Youth Mural Project

Young people from diverse ethnic groups partner with youth interns and adult community gardeners to develop and create murals that reflect their common goals and diverse backgrounds.

Three Youth Service Improvement Grantees Share Insights about Crafting their Improvement Plans

As we approach the final application deadline of 2017, we share insights from recent grantees on how they identified a salient issue in their existing programs, developed a rationale for an …

Sherry Chen

Three Youth Service Improvement Grantees Share Insights about Crafting their Improvement Plans

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Rocking the Boat Builds Valuable Lessons for Low-Income Youth

Located in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx, the nonprofit organization Rocking the Boat is making a huge difference in the lives of low-income youth. By teaching kids to sail, the organization strengthens math and science skills and …

Foundation Staff

Rocking the Boat Builds Valuable Lessons for Low-Income Youth

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Garden Apprentice Program (GAP)

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

Scot Medbury

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

2011 – 2012
$25,000

Grant

Pre-Internship Program Curriculum Improvement Program

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.

Carolyn Silver

Futures And Options

2011 – 2012
$25,000

Grant