Our Members
Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation
Queens
Ocean Bay Community Development Corporation was established in 1999. The organization serves the NYCHA community in Far Rockaway, which is home to more than 10,000 residents in 3,576 apartments in 60 buildings on five campuses, all within a four-mile stretch of Far Rockaway.
OBCDC has provides “wrap-around” social services to residents in NYCHA housing and develops resources to revitalize and transform the community including work with seniors and youth. Work with older adults includes computer training, access to senior services, and transportation to local doctor’s appointments, community services, and activities.
Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco)
Executive Director: Nancy Biberman
50 East 168th Street
Bronx, NY 10452
Ph. 718-839-1100
Fx. 718-839-1170
www.whedco.org
The Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco) works in the South Bronx to restore pride of place, empower residents, and make neighborhoods livable and healthy. They build energy efficient and affordable homes; provide early childhood education and family support; promote youth development; and catalyze business development among local merchants and individual entrepreneurs. WHEDco offers affordable housing to low-income individuals and families, including the formerly homeless, and provides an array of services to the community from two Bronx-locations: Morrisania and Crotona Park East. A third affordable housing development, which will feature an arts-based charter school and WHEDco's Bronx Music Heritage Center, an educational and performance center celebrating music of the present and past with its roots in the Bronx, will open in 2015 in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. WHEDco directly serves over 35,000 people and affects the lives of thousands more across the Bronx and New York City each year.
