Grants

• The Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans (CIANA) received a $10,000 grant from the New York Bar Foundation to support their holistic legal immigration services.  
• HYPOTHEkids received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Award for Hk Maker Lab, their high school program that teaches bioengineering design and entrepreneurship. 
• As part of JobsFirstNYC's Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project initiative, The Knowledge House (TKH) was awarded a grant by the Pinkerton Foundation to expand their program team and job placement services. TKH has already placed several alumni from their advanced technology courses into full-time jobs at organizations such as Viacom and Hyde Charter School.
• Scholarship Plus received a four-year $300,000 grant from The New York Community Trust to support two U.S. citizen students studying for college degrees in technology or applied science. Read more here.

Press Coverage 

• Artistic Director and Founder of The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) Thurman E. Scott was named a NY1 New Yorker of the Week. The segment featured ATW’s Builders of the New World, its after-school theatre and education program for homeless children.  
• City Health Works (CHW) was featured in a PBS Newshour segment entitled, “Can ordinary citizens help fill gaps in U.S. health care?" CHW bridges the gap between the doctor’s office and the everyday lives of patients diagnosed with life-threatening chronic illnesses who also are burdened with additional stressors such as poverty and isolation. 
• David Patrick Columbia, founder of the New York Social Diary, wrote about his visit to The East Harlem School (EHS) in Quest magazine. Columbia’s article highlights the importance of EHS’ work in providing a top-notch education to low-income students in East Harlem.
• The New York Times ran a story profiling Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) and its founder, Mark Goldsmith. GOSO empowers young men to avoid involvement in the criminal justice system by reshaping their futures through educational achievement, meaningful employment, and financial independence. 
• The Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project was featured in a Chalkbeat story about graduation rates of English Language Learners. The organization's mission is to transform the lives of Haitian newcomer youth through education and leadership development and to raise awareness of immigrant education issues.
• Groove with Me, a dance studio in Harlem that offers free classes to girls as a safe space for them to discover their potential, was featured twice on the TODAY show. On June 9, Host Hota Kotb profiled the organization, and one June 10, five dancers performed on the show. 
• Hour Children was featured on Fox 5’s Chasing News broadcast. Reporter Allison Gormly highlighted the organization's efforts to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and rebuild their lives. 
• Youth and alumni participants from South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) were interviewed on an episode of NBC Asian America’s “Take Back” web series about discrimination. SAYA provides leadership programs for young men and women and men in high school through which they can develop their personal and social identities in a culturally affirming space.
• ESPN’s Spanish-language channel, ESPN Deportes, featured the story of one young South Bronx United (SBU) student-athlete, Derrick, describing his arduous journey from Honduras in search of a better life.  
• STEM From Dance's founder/CEO was featured as a Catalyst by NYC Media in a segment that aired on a variety of tv stations. The organization uses dance to grow the number of underrepresented minority girls who are STEM-college ready. 

Program

• The Andrew Glover Youth Program changed its name to Avenues for Justice. Although the name has changed, its core focus remains the same: to intervene and reclaim young people from lives of crime, provide the overloaded court system with a reliable alternative to incarceration and make the Lower East Side and East Harlem communities safer.
  
• Cool Culture kicked off the 2nd edition of the Laboratory for New Audiences. Museum educators from 23 NYC cultural institutions are learning about the power and benefits of community engagement and how to design new initiatives to improve diversity and inclusion practices at their own institutions. 
  
• I Challenge Myself expanded its newest program, 4-to-FIT, to three additional schools in Washington Heights. Primarily as a result of the expansion of the 4-to-FIT program, the organization served a total of 356 students their most recent fiscal year, an increase of 105% over the previous year. 
  
• In 2016, Let's Get Ready (LGR) served a record 9,000 students between their Access (2,633 high school students receiving SAT prep and college admissions support), Transition and Success (in college) programs. These programs stretched from Philadelphia to Maine, with students attending over 400 different colleges.
• Masa has expanded their team and hired a Community Organizer for School Justice. The Community Organizer is collaborating with parents to build leadership and power with the goal of identifying strategies and executing campaigns to improve public schools in the South Bronx. 
  
• A student from Mythic Bridge won first runner up at the 2016 AT&T/All American High School Film Festival for "His Story," a short film about cyber-bullying and trans youth issues. AT&T plans to show the film as part of their nationwide tour to address cyber-bullying. 
• Opening Act recently completed a strategic plan that expands its innovative, quality and free After-School Theater program to 40 of New York City’s most underserved high schools. Opening Act seeks to level the playing field by offering opportunities to develop leadership skills, personal commitment and community connections.
• The Possibility Project released a research report focused on the impact of their Foster Care program, which attempts to address interpersonal, emotional, and identity challenges that foster care teenagers face. The study, conducted by Teacher’s College of Columbia University, found the program had several positive long-term impacts on its alumni. 
• Four of the Red Hook Art Project’s students were accepted at Edward R. Murrow High School, a top Brooklyn high school with a special program in the arts. This gives the students the opportunity to attend a more rigorous high school than any of the local Red Hook high schools. Read more here.
• One hundred percent of Row New York seniors from the class of 2016 graduated from high school in four years, and 92 percent matriculated to college, including Ithaca College, Dartmouth College, the United States Naval Academy, Columbia University, Smith College, and a number of competitive SUNY and CUNY schools.
• Young New Yorkers (YNY) graduates and teachers presented a workshop entitled Art and Transformative Justice at Columbia University's 7th annual Justice Conference. The organization's mission is to empower young New Yorkers to transform the criminal justice system through their own creative voices. 
• Youth Represent secured contracts from new private and public partners to deliver their community-lawyering model in NYC schools, public housing and Rikers Island. This enables them to reach even more young people in need of high-quality re-entry legal services.