Families United for Racial and Economic Equality

FUREE is an award-winning organization that was founded in 2001 as a welfare rights organization by 15 women living on public assistance and, in the past few years, we have connected welfare rights to a broader struggle to create economic opportunity and eliminate poverty. Today, we have grown into an organization with over 500 families that have engaged in campaigns that won changes benefiting low income and working families as well as small businesses in Brooklyn and throughout NYC.

Low-income and working families engage in leadership development activities that combine political education, policy analysis, community outreach and organizational relationship-building locally, regionally and nationally.