ABOUT CHLDC AND OUR MISSION

Building Community. Growing Leaders.

Cypress Hills is a community in Brooklyn, NY of 75,000. We are a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood with thriving immigrant populations from the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Mexico and Bangladesh. Our services and programming are available to all community residents, and strengthen the neighborhood through empowering its residents to act as leaders and determine the future of their community. The majority of our board members currently live or work in the neighborhood, and residents are continually involved in designing and refining our work.

Local residents and merchants founded Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC) in 1983. Cypress Hills had undergone a period of rapid neighborhood change, systemic disinvestment by city government and banks, the flight of long-time residents and the loss of local businesses that devastated the Fulton Street commercial strip. Together, these community members sought to revitalize and improve Cypress Hills through community development. Over the decades, our organization has gone from a one-program organization with an annual budget of $35,000 to one with six program divisions serving 10,000 people a year, with a budget of over $14 million.

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Our Neighborhood, Our Community

About Our Local Development Corporation

Our Mission

With community residents leading the way, the mission of CHLDC is to build a strong, equitable East New York, where youth and adults achieve educational and economic success, secure and preserve affordable housing, and develop leadership skills to transform their lives and community. We actively promote policies that advance racial equity.

Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation

CHCCC is a subsidiary non-profit organization that is dedicated to increasing the availability to quality, affordable child care while simultaneously creating employment opportunities for women in our community. Learn more via their website here.

CHLDC is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
TDD/TTY #: 1 (800) 662-1220