greene grants

2009 Greene Grant awarded to:

Make the Road NY

Word on the Street

A leading grass-roots organization providing adult literacy, legal services, health access, youth development, and college access programs to low-income and immigrant New York city communities. Word on the Street is Make The Road's media initiative—with a youth-produced bilingual newspaper, and media projects ranging from audio slideshows to short documentaries. These youth-produced films explore issues such as police accountability, housing and gentrification, and justice in the education system. Their work will be shared with community groups, schools, and elected officials.

"Word on the Street tells the stories you don't hear from the people you never see in the mainstream media. It turns up the volume of these alternative media makers, and attracts youth who are deeply committed to their communities and ending political, economic and social structures that perpetuate poverty, racism, homophobia and xenophobia."