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Aaron Malcolm Cohort 2The Justice Corps has helped me realize that there are a lot of organizations such as shelters, food banks, and churches around my community who, like me, want to help meet these needs.
Community Benefit service project is a unique feature, providing Corps members the opportunity to directly contribute to the repair and development of their communities.
Corps members conduct needs assessments in their communities to help identify potential community benefit service projects. A Community Advisory Board comprised of elected officials faith-based and community leaders helps identify potential community benefit service projects, and brings valuable social support to the Justice Corps.
To be eligible for approval, projects must:
- Fulfill unmet and valued community needs
- Be visible
- Be meaningful
- Be achievable
- Be environmentally sound and
- Have a lasting impact
The NYC Justice Corps welcomes partnerships with agencies such as the New York City Parks Department and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to undertake community benefit service projects that improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods in which the NYC Justice Corps operates. Click here to view a one pager for interested Community Partners.
Click here for the NYC Justice Corps Community Benefit Service Project Application.
Learn more about projects completed by Bronx and Brooklyn NYC Justice Corps members.
In partnership with the Pratt Center for Community Development, Corps members engaged in graffiti removal at seven locations, community garden renovation, and the weatherization of 25 homes whose owners will benefit from reduced energy costs and improved home energy efficiency. Corps members also completed a mural on a wall of the garden, depicting scenes from the community.
The Black Veterans for Social Justice Project engaged Corps members in renovating apartments at four housing facilities in Bedford-Stuyvesant. This work included ensuring that various heating and electrical systems were functional. Through training from project partners, Corps members were provided with the opportunity to become certified in areas of carpentry, boiler and sprinkler functioning, along with other areas of building maintenance.
The William Hodson Senior Center is the oldest senior center in the United States. Corps members undertook an intensive clean-up campaign, restored the stage in the main dining room, and repainted the walls of the auditorium to create a vibrant atmosphere for the seniors.
Crotona Park is the largest park in the South Bronx and has partnered with the Justice Corps on a variety of outdoor and indoor projects. Corps members have repainted basketball courts and playground areas, as well as the walls of the pool house. Most recently, they helped design and plant a new garden landscape by building a fence around newly installed flowerbeds to prevent erosion.