.org 718-444-0000 577 West St. New York, NY 00111

CommunicAID was founded in 1994 by a group of citizens concerned about the rising number of homeless in New York and the lack of services to assist them. Today the nonprofit umbrella organization serves the needy in the Midtown and Upper West Side enclaves of Manhattan. Our employees work with homeless shelters and soup kitchens across the New York area to help our clients get back on their feet. Over 10 years, with the help of New York residents, our employees, volunteers and legislators, we expect to erase 45 percent of homelessness and hunger in New York City.

Who We Are

Structure

5 affiliate organizations 3 transportation services 4 aid facilities 11 board members 170 employees and volunteers

At the lowest point in my life, CommunicAID was there for me. I am now financially independent and support my wife and three children. Thank you, CommunicAID, for being there and for believing in me.
-Joshua Thompson 2010 CommunicAID graduate

Services

32-bed overnight shelter 60-person day shelter with food service 30-person long-term family shelter 12,000 square foot food pantry Literacy training Guidance counseling Career workshops

Financial Information

Did You Know? For every three needy individuals

in New York, CommunicAID has one employee.

If each New York resident donates one dollar to CommunicAID, we can erase 85 percent of homelessness in New York.

An increase of 5 percent more funding from the New York City Council could help erase 45 percent of homelessness in our city by 2014.