Address
12-11 40th Avenue
Long Island city, NY 11101
Website
www.erdalliance.org
Description
The mission of the East River Development Alliance (ERDA) is to provide residents of four public housing neighborhoods in Western Queens – Queensbridge (the largest public housing community in the nation), Astoria, Ravenswood, and Woodside – with the tools and resources needed to achieve economic mobility and self-sufficiency, and to break intergenerational cycles of poverty in public housing neighborhoods. ERDA achieves these objectives through five integrated, comprehensive, and long-term programs which serve 4,500 individuals per year: workforce development, one-on-one financial education and counseling, comprehensive public benefits access and tenant advocacy, college access and youth development, and community economic revitalization.