Chair Salaam questions OPHC on community partnerships and selection process
Chair Salaam asks about OPHC's long-standing partnerships and selection process. Ramjatin explains the six anchor organizations identified since the office's 2019 founding, chosen for their bandwidth to deliver grassroots programming citywide across all five boroughs.
All right, I'm going to first,
Thank you for your testimony.
I'd like to acknowledge as well that we have been joined by Councilmember Carl Wilson.
And I'm going to start with some questions, starting with...
The Office of the Prevention of Hate Crimes.
OPHC prides itself on its work with community partners.
Could you speak to some of the long-term, long-standing partnerships that you have in the selection process for these partnerships?
Yeah, thank you so much.
OPHC's PATH program is the vehicle where we work with over 60-plus organizations.
But we have six major anchor organizations who we work with directly, and then they have sub-vendors under each of their portfolios.
Namely, we have the God Squad, 67% Christian Credit Council, JCRC, Jewish Council Relations.
We have the Arab American Association of New York.
We have the Hispanic Federation, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, and we have the Hispanic Federation.
And Asian American Federation, if I missed that one.
Those are the six anchor organizations that we work with.
Since the inception of this office in 2019, those groups were identified as the broader groups who can take the load of
amplifying this work, but also to bring this work on a grassroots level across New York City diverse communities, and they have the bandwidth to do so citywide across the five boroughs.
Thank you.
You're welcome.