Health People, Inc.
Lobbying client
Health People is a South Bronx nonprofit founded in 1990 that trains community residents as peer health educators, running programs on HIV prevention and chronic disease including its Diabetes Conquerors program. It filed 3 lobbying disclosures in 2025, reporting $3,000 in compensation, one city official lobbied and George Arzt Communications, Inc. as its lobbyist, on local legislation addressing diabetes and other chronic disease health policy. Health People holds $262,500 in active city contracts as of August 2026, out of $5,298,043 in city contracts since 2010.
- Council members lobbied
- 1
- Filings (since 2024)
- 3
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $3,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $262,500 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $5,298,043 · 16 since 2010, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $4,249,917
- Won without a fresh bid
- 78% of contract value · $4,117,356 · 13 contracts
- Discretionary funding (FY2009-FY2027)
- $4,756,396 · 53 awards
- Funding history
- Funded every year since FY2009 (19 years running)
- Top officer pay (FY2023)
- $93,764 · Christopher Norwood, Executive Director
- Based in
- Bronx, NY
Lobbied these council members
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- George Arzt Communications, Inc. Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Probation City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Probation City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - health policy with regards to diabetes and other chronic diseases
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).
- The Arches program, which targets high-crime neighborhoods. Department of Probation · CT178120278800537 $262,500
- Medical outreach & healthcare access to medically uninsured. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620258801321 · ended 2026 $2,030,565
- Arches Program Department of Probation · CT178120248800829 · ended 2026 $787,500
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Intervention Department of Probation · CT178120228800019 · ended 2023 $500,910
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · CT178120170001192 · ended 2018 $388,187
- AIDS Services, Prevention Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620141421305 · ended 2014 $312,500
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · CT178120210000346 · ended 2021 $200,364
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · CT178120200000141 · ended 2020 $200,364
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · CT178120190000096 · ended 2019 $197,418
- Human Immune Deficiency Virus Education Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620141409768 · ended 2013 $156,250
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.
- Medical outreach & healthcare access to medically uninsured. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2026 · 3 payments $492,375
- Medical outreach & healthcare access to medically uninsured. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2025 · 3 payments $472,066
- Arches Program Department of Probation · FY2026 $106,907
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · FY2021 · 2 payments $81,453
- Medical outreach & healthcare access to medically uninsured. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2027 $69,418
- Access Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2021 $63,281
- community-based org. to conduct outreach and education Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2023 $53,075
- Access Health-Outreach And Education Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · FY2020 $42,585
- Arches Program Department of Probation · FY2025 $35,027
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · FY2020 $29,484
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Department of Probation · FY2022 $28,649
- Arches Transformative Mentoring Intervention Department of Probation · FY2024 $26,234
Discretionary funding received
City Council discretionary (member-item) awards, largest first. Covers FY2009-FY2027.
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2023 $351,469
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2024 $351,469
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2025 $351,469
- HIV/AIDS Pathways to Care (Formerly Ending the Epidemic and HIV/AIDS Faith Community Based Initiative) HIV/AIDS Pathways to Care (Formerly Ending the Epidemic and HIV/AIDS Faith Community Based Initiative) · Dhmh · FY2026 $351,469
- HIV/AIDS Pathways to Care HIV/AIDS Pathways to Care · Dhmh · FY2027 $351,469
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2022 $281,800
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2021 $221,206
- HIV Prevention - Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions HIV Prevention - Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions · DOHMH · FY2014 $200,000
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · DOHMH · FY2017 $172,800
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2018 $172,800
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2019 $172,800
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2020 $172,800
- HIV/AIDS - End the Epidemic HIV/AIDS - End the Epidemic · DOHMH · FY2016 $144,000
- HIV Prevention - Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions HIV Prevention - Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions · DOHMH · FY2013 $100,000
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2019 $84,000
- Ending the Epidemic Ending the Epidemic · Dhmh · FY2020 $84,000
- Access Health Initiative Access Health Initiative · Dhmh · FY2023 $81,719
- Access Health Initiative Access Health Initiative · Dhmh · FY2024 $81,719
- Access Health Initiative Access Health Initiative · Dhmh · FY2025 $81,719
- Access Health Initiative Access Health Initiative · Dhmh · FY2026 $81,719
Officer & key-staff pay
Reportable compensation from this organization's IRS Form 990 (Part VII), latest available filing (FY2023). Includes pay from related organizations where reported; an annual figure, not a running total. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
- Christopher Norwood Executive Director $93,764
Officer pay over time
Total officer pay changed +11% from FY2020 to FY2023. Top-officer reportable compensation by year (org-paid only), with each year's share of total revenue. Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer 990 filings.
- FY2020 Chris Norwood · 5.15% of revenue $84,514
- FY2021 Christopher Norwood · 3.31% of revenue $84,514
- FY2022 Christopher Norwood · 4.41% of revenue $91,014
- FY2023 Christopher Norwood · 2.02% of revenue $93,764
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
- Lynn C. Schulman It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction