Battered Women's Services of Family Services Inc. operates a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week hotline with crisis intervention. It also operates an advocacy program that provides services to victims of domestic violence. It offers counseling, information and referrals, advocacy, support groups, and Youth Domestic Violence prevention. It also promotes community education through presentations, written materials and media.

http://www.familyservicesny.org/bws.html

Celebrating Community (John Flowers) is a grass roots organization that sponsors community celebrations on Poughkeepsie's Northside. This remarkably successful calendar of five events includes a Fathers' Day Parade and an Old Fashioned Easter Egg Hunt, each of which attract over 3,000 people. All the events promote community pride and voter education.

Children’s Media Project (CMP) is an arts and education organization focusing on media and technology. Its mission is to create a teaching/learning environment where artists, educators, community activists and especially children and youth can learn to interact with the media arts as both creators and critical viewers. CMP offers a range of innovative and award-winning programs, including critical media literacy about tobacco advertising, representations of women, Latinas, and Arabs. It also offers summer programs on stop-motion animation, experimental video, documentary production, and narrative video-making. Its Digital Café program offers a series of video exhibitions, roundtable discussions, and events addressing a wide array of civic issues and highlighting the work of independent artists.

http://www.childrensmediaproject.org/

Sponsors weekly after-school support groups where lesbian, gay. bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adolescents can meet in a safe space to talk about the discrimination and violence they often face. The program also works with local schools and service agencies to ensure safety and support for LGBT teens.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/mid-hudson-valley/lgbt-suppport.htm

The Dutchess County Arts Council supports visual and performance arts in the Mid-Hudson Valley through grants and advocacy. Among the many programs they support are the Barrett Arts Center, the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Mill Street Loft, and the Mid-Hudson Children’s museum.

http://www.artsmidhudson.org/

A local answer to the continuing problem of hunger in Dutchess County.  Dutchess Outreach operates the Lunch Box, a soup kitchen that serves up to 300 hot meals a day.  Dutchess Outreach also provides emergency food and medicine to families and advocacy for people in poverty.

http://www.dutchessoutreach.org

The Living Room is a one-of-a-kind all-day safe haven and job development center for homeless people at the Family Partnership Center, operating from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM all year long.

http://www.,hadc.com/programs_hm.html

The Queen’s Galley provides free, freshly-prepared hot meals to anyone who walks through their doors, three meals a day, seven days a week. Working with a skeleton staff and a large crew of volunteers, they serve 9,000 meals a month and also provide counseling on nutrition and making the most of a limited food budget. They are located in the uptown section of Kingston.

http://www.queensgalley.org/

A new grassroots initiative concentrating on developing personal responsibility and community building for inner-city youth. Projects include an innovative after-school mentoring program for high school and elementary students, a youth social justice hip-hop theatre, and a community reentry program for formerly incarcerated men and women.

Rural & Migrant Ministry is a multi-faith organization serving rural and migrant people in New York since 1981 through programs of youth empowerment, education, and accompaniment. Rural & Migrant Ministry acts to overcome the prejudices and poverty that degrade and debilitate all members of our society by building communities that celebrate diversity, achieve true mutuality, and offer dignity and opportunity to all. Rural & Migrant Ministry is an interfaith organization whose members believe that inspiration comes from participation in the creation of a just world. The Youth Empowerment Program enables youth to have greater control of their lives as they explore and internalize the concepts of self-worth, leadership and democracy. Programs include Summer Camps, The Youth Arts Group, Leadership Institutes, internships, mentoring, and educational scholarship. RMM’s educational programs include the publication of a rural journal of justice, The Harvester, educational immersion programs, internships, forums, and workshops. The Accompaniment Program of RMM works to develop and connect allies with efforts for rural justice, empowerment, and leadership development. In New York farmworkers have created their own organization, Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas (CITA). Through the Justice for Farm-workers Campaign, CITA and RMM work together statewide for farmworker justice through three avenues: farmworker organizing, legislative advocacy, and litigation. Accompaniment depends upon individuals, organizations, and congregations standing with farmworkers in their struggle to organize for equality, dignity, and just working and living conditions.

http://ruralmigrantministry.org