Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation

Our mission is to effectively address the causes and complexities of the homeless and working poor.

Offers a variety of self-help tools and services that communities choose to use. They include green housing and real estate development, community planning, research, micro-business and wealth creation, foreclosure prevention, environmental health, community gardening, youth training and education, green collar job training and other market-based social enterprises. In addition to community-based development services, Isles provides public education support throughout New Jersey and beyond. In particular, Isles works to change regional and statewide policies that concentrate poverty, undermine schools, promote sprawl, and foster racial segregation. To broaden its impact, Isles develops easily replicated approaches and provides other organizations with technical and organizational assistance. Isles also partners with hundreds of public, private, and academic friends to achieve innovative, cost effective ways to meet its mission.