The goal of this program is to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable youth. Preference is given to initiatives in Baltimore and New York City.
Areas of interest focus on promising initiatives aimed at closing the achievement gap, including:
- inspiring and training effective teachers
- promoting summer learning
- building equitable access for underserved youth.
Recent grantees include:
Middle Grades Partnership supports partnerships between public and independent schools to jointly develop and provide quality summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged public middle school students. The aim is to enhance students’ academic skills so that they may go on to thrive in rigorous public high schools, college and beyond.
Advocates for Children of New York helps New York City’s most vulnerable and impoverished children receive the public education to which they are entitled. Through legal services, litigation, training, organizing, research, and policy analysis, AFC has been a powerful force in assisting homeless, immigrant, foster and other children.
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Opportunity grants.
The goal of this program is to help underserved populations gain access to quality health care and improve health outcomes. Preference is given to programs in Baltimore and New York City, and those that are particularly responsive to the needs of women and children, and vulnerable youth.
Areas of interest include:
- Effective use of health care professionals, such as nurse practitioners, in new models of primary health care
- Advocacy and policy initiatives around health, including healthcare reform
- Approaches to help vulnerable youth maintain positive mental health
The Foundation also supports advocacy and policy initiatives that advance these goals.
Recent grantees include:
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the leading national legal advocacy organization representing people with mental disabilities. It promotes laws and policies that can enable people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities to exercise their life choices and access the resources they need to participate fully in their communities.
St. Paul’s Center of New York is a holistic mental health care clinic specializing in administering to the neediest — particularly individuals in the community who suffer from mental illness and who are at risk for homelessness, incarceration and hospitalization. Started in 2004 by faculty and graduates of the Columbia University School of Nursing, St. Paul’s is the city's first non-profit, independent community mental health clinic managed and operated solely by psychiatric nurse practitioners.
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grants.
The goal of this program is to advance fundamental human rights both in the United States and abroad.
Areas of interest include:
- Equal justice for US citizens, as well as immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States, through legal strategies, advocacy and policy reform
- Responses to urgent human rights crises created by natural disasters, civil strife, or war
- Social justice initiatives particularly around impoverished women and children, and vulnerable youth.
Recent grantees include:
The Immigration Representation Project, established by the Fund for New Citizens at the New York Community Trust, is a model collaboration among legal agencies in New York City that represents immigrants and asylum seekers at Immigration Court and in detention.
The Tahirih Justice Center works to protect immigrant women and girls seeking justice in the United States from gender-based violence. Utilitzing in-house attorneys and leveraging pro bono attorneys, Tahirih empowers its clients to achieve justice and equality through holistic direct legal services and national public policy advocacy.
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Mary Jane Blaustein: President
Betsy Ringel: Executive Director
Tanya C. Herbick: Program Officer
