About Community Hiring

The City of New York provides a wide range of services for New Yorkers – from designing parks and playgrounds, to providing health services and childcare, to repairing roads and bridges. To make this possible, the City contracts with vendors, which include businesses and nonprofits. These vendors provide billions of dollars' worth of services every year.

Community Hiring is a new initiative that allows the City to set workforce goals for City vendors to provide employment and apprenticeship opportunities to low-income individuals and those living in low-income communities. Community Hiring will enable qualified job seekers to connect with opportunities and City vendors to access a pipeline of talent more easily. By embedding opportunity into City procurement, Community Hiring aims to strengthen the City’s workforce, uplift communities, and drive more inclusive economic growth.

About the Office of Community Hiring (OCH)

OCH's mission is to use the City’s purchasing power to drive economic mobility by connecting City vendors with a pipeline of talent and creating pathways to careers for our community.

OCH is part of the Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development (NYC Talent). OCH is responsible for managing the rollout and implementation of Community Hiring, supporting City agencies and vendors, and reporting on Community Hiring goals. To design this new initiative, OCH worked closely with City agencies, City vendors, industry representatives, workforce development organizations, labor, and community partners. OCH is currently in the early stages of implementing Community Hiring goals on City procurements in partnership with City agencies. To learn more about what’s next for Community Hiring, contact OCH.