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Youth, I.N.C. is pleased to work with and support an exceptional group of nonprofit organizations serving youth. Through our programming, Youth, I.N.C. has helped its partners raise funds for their youth programs and provided access to much needed resources. Our nonprofit partners include some of the most innovative and vital nonprofit organizations in New York City. Groups participating in our network note that they highly value opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with their peers in the nonprofit sector. Our workshops and events provide opportunities for Executive Directors, staff, and board members to meet and discuss both their challenges and successes, leading them to draw new ideas, perspectives and solutions from each other.
If you are interested in becoming a partner organization, please review our Frequently Asked Questions page and then contact Fabiola Dieudonne.
The following organizations are actively participating in one or more of our programs: |
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CAMBA enables low-income individuals and families to become economically and socially self-sufficient through its full-service, community-based organization. Thousands of youth from pre-school through high school benefit from CAMBA’s programs, which include academic assistance, counseling, creative activities, sports, community service opportunities, internships, and employment. Founded in 1977, CAMBA is one of Brooklyn’s largest social service organizations and provides programs in six core areas: Economic Development, Education and Youth Development, Family Support Services, HIV/AIDS Services, Housing Services and Development, and Legal Services. |
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CampInteractive introduces the creative power of technology and the inspiration of the outdoors to underprivileged, inner-city youth year-round. Students embark on outdoor expeditions equipped with digital cameras, notebooks, and journals and upon returning to the city, work together to transform their outdoor adventures into a webpage. CampInteractive provides kids with cutting-edge technology skills for the 21st century and strengthens a sense of community where teamwork and self-confidence can flourish. Urban teenagers develop leadership skills, computer proficiency, and a confidence that carries over into all aspects of their lives. |
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The Cornerstone Learning Center, Inc. equips at-risk adolescents on the Upper West Side with the tools for academic and personal success. Year-round tutoring programs, with an emphasis on literacy, are open to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who struggle in school and face an array of social difficulties. Teens that start in Cornerstone during their middle school years can enroll in the Bridge program for high school students, which broadens their horizons by empowering them to set and achieve their goals through workshops and college prep programming. |
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Creative Arts Workshops for Kids (CAW) uses the visual and performing arts to teach life skills to children and teens while enriching communities. CAW’s after-school, summer, and Saturday art programs empower youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to improve their leadership and public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and understand the relationship between art and community |
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The DOME Project (Developing Opportunities through Meaningful Education)assists young people who are economically, socially, and academically challenged to focus on their education as a means to success. Since 1973, The DOME Project, Inc. has dedicated itself to meeting the complex needs of young people in trouble with the law, their schools, and themselves through its Juvenile Justice, Academic Tutoring, and College Prep programs. |
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Early Stages Program, Inc. fosters literacy for students and families through the arts–inside and outside the classroom. The Live Theater Program brings public school students (grades K-12) from all five boroughs to some of the best theatrical performances in New York City. Students learn to become comfortable as theatergoers, paving the way for their life-long participation in cultural opportunities. Two residency programs bring professional artists to schools, where they help students improve literacy skills and gain a sense of mastery of their personal life narrative and an appreciation for multiple cultures. Early Stages links the public school and artistic communities, inspires children to explore their own creative voices, improves classroom learning across disciplines, and builds public support for arts education. |
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The Educational Video Center (EVC) is a youth media organization dedicated to using documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change. Founded in 1984, EVC began with a bold, yet simple idea: transform the lives of young people by putting video cameras in their hands and encouraging them to go out into the community to document and express their concerns about the world around them. Since then, EVC has become an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media education. Each year, EVC reaches 2,500 students in New York City and more than 100,000 nationally through screenings and over five million globally through broadcast and webcast. |
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The Field Center for Children’s Integrated Development (TFC) improves the lives of children of all ages with motor disorders, such as cerebral palsy. TFC practitioners apply the innovative Feldenkrais Method™, a gentle, hands-on approach that gives children the opportunity to improve in ways that often seem miraculous. Comprehensive programs involve parents, caregivers, and pediatric professionals and offer the highest quality learning experiences to support the children’s development. Since 1999, TFC has provided its services regardless of the families’ ability to pay, and hundreds of children have experienced measurable improvements.
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Futures and Options (FAO) empowers New York City’s underserved high school students to explore careers. FAO reaches students at a formative time of their lives, motivating them to become productive, contributing citizens of the community. Through paid educational internships, FAO’s model program enables businesses and nonprofits to gain access to promising, motivated, and diverse young interns, who in turn gain much-needed access to the economic mainstream, career development, and support from caring adults. Since 1995, FAO has coordinated more than 2,000 internships in New York City. More than 90 percent of students who complete the FAO internship enter college directly from high school. |
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| Global Action Project’s (G.A.P.) core program, Urban Voices, combines best practices in youth development with training in the media arts to equip youth ages 14-20 with the competencies they need to be creative artists and community leaders in a rapidly changing world. G.A.P. works with young people most affected by injustice to build the knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power, cultural expression, and political change. Every year, G.A.P.'s award-winning, youth-produced media reaches audiences of more than 250,000 and are chosen by educators and community organizers as effective tools for teaching about critical issues facing our communities. |
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| Hour Children supports mothers during and after incarceration, for as long as support is needed. Hour Children’s unique approach accepts both mothers and children into its programs and helps reunite mothers with their children post-incarceration. Hour Children provides daycare, job training and placement, counseling, peer mentoring, and mentoring for children with an incarcerated parent. Hour Children also places women to work in its office, thrift shops, and Food Pantry so they can build up a resume and learn appropriate workplace behavior. Most importantly, Hour Children offers both transitional and permanent housing, providing families with a supportive, nurturing place to live. To date, Hour Children has touched the lives of over 7,000 families with programs in and out of prison. |
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| The Multicultural Music Group (MMG) promotes cultural awareness and understanding to children in impoverished New York City neighborhoods through after-school music instruction. MMG partners with seven schools in under-funded districts where music classes have typically been eliminated from the curriculum. More often than not, MMG provides its students the only personal, meaningful experience with music. Since 1996, MMG has touched the lives of over 5,000 students and has provided arts and music performances, instruction, and professional development to promote global understanding, cultural awareness, and academic achievement. |
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The Parent-Child Home Program has a 40-plus-year legacy of ensuring that families challenged by poverty and low levels of education have the opportunity to prepare their children to enter school ready to succeed. As an early literacy, parenting, and school readiness program, The Parent-Child Home Program has a proven track record of changing outcomes for children who would otherwise enter school without the language, cognitive, or social skills they need for success. Twice a week, trained home visitors introduce families to the fun and value of reading, talking, and playing together, using as the curriculum new books and toys that are given to the families. Parents learn how to create the language-rich home environment that makes a critical difference in the future of their children, yielding significant returns for families. |
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PowerPlay NYC, Inc. educates and empowers girls through sports, teaching them life skills and building their self-confidence and self-esteem for life. PowerPlay is committed to training and providing women coaches for girls’ sports programming. The sports and life skills programs have provided over 2,000 girls with opportunities to feel connected, competent, and confident, learn valuable life skills, and connect with female role models. Participants in the after-school and summer programs report that they are more enthusiastic about being active, more knowledgeable about healthy nutrition, and more confident. |
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Trail Blazers has facilitated the development of values and life skills in thousands of urban youth for over a century through outdoor experiential education, year-round mentoring, and leadership training. During their stay at the 1,000 acre campsite in New Jersey, children build their confidence and independence. Trail Blazers’ award-winning educational programs counteract the risk of school failure common among low-income and minority students. Programs rely on a non-competitive, education-based framework where children live, work, and play in small groups. Activities revolve around building values and skills in daily living, leadership, conflict resolution, and communication. |
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Young Dancers in Repertory helps children develop poise, self-esteem, leadership qualities, and creative problem-solving skills through dance and educational arts programming. Annually, Young Dancers in Repertory serves nearly 4,000 children and brings the joy of dance to a total audience of nearly 10,000 local residents. Youth enrolled in the programs develop the focus, drive, and discipline necessary to take on higher education, volunteerism, and successful careers. |
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Youth Advocacy Center teaches young adults in and at-risk of foster care to advocate for themselves and take control of their lives. YAC’s Getting Beyond the System® Self-Advocacy Seminar encourages critical thinking, self-advocacy, and future planning. Youth ages 16-21 gain the skills and experience needed to improve their ability to reach future goals and successfully transition to independence. Teens learn they have the desire, talents, and potential to be participating citizens–to hold jobs, play a role in their community, live in safe neighborhoods, and raise their children to be educated and healthy. |
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| Urban Dove was founded in 1998 with the belief that all children, regardless of their economic or social background, should be taught the critical skills needed to succeed, and be given the support, encouragement, and opportunity to practice those skills in the real world. Toward that end, Urban Dove has dedicated itself to enriching the lives of New York City’s at-risk youth by creating a supportive, positive place where kids can develop these critical life skills and build the confidence they need to reach their full potential. Urban Dove’s programs – Net Gain, funded by Youth, I.N.C., HiRisers, College All-Stars, and Lenox Project – serve NYC public school students, providing free, out-of-school-time activities that focus on energizing, educating, and empowering youth. |
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Other New York nonprofits we have worked with include:
Achievement Project in the Schools
Adaptive Design Association
America SCORES New York
Art Start
Artsgenesis
The B.E.L.L. Foundation
Bed Stuy’s Project Re-Generation
Bronx Community Services-Pius XII
Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service
Brooklyn Music School
Camp Cool J Foundation
Children’s Museum of the Arts
Children’s PressLine
The CityKids Foundation
Cool Culture
Creative Alternatives of New York
The DISHES Project
East New York Urban Youth Corps.
Educational Video Center
Everybody Wins!
Fiver Foundation
The Foundation for Cardinal Spellman High School
Friends of the Children NY
Global Youth Connect
Gary Klinsky Children Centers
Groundwork
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
Harlem Live
"I Have a Dream"® Foundation
icouldbe.org
IMANI HOUSE, Inc.
iMentor
The Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship
International Youth Leadership Institute
Jump Start
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
Make A Better Place
Mentoring Partnership of New York
Metro Inner City Children's Campaign
The National Mentoring Partnership
NYC Mission Society
New York City Outward Bound
The Oliver Program, Inc.
Playing 2 Win
Project Kids
Public Allies
Shackleton Schools
Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation
Stryker's Bay Neighborhood Council
The Stacy Joy Goodman Memorial Foundation
United Way of NYC's Community
Urban Youth Alliance International
Volunteer HIV/AIDS Prevention Group |
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