The Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation (NMIC) works with low-income families facing challenges like language barriers, limited education, unemployment and more.<\/p>\n
NMIC has served low-income residents of the Bronx since 1979.<\/p>\n
Its staff serves about 14,000 clients each year, including Dani Lopez’s family.<\/p>\n
“It was really that open door that NMIC had that my mom was able to walk through to get a lot of the help that she needed,” said Lopez.<\/p>\n
Dani says her mother, Irene, who immigrated from Ecuador experienced years of physical and mental abuse, she wasn’t allowed to learn English or work.<\/p>\n
“I grew up in Washington Heights with an amazing mom and little brother. We are actually survivors of domestic violence and over night things changed,” said Lopez<\/p>\n
That’s when she found NMIC, and got the services she has been looking for.<\/p>\n
Dani says NMIC gave her mother a second chance at life, it provided them with housing, benefits and English classes.<\/p>\n
Over the 2025 fiscal year, NMC’s Legal, Organizing & Advocacy department served 9,270 clients.<\/p>\n