From this Year’s Annual Report: Mapping the Delivery of City-Funded Social Services
New York City contracts with a vast network of community-based organizations, from child care providers to homeless shelters, to deliver social services. While all the contracts are publicly released, there is no single source showing where these services are actually being delivered.
This information is divided among multiple directories and contracting offices, and available addresses are often for organizations’ headquarters, not service delivery locations. That makes it difficult to assess how well the City serves residents at a neighborhood level or how much investment is going into specific neighborhoods.
NYC Opportunity, in partnership with several agencies, has released a database of verified service delivery locations for contracted social services, as part of our Social Service Location Data Project.
With this information, the City can map services by type and neighborhood. The new information can be used to identify geographic disparities, making it easier for the City to increase equity in the provision of social services by identifying and filling gaps in services.
