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The mission of the Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) is to assist people who meet certain income requirements achieve their educational and employment goals. The Center offers high school completion and college preparatory coursework, as well as other services. Read more...
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Mama’s mission is to present, preserve, and promote the history and fundamentals of gospel, jazz, and rhythm and blues music for current and future generations. The Foundation has established a cultural space in Harlem where youth and adults have access to quality training and employment as performing artists. The Foundation was inspired by the worldwide success of our award-winning musical, Read more...
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Living and Learning By the Arts is located in the Soundview section of the Bronx in a. LLBA houses a small arts studio and gallery for exhibitions and classes. Our goal is to communicate, educate, excite and inspire through the arts. Classes in painting, drawing, arts/crafts, poetry, creative parenting and early literacy are offered off site. A multi-talented, prolific and Read more...
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For one day every month, LSA holds an immigration clinic in our Advocacy Program. The clinic is free to people who need help with an immigration question or problem. The Robin Hood Foundation funds the program, which operates at LSA and seven other not-for-profit locations throughout New York City. Legal Aid Society attorneys and paralegals typically see about 14 clients Read more...
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Bank Street’s Liberty LEADS provides 260 children and families a comprehensive after school program that meets their social and emotional needs. The program operates from Bank Street South. Services are offered to families and middle school and high school students, grades 5-12, for 11 months each year. Eligibility is based on space availability. Our mission is to empower underrepresented youth Read more...
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Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a 116-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated evidence-based services–social, educational, legal, housing, health, mental health and fitness–which significantly improve the lives of 20,000 people in need each year, ages 3 to 103, on the East Side of Manhattan. Read more...
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Latinas In Control was founded by Ebony “Dulce” Perez. Our mission is to keep our youth off the streets by doing something they enjoy – dancing. At Latinas In Control our children are taught how to dance merengue, hip-hop, salsa, etc. Building self-esteem in our youth while providing guidance and assistance is our goal. We are proud Puerto Ricans introducing Read more...
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Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) is considered by many as the greatest poet to have been born in Puerto Rico, and along with Gabriela Mistral, is considered as one of the greatest poets of Latin America. She was also an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico and an ardent civil rights activist for women Read more...
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Job Corps is a no-cost education and vocational training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through vocational and academic training. Funded by Congress, Job Corps has been training young adults for meaningful careers since 1964. Job Corps is committed to offering all students a Read more...
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The Jackson Ave Block Association, Inc. is empowering our community with employment resources for youth to improve their quality of life, while fostering productive relationships with family, peers and the business community. Morrisania is a vibrant place, alive with all kinds of people – good people – who want to make a difference. Resolutions can only be met with a Read more...
