HudsoN VALLEY

The Hudson Valley Civic Engagement Table (HVCET) brings together organizations committed to organizing that can build power, win policy change, and ensure local, state and federal officials are truly representative of communities. 

Over time there have been significant demographic and economic shifts in the Hudson Valley with Latinx, Asian, African American populations increasing and the white population decreasing. This growing diversity is heavily concentrated in a string of small cities, mostly along the Hudson River, including Poughkeepsie and Newburgh. These cities have sizable communities living below the poverty line and economic opportunities for those communities are growing harder and harder to find.  

HVCET was created in 2016 to work with communities of color, low-income communities and others to build collective power and to win concrete changes in people’s lives. We do this in four key ways: 

• Increasing civic engagement through non-partisan voter registration, education, and mobilization

• Training and supporting a new generation of leaders and grassroots organizations

• Coordinating grassroots campaigns dedicated to issues that impact the day to day lives of communities of color 

• Convene a cross section of grassroots groups to develop shared strategies for organizing

HVCET is led by our partners Community Voices Heard, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, Citizen Action of New York, Hand in Hand, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, Sustainable Port Chester, Make the Road NY, New York Immigration Coalition, Nonprofit Westchester, and we collaborate with other allies.