Improving Youth Services in New York City

Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LeAP) is an educational services organization that improves the quality of public education for New York City youth through a hands-on, arts-based approach to teaching the academic curriculum.

Queens Museum of Art wants to improve its Queens Teens (QT) after-school program, which provides 25 students with a comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of the museum and exposes them to careers in the arts over the course of a ...

Red Hook Initiative (RHI) provides access to training, health care, education, and employment to residents of the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn.

New York Youth at Risk wants to improve its Warriors Way and Women to Women programs—both two-year programs that serve 15–20 participants at a time.

The GO Project wants to improve its GO Summer and GO School programs, which provide academic instruction and activities to 450 youth who perform below grade level or have learning or emotional challenges.

New Heights Youth wants to improve its College Bound program, which provides academic, college preparation, and basketball programming to 200 students.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) wants to improve its Garden Apprentice Program, a year-round internship offered to 60 middle and high school students.

Futures and Options wants to improve its Pre-Internship Program, which serves 100 middle and high school students who have not yet acquired the age or skill level to be placed in internships.

Free Arts NYC wants to improve its Free Arts Day (FAD) program, which promotes arts engagement among underserved and homeless New York City youth.

Multicultural Music Group (MMG) wants to improve its Symphonic Youth Program (SYP), an after-school instrumental and vocal music training program operating in five middle and high schools in the Bronx and Harlem.