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From the Ground Up: How Investment in Grassroots Organizations Supports Family Well-Being: Written by Naashia B., Halimah Washington and Mary Holiman, Rise Organizing Team; and Rashida Abuwala, New Tomorrow; and edited by Nora McCarthy, NYC Family Policy Project.

From the Ground Up: How Investment in Grassroots Organizations Supports Family Well-Being

In this report, we highlight some of the grassroots community groups that parents in communities highly impacted by family policing rely on for community care—and call on New York City and State and the philanthropic community to invest deeply, holistically and sustainably in community-based organizations and grassroots groups that have long served and built trust with their communities.

This report was co-authored by Rashida Abuwala, Principal of New Tomorrow, a research and advisory firm that works with foundations, policy, movement-building and direct service organizations to support participatory, community-powered research and change that amplify marginalized voices, build community power and end harmful systems.

It was edited by Nora McCarthy, Director of NYC Family Policy Project, which explores and builds evidence through original research, data and policy analysis – for the policy visions of parents and young people impacted by the child welfare system in New York City.

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