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BROTHERHOOD/SISTER SOL
New York, NY
$25,000 to support a second Development Associate position to help expand and diversify their funding. They recently launched a capital campaign to expand their facilities. The expanded development team will assist the senior staff and board in raising the additional resources needed to support this expansion while ensuring that their programs continue to operate at a high level. Brotherhood/Sister Sol is dedicated to helping Black and Latino youth develop into empowered critical thinkers and community leaders.
CATHOLIC BIG SISTERS
(d/b/a Catholic Big Sisters and
Big Brothers) ("CBSBB")
New York, NY
$25,000 to help launch their Workforce Development Program, an internship program for adolescents who have graduated from their skill-based career programs. This new initiative will provide these low income youth with opportunities to learn and implement professional skills, expose them to careers outside of their neighborhoods, and improve their ability to obtain and sustain jobs in the future. CBSBB's family systems approach combines traditional mentoring with family counseling and after-school skill-based programming.
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CENTER FOR URBAN COMMUNITY SERVICES ("CUCS")
New York, NY
$30,000 to support the work of CUCS staff in developing and providing two essential trainings: (1) a training to provide NYC housing providers with the tools and expertise they need to effectively work with youth aging-out of foster care who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness; and (2) a training to provide psychiatrists working in settings serving homeless people with the practical guidelines and unique clinical skills needed to move homeless people into permanent housing. Each year CUCS provides training to more than 2,500 staff working at NYC agencies.
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COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORP.
New York, NY
$50,000 to support staffing for the new Hospital to Home Initiative which adapts the Street to Home approach, recently adopted as a citywide strategy, into a critical new setting: the City's acute care hospitals which consistently see high numbers of homeless individuals in emergency rooms and as in-patients. By linking their housing placement strategies with hospital discharge practices, they hope to reach some of the most vulnerable, long-term homeless individuals and see that they are safely, permanently housed.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY
New York, NY
$20,000 to support staffing to help develop content for the 4th edition of their Benefits Manual, a more user-friendly print and online tool. This is a critical resource for the new Center for Benefits and Services which provides training, publications and technical assistance on more than 70 New York benefits programs, Section 8 and Public Housing, and emergency services for families and individuals in need. The Benefits Manual will provide NYC service providers with the most current information about these programs and help them be more effective and efficient in their work with clients.
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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ("CASA")
New York, NY
$25,000 to help CASA launch a new city-wide initiative entitled Project Family Connect ("PFC") aimed at creating systemic change in how the Family Court system and the Administration for Children's Services respond to cases involving foster children who have an incarcerated parent. PFC will work with various parties involved in these cases - judges, ACS attorneys, law guardians, caseworkers, children, parents' attorneys and incarcerated parents - to ensure that the well-being of children with incarcerated parents is safeguarded and that permanency planning efforts truly represent their best interests.
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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF UNION COUNTY ("CASA")
Elizabeth, NJ
$30,000 to support staffing to expand their administrative capacity and their ability to supervise more volunteer advocates. CASA's mission is to recruit, train and supervise community volunteers to act as advocates for children who have been removed from their homes due to domestic abuse, neglect and/or abandonment, and to educate the community about the role of CASA in the lives of children in foster care. The grant will provide salary support for the Executive Director, a new part-time Administrative Assistant and a new part-time Advocate Supervisor.
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COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW JERSEY ("CASA")
Trenton, NJ/Wayne, NJ
$15,000 to help support staffing and other start-up expenses of the new Passaic County CASA. CASA volunteer advocates, trained and supervised by professional staff, serve as a child's voice in court. They are committed to ensuring that needed services and assistance are made available to these children in out-of-home placements, while at the same time helping move them toward safe, nurturing and permanent homes.
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EAST SIDE HOUSE
Bronx, NY
$57,000, the final installment of a $114,000 grant payable over two years, to support a Clinical Social Worker position for their Family Services Program. Many students are unable to function normally in an academic environment because of challenges in their personal lives. Through this effort, students and their families are referred to a full array of support services, including individual and family counseling. The goal is to help families address the issues in their lives so they can focus on their educational goals and break the cycle of poverty.
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ELIZABETHPORT PRESBYTERIAN CENTER
Elizabeth, NJ
$25,000 to support a new Youth Director position to help them meet the increased need for program planning, leadership and evaluation of their work with children and youth. The Director will build a continuum of services for children that moves them progressively from preschool through age 18. With several youth-serving agencies closing in recent years, the Elizabethport Presbyterian Center is even more vital for the youth in the community.
$15,000 for renewed support of the Youth Counselor position that provides increased community outreach and more continuous support and input on issues affecting the children they serve. The Counselor provides one-on-one support and counseling for their youths, and stays in contact with the families, schools and other adults/institutions that touch their lives to keep the youth on track to meet their potential.
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EXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY
New York, NY
$31,200 to provide support for a third Contract Coach which will enable them to serve an additional 80 participants annually. Exodus helps formerly incarcerated individuals secure employment and develop the attitudes they need to succeed at their jobs, reconnect with their families, and fully integrate into mainstream society. A Contract Coach functions as a participant's personal reentry manager for up to a year, leading them through the Exodus Contract process where they set goals and create action plans in each of six life areas.
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GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER
New York, NY
$50,000 for salary support for the new Associate Director of Operations position, part of a comprehensive executive management team restructuring designed to strengthen the agency's capacity to manage growth, ensure program quality, and plan wisely for the future. This person will oversee operations-based areas, including facilities management and capital projects, Human Resources, finance and information technology. Goddard Riverside's services will reach 16,000 individuals this year, through more than 20 programs located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and in Harlem.
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GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES
New York, NY
$75,000, the second installment of a $250,000 grant payable over 3 years, in support of an Endowment Campaign to augment their endowment by an additional $10 million. They have experienced extraordinary growth over the past several years, and the increased endowment is an important part of their plan to ensure that they have adequate resources to sustain their ongoing and exemplary work in youth development, education and family services.
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GROUNDWORK
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000 to provide salary support for a full-time Family Resource Center Coordinator for their P.S. 260/Breukelen campus to replicate the comprehensive supportive services model implemented at their other East New York campuses. The Center provides individual and group mental health counseling, peer support groups, family therapy and crisis intervention to at-risk children and their families. Groundwork's mission is to help young people living in high poverty urban communities to develop their strengths, skills, and talents and competencies through effective experiential learning and work programs. They provide an integrated system of enrichment and leadership development opportunities for these youth and their families.
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HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
New York, NY
$30,000 to support a new Human Resources Department Assistant position which will allow them to further strengthen their staff support and focus on important HR initiatives. They plan to run a full-service department that is able to handle the multiple and complex needs of their close to 1000 full- and part-time employees and thus enhance their staff's capacity to perform their jobs and better serve their 60,000 clients each year.
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LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK
New York, NY
$30,000 to support their work with charter schools and other organizations that are working to improve public education in New York City. Through this initiative they will provide intensive one-on-one legal assistance to 10 to 20 organizations working to develop and operate charter schools in areas including charter applications, personnel matters and fiscal and public accountability, and assist at least 50 organizations working to improve NYC public schools. Lawyers Alliance provides nonprofits with the affordable, expert legal counsel needed to accomplish their missions, better serve the community and devote as much income as possible to program delivery.
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NEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION
New York, NY
$35,000 to support a full-time Housing Support Coordinator who will implement a family services program at Marcello Manor, their newest affordable rental project in the Bronx. Marcello Manor will provide safe permanent housing for 38 low income households, half of which are headed by homeless survivors of domestic violence coming directly from the shelter system. The Coordinator will provide engagement, case management, and referral services to these families. New Destiny is NYC's only nonprofit focused on addressing the permanent housing needs of domestic violence survivors by increasing the supply of appropriate housing and improving access to existing housing.
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THE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Newark, NJ
$35,000 to support the Project Director of the New Careers Project, a prisoner reentry and employment model program. Key to their model is the use of temporary, paid employment which is combined with comprehensive case management to address health, legal, family and other issues, and employment readiness and life skills training. As the transitional period approaches completion, they focus on job placement, and provide post-placement retention services to both program graduates and their permanent employers.
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NONPROFIT COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK ("NPCC")
New York, NY
$25,000 to support the second year of their Skills Builders initiative, Basic Finances for Smaller Nonprofits, which will build on the lessons learned in the pilot program. The program combines experience-driven training plus follow-up support, leading up to participants' first audits. The overall goal is to encourage the core leadership of small nonprofits to master financial practices early and to encourage putting financial information to good use in managing their organizations.
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SAFE HORIZON
New York, NY
$30,000 to support a Senior Director position for their new Child Advocacy Center ("CAC") in Manhattan. Their co-located CACs bring together under one roof all the services that a child victim, its parents and its advocates need including the Administration for Children's Services, the NYC Police Department, District Attorney Representatives and medical providers. Safe Horizon also operates CACs in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The Senior Director will help lead the start-up initiative, as well as provide overall leadership, vision and management thereafter.
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UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK ("UNH")
New York, NY
$35,000 to support a new Director of Development position to help UNH increase and diversity its fundraising efforts, a key recommendation of their recently completed Strategic Plan. The Director will be responsible for developing an individual gifts program, overseeing special events, developing the fundraising capacity of the Board, and integrating fundraising and external communications strategies and materials. UNH is the nonprofit umbrella organization for 34 settlement houses and neighborhood centers in NYC.
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URBAN PATHWAYS
New York, NY
$40,000 to provide continued support for the Program Director for ESTEEM, an employment training program that uses therapeutic counseling and support for homeless and formerly homeless adults as a tool for personal development in a workplace environment. Clients engage in skills training, supportive counseling, and "hands-on" experiences that encourage them to grow and move towards independence. The program consists of six levels of participation: a pre-vocational entry level to address real or perceived barriers to employment; four tiers that provide increasing responsibility; and a retention level to provide clients who are working with the crucial support needed during the first year of employment.
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VOLUNTEER CONSULTING GROUP ("VCG")
New York, NY
$35,000 to support costs associated with retaining the services of a part-time Transitional Executive Director to help stabilize and strengthen VCG during a leadership transition after the death of their founding Executive Director. This individual is responsible for leading a renewed fundraising effort and working with their consultant staff to broaden their governance consultant efforts. The plan is for the individual to continue in a permanent capacity at year end. For over thirty years VCG's mission has been to strengthen the leadership capabilities of nonprofit governing Boards.
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| TOTAL SOCIAL WELFARE GRANTS: $808,200 |
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