John Furth, a distinguished business executive and philanthropist, passed away peacefully at his home on October 19, 2024. He leaves behind a lasting legacy in the New York City community, particularly through his dedicated service to Grand Street Settlement, where he served as a board member…
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Heading back to school can be hard for families, especially those navigating high costs due to inflation, rising rent, child care, or transitioning into a new country. Grand Street partners with local businesses and community based organizations every year to support our families with new backpacks…
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The Office of Head Start has awarded Grand Street Settlement over $18.4 million in funding to provide Head Start programming for 583 children and their families, bringing the agency’s total preschool programs to over 1,400. Grand Street will open 6 new center-based programs in the…
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“If we’re going to reduce poverty in the city of New York, we have to invest in child care,” – Robert Cordero, Grand St. Settlement CEO We spoke with The New York Times about the alarming results of The Robin Hood Foundation’s annual Poverty Tracker. -1 in…
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Raul Russi migrated to Buffalo, New York at the age of 12 from Patillas, Puerto Rico with his parents and eight siblings. As a young Puerto Rican living in a community that lacked diversity, he became keenly aware at an early age…
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Grand St. Settlement programs look much different from earlier this year. The COVID-19 pandemic hit our community particularly hard. We’ve pivoted to provide our participants with services and support. Through our crisis management and with the support of our Board of Directors and donors, we…
Read More »During the coronavirus outbreak, we’ve closed our program sites to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. Despite these temporary site closures, we continue to provide the following essential services: Launch remote learning for over 800 children in our early childhood programs, allowing our littlest ones to continue…
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What a wonderful year it was, let’s take a look back in this month’s newsletter.
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We helped bring the tasting craze to New York City eighteen years ago – and we’ve remained at the top of the game ever since. Our lengthy list of participating restaurants is a who’s who of food in the Lower East Side, bringing guests an incredible variety…
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We’re excited to share that GrandLo Café, our social enterprise, is now open! Located at 178 Broome Street on the Lower East Side, GrandLo Café not only offers a high-quality café experience, but also valuable job training to young people who are not in school or…
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We are proud to have been featured in two recent news articles! The New York Times mentioned GrandLo Cafe, our social enterprise, in an article about the opening of Site 6 of Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side. City Limits featured our early childhood staff…
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Grand St. Settlement is proud to announce that we are a community partner for the 2018 New York City Marathon! We welcome all to join our team and support our communities at the largest marathon in the world on November 4, 2018. Runners who join the…
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Grand St. Settlement is seeking a Construction Manager to provide Pre-Construction and CM services for a a State of Good Repair program that includes infrastructure and code compliance upgrades to our 80 Pitt Street location on the Lower East Side. Please click here to view the RFP…
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Celebrities such as former New York Giant Deon Grant and musician Lil’ Mama helped distribute free turkeys for the Thanksgiving holiday at our Unity Plaza Community Center in Brooklyn. Grand St. Settlement partnered with The Grant Foundation, NorthStar Charities, Man Up!, and Meda Leacock to give…
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Do you want to invest in the first #noshforprofit? Our Kickstarter campaign for GrandLo Café, our upcoming social enterprise, is live! Help us get to $25,000 and change the lives of young people in NYC. Click here to learn more about GrandLo Café and support a job…
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Grand St Settlement’s Robert Cordero was inspired by his childhood spent in barber shops to give back to the kids his organization serves. Watch the video on the Today Show.
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Executive Director Robert Cordero was interviewed by Nasdaq about the importance of quality after school programs and volunteerism in September 2017.
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The merrily waving flag atop the new building at Site 6 of Essex Crossing marks a grand occasion. For half a century, swaths of the Lower East Side have stood silent testament to the community’s need for resources, communal space, and affordable housing. This neighborhood has…
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Dear Friends, When confronted with the violence, oppression, and unnecessary hatred of the many shootings that have taken place across our nation this summer, it is easy to feel inconsequential in the face of the bigger picture. When we try to contemplate the horror of…
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Emily Lederman, our new Community Organizing and Policy Advocate Thanks to The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Grand St. Settlement will welcome it’s first Public Fellow in September 0f 2016. The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program pairs government and nonprofit agencies with…
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We couldn’t be more proud of Sylvia M. Montero, our Board President, for being an exemplary model of what our mission is all about. Sylvia continues to invest in the Lower East Side, the community where she grew up as a young Latina who had moved…
Read More »Middle school students from each of Grand St. Settlement’s six Manhattan afterschool sites will send their champions to the agency’s first-ever debate tournament on Tuesday, March 15, World Speech Day. The students have been preparing arguments about the issue of gentrification in their neighborhoods and will…
Read More »“Say ‘hi toes!’” You probably don’t start most weekday mornings with a gleeful good morning to the very part of your body that leads you away from your bed. It’s a different story in our Toddler Yoga class thanks to Liz Warren, an educator…
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NEW YORK, NY On January 14, 2016, Grand St. Settlement announced its selection as a host organization for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program, a career-building fellowship initiative designed to expand the reach of doctoral education in the humanities. A recent PhD…
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This was a big year for us! We significantly expanded our services and impact to reach more New Yorkers in need: We also received big awards at both the local and national levels: President Obama named us a national leader in early childhood education, and the…
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TGIF! It’s the most wonderful time of the year – and if this puzzling weather has been keeping you from getting into the holiday spirit, we have just what you need to get festive! Our seniors are spreading holiday cheer all across the Lower East Side with…
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Hot on the heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday is a day for talking about giving instead of getting. We invite you to join Grand St. Settlement as we share what we are doing to give back and #JUMPSTARTCHANGE in our community….
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TGI… a short week! This round-up is coming to you smack in the middle of a short week because last Friday found all hands on deck at Grand St. Settlement. Our Community Center at 80 Pitt Street welcomed nearly 300 staff members from all departments, program…
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The team at our Bushwick-Hylan Community Center is hosting their first annual Coat Drive! Please bring any gently used winter items before December 18th so that we can make the holidays cozy and warm for more Brooklynites! Contact Michael Vaz at 718-453-8116 or mvaz@grandsettlement.org
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NEW YORK, NY On Saturday, November 21st, Grand St. Settlement will join Disney Friends for Change and generationOn to engage families in acts of service in celebration of Family Volunteer Day. For 25 years, Family Volunteer Day has been held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving to “kick-off” the holiday…
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TGIF! This week, Robert introduced our youth programs to an old neighbor and friend of his. Our special guest came all the way down from the Bronx to see what was cooking in our culinary arts program, hang with a few of our hoop stars, and…
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In an article published by Chalkbeat NY, Patrick Wall gets to the heart of the power of data. This school year, new data tools created with Google Drive are helping schools “transform the contents of several clunky education department databases into an intricate picture of student behavior” – and…
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TGIF! First things first – who doesn’t love a good sandwich? This past Tuesday was #NationalSandwichDay (yum!), and our friends at the Museum of the City of New York shared this old-school photo of a boy and his sandwich at Grand Street Settlement from the 1940s! Things haven’t changed much since then. We…
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Why a Settlement House is the Place to Work as a Sexual Health Professional “Protect Your Cake!” proclaimed the sign outside of the Grand St. Settlement’s Community Center at 80 Pitt Street. Passersby smiled and many came to the table where peer educators from Project…
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TGIF! It’s Halloween weekend and we can’t help but feel like we sure are sitting pretty. This weekend is when it feels good to be in your own ‘hood. Not to brag, but we’re pretty happy to have not one, not two, but seven neighborhoods to enjoy…
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TGIF! As you may know, Dr. Angela Davis came to town this week – and our Project Speak Out Loud team was there to watch her bring down the house! Pace University hosted the renowned activist and scholar, who delivered a meditation and conversation on the importance…
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#TGIF! It’s something in the air. Here at Grand St. Settlement, we knew it was fall when our afterschool and early childhood programs settled into the rhythms of the school year. New classrooms, friends and teams have sprung up all over the place – we start this…
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On Saturday, September 26, over 1,000 New Yorkers came together to jump-start the changes they wanted to see in our community and city at our #JUMPstartChange Rally. Community members, leaders, and Grand St. Settlement staff took part in community service projects – packing 100 fly bags…
Read More » NEW YORK, NY On Saturday, September 26th, 100 days before its 100th year, Grand St. Settlement will throw a celebration to bring together hundreds of New Yorkers in the name of jump-starting the changes they want to see in communities across New York City. Beginning at…
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This summer, our campers put all their creative, leadership, and STEM skills to the test in our Global Awareness challenge, where they worked in groups to create interactive projects illustrating global issues facing the world today. Throughout July and August, campers researched the history, cultural contributions,…
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NEW YORK, NY The Grand St. Settlement Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Robert Cordero as executive director of the historic human services nonprofit. Prior to joining Grand St. Settlement, Cordero was President and Chief Program Officer of BOOM!Health, the product of…
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NEW YORK, NY Margarita Rosa, Executive Director of Grand St. Settlement since May 15, 1995, has announced that she will step down from that position to continue her work in the field of social justice advocacy. She will join the National Center for Law and Economic…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. During the White House Summit on Early Education, held in December of 2014, President Obama named Grand St. Settlement a leader in the field of early education, honoring the historic agency with a multi-million dollar opportunity to share its expertise with other education and…
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On July 7th, 2014, Grand St. Settlement welcomed Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Department of Youth and Community Development Commissioner Bill Chong to its 80 Pitt Street Community Center to kick off summer enrichment activities for middle school students. The Mayor’s visit to our Summer Day…
Read More »In yesterday’s The New York Times, David Gonzales published a meditation on the sense of loss a community “disappeared” can experience. Here in the Lower East Side, community is a word strung together by many ties: those of traditions inherited from generations and homes past; of cultures both preserved…
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Everyone wants to know what brings Dr. Christina López to Grand St. Settlement. Our 80 Pitt Street Community Center has a new Youth Services Center Director who is getting everybody fired up, though no one is more enthusiastic than Christina herself. As a teen she participated…
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September brings the first day of school, a day often anticipated with both excitement and a little anxiety medicine buy clonazepam online and heralded with much fanfare. This is perhaps most true for the parents of young children just beginning their academic careers. This week, nearly…
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