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Department Overview: The Equity and Community Impact division seeks to ensure that EDC's programmatic and contracting activities are appropriately targeted towards historically underrepresented groups to ensure that they are promoting fair and equitable growth.    

 The division has 4 focus areas:   

•  Equity – ensures NYCEDC advances equity by providing technical assistance, conducting measurement and evaluation efforts, functioning as a thought-partner to develop strategy, and engaging effective internal & external stakeholders.  


• Economic Mobility - oversees workforce development programs and initiatives that prepare, educate, and train low-income New Yorkers and those from economically disadvantaged communities for job opportunities and pathways to a living wage and upward mobility.  


• Accessibility - responsible for development and delivery of internal and external-facing programs to ensure EDC compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), other federal, state, and local regulations relating to people with disabilities, as well as advancing Universal Design (UD) principles and goals. The department is working on crafting and growing a comprehensive, company-wide approach to addressing accessibility for people with disabilities on new and existing EDC projects.   


• M/W/DBE - identifies and encourages the M/WBE participation on NYCEDC projects by providing technical assistance to prospective M/WBEs, encouraging utilization of M/WBEs by NYCEDC project staff and outside vendors/contractors, and sponsoring and attending M/WBE conferences and seminars.