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Welcome to our story hub—a place where every voice, experience, and perspective comes together. Here, you’ll find all the stories we’ve shared across the site, from inspiring journeys and insightful interviews to behind-the-scenes moments and community highlights. Whether you’re looking to catch up, explore something new, or simply get inspired, this is your gateway to everything we’ve been talking about.

  • SLU Professors Publish Annual State of the Unions Report

    With the release of their annual report on the state of labor in the United States, SLU professors Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce have shown that organized labor remains far stronger in New York City and state than elsewhere in the nation — but that union erosion has also contributed disproportionately to low-wage job growth.

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  • VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) Seeks Community Organizer (Brooklyn, NY)

    VOCAL-NY is a grassroots, membership-led organization dedicated to building a movement of low-income people fighting to end AIDS, the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and homelessness. We do this through community organizing, leadership development, direct services, policy advocacy and direct action and with the firm belief that true social change must come from the bottom

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  • The Fund for Public Health in New York City, Inc. Seeks Community Health Organizer

    The Fund for Public Health in New York City, (FPHNYC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New Yorkers. To this end, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), FPHNYC incubates innovative public health initiatives implemented by

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  • The Fund for Public Health in New York City, Inc. Seeks Community Organizing Supervisor

    The Harlem Health Advocacy Partnership (HHAP) is a DOHMH funded community health worker project aimed at reducing the rates of diabetes, hypertension, asthma and addressing social determinants of health in the East and Central Harlem NYCHA community. HHAP aims to accomplish this by identifying NYCHA residents with any/all of these three chronic illnesses, and helping

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