Literacy Inc.
Lobbying client
Literacy Inc., known as LINC, is a nonprofit focused on early-childhood literacy, running community reading events and family workshops for children ages 0 to 5 in neighborhoods across all five boroughs. It filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024, lobbying 16 city council members through CMW Strategies on city budget funding and local legislation, and it holds about $15.7 million in city contracts since 2007, none currently active.
- Council members lobbied
- 16
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $120,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts
- none active as of 2026-08-22 · $15,708,374 awarded since 2007
- Paid to date
- $13,009,430
- Won without a fresh bid
- 92% of contract value · $14,458,374 · 21 contracts
Lobbied these council members
- Carmen N. De La Rosa Council Member, District 10 (Manhattan)
- Eric Dinowitz Council Member, District 11 (Bronx)
- Oswald J. Feliz Council Member, District 15 (Bronx)
- Justin E. Sanchez Council Member, District 17 (Bronx)
- Shekar Krishnan Council Member, District 25 (Queens)
- Nantasha M. Williams Council Member, District 27 (Queens)
- Ty Hankerson Council Member, District 28 (Queens)
- Jennifer Gutiérrez Council Member, District 34 (Brooklyn)
- Sandy Nurse Council Member, District 37 (Brooklyn)
- Darlene Mealy Council Member, District 41 (Brooklyn)
- Chris Banks Council Member, District 42 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
- Shaun Abreu Council Member, District 7 (Manhattan)
- Elsie Encarnación Council Member, District 8 (Manhattan/Bronx)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- CMW Strategies LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Funding
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Introduction
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Introductions
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- To support early literacy programs Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020258802143 · ended 2026 $5,396,329
- To support citywide early learning initiative programs Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020248802474 · ended 2023 $1,439,021
- Funds will be used to support literacy program Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020231400529 · ended 2022 $1,406,518
- To support foster literacy development Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020201413896 · ended 2020 $1,282,000
- To support literacy programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020218800121 · ended 2021 $1,101,700
- Supports literacy development through direct programming Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020191409424 · ended 2019 $940,000
- to support programming that fosters literacy development Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020181413055 · ended 2018 $940,000
- to support literacy development through programming Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020171414521 · ended 2017 $540,000
- to support a coalition of non profit organizations that Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020161419921 · ended 2016 $440,000
- Funds will go to create an Early Childhood Literacy Initiati Department of Youth and Community Development · CT126020161400093 · ended 2015 $275,000
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- To support early literacy programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2025 · 7 payments $1,788,372
- To support citywide early learning initiative programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2024 · 5 payments $1,379,958
- Funds will be used to support literacy program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2023 · 6 payments $1,251,175
- To support foster literacy development Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $1,182,766
- To support early literacy programs Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2026 · 3 payments $941,224
- To support literacy programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 · 4 payments $760,636
- To support literacy programs. Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2022 · 2 payments $329,860
- Supports literacy development through direct programming Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $224,339
- To support foster Literacy development program Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2020 · 2 payments $189,512
- To support foster literacy development Department of Youth and Community Development · FY2021 $77,175
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · FY2020 $25,000
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Julie Menin It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Nantasha M. Williams It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction