Work for Love
Work for Love is a community-based non-profit organization that is active in connecting and uplifting local communities through initiatives focused on education and health care. Work for Love operates in the informal settlement of Masiphumelele (isiXhosa for ‘we will succeed’) on the outskirts of Cape Town.
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Created: Jun 15, 2009
Updated: Nov 19, 2009
Membership: Open
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Citizen Action of New York is a statewide membership organization founded in 1983. We have individual members and are a coalition of labor, senior citizen, women's, student, tenant and community organizations that works with community activists for social and economic justice.
We fight for quality affordable health care for all, jobs that pay living wages with decent benefits, expanded Medicare coverage for seniors that includes prescription drugs, strong investment in public education and after-school programs, campaign finance reform, an end to corporate tax loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthy, and consumer protections.
Accomplishments:
- Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus, health care programs that provide affordable health coverage to hundreds of thousands of children and adults in working families.
- The Managed Care Consumers' Bill of Rights, a law that provides strong HMO and health insurance protections for New York consumers, including the right to appeal to independent medical experts when an insurance company denies care.
- A Living Wage Law for Buffalo, which guarantees that Buffalo city contractors pay decent wages to their employees.
- Campaign Finance Reform in New York City, where Citizen Action's ballot initiative campaign was the strategic catalyst, prompting the City Council to pass a campaign finance reform law that provides partial public funding to candidates who agree not to accept large special interest donations.
- Environmental Protections in Communities throughout New York, by blocking urban sprawl on Long Island's North Shore, stopping construction of a toxic waste incinerator in Binghamton and winning clean-up of a lead-poisoned playground in Buffalo.
We fight for quality affordable health care for all, jobs that pay living wages with decent benefits, expanded Medicare coverage for seniors that includes prescription drugs, strong investment in public education and after-school programs, campaign finance reform, an end to corporate tax loopholes and tax breaks for the wealthy, and consumer protections.
Accomplishments:
- Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus, health care programs that provide affordable health coverage to hundreds of thousands of children and adults in working families.
- The Managed Care Consumers' Bill of Rights, a law that provides strong HMO and health insurance protections for New York consumers, including the right to appeal to independent medical experts when an insurance company denies care.
- A Living Wage Law for Buffalo, which guarantees that Buffalo city contractors pay decent wages to their employees.
- Campaign Finance Reform in New York City, where Citizen Action's ballot initiative campaign was the strategic catalyst, prompting the City Council to pass a campaign finance reform law that provides partial public funding to candidates who agree not to accept large special interest donations.
- Environmental Protections in Communities throughout New York, by blocking urban sprawl on Long Island's North Shore, stopping construction of a toxic waste incinerator in Binghamton and winning clean-up of a lead-poisoned playground in Buffalo.
