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Michael Gecan is retiring as Co-Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation this month. All accolades coming his way will be richly deserved. His career has been a model of how to build and sustain broad based power organizations. Mike has been an organization builder, innovator, risk taker, and thought leader for over four decades.
While best known for his work with East Brooklyn Congregations (and the sparkling success of Nehemiah Housing in NYC), his mentoring of talented leaders and organizers, his strategic brilliance applied to multiple political fights over decades, his talent for expression through the written word, his (cold) anger, humor and patience put him in the top rung of change agents in the USA and abroad. See DF's page devoted to Michael Gecan's Books. |
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Mayor de Blasio committed $500 million to Metro-IAF’s plan for building new apartments for seniors, starting with six already identified NYCHA and Housing Preservation and Development sites where money could be spent and units put up quickly. ----------------------------------- Speaking of clear statements, “there was no ambiguity from the mayor when we shook hands about this being $500 million from the city,” Brawley told me Friday. “If in fact we have been deceived and lied to, this would be a great disrespect to the black and Latino community — certainly the greatest lie that I have ever seen, and maybe in the history of our organization.” NY Daily News Story by Harry Siegel
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