Housing Development
Housing Management
Employment and Placement Services
ECDO ChildStart Center
Youth Employment Program (YEP)
Tenant Advocacy, Technical Assistance
Louis T. Wright
203 K / 203B / NHP
Substantial re-hab of 5 buildings located at:
455 and 457 Convent Avenue
511 and 545 W. 140th Street
524 W.150th Street
Richard Wright - NRP
654 St. Nicholas Avenue
521 and 523 W 144th Street
Third Party Transfer/ECDO West
The redevelopment project is the combination of a moderate and substantial rehab that yielded over 60 units of affordable housing at 320 St. Nicholas Avenue and 445 W. 125th Street.
Zora Neale Hurston Houses – NRP
There are 8 buildings in this project which represent a gut rehab that will create 95 apartments. The building addresses are: 107, 109 and 111 Morningside Avenue, 433, 435 and 464 West 126th Street, 457 West 125th Street and 36 St. Nicholas Avenue
Madam C.J. Walker
The gut rehab of 5 buildings under the DHCR Homes for Working Families Programs yielded 41 apartments and was completed in March 2004. The buildings are located at 2913, 2917, 2919 2920 and 2922 Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue).
Countee Cullen / Neighborhood Homes Program
Are 10 buildings that will be for one to four families. The buildings are located at 469 West 141st Street, 522 West 149th Street, 531 West 142nd Street, 540 West 140th Street, 331 Convent Avenue, 138, 140, 242, 244 and 265 West 136th Street.
Harlem Valley II: Construction of 21 new units of low and moderate income apartments and 2 commercial sites on West 125th Street;
St. Nicholas Avenue Houses: Rehabilitated 32 low and moderate income apartments on St. Nicholas Avenue;
Harlem Valley I: Rehabilitated 40 units of low income apartments and 6 commercial sites along West 125th Street and 15% of those apartments were allocated to families who were homeless ;
AVSB: Rehabilitated 15 units of low income apartments on St. Nicholas Place and 5 of those apartments were allocated for homeless families;
Augusta Savage Houses Rehabilitated 54 units of low income apartments on St. Nicholas Place, St. Nicholas Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue. Sixteen of of those apartments were allocated for homeless families;
James Van der Zee Houses: Rehabilitated 34 units of low income apartments and 2 commercial sites on West 125th Street;
ECDO Houses I & II: Rehabilitated 87 units of low income apartments on West 119th, West 126th, 127th Streets and St. Nicholas Avenue.
ECDO Management Corporation is a real estate management and development company that is operated and is located in the infamous historical community of Harlem. Click on the ECDO Management Link to find out more information.
Employment and Placement Services 
Employment and Placement Services- ECDO currently operates two successful employment service programs and has exceeded contractual placement goals. Participants of adult training and placement services in the program have been successful at obtaining employment opportunities in the private sector in all industries. ECDO also uses TRAIN (Training Resources and Information Network), a software program that provides information and the resources needed so that the Employment Initiative staff can effectuate program services.
Prior to the current employment services programs, from 1995 to 1999, ECDO administered a Department of Employment JTPA Title II Program that provided adult education, training and career counseling services to over 500 economically disadvantaged adults between the ages of 22-54 from the five boroughs of New York City. ECDO developed unsubsidized permanent employment for these participants, who were previously unemployed, lacked marketable work experience and had a variety of barriers to securing employment. A significant number of these participants had not earned a high school diploma, had poor work history and was on public assistance. ECDO offered occupational training, workshops, internships and seminars that broadened the participant’s exposure while preparing them to enter the job market. ECDO has established complex inter-agency and private sector linkages that provide employment and placement to participants of the program. ECDO has developed a network of employers who have actively engaged in hiring, training and offering long-term employment opportunities. ECDO was able to offer day and evening employment services to its clients. (Please see reference section.)
Economically challenged adults and youth are served under the programs listed below.
City of New York Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) Summer Youth Employment Program
Since 1989 ECDO has successfully operated a JTPA/ NYS Department of Labor/ New York City Department of Employment funded Youth Employment Program (YEP). ECDO has provided employment services to over 12,000 economically disadvantaged youth between the ages of 14 to 21. Sixty percent (60%) of the YEP participants have received public assistance and/or food stamp subsidy for at least 2 years and come from families who have varied social issues. The YEP program has resulted in meaningful employment opportunities, skill development, school retention and long term career opportunities. Our experience with administering YEP has afforded ECDO the opportunity to network and create long term support services, employment linkages and partnerships with over one hundred community agencies and businesses that work with the agency. ECDO has always been successful with securing employment for program participants as the job placement and retention rate averages about ninety percent (90%).
ECDO has provided economically challenged youth with education, career development and job placement while partnering with over 200 worksite sponsors from the community.
NYS Department of Labor Wage Subsidy IV Employment Services Program
ECDO facilitates this program by assisting low-income individuals and public assistance recipients with securing employment. This program provides on the job training for the participant who generally has limited work experience while offering the employer a subsidized payment for the wages earned. Under this initiative participants are placed in subsidized employment for not less than 30 days and then transitioned into unsubsidized employment. Recently, the Department of Labor issued a Wage Summary Program performance summary of all service providers in the New York City Region and ECDO ranked # 1 among other service providers including Consortium for Worker Education, Wildcat, and the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation.
ECDO, in conjuction with ECDO Head Start developed a new full day year round Head Start child care center that is located at 249 West 144th Street in July 2004. We offer services to preschool children aged 3-5 only.
Director: Barbara Brewer
ECDO CHILD START CENTER
OPEN ENROLLMENT NOW!
The center is now accepting applications!
PLEASE CALL (212) 234-8135 for application and information
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES at our
Head Start Center
Posted - February 2011
click here for available position(s)
Through the New York City Department of Youth and Community Developement, ECDO operates a Youth Employment Program (YEP) for young people between the ages of 14-21. Each summer participants receive $7.50 per hour (paid directly by DYCD) for a seven week productive employment experience with companies and organizations who will provide a structured and well supervised work environment. For further information on how to participate as a student or as a work sponsor contact the YEP Project Director at 212-531-3211.
In addition to offering summer employment services to youth, ECDO also provides employment service activities that include educational/employment counseling, job readiness skills, on the job training and referrals. This program assists youth with achieving job search and investigation techniques, obtaining and completing job applications, learning appropriate workplace conduct, dress code and grooming.
Tenant Advocacy, Technical Assistance
Are you having a hard time getting repairs done in your apartment?
Is your landlord unresponsive to your requests?
Have past attempts to address building-wide issues fallen on deaf ears?
You have options! You can make a difference in your apartment, your building and your community!
Call today and an ECDO community organizer will provide you with the technical assistance to organize a tenant association. The organizer can breakdown the different options that are available to the tenant association, ranging from directly contacting the landlord to coordinating a rent strike with the assistance of legal counsel from Legal Aid. The decisions that will be made concerning your building will be yours alone. The organizer will assist and support you but the success of the tenant association depends on the strength and solidarity of the tenants.
Do you have an active tenant association?
If your building is already organized and you have a positive relationship with your landlord but would like to learn more about safety programs, environmental concerns (water, rodent and cockroach infestation), or other tenant related issues, please contact ECDO.
Furthermore, you should contact ECDO so that you can be placed on our mailing list and kept abreast of community events and concerns. Please call if you would like to receive JECDO (Journal of Ecumentical Community Development Organization), ECDO's quarterly newsletter!
Landlords & Property Managers
What can ECDO offer you?
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Information to obtain a low interest loans through The Department of Housing Preservation and Development;
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Voluntary Repair Agreements for code violations; and
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Tenant assistance, information and advocacy.
Drug and Safety Concerns
Landlords and Tenants must work together to rid their buildings of drug users and dealers. Drug activity puts tenants and neighbors at risk, accelerates the deterioration of the building, and decreases the quality of life for all the community.
Encourage your landlord to enter the Vertical Patrol Program with the Police. The Vertical Patrol Program enables the Police to gain access to your building and conduct a complete walk through of the building when they receive a call from a concerned tenant. The Police will arrest any person who is not a tenant or visiting a tenant.
DRUG BUSTER HOTLINE
(212) 374-2878
NORTHERN MANHATTAN NARCOTICS HOTLINE
(212) 439-6272
QUALITY OF LIFE HOTLINE
(888) 677-5433
Contact:
Office of Community Affairs
New York County District Attorney’s Office
(212) 335-9082
Ecumenical Community Development Organization
Administrative and Executive Office
443 West 125th Street • New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 678-0037 • Fax: (212) 678-0889
contact@ecdo.org
Satellite/Community Partnership Center for Programs & Services
413 West 125th Street • New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 531-3211 • Fax: (212) 531-3229
Head Start Center
249 West 144th Street • New York, NY 10030
Phone: (212) 234-8135 • Fax: (212) 234-8195
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