CFL & Golden Steps meet with City Council Speaker’s office

SCO’s Center for Family Life and members of the “Golden Steps” worker cooperative met Thursday with staff from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office to discuss CFL’s implementation of initiatives funded by the Council for FY15 to incubate worker cooperatives in low-income NYC neighborhoods and develop new cooperatives in Brooklyn’s immigrant communities. Thank you to the NYC Council for championing this important work on behalf of unemployed and under-employed New Yorkers!

Pictured (from left to right): Alicia Chavez, President, Si Se Puede! Cleaning Cooperative; Theodore Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, City Council Speaker’s office; Mercedes Rodriguez, Secretary, Golden Steps Elder Care Cooperative; Angelina Cazares, Vice-President, Golden Steps; Irma Casco, Publicity Committee, Golden Steps; Zenayda Bonilla, Treasurer, Golden Steps; Esteban Duran, Community Liaison, City Council Speaker’s office; Reg Flowers, Cooperative Developer, CFL; Maru Bautista, Cooperative Developer, CFL; Sara Castillo, Cooperatives United for Sunset Park Representative, Golden Steps; Emma Yorra, Cooperative Developer, CFL; Maria Ferreira, Director of the Adult Employment Program, CFL.