The Great Give will take place on May 4-5, 2022. This year the New Haven Peoples Center dedicates all contributions to carry forward the magnificent legacy of Art Perlo who was always in the fore of the Peoples Center social justice, workers' rights and equality mission.
Please visit the PERA d-b-a New Haven Peoples Center Great Give page on May 4-5 and contribute as generously as you can. https://www.thegreatgive.org/organizations/pera-d-b-a-new-haven-peoples-center
Our Story:
The New Haven Peoples Center has been an all volunteer beacon for social justice, labor organizing, education, culture and peace for 85 years. During the pandemic we have provided human solidarity to all generations and communities even while our building has only been open on a limited basis until it is safe. In this past year food distributions, N-95 masks, rapid COVID tests and other relief and mutual aid has been provided to the immigrant community by Unidad Latina en Accion, as well as women's health workshops and workers' rights education. Assistance navigating social service and rent relief has been offered through the Jobs and Unemployed Committee. Capoeira Esperanza expanded the Peoples Center cultural offerings with regular classes in the martial art with freedom struggle roots from Brazil. We have served as a union meeting hall for 32BJ SEIU and others. We have joined in coalitions for a just Recovery For All and mobilized for virtual and in-person rallies, events and on-line petitions with the many organizations that call the Peoples Center home, as we continued our partnerships with the CT Alliance for Retired Americans and New Haven Rising. We are committed to carry on the magnificent legacy of Art Perlo who contributed so greatly to the Peoples Center, and look forward to opening our doors for the full array of unique programming that serves New Haven and Connecticut once the pandemic has settled. The Peoples Center is a proud site on the Connecticut African American Freedom Trail.
