When Lakeisha was 2 years old, her father Tony went to prison. He wasn’t released until she was 29. Lakeisha and Tony can’t get those 27 years back. The Holidays were especially tough for Lakeisha. “I spent a lot of years sad and angry because I wasn’t able to wake up on Christmas with my…
City Council Member Robert Cornegy on the difference the Men in Blue of Ready, Willing & Able makes in his Bed-Stuy District.
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Elliot Williams served as an assistant director in the Obama administration for nearly 8 years, and was a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department. He is now a Principal at The Raben Group as well as a CNN Legal Analyst, where speaks regularly about the convergence of law and racial justice. In…
Through The Doe Fund’s partnership with the City Cleanup Corps, we are able to extend the paid work opportunities and supportive services of Ready, Willing & Able to people living outside of our residences. This means, for the first time ever, we are able to provide these crucial interventions to women. Though such work programs…
Isabel McDevitt is the Executive Vice President of The Doe Fund. As we recognize the anniversary of the attacks on September 11th, we remember those who lost their lives and honor the extreme acts of heroism exhibited that fateful day. Their loss will not be in vain if we maintain focus on altruism and…
Our street cleaning program—known as the Community Improvement Project (CIP) and represented by the iconic Men and Blue—is undeniably the most well-known of our social enterprises. But how did CIP begin… and what lies ahead? The fundamental principle behind The Doe Fund is that the majority of people experiencing homelessness and leaving incarceration want to,…
This time last year, predictions were dire for NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken over 53,000 lives in the city alone, also unleashed an economic crisis as scores of businesses shuttered and unemployment reached the highest levels since the Great Depression. The financial hardship led to funding cuts to the Department of Sanitation, and…
Our partnership with The Bentley was a model of integrating the men we serve into the larger community, without local resistance. Here’s how.
We have the solution to NYC’s deepening housing crisis. It’s time to convert closed hotels into permanent affordable SRO housing.
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