VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that organizes low-income New Yorkers affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness to advance health, justice, and harm reduction through advocacy, leadership development, direct services, and direct action.
Homelessness and affordable housing, drug policy and overdose prevention, HIV/AIDS and public health, criminal justice and decarceration, law enforcement accountability, harm reduction, and anti-poverty policy.
Primarily foundation support, supplemented by government grants and individual donors.
VOCAL-US; VOCAL-NY Action Fund; chapters in Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Westchester County; leadership and board members include Reginald Brown (Chairperson) and Jawanza Williams (Director of Organizing).
non-profit 501(c)(3) with a related 501(c)(4) advocacy arm
