NYC Against Hate is a coalition of community-based organizations working across identities to make New York safer for our communities. Jewish, Arab-American, Muslim, LGBTQ, and Black and Brown New Yorkers are uniting to create community safety for our communities and build a stronger New York City. We believe that the only effective solution to hate violence and bias incidents is in our communities, not in more policing and prosecution. Learn more: find out how We Keep Us Safe and what the city can do to resource hate violence prevention.

Our Coalition

Arab American Association of New York

AAA-NY supports and empowers the Arab immigrant and Arab American community by providing services to help them adjust to their new home and become active members of society. Our aim is for families to achieve the ultimate goals of independence, productivity and stability.

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Asian American Federation

In partnership with our 70 member and partner organizations, we represent the collective interests of 1.7 million Asian New Yorkers, across critical issue areas such as immigrant integration, mental health, economic development, and civic engagement. We are working to make sure the pan-Asian community remains visible, our needs are addressed, our contributions are valued, and our stories are told. And we do this by providing expert research, strong advocacy, and training pan-Asian profits to be better at serving their communities. AAF is one of the strongest leadership voices advocating for better policies, services, and funding that lead to more justice and opportunity for Asian immigrants, one of New York City’s poorest and most underserved communities. We support Asians from 20 ethnic groups—diverse in language, culture, and religion—that make up New York’s Asian community.

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The Audre Lorde Project

The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color center for community organizing, focusing on the New York City area. Through mobilization, education and capacity-building, we work for community wellness and progressive social and economic justice. Committed to struggling across differences, we seek to responsibly reflect, represent and serve our various communities.

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Brooklyn Movement Center

Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents. We build power and pursue self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Crown Heights by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives. Through our intersectional organizing, BMC centers a full range of issues and Black identity that define a whole community.

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CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City. We were founded in 1986 by Asian working class women alarmed by the spike of hate violence on Asian communities and its root causes stemming from institutional racism in the United States. Through our organizing model of base-building, leadership development, campaigns, alliances, and organizational development- we organize Asian communities to fight for institutional change and participates in a broader movement towards racial, gender, and economic justice.

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Center for Anti-Violence Education

The Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) develops and implements violence prevention programs so that women, girls, people who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgender or Gender-Non Conforming, and those who are at risk from discriminatory policies can interrupt and heal from violence. CAE’s approach combines education, physical empowerment, leadership development and activism. We do this to actively create a more just and peaceful world. We are based in Brooklyn and work throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Chinese-American Planning Council

Founded in 1965, CPC is a social services organization that creates positive social change. We empower Asian American, immigrant, and low-income communities in New York City by ensuring they have equitable access to the resources and opportunities needed to thrive. Today, CPC is the nation's largest Asian American social services organization and we are the trusted partner to 60,000 individuals and families striving to achieve goals in their education, family, community and career. We welcome community members at every stage of life to over 50 high-quality programs at 35 sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Through all of our services, we empower New Yorkers to become agents of positive change in their own lives and in their communities.

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DRUM (desis Rising Up & Moving)

DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrant workers and youth in New York City.

Founded in 2000, DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, civil rights, and worker’s justice.  Our membership of over 3,000 adults, youth, and families is multigenerational and represents the diaspora of the South Asian communities – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and beyond.  In over a decade, we have built a unique model of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean undocumented workers, women, and youth led organizing for rights and justice from the local to the global.

Our long-term vision is to build the power of immigrant workers in the U.S in unity with all workers and communities for human rights. We see our movements for justice in the U.S. rooted in working in solidarity with people of the Global South for just global trade, economic, and foreign policies. Our cornerstone is building strong cross-community alliances across the U.S. and globe to amplify progressive movements- with African Americans, Latinos, Indigenous communities, Arab and Middle Eastern communities, labor, youth, civil rights, and Global South movements from Egypt, to South Asia, to Latin America.

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice

For 29 years, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) has pursued racial and economic justice in New York City by advancing systemic changes that result in concrete improvements in people’s everyday lives. We are inspired by Jewish tradition to fight for a sustainable world with an equitable distribution of economic and cultural resources and political power. The movement to dismantle racism and economic exploitation will be led by those most directly targeted by oppression. We believe that Jews have a vital role to play in this movement. The future we hope for depends on Jews forging deep and lasting ties with our partners in struggle.

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Make the Road New York

Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services. Make the Road New York operates community centers in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island; Brentwood, Long Island and White Plains, Westchester County. With a membership of 23,000, MRNY tackles the critical issues facing our communities, including workplace justice, tenants’ rights, immigrant rights and civil rights, TGNCIQ justice, public education, health care access, and immigration reform. (TGNCIQ = transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and queer) 

MRNY is a multi-service organization. Our member-led organizing committees -- which work on the issues named above -- implement strategies to combat shared problems, and develop leadership and the capacity for civic participation. We also provide an array of high-quality bilingual services: We offer English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Spanish-language literacy, computer literacy, citizenship preparation, and in-school and after-school youth programs. We have a robust legal program that offers direct representation across a spectrum of practice areas, including employment law, immigration law, housing and benefits, and TGNCIQ civil rights; we also take on impact litigation as a strategy for achieving broad change. Our health program offers facilitated enrollment into health insurance programs and SNAP benefits, a community health worker home visit program, nutrition education and emergency food pantries, health care navigation, and more.

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New York City Anti-Violence Project

AVP empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. AVP envisions a world in which all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected people are safe, respected, and live free from violence.

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Our Vision

NYC Against Hate (formerly the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative) was convened by Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) and the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) in response to skyrocketing hate violence in New York City. The diverse NYC Against Hate coalition includes all of the communities most directly impacted by hate violence and brings together nine community organizations working citywide to address this issue. We need approaches that prevent violence through education and community-building, interrupt violence through community-based upstander/bystander trainings and rapid response at the local level, and repair damage through restorative justice, counseling, and peer-support. The NYC Against Hate coalition believes that our communities should be at the center of generating these solutions, and that an agenda that relies on increased policing and escalating hate crimes prosecutions will not heal our communities and will not stop hate violence in New York City.

For the first time, a diverse coalition of community-based organizations will coordinate their responses to incidents of hate violence in New York City. The coalition will provide services and organizing in all five boroughs, and includes Jewish, immigrant, Latinx, Muslim, Arab & South Asian, Black, and LGBTQGNC populations. Collectively, the nine organizations of the Hate Violence Prevention Initiative form a carefully woven tapestry that is uniquely capable of building inter-communal understanding, solidarity, and security, across difference, for the most directly impacted populations of New York City. 

NYC Against Hate coalitions members have identified five key strategies that are critical to hate violence prevention in New York. Each organization will focus on the modalities that reflect its core competencies and the coalition will serve as an incubator of ideas and practices, in which we will all learn from and support each other.

• Preventative Education: Bystander/upstander intervention trainings to empower community members to ally themselves with victims when an incident of hate or harassment is underway in public, and Know Your Rights trainings to equip people with the tools they need to stay safe in interactions with ICE and the police. 

• Reporting: Community-based, culturally competent reporting of hate violence incidents. Marginalized communities feel safest reporting incidents to community-based organizations, which can help them to make a safety plan and determine whether or not they would like to report to law enforcement or another city agency.

• Community Care: Pre-and post-incident community care, including community-led transformative justice processes that focus on challenging and transforming the perspectives of people who do harm in our neighborhoods, as well as counseling and peer support services for survivors of violence. Cultural competency and anti-oppression education for community members and leaders to address inter-communal tensions, transform our understanding of systemic hate, identify our common interest in defeating it, and increase our mutual capacity for empathy. 

• Rapid Response: Rapid post-incident response, including community alerts, rallies supporting survivors, media, town hall meetings, neighborhood safety events, targeted school-based and neighborhood education across multiple identities.

• Narrative shift: working to change public perception about the impacted communities, correct misinformation about the nature of hate violence, and create a deeper public understanding of the issues driving hate violence.