NOCD-NY is a citywide alliance of artists, neighborhood leaders, activists, and policymakers that have joined together to revitalize New York City from the neighborhood up. NOCD-NY came together in 2010 in response to the vision, sustained needs, and creative resilience of our diverse communities. We facilitate peer learning, increase the visibility of community-based work, and advocate for it.
Our work is grounded in shared values including equity, racial justice, self determination, and collaboration. Our artistic vision and asset-based approach recognizes the powerful culture that already exists in communities and we support liberatory art that is dialogic, participatory, and builds agency.
We have developed longstanding relationships with a citywide alliance of artists, neighborhood leaders, community organizations, cultural workers and residents rooted in neighborhood networks. Core members and partners include Arts & Democracy, Bronx Council on the Arts, Community Capacity Development, Friends of the High Line, Fourth Arts Block, Gowanus Community Center, Groundswell, Hook Arts Media, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, Kensington Cultural Council, The Laundromat Project, El Museo del Barrio, THE POINT CDC, El Puente, Queens Museum, Staten Island Arts, University Settlement, Urban Bush Women, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, NYC Department of Transportation, and others.
STAFF
Caron Atlas, Director
caron[at]nocdny.org
Tom Oesau, Program Co-Manager
tom[at]nocdny.org
Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, Program Consultant and Artist
hatuey[at]nocdny.org
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tamara Greenfield, Chair
Vice President of Public Space + Operations, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Risa Shoup, Treasurer
Executive Director, A.R.T./New York
Caron Atlas
Director, NOCD-NY and Arts & Democracy
Ana Chireno
Consultant
Sarita Daftary-Steel
Community Organizer, JustLeadershipUSA
Hatuey Ramos-Fermín
Artist-in-Residence, THE POINT CDC
Claudie Mabry
Strategy, Engagement & Innovation consultant
ACCESSIBILITY
NOCD-NY is committed to welcoming people of all abilities. We partner with a network of spaces for our programs that are ADA compliant. All efforts will also be made to facilitate the full participation of people with visual and hearing impairments. And because we work with diverse communities who speak multiple languages, we provide translation and interpretation as needed. We are committed to continually revising this statement in collaboration with our communities. Please contact Tom Oesau at tom@nocdny.org to make a specific access request or recommendation.
SUPPORT
NOCD-NY is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Small Business Services, New York City Department of Transportation, and individual supporters.
We are also thankful for past support from Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The New York Community Trust, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City Fund for Public Health, New York State Health Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, and Humanities New York.
