Where are they working?

 

Chicago

• Alternatives, Inc. assists youth and families struggling with family conflict, poverty, substance abuse, academic issues, gang involvement, and violence by offering comprehensive, community-based programming in youth and family counseling, leadership development, academic enrichment, and violence and substance abuse prevention.
  AVODAH provides a Youth Leadership Organizer to Alternatives, Inc.
• Chicago House serves homeless and underemployed Chicagoans living with HIV/AIDS by providing housing and supportive services to HIV-affected families and individuals, who may also be impacted by poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, and mental illness.
  AVODAH provides an HIV Career and Business Services Specialist to Chicago House.

• Chicago SCORES! works with youth in the North Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and become agents of change in their communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning.
  AVODAH provides a Community Resource Manager to Chicago SCORES!
• Chicago Women’s Health Center is a health collective that provides gynecological and mental health care, health outreach and education, and advocacy for women’s health rights.
  AVODAH provides an Office and Volunteer Programming Coordinator to Chicago Women’s Health Center.
• Chinese Mutual Aid Association (CMAA) serves the needs, promotes the interests, and enhances the well-being of Chinese and other immigrants and refugees in Chicago, and fosters their participation in American Society.
  AVODAH provides a Senior Citizen Developer Facilitator to CMAA.
  
• Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago serves the educational, cultural, psychological, and socio-economic needs of Ethiopian and other immigrant groups in Chicago and surrounding areas.
  AVODAH provides a Youth and Family Life Education Team Member / Facility Development Research Team Member at The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago.
• I.C. Stars works with adults with a high school diploma or GED using project-based learning and full immersion teaching to provide an opportunity for change-driven, future leaders to develop skills in business and technology.
  AVODAH provides a Community Relations Developer to I.C. Stars.
• Interfaith Worker Justice works to educate, organize, and mobilize the U.S. religious community on issues and campaigns to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
  AVODAH provides a Public Policy and Organizing Advocate to Interfaith Worker Justice.
• Lakeview Action Coalition is a community organization acting to sustain racial and economic diversity in the Chicago communities of Lakeview and North Center and to build bridges between community members.
  AVODAH provides a Community Organizer to the Lakeview Action Coalition.
• The Mary Crane Center is dedicated to the comprehensive early development of urban dwelling children and their families through a variety of services and support. The goal is to provide quality education in a safe and diverse environment and to strengthen the bonds between children and their families. AVODAH provide a Family Worker to work directly with low income families with The Mary Crane Center.
• The Supportive Housing Providers Association organizes and advocates for providers and residents of supportive housing and improves services and funding for supportive housing across the state of Illinois. Residents of supportive housing are frequently formerly homeless and/or may have special needs, such as mental illness, substance abuse issues, or other chronic illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS.
  AVODAH provides a Resident Activities and Advocacy Coordinator to Supportive Housing Providers Association.
  

• Trilogy, Inc. assists people in their recovery from serious mental illness by helping them discover and reclaim their own capabilities and life direction.
  AVODAH provides a Recovery Counselor to Trilogy.
• Umoja Student Development Corporation partners with students at Manley Career Academy High School and other local schools and actively engages them in academic achievement, community building, and leadership opportunities. AVODAH provides a Student Advocate to Umoja.

New York

• The Crown Heights Community Mediation Center is an innovative effort to improve inter-group relations, encourage positive youth development, and promote non-violent conflict resolution. AVODAH provides a Mediator/Program Assistant for the Mediation Center.
• Gay Men's Health Crisis is committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. Volunteers work hard to reduce the spread of HUV disease, help people with HIV maintain and improve their health and independence, and keep the prevention, treatment, and cure for HIV an urgent national and local priority. AVODAH provides a Community Organizing Coordinator to Gay Men's Health Crisis.
• The Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services enhances and maintains the mental health and social functioning of individuals in the Jewish Community and the broader community.
  AVODAH provides a Case Assistant for the Break Free Program at the Thomas Askin Youth Center, Kaplan Center.
• The Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst enhances and maintains the mental health and social functioning of individuals in the Jewish Community and the broader community.
  AVODAH provides a Program Coordinator/Jewish Educator to the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst.
• Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School is a one-of-a-kind public high school with classes from 11am to 11pm, created to serve older students, ages 17 to 21, with adult responsibilities such as working and child rearing.
  AVODAH provides a Program Assistant for the College Services office at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School.
• The Medicare Rights Center is the leading national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare receive equitable access to health care.
  AVODAH provides a Health Advocacy Fellow to the Medicare Rights Center.
• Neighbors Together is a soup kitchen and comprehensive assistance program addressing the immediate crisis of hunger for the poorest people in the Bedford-Stuyvesant/Brownsville section of Brooklyn.
  AVODAH provides a Community Advocate to Neighbors Together.
• New York Legal Assistance Group provides free civil legal assistance to New York's most at-risk, low-income populations, including seniors, immigrants, victims of domestic violence, children with special needs, people with HIV/AIDS, survivors and families affected by the World Trade Center attack, Holocaust survivors, and others in need of legal help.
  AVODAH provides two Paralegals to NYLAG.
• Project Renewal serves the most fragile and underserved of the city’s homeless: adult men and women who, in addition to being without a home, also suffer from disabilities – including alcohol and drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS.
  AVODAH provides a Next Step Counselor to Project Renewal.
• The Red Hook Community Justice Center is the nation’s first multi-jurisdictional community court. The Justice Center’s one judge provides alternatives to incarceration and hears criminal, family, and housing court cases arising in South Brooklyn neighborhoods.
  AVODAH provides a Case Manager to the Red Hook Community Justice Center.
• Sanctuary for Families empowers survivors of domestic violence in claiming control of their lives, advocates for policy changes, and raises public awareness to end violence against all women.
  AVODAH provides an Immigration Project Advocate to Sanctuary For Families.
• Selfhelp Community Service offers aging, frail, and at-risk New Yorkers a comprehensive network of social services, senior housing, and home care. It is also the oldest and largest provider of support services for Holocaust survivors in North America.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Assistant to SelfHelp Community Service
• Tenants and Neighbors provides tenants throughout New York State with the education, organizing, and technical assistance to preserve existing affordable rental housing and address various other housing concerns.
  AVODAH provides a Housing Organizer to Tenants & Neighbors.
• The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice is a college-preparatory school with a focus on law and justice. Classes engage students through emphasizing learning by doing, focusing on legal studies and debate.
  AVODAH provides a Program Coordinator to the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice.
• The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board supports self-help housing and community building in low-income neighborhoods by training, organizing, developing, and assisting resident-controlled limited-equity housing co-operatives.
  Avodah provides a Tenant Organizer to the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board
• The Urban Justice Center provides legal representation and advocacy to poor and homeless New Yorkers.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Advocate to the Mental Health Project and a Homeless Outreach and Prevention Advocate to the Urban Justice Center.

New Orleans

• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) works on campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, and job conditions. New Orleans ACORN fosters civic engagement by building neighborhood groups and providing training opportunities for local leaders from within low-to-moderate income communities. AVODAH provides a Community Outreach Associate to ACORN.
• Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) promotes fair competition throughout the housing marketplace, including rental, sales, lending and insurance. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred. AVODAH provides a Fair Housing Assistant to GNOFHAC.
  
• Innocence Project (IPNO) and Resurrection After Exoneration (RAE) promote and sustain a network of support among the formerly incarcerated, reconnect them to the community and help provide access to educational opportunities and counseling. AVODAH provides an Exoneree Advocate to IPNO/RAE.
  
• Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, a project of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, is a community-based center working to stimulate sustainable recovery, rebuilding and civic engagement in the Holy Cross and Lower 9th war neighborhoods of New Orleans. AVODAH provides a Sustainable Development Campaign Coordinator to Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development.
  
• New Orleans Outreach directly enriches children's education, builds the capacity of schools to educate children more effectively, and increases support for public education. AVODAH provides a School-Based Volunteer Supervisor to New Orleans Outreach.
• New Orleans Women's Shelter is a facility for women and children in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans that focuses on helping women stabilize, obtain proper medical treatment and other locally available social services, enroll children into school and day care, register for job training classes, secure employment, locate affordable permanent housing and move on to successful independent living. AVODAH provides a Shelter Assistant to New Orleans Women's Shelter.
• Orleans Public Defenders provides legal services to indigent defendants and to client-centered representation that respects the humanity and dignity of those accused of crimes. AVODAH provides a Client Welfare Specialist to Orleans Public Defenders.
• Rebuilding Together New Orleans (RTNO) allows low-income families in communities across the country to live in warmth, safety, and dignity by restoring homes at no cost to the homeowner. AVODAH provides an Intake Assistant to RTNO.
• Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House works to deliver highly accessible health services within the context of a neighborhood life center, develop innovative and replicable models of care applicable to the health needs of underserved populations, and collaborate with educational institutions and non-profit partners to provide health professional training opportunities.                                                                                                    AVODAH provides a Community Coordinator to Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House.

Washington, DC

• Bread for the City provides food, clothing, medical care, social services, and legal assistance to over 8,000 vulnerable residents of Washington, DC each month.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Clinic Coordinator and a Medical Clinic Coordinator to Bread for the City.
• The Capital Area Immigration Rights (CAIR) Coalition brings immigrants, attorneys, volunteers, and community leaders together to work for a fair and humane immigration policy.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Assistant for the Detention Project at the CAIR Coalition.
• CASA of Maryland assists Latino immigrants and refugees of modest means with finding work, learning necessary skills, accessing available resources, and building a strong community.
  AVODAH provides a Legal Assistant to CASA of Maryland.
• The DC Central Kitchen is dedicated to strengthening bodies by safely recovering un-served food from local foodservice businesses to feed children and adults throughout the greater Washington, DC area. It also empowers minds by providing culinary job training and community service opportunities for youth and adults.
  AVODAH provides a Healthy Returns Coordinator to the DC Central Kitchen.
• The DC Employment Justice Center secures and enforces the rights of low-income workers in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
  AVODAH provides a Southeast Workers’ Rights Clinic and Advocacy Coordinator to the Employment Justice Center.
• DC SCORES empowers students in urban communities using soccer, writing, creative expression, and service-learning.
  AVODAH provides a Program Coordinator to DC SCORES.
• IONA Senior Services is dedicated to enabling older people to live with dignity and independence. Through its professional staff, corps of volunteers and close collaboration with other organizations, IONA provides services and access to programs designed to meet the needs of seniors and their families.
  AVODAH provides a Community Programs Specialist to IONA Senior Services.
  
• For Love of Children works to transform DC’s response to child abuse, homelessness, and educational failure so that children are protected and nurtured, homeless families are financially stable and housed, and high-risk teens are prepared to be responsible and successful adults.
  AVODAH provides a Neighborhood Tutoring Program Assistant to FLOC.
• La Clínica Del Pueblo, a bilingual, culturally competent, free community health clinic, provides primary care, mental health and substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, interpreter service, social services as well as health education and outreach, and free health services in the Latino community.
  AVODAH provides an Entitlements Case Manager to La Clínica.
• Metro TeenAIDS provides resources to help young people fight HIV/AIDS and support each other.
  AVODAH provides an Outreach and Education Specialist to Metro TeenAIDS.
• N Street Village offers a continuum of care through day and residential programs assisting women to move from homelessness to independent living, and to deal with issues of substance abuse and mental illness.
  AVODAH provides a Wellness Center and Residential Assistant to N Street Village.
• Sitar Arts Center provides young people in its inner-city community the opportunity to discover their gifts in the visual and performing arts. The Center's programs are built on knowledge that exposure to the arts dramatically enhances learning skills, cognitive development, social awareness and self esteem.  AVODAH provides a Student Outreach and Services Intern to Sitar Arts Center.
  
• So Others Might Eat exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation's capital by meeting the immediate daily needs such as food, clothing, and health care. SOME helps break the cycle of homelessness by offering services, such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness.
  AVODAH provides a Training Facilitator/Recreation Coordinator to SOME.
• The Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School prepares traditionally underserved students to be academically able, confident, and empowered.
  AVODAH provides a Program Associate to the Thurgood Marshall Academy.
• Washington, DC Jewish Community Center’s Behrend Builders Program teaches volunteers to repair, rebuild, and renovate low-income houses, homeless shelters, community centers, and other vital community facilities.
  AVODAH provides a Behrend Builders Coordinator to the DCJCC.
• Women Empowered Against Violence works closely with adult and teen survivors of relationship violence and abuse, providing an innovative range of legal, counseling, economic and educational services that leads survivors to utilize their inner and community resources, achieve safety for themselves and their children and live empowered lives.
  AVODAH provides a Civil Intake Counselor/Teen Dating Violence Trainer and a Community Outreach Coordinator to Women Empowered Against Violence.