Our Resource Center has been on the COVID front lines since March, helping people gain access to food, rent support, legal aid and other critical needs. Their staff told us how the economic downturn is affecting low-income New Yorkers—and how your donations helped.

Women’s History Artist Month is our annual celebration of women in the arts! Join us for a month of comedy, documentary, music, theatre, storytelling and more while funding our Performing Arts Conservatory for young people.

Join us for a book chat with Anne S. Kim, winner of our Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! Kim's Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection explores why nearly five million young people— including those aging out of foster care or entangled with the justice system—have been shut out of jobs and education. She also profiles organizations across the country that are successfully reconnecting them.

Congressman Jerry Nadler stopped by earlier this month to talk about democracy reform, student loan debt, the housing crisis, Social Security and more. Watch his town hall!

This week we had an amazing conversation with Rev. Dr. Michael W. Waters, author of For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World, the winner of our Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice! Topics ranged from structural inequality, to talking with our children about race, to hope for a better future—and how we can all help create it! See this inspiring book chat here.

Our 2017 Gala honoree, a longtime leader in the book and digital content industry, passed away at age 68. We look back on the day he came to read books with one of our Early Childhood classes.

Our Phelps House residents enjoyed a colorful wall of hand-made valentines thanks to some amazing volunteers at the Glamour Gals Foundation!