The goal of this program is to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged youth in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Preference is given to initiatives in Baltimore and New York City.
Areas of interest in reaching this goal include:
- partnerships between public and independent schools
- education in science and the arts aimed at improving overall learning
- programs that facilitate equitable access to quality education
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 improve mental health outcomes for underserved populations and to address selected international public health issues. Preference is given to programs in Baltimore and New York City and international efforts.
Areas of interest include:
- new initiatives in community-based mental health and community psychiatry
- selected international public health efforts
- initiatives that integrate mental and physical 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.
Creative Alternatives of New York (CANY) offers therapeutic theater groups to traumatized and socially underserved individuals. A leader in the field of therapeutic theater, CANY provides over 1,400 drama groups each year at hospitals, community centers and alternative schools.
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and Mental Health grants.
The goal of this program is to advance fundamental human rights both in the United States and abroad.
Areas of interest include:
- legal strategies to ensure fair treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States
- international human rights advocacy particularly concerning health and mental health
- conflict management strategies that encourage dialogue and diplomatic solutions to complex international political problems
The Foundation will also consider, on an emergency basis and in collaboration with others, time-limited projects that respond to urgent humanitarian and human rights crises created by natural disasters, civil strife, or war.
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.
Mental Disability Rights International is a human rights advocacy organization working on behalf of people with mental illness and mental disabilities worldwide. MDRI documents conditions, publishes reports on abuses, and assists governments to develop policies that promote community integration and enforce basic standards of human rights.
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Mary Jane Blaustein: President
Betsy Ringel: Executive Director
Tanya C. Herbick: Program Officer
