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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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| The Adaptive Design Association (ADA) works to ensure that children with disabilities obtain the customized equipment they need to participate fully in home, school, and community life. ADA fabricates the customized equipment at their own facility, as well as offers classes in adaptive design and construction to therapists, teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, and community volunteers. |
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| The vision of Bed Stuy’s Project Re-Generation (PR-G) is to eliminate teenage after-school idleness in Bed-Stuy and similar communities through holistic programs. PR-G supports New York’s underserved young adults with educational programs, as well as work and volunteer experiences, while seeking to maintain a community where the residents of Bed-Stuy can be proud to reside. Currently, through a program called Foot Soldiers, PR-G is focusing its efforts on a goal to employ 1,500 Bed-Stuy teenagers annually to clean up the community. |
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| Brooklyn Music School (BMS) empowers children by giving them the opportunity to expand their horizons beyond the classroom education they receive. BMS provides access to the highest quality music and dance instruction to hundreds of New York City children regardless of their ability to pay. Chartered in 1912, the school not only conducts classes at its own facility in the historic landmark district of Fort Greene, but also within the city’s public school system via BMS’ Public School Outreach Program. |
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| CAMBA is a full-service, community-based organization providing a continuum of programs and services enabling low-income individuals and families to become economically and socially self-sufficient. CAMBA provides high quality youth development programs, which are effective at helping school age children and youth successfully grow into adulthood. Approximately 9,000 young people benefit from CAMBA’s 21 Youth Development programs. |
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| CampInteractive (CI) introduces the creative power of technology and the inspiration of the outdoors to underprivileged inner city youth year-round. CI believes that by “stepping back into nature and forward into technology” urban teenagers gain empowerment, a sense of responsibility, and belief in themselves and their futures. Students embark on outdoors expeditions equipped with digital cameras, notebooks, and journals. Upon their return, students transform their outdoor adventure into a webpage capturing their experience. |
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| Children’s PressLine (CPL) is a youth journalism program for kids ages 8 to 18. CPL trains kids to interview their peers on issues that affect them and publishes these stories in the mainstream press. Using a combination of teamwork, peer mentoring, oral journalism, and civic engagement, CPL empowers young people by amplifying their under-heard voices into the public discourse for a more informed and authentic conversation between kids and adults. CPL’s work is syndicated nationally to 400+ newspapers by the Scripps Howard News Service and is published in the New York Amsterdam News, AlterNet’s WireTap Magazine and Ted Express (Holland). |
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| The Cornerstone Learning Center, Inc. opened its doors in 1996, and is dedicated to improving the academic skills of students, as well as their overall school performance. Cornerstone’s One-on-One Tutoring, After School, and Day Camp programs serve youngsters in 6th, 7th and 8th grade who struggle in school and face an array of social difficulties. Cornerstone’s Bridge program serves high school students through workshops and college prep, broadening students’ horizons by empowering students to set goals and teaching ways to achieve them. |
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| Creative Arts Workshops for Kids (CAW) uses the visual and performing arts to help disadvantaged youth in East Harlem confront and deal with life issues. CAW offers art programs that empower youth to voice their needs, enhance their self-esteem, build social skills, and learn about their shared community experiences. Since 1998, CAW has worked in East Harlem, bringing Saturday Arts Workshops to children and Summer Arts Jobs Programs to teens in one of the most underserved neighborhoods in New York City. |
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| The DOME Project (Developing Opportunities through Meaningful Education) has dedicated itself since 1973 to meeting the complex needs of young people in trouble with the law, their schools, and themselves. The mission of The DOME Project is to assist young people who are economically, socially, and academically challenged to focus on their education as a means to success. For over thirty years, The DOME Project has built a staff and service network that has successfully helped thousands of young people succeed and develop the necessary skills to regain a sense of self-worth and prepare for success in school and life. The DOME Project’s Juvenile Justice, Academic Tutoring, and College Prep programs are free and available to at-risk and underserved youth throughout New York City. |
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| Early Stages Program, Inc. 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. The Live Theater Program exposes students to outstanding performances. Two residency programs bring top-notch artists to schools, where their presence energizes and enriches the entire curriculum. Students gain improved literacy skills, a sense of mastery of their personal life narrative, and an appreciation for multiple cultures. |
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| The Field Center for Children’s Integrated Development (TFC) is dedicated to eliminating long-term difficulties faced by children with motor disorders through the use of the Feldenkrais Method. To accomplish this, TFC focuses on treatment, family involvement, education and scientific research. Since its founding in 1999, TFC has provided services to children regardless of the families’ ability to pay and touches the lives of over 200 children every year. |
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| Friends of the Children NY is a unique, early-intervention program dedicated to helping New York City’s most at-risk children develop the relationships and skills necessary to become productive, contributing members of their community. Friends NY employs full-time mentors, called Friends, who work one-on-one with selected children, beginning in kindergarten or first grade, and maintaining that relationship through high school graduation. |
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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 2,500 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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| Hour Children (HC) supports incarcerated mothers and continues to provide them services upon their release. Many of the women come from a New York State prison with an infant who was born in a prison nursery. Many need assistance reuniting with older children who have been living in foster care. To assure successful re-entry and reunification with family, HC provides short and long-term residences and a wide array of services, including housing, case management, counseling, job training, daycare, an after-school program for elementary school children, and numerous educational and parenting programs. |
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| icouldbe.org is an award-winning nonprofit organization that has mentored over 7,000 teenagers in educational and career planning in the United States, and most recently has expanded its global reach to Tanzania. icouldbe.org mentors teenagers through a dynamic combination of a career exploration curriculum, online college and career search tools, email and advice boards and a host of additional resources, to help guide youth toward the futures they want. It is our aspiration to reach every teenager who needs and wants a caring adult to help them move through the transition from high school to college or the world of work. As we continue to grow at a tremendous pace, icouldbe.org is focusing on students in middle and high schools located in low-income neighborhoods, who have the most limited access to resources. |
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| IMANI HOUSE, Inc.’s (IHI) mission is to alleviate poverty through programs that help create viable neighborhoods where residents take responsibility for the improvement of their lives and surroundings. IHI serves at-risk youth residing in the low-income communities and public housing projects in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Red Hook, Gowanus, Sunset Park, Crown Heights and other areas of Brooklyn. IHI offers recreational, academic, and social and emotional development activities for children ages 7-13, and leadership training, bias prevention, videography and TV production, web design, community activism, and peer-to-peer workshops for at-risk teens. |
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| For 40 years, The Multicultural Music Group (MMG) provides multicultural performances, instruction, and professional development to promote global understanding, cultural awareness, and academic achievement. The Professional Development Workshops focus on teacher training in music programs, instrument repairs, music technology, and fundraising. The Symphonic Youth Program provides direct student instruction integrating music, computer technology, and social studies. The MMG Orchestra Residence Program offers multicultural symphonic performances and the promotion of new multicultural music for the symphony orchestra. |
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| For 40 years, The Parent-Child Home Program has changed the future for families trapped by poverty, limited education, and language barriers. The Parent-Child Home Program’s trained Home Visitors bring books and educational toys to toddlers who have none. Twice weekly, Home Visitors demonstrate to parents simple activities that stimulate their children’s language and literacy skills. The Parent-Child Home Program changes the outcome for children who otherwise enter school without the language, cognitive, or social skills they need to succeed. |
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| PowerPlay NYC, Inc. educates and empowers girls through sports, teaching life skills and building self-confidence and self-esteem for life! We provide girls with the opportunity to learn sports skills, discuss healthy living issues, benefit from supportive relationships with female role models and receive training in career and life skills for success. |
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| Since 1887, Trail Blazers has facilitated the development of values and life skills essential for productive citizenship in inner-city youth through outdoor experiential education, year-round mentoring, and leadership training. Programs focus on non-competitive, education-based programs where children live, work, and play in small family-like groups that revolve around building values and skills in daily living, leadership, conflict resolution, and communication. |
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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
America SCORES New York
Art Start
Artsgenesis
The B.E.L.L. Foundation
Bronx Community Services-Pius XII
Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service
Camp Cool J Foundation
Children’s Museum of the Arts
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
Global Youth Connect
Gary Klinsky Children Centers
Groundwork
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
Harlem Live
"I Have a Dream"® Foundation
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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