Colleen Ryan
@cmrcomms.bsky.social
Principal, CMR Communications, certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by NYS in 2020. Doing my small part to lift vulnerable populations by providing association management, grant writing and strategic communications for the nonprofits that serve them.
This is obscene. 9/30, before the shutdown, US Treasury announced $8.8 million in Technical Assistance grants for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) across the country. Now, staffers who administer those grants are part of the RIF (Reduction in Force) at Treasury.
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is obscene. 9/30, before the shutdown, US Treasury announced $8.8 million in Technical Assistance grants for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) across the country. Now, staffers who administer those grants are part of the RIF (Reduction in Force) at Treasury.
The power of the people is greater than the people in power. Take heart, friends! #OneMillionRising
July 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The power of the people is greater than the people in power. Take heart, friends! #OneMillionRising
#OneMillionRising is maxed out with 20k on Zoom and thousands more on streaming services - check out the recording later! #NoKings #DontLookAway
July 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
#OneMillionRising is maxed out with 20k on Zoom and thousands more on streaming services - check out the recording later! #NoKings #DontLookAway
Have you heard about #ProjectMailStorm? Not on Instagram?Here's the "how to" guide. Become a Mail Storm Trooper. Flood the system with accountability. And let #PMS stand for something they never saw coming. Let’s mail like history depends on it. Because it does. tinyurl.com/ProjectMailS...
April 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Have you heard about #ProjectMailStorm? Not on Instagram?Here's the "how to" guide. Become a Mail Storm Trooper. Flood the system with accountability. And let #PMS stand for something they never saw coming. Let’s mail like history depends on it. Because it does. tinyurl.com/ProjectMailS...
Let’s continue to work to remind everyone of the vital work CDFIs do across NYS and across the country! #SAVEtheCDFIFund www.canva.com/design/DAGjV...
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Let’s continue to work to remind everyone of the vital work CDFIs do across NYS and across the country! #SAVEtheCDFIFund www.canva.com/design/DAGjV...
This is not a drill.
March 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This is not a drill.
Not how I expected to be spending my Saturday, but here we are. Save the #CDFI Fund! Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies.
www.nyscdfi.org Community Development Financial Institutions have more than thirty years of documented success in providing capital to under-resourced communities - save the fund!
www.nyscdfi.org Community Development Financial Institutions have more than thirty years of documented success in providing capital to under-resourced communities - save the fund!
March 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Not how I expected to be spending my Saturday, but here we are. Save the #CDFI Fund! Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies.
www.nyscdfi.org Community Development Financial Institutions have more than thirty years of documented success in providing capital to under-resourced communities - save the fund!
www.nyscdfi.org Community Development Financial Institutions have more than thirty years of documented success in providing capital to under-resourced communities - save the fund!
Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to march around the NYS Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist
February 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to march around the NYS Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist
Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to circle the Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist
February 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to circle the Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist
If you’re in the Albany area, I’ll see you on the East Capitol steps at noon on Monday. #50501 #Indivisible
February 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If you’re in the Albany area, I’ll see you on the East Capitol steps at noon on Monday. #50501 #Indivisible
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark - "I say all this because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say it because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take
February 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark - "I say all this because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say it because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take
USCRI-Albany received a stop work order and ended support to refugee families who arrived in Albany through the proper channels. Joan Baez said action is the best antidote to despair. Our neighborhood acted. Learn more about local orgs that help immigrants and refugees and join us. bit.ly/4aUTnIn
February 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
USCRI-Albany received a stop work order and ended support to refugee families who arrived in Albany through the proper channels. Joan Baez said action is the best antidote to despair. Our neighborhood acted. Learn more about local orgs that help immigrants and refugees and join us. bit.ly/4aUTnIn
Do you have a Target 360 Same Day Delivery Account? It's very easy to cancel. Call 800-591-3869 and say you set it up before you knew that Target was going to abandon its DEI efforts. If it's a monthly subscription, cancel it; if it's annual, cancel and ask for a pro-rated refund.
January 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Do you have a Target 360 Same Day Delivery Account? It's very easy to cancel. Call 800-591-3869 and say you set it up before you knew that Target was going to abandon its DEI efforts. If it's a monthly subscription, cancel it; if it's annual, cancel and ask for a pro-rated refund.
Seeing Steve Guttenberg moving cars out of the way for Palisades firefighters in CA is TRIGGERING triggering if you were scarred for life by "The Day After" in 1983.
January 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Seeing Steve Guttenberg moving cars out of the way for Palisades firefighters in CA is TRIGGERING triggering if you were scarred for life by "The Day After" in 1983.
Happy Resistmas! I’m sharing a short list of things I’m going to do to prepare for 2025 and beyond. You may find some of these steps work of you, too. Think of it as the Twelve Days of Resistmas. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 8, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Happy Resistmas! I’m sharing a short list of things I’m going to do to prepare for 2025 and beyond. You may find some of these steps work of you, too. Think of it as the Twelve Days of Resistmas. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I just finished reading “The Book Thief” – the neighborhood book club’s selection for December. Once I stopped crying, I grabbed a book I read in November of 2020 – “Belonging,” by Nora Krug. The subtitle is, “A German Reckons with History and Home.”
November 22, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I just finished reading “The Book Thief” – the neighborhood book club’s selection for December. Once I stopped crying, I grabbed a book I read in November of 2020 – “Belonging,” by Nora Krug. The subtitle is, “A German Reckons with History and Home.”