Every day, Robin Hood-supported programs work to break the cycle of poverty for thousands of New Yorkers and their families. They work on the front lines providing a quality education to kids, preparing people with barriers to employment for the workplace, presenting an alternative to the streets for teenagers, assisting with critical early childhood development issues, and helping good people simply survive. This is what Robin Hood's partnerships are all about.
Learn more about Robin Hood-supported programs and the issues they address, by exploring the grant recipients in the portfolios below:
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1199 SEIU Homecare Industry Bill Michelson Education Fund
Trains low-income women to become certified nursing assistants, patient care associates and licensed practical nurses.
Accion New York
Makes small loans and provides technical assistance to immigrant or minority-owned small businesses; provides financial counseling at Single Stop sites throughout the city.
Achievement First
Operates eight elementary or middle schools and a new high school in Brooklyn, all utilizing sophisticated tools for student assessment.
Ackerman Institute for the Family
Trains the staffs at nonprofits to help parents find new ways to respond to their children’s needs.
Advocates for Children
Offers legal help to public-school students, especially those who are failing or have special needs.
After Hours Project, Inc.
Provides syringe exchange and social services in Brooklyn.
Aid for AIDS
Works with H.I.V.-positive immigrants by offering counseling, health education and referrals to housing, employment and immigration services.
AIDS Center of Queens County
Operates the largest H.I.V./AIDS program in Queens and its only syringe exchange.
Andrew Glover Youth Program
Offers alternatives to jail terms for teenagers living in the Lower East Side and East Harlem.
Argus Community
Trains people on public assistance, formerly homeless, former addicts and ex-offenders to become substance-abuse counselors.
Ariva
Promotes economic development in low-income communities by providing financial counseling programs, free tax preparation services, and access to financial products and services.
Association to Benefit Children
Provides pre-school programs, housing and medical services and crisis intervention to 3,000 families with children in East Harlem, most of whom suffer from mental and physical disabilities.
Audubon Family Planning Center- NY Presbyterian
Audubon Family Planning Center provides comprehensive reproductive health services for adolescent women and men in the Washington Heights/Inwood community.
Automotive High School—Good Shepherd
Brings social workers to this Brooklyn public high school to help students resolve school, home or community problems before they sabotage academic progress and, ultimately, graduation.
BedStuy Restoration Corporation
Provides supportive housing, community development and social services to youth and families in Bedford-Stuyvesant and runs a full-service Single Stop site. It is the oldest community development corporation in the United States.
Beginning With Children Foundation, Inc.
Runs two charter schools in Brooklyn—an elementary school and one of the first kindergarten-through-eighth grade charters in the state.
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Provides medical, mental-health and social services to poor immigrants who suffer trauma from torture, war and refugee status.
Bloomingdale Family Program
Provides a Head Start program that caters to students with learning disabilities or emotional problems.
Brazelton Touchpoints Center
Trains staff to help parents handle predictable, disruptive moments in their child’s development.
Bridge Fund of New York City
Extends loans and grants to prevent eviction of people experiencing temporary financial crisis.
Broadway Housing
Houses formerly homeless and mentally ill people, provides tenants comprehensive social and education services and hires tenants to maintain residences.
Bronx Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates a "last-chance" high school for former dropouts and students at risk of academic failure.
Bronx Defenders
Provides comprehensive legal and social services to poor families caught in the criminal-justice and child-welfare systems in the Bronx each year, including a full-service Single Stop site.
Bronx Educational Opportunity Center
Trains 120 low-income Bronx residents for employment as emergency medical technicians.
Bronx Laboratory High School
Creates a program to get more of the graduates of this public high school enrolled in college.
Bronx Preparatory Charter School
Runs a charter in South Bronx serving fifth through twelfth grade, sending nearly 100 percent of graduates to college.
BronxWorks
Operates a job-training program, a program to promote college attendance by disconnected youth and an early-childhood center; provides immigration services; and runs two Single Stop sites.
Brookdale Pediatric Obesity Program
Provides overweight and obese children with medical care, nutrition counseling and physical training.
Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center
Trains low-income Brooklyn residents to work in computer networking and information technology.
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
Offers a full-day pre-school program in central Brooklyn that relies on social workers to involve parents.
CASES
Provides an alternative to jail for young offenders, minimizing recidivism rates by encouraging academic skill building.
Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services, Inc.
Operates 22 early learning centers for low-income, mostly immigrant preschoolers in Brooklyn and Queens, including a Robin Hood funded full-day Head Start program in Sunset Park.
Center for Court Innovation
Partners with local community courts to reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated teenagers; help school dropouts get their G.E.D.; and help at-risk youth avoid committing crimes through job placement and other services.
Center for Employment Opportunities
Helps 2,000 newly-released ex-offenders and parolees each year to find work.
Center for Environment, Economy and Society
Creates—and trains teachers to use—an environment-based curriculum geared to experiential learning in five Brooklyn middle schools.
Center For Family Life In Sunset Park
Provides after-school programs, employment assistance, family counseling and emergency food, and runs a full-service Single Stop site.
Center for NYC Neighborhood: South Brooklyn Legal Services Foreclosure Prevention Project
The Center for NYC Neighborhoods, a new private-public nonprofit, seeks to mitigate soaring foreclosures by providing legal and financial counseling to at-risk households and by working with lenders to design long-term solutions.
Center for Urban Community Services
Provides mental health and social services to the residents of buildings run by Broadway Housing and Common Ground; operates two transitional shelters; and runs four Single Stop sites, including two at the Rikers Island prison.
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Provides medical care and mental health services to Chinatown’s residents, particularly through its Hepatitis B Prevention Program.
The Child Center of New York
Offers mental health and related services (including a parent-education program to reduce child abuse) to 10,000 children and parents and runs Single Stop programs at two sites.
Children’s Aid Society’s National Adolescent Sexuality Training Center
Oversees the Carrera teen-pregnancy prevention program, providing mental health, medical, educational and employment assistance to students in middle and high schools and at community-based sites both in and outside of New York City.
Children's Defense Fund–New York
Works to improve access to healthcare and child care for poor children.
Children's Health Fund
Provides healthcare and Single Stop services to homeless children and families with mobile units and at its South Bronx clinic.
The Children's Storefront
Operates an independent, tuition-free school for low-income children in East Harlem, many of whom suffer from learning disabilities and emotional difficulties.
The Children's Village, Inc.
Counsels and mentors young adults after they grow too old to remain eligible for subsidized foster care.
City Harvest
Provides New York City’s 1,000 soup kitchens and food pantries with food that has been donated (“rescued”) from local food retailers.
City University of New York—at Home in College
Implements a pilot program to improve college retention and graduation rates among 300 at-risk students, using intensive remediation before matriculation and mentoring and counseling for a year after matriculation.
Classroom, Inc.
Offers a computer-based program for raising literacy skills of adolescent readers during summer school and throughout the school year.
Coalition For Hispanic Family Services
Runs a training program that helps parents find new ways to respond to their children's needs.
Coalition for the Homeless
Offers crisis intervention, emergency cash assistance, and case-management services to prevent eviction of people at risk of homelessness.
College and Community Fellowship
Provides academic, social and financial supports for formerly incarcerated women working toward college degrees.
College of Staten Island/Office of Continuing Education
Trains low-income individuals for careers as certified nurse assistants.
Common Ground
Houses the homeless, offers innovative homeless-prevention services and a Brownsville homelessness prevention project which also houses a full-service Single Stop site.
Community Access
Offers housing with supportive services, employment, counseling and education for the mentally ill and disabled.
Comprehensive Development Inc./Manhattan Comprehensive Night And Day High School
Tutors and counsels students at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day, a “last chance” high school for students, many of whom are recent immigrants or have failed out of other schools.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Retrains low-income immigrant engineers so they can use their skills in the United States.
Credit Where Credit is Due
Provides financial-literacy training and financial services to residents of Washington Heights and provides one-on-one financial counseling at Single Stop sites throughout the city.
Cristo Rey New York High School
Adds academic support for the lowest performing students at this East Harlem high school where students work one day a week.
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Combines G.E.D. preparation with case-management services to help low-income young adults in Brooklyn enter college or full-time employment.
Democracy Preparatory Charter School
Offers 6th through 9th graders (expanding through 12th grade) an extended-day and extended-year program, which features competitive debating.
The Doe Fund
Provides housing and transitional work for homeless men who have histories of addiction and incarceration.
Dominican Sisters Family Health Service
Offers adult education and day care to immigrant mothers, mostly Mexican, in the South Bronx.
The Door (EPOCH Program)
Educates out-of-school, unemployed young adults lacking a high school credential, and provides them career-development services.
Eagle Academy Foundation
Supports and strengthens academic programs at the Eagle Academy for Young Men, a public all-boys high school in the Bronx, and supplies a full-time college advisor.
Early Childhood Center at Einstein College of Medicine
Evaluates and treats young children with developmental delays and severe behavioral problems.
East River Development Alliance
Teaches economic literacy and prepares, without charge, tax filings for the residents of public housing facilities in western Queens.
East Side Settlement House
Helps young adults in the South Bronx earn their G.E.D., enroll and succeed in college or find and retain employment.
The Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst
Teaches recent immigrants English, and places them in new jobs.
Episcopal Social Services
Fosters healthy child development through Early Head Start by providing low-income mothers and their infants and toddlers center-based and home-based services, including work opportunities for parents.
Exalt
Reduces recidivism among criminally involved young adults by training them to seek employment and placing them in internships.
Explore Schools
Runs a new network of charter schools, which consists of two schools that will serve kindergarten through eighth grade, and will open least two more schools by 2013.
F.E.G.S. Health and Human Services System
Connects immigrant victims of domestic violence to job training, legal counsel and other services; and prepares high school dropouts to earn their G.E.D. certificate and then helps them find work or enroll in college.
The Family Center
Helps families who have or will lose a parent or guardian to AIDS or other terminal illness plan for custody, and provides them counseling and other services.
Fan4Kids
Provides students an integrated nutrition and fitness program.
Federation Employment Guidance Services (F.E.G.S.)
Provides pre-G.E.D. and G.E.D. preparation, job and college placement and retention support services to at-risk Bronx teens and young adults who have been disconnected from school and work.
Fifth Avenue Committee
Runs housing, employment and economic development programs in South Brooklyn; operates four occupationally specific training programs for the unemployed and underemployed and a full-service Single Stop site that includes tax assistance.
The Financial Clinic
Helps poor New Yorkers achieve financial stability by providing free tax preparation, legal support and financial counseling.
Food Bank For New York City
Distributes 68 million pounds of food to approximately 1,200 emergency and community food programs.
Fortune Society
Offers job training, housing, education and other services to ex-offenders.
Friends of the Children
Pairs a paid mentor with an at-risk child for four hours per week, twelve months a year, starting in first grade and lasting through high school.
Fund for Public Health in New York (N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)
Tests inmates at Rikers Island for H.I.V. infection and connects those who test positive to medical care.
Future Leaders Institute
Educates students in a kindergarten-8th grade charter school that features an intensive high school placement program.
Future Now at Bronx Community College
Offers academic and vocational services for ex-offenders and out-of-school young adults as they pursue G.E.D. and associate’s degrees.
Gary Klinsky Children's Center
Runs after-school programs for students in grades kindergarten through eight in underserved, high-crime neighborhoods, using theme-based curricula.
Go Project
Offers Saturday tutoring and mentoring and an academically focused summer program to high-poverty, low performing children in grades kindergarten through five.
Goddard Riverside Community Center
Implements a pilot program of intensive one-on-one counseling to help low-income, disadvantaged teens and young adults enter and stay in college.
Good Shepherd Services
Runs foster-care programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, supervised independent living residences and two Single Stop sites, one in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn.
Graham Windham
Provides foster-care, abuse-prevention, adoption and day care services for children and families in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Bronx.
Grand Street Settlement
Provides residents of the Lower East Side with comprehensive social programs and services including a full-service Single Stop site, a Carrera after-school program to reduce teen-pregnancy and an early-childhood center.
Greenhope Services For Women, Inc.
Helps formerly incarcerated women in East Harlem rebuild their lives.
Groundwork, Inc.
Reaches over 500 students and families living in public housing by running after-school and summer programs in East New York and offering complete Single Stop services to the community.
H.I.V. Law Project
Counsels people terminally ill with AIDS to retain housing, make custody arrangements for their children and resolve complex immigration issues.
Harlem Children's Zone
Runs educational, social-service and health programs in Harlem, including three full-service Single Stop sites.
Harlem Health Promotion Center
Operates a mobile health team that provides workshops, individualized counseling , testing for S.T.D.s and follow-up medical care for young adults and their partners.
Harlem Hospital Asthma Initiative
Screens Harlem residents for asthma and provides follow-up medical, educational, legal and environmental services.
Harlem RBI, Inc.
Uses baseball to engage students in its youth-development program and runs the Dream Charter School in East Harlem.
Harlem United: Community Aids Center, Inc.
Provides innovative housing, medical, dental and social services to homeless people with AIDS.
Harlem Village Academies
A network of three charter schools in Harlem consisting of two middle schools that feed one high school.
HELP/PSI, Inc.
Provides medical, substance-abuse, housing and other services to people living with H.I.V./AIDS, including ex-offenders.
Henry Street Settlement
Offers transitional housing, mental-health services, day-care, senior programming, youth activities, job-training programs and a full-service Single Stop site.
Hetrick-Martin Institute, Inc.
Prepares gay, lesbian and transgender youth for self-sufficiency by providing medical, education, career development, and H.I.V. prevention services.
High School for Global Citizenship – Global Kids
Brings social workers and remedial reading program to this Brooklyn high school, where a quarter of the student body struggles with social, emotional and literacy issues that will keep them from graduating high school.
Highbridge Community Life Center
Trains women on public assistance, most of whom are mothers, for jobs at health-care facilities.
The HOPE Program
Trains homeless men and women and substance abusers for work.
Housing Works
Provides housing and support services to people living with AIDS and H.I.V.
iMentor
Brings mentoring-via-e-mail to students at Bronx Preparatory Charter School and Bronx Academy of Letters, focusing on preparing students to apply to and enroll in college.
The Institute for Family Health
Develops innovative ways to provide primary health services to medically underserved populations based on the family practice model of care through a network of federally qualified, freestanding community health centers. In addition to developing and operating multi-disciplinary health facilities, the Institute trains health professionals and other health care workers.
Inwood House
Offers transitional residence and services to pregnant, homeless teenagers.
Iris House
Provides housing, case-management, nutritional and social services to women with AIDS and their families.
Jane Barker Child Advocacy Center / Safe Horizon
Runs a model one-stop program to help sexually and physically abused children.
Jericho Project
Provides long-term transitional housing and assists with family reunification for homeless individuals in recovery from substance abuse.
Jewish Child Care Association
Mentors low-income students at risk of academic failure and runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts.
Kingsborough Community College
Prevents at-risk freshmen from dropping out of community college by creating small groups that study together and receive tutoring, counseling and financial support.
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
Trains low-income residents in northwest Bronx to gain licenses and launch home-based childcare businesses.
KIPP
Runs a network of New York City charter schools that opened an elementary school and high school in fall 2009 and operates four middle schools that outperform neighborhood schools in math and reading by more than 15 percentage points.
Lawyers for Children
Prevents young adults who have grown too old to remain eligible for government-subsidized foster care from becoming homeless or incarcerated.
League Treatment Center
Combines special-education teaching, clinical service and therapeutic treatment to help children with severe psychiatric conditions and developmental disabilities.
Legal Aid Society
Provides free legal counseling and assistance at Single Stop sites throughout the city and specialized legal immigration services and training to Robin Hood grantees.
Legal Outreach
Uses legal education as the curricular foundation of a four-year after-school program for low-income teenagers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Legal Services NYC
Provides free legal counseling and assistance at Single Stop sites throughout the city and legal services and training to Robin Hood grantees.
Liberty Leads
Provides an academically focused after-school program, based at the Bank Street College of Education, for students in grades 5 through 12.
LIFT
Uses an innovative, low-cost model that relies on college student volunteers to work one-on-one with low-income individuals to help them solve housing, employment and public-benefits problems.
Little Sisters Of The Assumption Family Health Service
Provides bilingual and early-childhood development programs to isolated Mexican families in East Harlem.
Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center
Prevents the spread of H.I.V./AIDS by exchanging clean for dirty syringes and providing other services to drug users with H.I.V./AIDS.
Make the Road New York
Operates a community center and membership organization in Bushwick and Elmhurst that offers legal assistance and programs for youth, including full-service Single Stop sites.
Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City - Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT)
Makes cash rewards to families who meet pre-set benchmarks for academic achievement, such as passing scores on Regents exams by high school students, for preventive health practices, like parents taking children for annual physical and dental checkups, and for parental employment.
MDRC
Implements and evaluates a program of financial incentives to help students at two of the City University’s community colleges to stay in school and earn their associate’s degrees.
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Provides a wide spectrum of social services for low-income Jewish New Yorkers, including affordable housing, job training programs, crisis-intervention counseling, food pantries and home care for the elderly, and runs a full-service Single Stop site.
Minkwon
Provides legal, social and immigration-related services to the low-income Chinese and Korean residents of Flushing Queens.
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia
Brings mental-health services to students in schools to cut down emergency-room visits and school absences.
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Provides comprehensive physical and mental-health services to 15,000 adolescents a year.
Mount Sinai Hepatitis C Program
Provides screening for Hepatitis C and treatment in a primary care setting to help medically underserved patients from East Harlem initiate and manage the daunting year-long medication regimen.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Project Step-Up
Provides school-based mental health and other support services to teenagers with serious behavior and educational issues.
Mt. Hope Housing Company Inc.
Helps young adults in the South Bronx to pass the G.E.D. exam, enroll in college or find employment.
Nativity Mission Center
Runs a values-based middle school for boys on the Lower East Side that offers an extended day, extended year schedule.
Neighbors Together
Provides emergency food and social services to the neighborhoods of Brownsville, East New York, Ocean Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
New Settlement Apartments
Helps low-income young adults in the South Bronx gain and retain employment or enter and stay in college.
New York Asian Women's Center
Provides emergency housing and protective services to battered Asian women and their children.
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence
Supports charter schools with planning grants and technical support.
New York City District Council of Carpenters Labor Technical College (Building Works program)
Trains low-skilled individuals for jobs in “green collar” construction, providing a 17-week program that leads to certification, pre-apprenticeship jobs and union membership.
New York City Financial Network Action Consortium
Oversees two free tax-preparation sites as part of Robin Hood’s E.I.T.C. tax-refund initiative.
New York City Justice Corps
Helps criminally involved young adults in the South Bronx: prepare resumes; develop interview and other pre-employment skills; pass the G.E.D. exam; and acquire paid internships.
New York City Mission Society
Operates a Carrera after-school program in Harlem to reduce teenage pregnancy.
New York Harm Reduction Educators
Prevents the spread of H.I.V./AIDS by exchanging clean for dirty needles and providing other services to drug users with H.I.V./AIDS.
New York Legal Assistance Group
Provides free legal and benefits counseling at seven hospital-based clinics.
Nontraditional Employment for Women
Trains women for high-paying jobs and union membership in the construction trades and other skilled blue-collar occupations in utilities and transportation industries.
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
Provides free legal, housing and social services as well as assistance with job placement to low-income families in Washington Heights.
Northside Center for Child Development
Provides innovative psycho-educational services to children with emotional problems or development delays.
Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development at the College of Staten Island
Trains unemployed and underemployed individuals to become certified nurse aides.
Opportunities For A Better Tomorrow
Trains workers in Brooklyn to take jobs as entry-level office workers and as pharmacy clerks and technicians.
Opportunity Charter School
Educates middle and high school students, many in special education, who arrive reading three to five years behind grade level.
Outreach Project
Trains students with limited education, ex-offenders and former substance abusers to be substance-abuse counselors, and provides alcohol and drug-addiction treatment.
Part Of The Solution
Operates a soup kitchen and food pantry for 1,300 people a day in the Bronx—providing social services and a Single Stop site.
Partnership With Children
Provides year-round academic and mental-health counseling services to underperforming students at more than 14 sites throughout the city, including three elementary schools funded by Robin Hood.
Per Scholas
Combines classroom training and internships in its own computer-recycling business to prepare low-income participants for careers as computer technicians.
PHI
Trains women in Manhattan, the South Bronx and Brooklyn for jobs as health aides and as home-care attendants.
Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless
Provides psychiatric services to homeless people at drop-in centers, homeless shelters, shelters for victims of domestic violence and residential units for the formerly homeless.
Project Hospitality
Provides food, clothing and social services for needy residents, including immigrants, of Staten Island; runs a full-service Single Stop site specializing in food stamp and health insurance enrollments.
Project Renewal
Provides housing, social services and employment to homeless and formerly homeless New Yorkers with histories of substance abuse and mental illness.
Promise/Center for Attention and Learning Disorders (CALD)
Provides sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations of low-income children with special needs – an essential step in qualifying them for government-subsidized services.
Providence House
Provides housing and case-managed services—including access to government benefits, family counseling, job-training and employment referrals to female parolees.
Public Health Solutions
Provides Single Stop services, especially help signing families up for food stamps and state-subsidized health insurance, at two Women Infant and Children (WIC) centers in Queens and Brooklyn.
Queens Community House
Helps at risk, low-income young adults in Queens enroll and succeed in college.
Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention
Screens and treats Harlem residents for cancer, and educates the local community about cancer.
The Resource Training Center
Trains low-income individuals, most of whom are former addicts or ex-offenders, as alcohol and drug addiction counselors.
Restaurant Opportunity Center of New York
Trains and certifies low-income individuals, including immigrants, to work in relatively high-end restaurants, as waiters, chefs, hosts and hostesses, managers and support staff in the kitchens.
Ryken Educational Center
Offers a rigorous, college preparatory education to boys with learning disabilities.
Sanctuary For Families
Provides shelter, counseling and legal assistance to victims of abuse and their children.
School of One, Fund for Public Schools
Harnesses technology and on-line materials to create individualized math instruction for sixth graders.
Science Lab at Middle School 88
Builds a science lab tied to the innovative environment-based school-wide curriculum at a Brooklyn middle school.
SCO Family of Services
Helps families in crisis, running two parenting-education programs (Nurse Family Partnership and Parent-Child Home Program) and a Single Stop site.
SCO Family of Services: North Queens Community High School
Operates a “transfer” high school for drop-outs and other students on the verge of academic failure, with the goal of getting them a high school diploma.
Seedco
Serves disadvantaged job seekers and low-wage workers and their families, as well as offering assistance to small businesses; operates the city’s highest volume Single Stop site at its Upper Manhattan Workforce1 Career Center.
Self Help Community Service, Inc.
Trains low-income, Spanish-speaking women, including many immigrants, as home health aides.
Single Stop USA
Provides a wide range of family support services and free one-on-one legal, financial, benefits, and tax counseling to poor families nationwide.
South Brooklyn Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates a "last-chance" high school for former dropouts and students at risk of academic failure.
Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp
Helps small manufacturers in Southwest Brooklyn hire local, unemployed, low-income residents.
St. John's Bread And Life
Operates a food pantry and the largest soup kitchen in Brooklyn, feeding 1,000 people per day, and a mobile unit; runs two full-service Single Stop operations, including a new Coney Island initiative bringing Single Stop services to remote food pantries in the region.
St. Nick’s Alliance
Trains low-income adults, including many ex-offenders, as environmental remediation technicians to handle hazardous materials.
Stanley M. Isaacs Center
Trains young adults 17 to 24 years-old in hard and soft skills and provides job placement and two years of follow-up help in keeping their jobs.
Staten Island Mental Health Society
Provides comprehensive mental health services and parenting support to families with children enrolled in prekindergarten to ensure children enter school ready to learn.
Success Charter Network
Operates four elementary schools in Harlem, each expanding through grade 8 over time. The network will open three more K-8 schools in 2010-2011, eventually growing to 40 schools.
Sustainable South Bronx
Trains and certifies low-income individuals, half of whom have histories of criminal involvement, for jobs in weatherization, retrofitting and environmentally friendly roof installation.
Teach for America
Recruits and trains over 100 recent graduates from selective colleges to teach in New York City charter schools each year.
Teacher U
Trains master teachers, leading to certification, by emphasizing practical skills for managing classrooms as well as curricular content.
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change
Established college advisement program and bridges academic and social programs for students in this grade seven to twelve public school.
Turnaround for Children
Offers school-based counseling to children and their families in the Bronx through a network of mental-health professionals working with teachers and administrators.
Turning Point
Helps high school dropouts in Sunset Park pass the G.E.D. exam, enroll them in college or find employment.
Uncommon Schools
Operates a network of 10 charter schools in Brooklyn, including a high school that opened in fall 2009, whose goal is to set the standard by which to judge organizations that oversee multiple charter schools.
University Settlement Society of New York
Provides comprehensive early education, parenting services and developmental interventions for children under age five.
Upwardly Global
Helps establish its Jobseeker Services Program in New York City which counters underemployment among legal immigrants who have professional experience and bachelor’s degrees from their native countries.
Urban Arts Partnership
Developed Fresh Prep, an innovative curriculum using rhyme and music that significantly increases the pass rate of students at New Design High School on the Global History Regents exam.
Urban Assembly Academy for Arts and Letters
Offers an intensive, research-based remedial reading program for middle school students in Brooklyn.
Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice
Runs an individualized program to steer high school students into college.
Urban Health Plan, Inc.
The Fit for Life Program provides intensive medical and nutritional interventions to address childhood obesity.
Urban Justice Center
Provides free, confidential legal and benefits assistance to families at soup kitchens, food pantries, and drop-in assistance centers.
Urban Pathways
Reaches out to homeless individuals taking shelter at transportation hubs in Manhattan, like the Port Authority building, and places them into permanent housing.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Implements the Nurse Family Partnership, a parenting-education program for low-income, first-time mothers in the South Bronx.
Volunteers of Legal Service
Provides legal services to families served by the Harlem Children's Zone asthma initiative.
Way to Work
Helps high-school dropouts and other young adults between ages of 18 and 21 start work careers.
West Brooklyn Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates an alternative high school for drop-outs or truant students on the verge of academic failure.
West Side Campaign Against Hunger
Runs a supermarket-style food pantry in Manhattan serving 25,000 households a year.
Women In Need
Houses 800 homeless families per night at seven transitional shelters and runs the city’s only Single Stop site within a shelter.
Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement
Created and updates the computer program which Single Stop sites use to assess household eligibility for government benefits; teaches business management to low-income female entrepreneurs.
Women's Housing And Economic Development Corp.
Provides permanent housing, employment assistance, Head Start, childcare training, and other services to families in the South Bronx and runs a full-service Single Stop site.
Year Up
Offers a 12-month training program in technology for economically disadvantaged young adults geared toward employment in entry-level information-technology positions and enrollment in college.
Yorkville Common Pantry
Serves over 1.1 million meals per year and provides social services in East Harlem at the city’s only food pantry open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Young Woman’s Leadership Network/CollegeBound Initiative
Boosts the percentage of students at traditional high schools who enroll in and graduate from college by matching them with appropriate colleges and helping them secure financial aid.
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