RIGHTTO THECITY

Annual Report 2012

Dear Friends,

2012 was a year of transition, learning, and deep relationship building. With a brand new staff, a dynamic core of organizations and a clarified strategy, we reached new heights and affirmed that after five years, Right to the City Alliance is still a formidable player on the urban block.

With the emergence of Occupy Wall Street in the fall of 2011, the mainstream narrative around power, equity and justice in the United States shifted. The rise of the 99% captivated our hearts and presented major strategic opportunities for those of us who have been educating, organizing and building grassroots power for decades. In 2012, Right to the City Alliance hit the streets alongside our allies and new Occupy formations, demanding accountability from the big banks and Wall Street. We forged

new partnerships, shared best practices, and engaged in innovative strategies around corporate accountability and the foreclosure crisis that integrated the politics, base building, and infrastructure of our sector with the passion, direct action tactics, and tech savvy of the Occupy Social Movement.

We also invested deeply in local organizing happening across the country. We launched a new workgroup on Land & Housing to better coordinate organizing around foreclosures and evictions. We organized three Urban Congresses where members shared organizing models and strategies, and discussed mechanisms for replicating successes in other cities. We implemented a national communications strategy to raise the visibility of local fights, and we developed our members’ leadership around environmental justice, foreclosure defense, and civic engagement.

In the electoral arena, Right to the City delivered on its public promise to mobilize an engaged electorate. We conducted our first ever voter registration drive run by and in low-income communities of color, helped double the number of City Council representatives moving Participatory Budgeting in New York, implemented a second phase of our Engaged Voter Organizing program, and helped our organizers put training into practice through Camp Impact, our dynamic voter outreach program based on the “New Majority” model with our New Majority partners in Virginia and Florida.

As the year came to a close, 17 of our member groups came together to nurture an offensive fight for affordable housing that goes beyond just foreclosures and speaks to the housing crisis faced by millions of public housing residents, low-income renters, and homeless families and individuals. With this vision they birthed a national multi-year housing justice campaign, Homes For All, which aims to protect, defend, and expand housing that is truly affordable and dignified for low-income and very low-income communities.

As we look back on 2012, we are incredibly proud of the growth we achieved and the progress we made toward creating a more democratic, just and sustainable world. This would not have been possible without the support of our funders and donors, the partnership of our allies, and the powerful organizing and leadership of our members. Together, we are building the power of poor and working-class communities to win a right to the city!

- Onward

Rachel Laforest, Right to the City Alliance Executive Director

Letter From Our Executive Director

Credit: Dale Robbins / Moyers & Company

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

– 2 –

THE RIGHT TO THE CITY PLATFORM

About Right to the City Alliance Right to the City (RTC) emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt the displacement of low-income people, people of color, marginalized LGBTQ communities, and youth of color from their historic urban neighborhoods. We are a national alliance of 47 racial, economic and environmental justice organizations working together to build a national movement for racial justice, urban justice, human rights, and democracy in our cities.

Land for People vs. Land for SpeculationThe right to land and housing that is free from market speculation and that serves the interests of commu-nity building, sustainable economies, and cultural and political space.

Land OwnershipThe right to permanent ownership of urban territories for public use.

Economic JusticeThe right of working class communities of color, wom-en, queer and transgender people to an economy that serves their interests.

Indigenous JusticeThe right of First Nation indigenous people to their ancestral lands that have historical or spiritual significance, regardless of state borders and urban or rural settings.

Environmental JusticeThe right to sustainable and healthy neighborhoods & workplaces, healing, quality health care, and reparations for the legacy of toxic abuses such as brownfields, cancer clusters, and superfund sites.

Freedom from Police & State HarassmentThe right to safe neighborhoods and protection from police, INS/ICE, and vigilante repression, which has historically targeted communities of color, women, queer and transgender people.

Immigrant JusticeThe right of equal access to housing, employment, and public services regardless of race, ethnicity, and immigration status and without the threat of deportation by landlords, ICE, or employers.

Services and Community InstitutionsThe right of working class communities of color to transportation, infrastructure and services that reflect and support their cultural and social integrity.

Democracy and ParticipationThe right of community control and decision making over the planning and governance of the cities where we live and work, with full transparency and accountability, including the right to public information without interrogation.

ReparationsThe right of working class communities of color to economic reciprocity and restoration from all local, national, and transnational institutions that have exploited and/or displaced the local economy.

InternationalismThe right to support and build solidarity between cities across national boundaries, without state intervention.

Rural JusticeThe right of rural people to economically healthy and stable communities that are protected from environmental degradation and economic pressures that force migration to urban areas.

– 3 –

Photo Credit: Joe Oliviero

Antonio Ennis of City Life/Vida Urbana, leading chants at Fannie Mae action in Washington, D.C.

2012 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS2012 celebrated the fifth anniversary of Right to the City Alliance (RTC). Under the banner of our 21st Century Cities strategy, we focused our energy on challenging corporate greed, moving toward transformative demands that explore new economic models, and promoting democratic participation to ensure greater equality and distributive justice. Through national movement building and strong local organizing, we won significant victories around bank accountability, saving homes in our communities from foreclosure, supporting families facing eviction and building the voter engagement of people of color, women, and youth across the United States. Here are highlights from our 2012 program:

Bank Accountability ActionsAs a partner in the national 99% Power Coalition, RTC sponsored three major direct actions targeting banks as a strategic objective toward winning important demands around housing and economic justice.

In April, RTC Boston groups (Chinese Progressive Association-Boston, Boston Workers Alliance, City Life/Vida Urbana, and Alternatives for Community & Environment) mobilized over 1,500 people for a Boston Tax Day action to demand that banks and corporations pay their fare share of taxes. RTC members in San Francisco (Causa Justa::Just Cause, Coleman Advocates, and People Organized to Win Employment Rights) helped amass thousands to a sit-in at the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting, and in May, thousands gathered to protest Bank of America’s predatory practices, demand principle correction for underwater homeowners, and a moratorium on all foreclosures, at BofA’s annual shareholder meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. RTC mobilized 179 members and under-water homeowners to the Charlotte “Bank vs. America” action, representing the largest contingent from the 99% Power Coalition. In addition, Right to the City helped coordinate the infamous boxing match between “Ms. 99%” and Brian “Big Banks” Moynihan that was held in front of BofA’s headquarters.

In the summer of 2012, RTC spearheaded the Take Back the People’s Bank Campaign* targeting the nation’s largest mortgage holders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. RTC and our campaign partners mobilized over 1,000 people to a series of actions at regional and national Fannie and Freddie headquarters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington, DC. Our actions were instrumental in bringing Fannie Mae to the negotiating table. In January 2013, two Vice Presidents from Fannie Mae met with RTC groups and Home Defenders League. RTC and our allies presented them with 96 cases of community members who are fighting to save their homes from foreclosure. Fannie Mae representatives agreed to discuss all 96 cases and continue meeting with us regarding our demands for principal correction, right to rent, repairing poor conditions andtransferring Fannie Mae owned properties to non-profits to become affordable housing. Since then, we continue to have bi-monthly calls with a Fannie Mae Vice-President who has stopped several evictions and agreed to entertain our proposals for policy changes.

*Take Back the People’s Bank RTC partners included: City Life/Vida Urbana, Direct Actions for Rights and Equality, Miami Workers Center, No One Leaves Mid Hudson, Occupy Our Homes ATL, Springfield No One Leaves, and Strategic Actions for A Just Economy. Non RTC participating alliances included Home Defenders League, Occupy Our Homes, New Road, and Alliance for a Just Society. Other non-RTC organizations that helped bottom-line the month of actions included Alliance of Califor-nians for Community Empowerment, Mexico Solidarity Network, Chicago Anti-Eviction Network, Chelsea Collaborative, Lynn United for Change and the Moratorium Now Coalition.

RTC mobilized

thousands to

direct actions

targeting Wells

Fargo, Bank of

America, and

Fannie Mae and

Freddie Mac

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

Deborah Nowell, Renika Wheeler, Roline Burginson, Virginia Whooten, & Nell Myhand, known as the “Fab Five”, conduct a sit-in outside the Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C.

“Ms. 99%” (Lenina Nadal) wins the Bank vs. America boxing match in Charlotte, N.C.

Photo Credit: Joe Oliviero Photo Credit: Jed Brandt

– 4 –

Photo Credit: Rishi Awatramani

Civic EngagementOur 2012 Engaged Voter Organizing (EVO) program continued to train members and staff in the fundamen-tal background knowledge and skills needed for engaged voter organizing (history of voter disenfranchisement, developing canvassing and outreach skills, using VAN, etc). Participants in the program who were previously trained by Right to the City, lead and facilitated EVO training for their organizations. In total, 48 members were trained across three participating organizations, Chinese Progressive Association – San Francisco, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), and Community Voices Heard (CVH).

In partnership with Virginia New Majority, RTC conducted the second year of our dynamic voter outreach program en-titled Camp Impact (formerly Southern Solidarity Summer). 2012 participating organizations included CAAAV-Organiz-ing Asian Communities, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, Power U, Coleman Advocates, Community Voices Heard, Florida New Majority, Springfield No One Leaves and Chinese Progres-sive Association – Boston. For two weeks at the beginning of August, RTC member participants went door-to-door, vis-iting thousands of residents in communities that have been most absent and excluded from Virginia’s pro-corporate political process. RTC members mobilized these communi-ties to take action, vote, and create healthy and sustainable neighborhoods, cities, and towns in which we can all thrive.

As we moved into the 2012 election cycle, we worked closely with our affiliates and national allies to expand and democratize the electorate and embarked on our first ever national voter registration push with Alliance for a Just Society, National People’s Action, and Pushback Network. Six Right to the City member organizations registered 5,861 new voters from within our communities, primarily young people, ex-felons, women and low-income people of color.

Roline Burginson from Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) in Rhode Island, Malcolm Chu from Springfield No One Leaves in Massachusetts, and Christopher Rotondo from DARE at RTC’s Land & Housing strategy retreat

Leadership DevelopmentIn keeping with our commitment to developing the leadership and power of our member base, we partnered with RTC member City Life/Vida Urbana to share their successful model of foreclosure defense, otherwise known as the “Sword & Shield” model, with organiza-tions across the country. In total City Life/Vida Urbana and RTC trained over 20 organizations in Boston, Baltimore, New York, Charlotte, Greensboro, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, and the Bay Area, including over 212 members, leaders and staff from within their ranks, in foreclosure defense and bank tenant organizing.

In an effort to deepen the integration of an environmental justice framework among our membership, we partnered with Movement Generation to conduct a series of Eco Schools. These “schools” were individually tailored to the cities in which they were held and included training on prov-en strategic ecological justice interventions readily adaptable to our members’ local conditions. In 2012 we concluded our Eco Schools series that began in 2011, with trainings in Los Angeles and New Orleans.

At the end of November, RTC partnered with the Brecht Forum, Growing Roots, CUNY Graduate Center, and the New School’s Urban Ecologies Program to organize “Urban Uprisings: Re-imagining the City”, a 2-day confer-ence in New York City on resistance and transformation. Over 300 people were in attendance, participating in interactive conversations about urbanization and uprising, and creating a collective vision for a more just, democratic, and sustainable city.

2012 Camp Impact Participants

Camp Impact participants knocked on over 8,000 doors and educated approximately 1,300 voters in Virginia

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

– 5 –

TUMBLR read stories and share your own on our tumblr page, homesforall.tumblr.com

3 Ways You Can Connect with

Right to the City

PROGRAM EXPENSESBREAKDOWN

2012 FINANCIAL SUMMARY

Organizational PartnerSupport 4.1%

Foundations 92.6%

Other .1%

Program Fees &Earned Income 1.4%

MembershipDues .93%

IndividualContributions .87%

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

Total Income $948,301

Total Expenses $776,941

Net Income $171,360

Beginning Net Assets $286,392

Ending Net Assets $457,752

TWITTER tweet with us at @ourcity and #homes4all

YOUTUBEsubscribe to our youtube channel and watch videos of our work at www.youtube.com/rttcusa

2012 FINANCIALS

|

|

|

|

|

INCOMEBREAKDOWN BY

PERCENTAGE

Total Program Expenses $628,666

Personnel & staff development $332,467 53%

Rent & Operations $17,086 2%

Civic Engagement $38,899 6%

National Convenings & Travel $121,695 19%

Communications $28,385 5%

Regional Support $23,756 4%

Workgroups & Steering Committee $47,308 8%

Contract services $19,070 3%

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Program 81%Fundraising 8.5%

Admin 10.5%

TOTAL EXPENSEBREAKDOWN

– 6 –

Urban CongressesRTC organized three Urban Congresses in 2012, bringing together hundreds of community members, community based organizations, resource allies, and unions, to mobilize, educate and take action together in local cities.

In May, RTC hosted a congress in Charlotte, NC on the foreclosure crisis, as a way to channel the energy of the Bank vs. America action into a conversation about strategy and movement building. Over 125 housing organizers, bank tenants and homeowners, environmental groups and labor allies came together to discuss expanding anti-foreclosure organizing and advancing transformative demands that strike at the root causes of the crisis and move us to community control of housing and land.

In June, RTC worked with member groups Safe Streets Strong Communities and Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children to convene a congress in New Orleans around the criminalization of Black and immigrant communities. Over 17 organizations attended and participated in model shares and a joint action at City Hall and ICE headquarters to demand a stop to targeted deportation of civil rights organizers and the release of low-level offenders from local jails.

In September, RTC along with East LA Community Corporation, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, and Union de Vecinos, hosted our National Urban Congress in Los Angeles, CA. Over 150 delegates attended, including RTC members from across the country, local community members, allied organizations, unions, and resource allies. The congress served as a venue to exchange ideas about the process of urban development and displacement of com-munities of color, share organizing models around anti-gentrification campaigns, and support local fights happening in LA. In conjunction with the congress, local RTC groups and our allies organized two city-wide actions. RTC, Strategic Action for a Just Economy (SAJE), Causa Justa::Just Cause, and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), led over 200 hundred people in an action at the Pasadena headquarters of Fannie Mae to advocate for the needs of homeowners and tenants in foreclosure. The action included a rally in the lobby of Fannie Mae’s office building for two hours as homeowners and renters gave testimony of their experiences being foreclosed on, evicted, forced to short sell, and left to endure slum conditions at the hands of Fannie Mae. Union de Vecinos, East LA Community Corporation and the Labor Community Strategy Center/ Bus Riders Union led more than 300 people in an action targeting the LA Metro Transit Authority (MTA), demanding an end to publicly funded gentrification projects, transit racism, and unjust transit development. The congress actions played a key role in winning local victories. The day after the action in Pasadena, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac approved limited Principal Reduction in California. Within hours of rallying in front of MTA headquarters, the MTA announced that they would temporarily halt plans for a CVS drugstore on a MTA owned lot in Boyle heights, a plan that would have displaced many locally owned, family-run pharmacies in the neighborhood.

Photo Credit: L to R, Jed Brandt, Sharis Delgadillo, Tony Romano

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

Our three 2012 Congresses focused on Anti-foreclosure Organizing, Criminalization of Black and Immigrant Communities, and Gentrification

Members of Esperanza Community Housing Corpora-tion get ready to march to the MTA headquarters following Day 2 of the LA Urban Congress.

NOLA Urban Congress participants learn about the Boston Workers Alliance’s “Ban the Box” campaign.

Members and staff of Communities Voices Heard take part in the Charlotte Urban Congress and the “Bank vs. America” action.

LOS ANGELESURBAN

CONGRESSDAY 1CLICK TO WATCH

DAY 2CLICK TO WATCH

– 7 –

Brockton, MA: City Life/ Vida Urbana was successful in getting the City Council of Brockton, MA, to approve a feasibility study into the use of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and resell them back to the homeowner by implementing principal correction to issue new loans that reset the value of their property.

Springfield, MA: Springfield No One Leaves successfully passed two local ordinances that help prevent foreclosure; one that regulates the maintenance of vacant and/or foreclosing residential properties by mandating that foreclosing banks pay a $10,000 dollar bond per property to help with upkeep and maintenance costs, and a resolution that facilitates mandatory mediation of mortgage foreclosures of owner occupied residential properties.

Seattle, WASante Fe, NMAtlanta, GA Los Angeles, CAOakland, CASan Francisco, CADenver, COMiami, FLNew Orleans, LA

Boston, MASpringfield, MASt. Louis, MONew York, NYProvidence, RIChattanooga, TNAlexandria, VA

MAP OF MEMBER CITIES Currently we have 47 member organizations in 13 states, and17 cities across the country

Homes for All CampaignIn November, our Land & Housing Work Group gathered 17 of our member groups to broaden the conversation on housing justice and put forth a comprehensive housing agenda that speaks to issues affecting public housing residents, homeless families, underwater homeowners, and the growing number of renters. This strategy meeting birthed Homes for All, our new national campaign to expand, and improve the quality of, truly affordable housing. Homes For All aims to win and implement strong local policies that protect the rights of renters and homeowners, shift the national debate on housing through narrative strategy and direct action, hold banks and developers accountable to low-income communities, and work across sectors to develop and pass effective national housing policy. In particular, the campaign will call on Obama and the federal government to play their necessary roles to create significant revenue and investment inaffordable housing, ensure principal reduction for millions of underwater homeowners, and regulate private banks and landlords. For more information on Homes For All and how you can get involved, go to www.HomesForAll.org.

Photo Credit: Joe Oliviero

LOCAL SPOTLIGHTS

Homes For All has grown to include 23 RTC member groups and a formal partnership with the National Low Income Housing Coalition

Roberto Ceballos-Garcia of Springfield No One Leaves rallies the crowd at Freddie Mac action in Washington D.C.

– 8 –

Oakland, CA: Causa Justa::Just Cause helped get the Oakland City Council to approve an ordinance expanding the Foreclosed Property Registration and Maintenance Ordinance to include tenants, and to hold banks responsible for blighted homes in default process. They also helped successfully pass a Comprehensive Foreclosure Prevention Plan which enables the city itself to purchase properties that have come under foreclosure proceedings, and then resell them back to the original homeowners at the current market rate. Los Angeles, CA: After years of organizing, SAJE - Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, led community groups in south LA in a major victory with the University of Southern California’s master plan. As part of a new project to expand and develop student housing, USC agreed to give $20 million to a city fund to create and maintain affordable housing in the community around USC and pledged to hire 30% of the workforce for the project from within a five-mile radius of the campus. New York, NY: CAAAV-Organizing Asian Communities, FUREE (Families for Racial and Economic Equality), and GOLES (Good Ole Lower East Side) initiated critical grassroots relief response, coming to the aid of thousands of low-income residents in Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and Gowanus, Brooklyn who had lost power, heat, and water in the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy. While FEMA and Red Cross took days to set up relief stations, these groups distributed food, water, clothing, batteries, and flashlights, turning their offices into distribution sites and cell phone charging stations, and canvassing buildings without power to reach those most in need - non-English speakers, public housing residents, seniors, and people with disabilities. After the initial weeks passed, these groups remained committed and continued to provide legal clinics, translation, and ongoing organizing with residents affected by Sandy.

In 2012 we grew our membership from 36 to 45 organizations across 13 different cities.

RTC’s staff team now includes a full time Communications Director and Development Director who joined our Executive Director, Director of Organizing, Operations Manager, and Boston Regional Coordinator.

RTC more than doubled our number of Facebook likes to 4,525 and established our presence on Twitter with 1,300 followers by the close of the year. We also launched a redesigned website (righttothecity.org) to better serve as our online headquar-ters for all news, actions, and media regarding Right to the City.

RTC engaged deeply in national coalition work by serving on the leadership body of New Bottom Line, Home Defenders League, and UNITY. In addition we are national members of the 99% Power Coalition, Climate Justice Alignment, The Participatory Budgeting Project, and the Robin Hood Tax Coalition.

CAUSA JUSTA::JUST CAUSE and Colman Advocates get ready to head to Right to the City’s LA Urban Congress

2012 Organizational Growth & Infrastructure

– 9 –

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTSCLVU (City Life/Vida Urbana)ACE (Alternatives for Community & Environment)BWA (Boston Workers Alliance)Chinese Progressive Association - BostonNew England United for Justice

SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTSARISE for Social JusticeSpringfield No One Leaves

NEW YORK, NEW YORKCAAAV-Organizing Asian CommunitiesCVH (Community Voices Heard)FIERCE (Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment)FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality) GOLES (Good Ole Lower East Side)JFREJ (Jews for Racial and Economic Justice)Make The Road New YorkMothers on the Move Picture the Homeless QEJ (Queers for Economic Justice)Teachers Unite VOCAL NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders)Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson

DENVER, COLORADOPadres & Jovenes Unidos Colorado Progressive Coalition

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIACausa Justa/ Just Cause SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIAPOWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights)Causa Justa::Just CauseColeman Advocates for Children & YouthChinese Progressive Association-San FranciscoPODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights)South of Market Community Action Network and Economic Rights

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIAELACC (East LA Community Corporation)Esperanza Community Housing Corporation KIWA (Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance)SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy)Union de Vecinos PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLANDDARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality)Environmental Justice League of Rhode IslandONA (Olneyville Neighborhood Association)

MIAMI, FLORIDAFlorida New Majority Education FundMiami Workers Center Power U Center for Social Change South Florida Jobs with Justice/ Vecinos Unidos

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANASafe Streets / Strong Communities New OrleansFFLIC (Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children)

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURIMORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment)

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEECOA (Chattanooga Organized for Action)

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIAVirginia New Majority Education FundTenants and Workers United

ATLANTA, GEORGIAOccupy Our Homes Atlanta

SANTE FE, NEW MEXICOChainbreaker Collective

SEATTLE, WASHINGTONSAFE (Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction)

,,– 10 –

RIGHT TO THE CITY MEMBERS

Right to the City provides a national lens and scope on the racial, gender, and class oppression of current society that our members can tap into. It also provides space for our members to struggle side by side with multinational groups across the country, in order for us to affect change outside of Miami. - Whitney Maxey, Organizer, Miami Workers Center

I gained strength both personally and profes-sionally from meeting Right to the City folk from all over the country doing great organizing work. Most importantly, though, is that Ms. Joyce, one of our best grassroots leaders, saw that she is indeed not alone in her struggle to save her community. She was absolutely fired up, bristling and popping up with all kinds of great ideas that she’ll be taking back to her community. - Perrin Lance, Co-Director, Chattanooga Organized for Action

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

,,

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIAELACC (East LA Community Corporation)Esperanza Community Housing Corporation KIWA (Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance)SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy)Union de Vecinos PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLANDDARE (Direct Action for Rights and Equality)Environmental Justice League of Rhode IslandONA (Olneyville Neighborhood Association)

MIAMI, FLORIDAFlorida New Majority Education FundMiami Workers Center Power U Center for Social Change South Florida Jobs with Justice/ Vecinos Unidos

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANASafe Streets / Strong Communities New OrleansFFLIC (Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children)

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURIMORE (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment)

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEECOA (Chattanooga Organized for Action)

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIAVirginia New Majority Education FundTenants and Workers United

ATLANTA, GEORGIAOccupy Our Homes Atlanta

SANTE FE, NEW MEXICOChainbreaker Collective

SEATTLE, WASHINGTONSAFE (Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction)

RIGHT TO THE CITY STAFF & STEERING COMMITTEE

*Indicates Occupy Our Homes ATL Support, **Indicates Right to the City Boston Support

CURRENT RIGHT TO THE CITY STAFFRachel Laforest, Executive Director

Tony Romano, Director of Organizing

Mark Swier, Operations Manager

Lenina Nadal, Communications Director

Yasmeen Perez, Development Director FORMER 2012 STAFFLisette Le, Boston Regional Coordinator

Luz Schreiber, Civic Engagement Coordinator

RIGHT TO THE CITY STEERING COMMITTEEDawn Phillips, Causa Justa::Just Cause, Bay Area

Kalila Barnett, ACE, Boston,

Mike Dennis, ELACC, Los Angeles

Paulina Gonzalez, SAJE, Los Angeles

Tony Samara, George Mason University, Washington, D.C.

Melonie Griffiths, City Life/Vida Urbana, Boston FORMER 2012 STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERSAlicia Garza, POWER

Gihan Perera, Florida New Majority Education Fund

Jon Liss, Virginia New Majority Education Fund

Anita Sinha, Advancement Project

Yvette Thierry, Safe Streets Strong Communities

Jaron Benjamin, VOCAL-NY

THANK YOU TO OUR 2012 DONORS Right to the City’s accomplishments are only made possible through the support of our members, funders, and individual donors. Your support fuels our work. It allows us to be in the streets, convene groups across the country, develop innovative strategies and on a very basic level, it keeps our office open and ensures we have the staff we need to operate. We cannot thank you enough for your partnership and investment in Right to the City.

The following organizational partners, foundations, and individuals supporters gave generous contributions to make our work possible in 2012.

FOUNDATIONSAkonadi Foundation

Access Strategies Fund

Common Counsel Foundation

Ford Foundation

Hill-Snowden Foundation

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Solidago Foundation**

The Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation**

ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSBeyond The Choir LLC*

Center for Constitutional Rights

New Bottom Line

Pushback Network

SEIU Local 1021

UNITY Alliance

INDIVIDUALSMaurice Amiel

Nicholas Arture

Kimberly Hendler & Sigurd Baark

Ilana Berger

Tsedey Betru

Maribel Cordero

Eric Dirnbach

Farhad Ebrahimi*

Lisa Epstein*

Candice S. Cason & William G. Fletcher

Marisa Franco

Gilda Haas

Michael Hawkins

Hershman Kaitlin

Dana Kaplan

Rachel Laforest

Jacqueline Leavitt

Suzanne Lee

Josh Lerner

Mark Liu

Thomas Louie

Jorge Matos

Megan Mcrobert

Keith Mitchell

Marvin Mitchell

Iris Morales

Jesse Mumm

Lenina Nadal

Milga & Antonio Nadal

Peter Naughton

Matt Osborn

Manuel Pastor

Yasmeen Perez

Gabriel Peterson

Dean Preston

Michael Prokosch

Heidi Reijm

Francis Reynolds

Victor Romano

Avi Rosenthalis

Lee Schere

Khalida Smalls

Amanda Starbuck

Jennifer Tilton

Joaquin Uy

Alex S. Vitale

Tyger Walsh

Anissa Weinraub

Christopher Winks

Rachel Wofsy

Diana P. Wu

Right to the City Annual Report 2012

RTC Staff: clockwise from the top row, Tony Romano, Rachel Laforest, Mark Swier, Lenina Nadal, Lisette Le, Luz Schreiber, & Yasmeen Perez

– 11 –

Photos from RTC 2012 events and actions

Right To The City Alliance1441 Broadway, Ste 5040New York, NY 10018

Stay in touch: info@righttothecity.org OR www.righttothecity.org

Designed by www.youngifted.com

Annual Report 2012