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Association to Benefit Children
The Association to Benefit Children (ABC) 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.
 
Beginning with Children
Beginning with Children runs two charter schools in Brooklyn—an elementary school and one of the first kindergarten-through-eighth grade charters in the state.
 
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park provides after-school programs, employment assistance, family counseling, emergency food and a Single Stop site.
 
Center for Urban Community Services
Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) 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.
 
The Children's Village, Inc.
The Children's Village, Inc. counsels and mentors young adults after they grow too old to remain eligible for subsidized foster care.
 
Comprehensive Development, Inc.
Comprehensive Development, Inc. 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.
 
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation serves the Cypress Hills community in Brooklyn with housing development, economic development, community organizing, housing counseling, child care, and youth and family services.
 
Dominican Sisters
The Dominican Sisters offers adult education and day care to immigrant mothers, mostly Mexican, in the South Bronx.
 
Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Campaign
In 2002, Robin Hood launched the Earned Income Tax Credit (E.I.T.C.) Campaign to help low-income, working New Yorkers learn about and file for tax credits for which they are eligible. In 2006, volunteers working at free tax sites helped to prepare more than 55,000 tax returns, enabling families to claim almost $100 million in total refunds.
 
The Family Center
The Family Center provides social and legal services for children and families affected by parental illness, absence, or loss.
 
Food Bank For New York City
Distributes 68 million pounds of food to approximately 1,200 emergency and community food programs.
 
Friends of the Children
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.
 
Go Project
The Go Project offers Saturday tutoring and mentoring and an academically focused summer program to high-poverty, low performing children in grades kindergarten through four.
 
Good Shepherd Services
Good Shepherd Services runs foster-care programs, adolescent residences for youth aging out of subsidized foster care, and supervised independent living residences as well as two Single Stop sites.
 
Harlem RBI
Harlem R.B.I. is a community-based organization that integrates the benefits of sports activity, team participation, academics and youth development programs. The organization provides positive opportunities to over 850 youth to develop from vulnerable children into resilient young adults.
 
The 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 is committed to educating and inspiring urban youth to become successful students as well as global and community leaders.
 
The HOPE Program
The HOPE Program is a job readiness training and counseling program for homeless and welfare-dependent adults.
 
Housing Works
Housing Works provides housing and support services to homeless, formerly homeless and at-risk men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS.
 
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.
 
Inwood House
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
Brooklyn Child Advocacy Center, a project of Safe Horizon, is an emergency evaluation and treatment center for children who have been victimized by sexual and physical abuse.
 
Jewish Child Care Association
Jewish Child Care Association mentors failing students. Their Two Together Program serves about 100 school age students, ages 8 - 17, from all five boroughs, who score at least one year below grade level in reading or math or have other learning needs.
 
Legal Aid Society
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.
 
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service provides a wide range of health care and social services to more than 1,000 families in East Harlem.
 
Make the Road New York
Make the Road by Walking provides support services to and advocates for low-income and immigrant New Yorkers.
 
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty runs a home attendant training program. They also coordinate other grassroots agencies that are part of the Jewish Community Council.
 
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center provides free and confidential primary health, mental health and reproductive health care to young people between the ages of 10 and 21. The Center was established in 1968 as the first primary care program in New York specifically designed for the health needs of adolescents.
 
New York Asian Women's Center
New York Asian Women's Center provides emergency housing and protective services to battered Asian women and their children.
 
New York Legal Assistance Group
NYLAG provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers and handles a wide spectrum of legal matters including immigration, benefits, family/matrimonial law, impact litigation, elder law and legal health.
 
Part of the Solution
Part of The Solution operates a community kitchen and food pantry for 1,300 people a day in the Bronx—providing social services and a Single Stop site.
 
Sanctuary for Families
Sanctuary for Families provides emergency and transitional shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, legal and children's services to survivors of domestic violence.
 
St. John's Bread and Life Program
St. John's Bread and Life (SJBL) operates one of the largest emergency food programs in Brooklyn, feeding over 1,000 hungry individuals per day in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, East New York and Brownsville neighborhoods through their soup kitchen and mobile unit.
 
Upwardly Global
Upwardly Global’s Jobseeker Services Program counters underemployment among legal immigrants who have professional experience and bachelor’s degrees from their native countries.
 
Women In Need, Inc.
Women In Need serves 2,100 homeless women and children per night at 10 sites that provide housing and social services and runs the only Single Stop site in a shelter.
 
Year Up
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
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.
 











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