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Harlem Commonwealth Council is an economic development corporation determined to bring economic prosperity to Upper Manhattan, Washington Heights, and Bronx residents. In these areas, we offer practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty by providing resources for budding entrepreneurs and business owners, academic enrichment and mentorship for youth and adults, and skills training for all community Read more...
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One of the programs of the not-for-profit agency Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., the Harlem Children’s Zone Project was launched in 1997, focusing a comprehensive array of social-service and education programs in a 60-block area of Central Harlem. Created through a series of discussions with residents of Harlem, the Zone Project aims to help children and families climb out of poverty Read more...
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HBA serves as an advocate for the preservation and retention of Harlem’s business community. The Harlem Business Alliance, Inc., (HBA) was founded in 1980 by a group of prominent Harlem business leaders, and incorporated in 1990 as a class 402 501(c)(3) corporation. HBA has worked diligently to establish Harlem as an economically self-sustaining community. Over the years, HBA has developed Read more...
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Harlem Academy is an academically rigorous, independent school for children whose aptitude for success in higher education might otherwise go unrealized. Harlem Academy is an academically rigorous, independent school for children of all faiths and economic means. Founded in 2004 with 12 first grade families, the program now educates 58 students in first, second, third grades, and fourth grades. Fifth Read more...
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The Hamilton Heights Homeowners Association was founded in 1980 by a group of concerned residents committed to improving the Hamilton Heights community. Its members are home, cooperative and condominium owners in the area between 135th and 155th Streets and Riverside Drive and Edgecombe Avenue. Its purposes include providing property owners with useful information about the neighborhood and home ownership issues Read more...
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Greenhope’s mission is to empower women involved in substance abuse and the criminal justice system to reclaim their lives, reunite with their families, and rebuild their communities. Founded in 1975, Greenhope Services for Women (Greenhope), located in East Harlem, New York, offers comprehensive residential treatment services, supportive housing, and innovative prevention and outpatient programs to formerly incarcerated women, women referred Read more...
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Named the Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME) , Inc. by artists Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Dead Prez, G.A.ME is an international not-for-profit membership organization with the mission of using Hip-Hop to organize the community around sociopolitical and economic issues facing the black and Latino community. G.A.ME focuses in the three areas of preventing youth incarceration, providing healthcare to Read more...
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Good Neighbors is a multi-departmental, faith-based community development corporation serving residents and businesses throughout the tri-state area. We provide community outreach social and educational programs that address and correct today’s most pressing social problems such as unemployment, economic under-development, the disintegration of the family as a social unit, inadequate public education, child care, insufficient housing conditions and immigration/citizenship issues. We Read more...
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Goddard Riverside Community Center is one of New York City’s leading human service organizations. We work to meet people’s basic needs – food, shelter, education – and to bring them together for mutual aid, social action, and to celebrate our richness as a society. Through 27 programs at 21 sites on the Upper West Side and in West Harlem, we Read more...
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Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) is the only organization in New York State specifically designed to serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking. GEMS was founded in 1998 by Rachel Lloyd, a young woman who had been sexually exploited as a teenager. GEMS has helped hundreds of young women and girls, ages Read more...
