RightRides for Women's Safety, New York, USA
From the Global Women's Network
| RightRides for Women's Safety, New York, USA | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 26 Court Street Ste. 505 |
| City: | Brooklyn |
| State or Province: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| Location: |
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| Location coordinates: | 40° 41' 37" N, 73° 59' 30" WLatitude: 40.6936645 Longitude: -73.9915851 |
| Executive Director: | Oraia Reid |
| Contact number: | 718-522-0822 |
| Contact email: | info@rightrides.org |
| Website: | http://www.rightrides.org |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/rightrides |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/rightrides |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | Local NGO (operating at the community level) |
| Sectors: | Gay/Lesbian Rights, Gender Discrimination, Leadership, Public Policy, Violence Against Women |
| Year founded/registered: | 2004 |
| Annual budget: | USD200,000 |
| Number of staff: | 2 |
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Summary
We build safer communities by ending gender-based harassment and sexual assault. We work towards this by community organizing and offering direct service, safety education and advocacy programs.
About
We are dedicated to empowering and educating people of all ages and backgrounds to increase their personal safety awareness to reduce the risk of harassment and assault.
We work in neighborhoods with many lower-income, minority residents with limited (or a lack of) public transportation. Although crime overall is down in NYC, statistics of sexual assault have increased in many of the areas that we serve, often as high at 200%.
We believe that it shouldn't be a luxury to get home safely, whether it is from a work shift, school or simply being out and about. We are committed to providing community-led programs to address the safety needs of diverse populations and work to empower these communities to establish innovative solutions to erradicate sexual harassment and assault.
Activities
In our RightRides program, we offer women, LGBTQ and gender nonconforming individuals a free, late-night ride home to ensure their safe commute to or through high-risk areas.
We are also a founding member, and the managing partner, of New Yorkers for Safe Transit, the only coalition in NYC dedicated to raising awareness of gender-based violence in mass transit, and working to end it through community organizing, education, advocacy and policy change work.
Needs
Volunteer
We're always seeking driving and navigating volunteers. Cars donated by Zipcar!
Street Teams more your thing? We're always seeking volunteers to help us promote our work.
Resources
Please support our work! As a small, grassroots nonprofit, we rely on support from our community to keep our programs operational. A gift of $25 brings 10 riders home safely.
