Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT)  *
2 Washington St., 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004
(212) 487-8618
actnet1@earthlink.net 

The Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) has for twenty years built collaborative groups of health and social service providers, consumers, and concerned others in order to create services for children and families that are comprehensive, non-duplicative, accessible, supportive of families’ needs and easy to use; and to connect economic development, housing and employment decision-making and resources to this network. Recognizing that children’s development is economically, physically, emotionally, and spiritually linked to the health of a neighborhood, ACT, a public/private partnership under three New York mayors, helps each community rediscover its hidden strengths and potential assets, and find its own solutions to meet its own needs. ACT brings together neighborhood residents, service providers, community and business leaders and local government officials in an alliance where all share the same goal: to make life better for the neighborhood’s families and children.

Bank Street College of Education *
610 West 112th St., New York, NY 10025
(212) 875-4400
cathy@bankstreet.edu 

Bank Street College of Education was founded in 1916 as the Bureau of Educational Experiments. Their founder, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, set out with a group of like-minded colleagues, to discover the environments in which children grow and learn to their full potential, and to educate teachers and others to create these environments. From those small beginnings as an experimental nursery school staffed by teachers, psychologists, and researchers, Bank Street grew over the years, adding programs and projects, more students, both adults and children, creating materials for and about children in many media, and influencing the design and implementation of such national educational programs as Head Start and Follow Through. Bank Street College supports the entire spectrum of education, supporting Lucy Sprague Mitchell's mission to "keep one ever a learner."

Bushwick Impact *
69 Central Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206
(718) 381-1500
info@bushwickimpact.org 

IMPACT strives for Bushwick families to become proactive, to gain confidence and skills to navigate services, to influence the policies that affect them and maximize their children’s potential. Day by day, IMPACT empowers parents with information, literacy, peer support and community. IMPACT is a neighborhood-based family resource center that strengthens children’s potential for success by investing in parents, building community and influencing policy. IMPACT targets parents with children zero to eight, providing leadership development, child development supports, family literacy and family support that include information and referrals to services that meet whole family needs. This unique model relies on peer advocates who work directly with families to provide information, promote positive parenting, and support families in their efforts to raise healthy children and reach their own potential. IMPACT is a United Way of New York City funded initiative and a project of the Agenda for Children Tomorrow.

Good Shepherd Services
305 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
(212) 243-7070

Good Shepherd Services is a leading youth development, education and family service agency that serves over 20,000 program participants a year. Focusing on high-need communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx, it provides a broad array of individual, family and school-based services to prevent youth from becoming disconnected from family, school and society. Continuing work originally begun in 1857, Good Shepherd Services works in partnership with the community, building a continuum of neighborhood-based support services that now includes over seventy programs – all dedicated to meeting the needs of vulnerable children, teens, adults and families and helping them make a safe passage to self-sufficiency.

Harlem Children's Zone
35 East 125th St. New York, NY 10035
(212) 360-3255
mlipp@harlemchildrenszone.org 

Founded in 1970, Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. is a pioneering, non-profit, community-based organization that works to enhance the quality of life for children and families targeted neighborhoods. Formerly known as Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, HCZ Inc.'s centers serve more than 13,000 children and adults, including over 9,500 at-risk children. The emphasis of their work is not just on education, social service and recreation, but on rebuilding the very fabric of community life. The Children's Zone intentionally develops programs where other agencies are in short supply.

Jumpstart *
505 8th Avenue, Suite 602, New York, NY 10018
(212) 868-2526
ashley.widboom@jstart.org 

Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Jumpstart was founded in 1993 at Yale University at the intersection of two national trends: the public need for quality early childhood programs and the emerging national service movement recruiting thousands of college students to community service. For over a decade, they have brought together at-risk preschool children and caring adults through one-to-one relationships that focus on building literacy in combination with social and emotional readiness. Working alongside their parents and a strong community, consistent, committed and caring one-to-one relationships between children and adults helps to realize success not just in school, but also in life. Their focus is on three key areas – School Success, Family Involvement, and Future Teachers – to improve early childhood education in the classroom and beyond.

Mayor's Volunteer Center

The Mayor’s Volunteer Center of the City of New York, a program of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, brings together individuals, corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations to connect people and facilitate meaningful volunteer opportunities that improve the quality of life in New York City. Its goal is to make every New Yorker a volunteer. Throughout the year, the Mayor’s Volunteer Center promotes and organizes thousands of volunteer opportunities in partnership with community organizations and non-profits in all five boroughs.

Success By 6®

As part of the efforts to strengthen the City's early care and education services, United Way of New York City participates in United Way of America's nationwide Success By 6® initiative. In more than 350 communities in states across America, Success By 6® coalitions are changing the way things work so young children can come to school ready to succeed.

Young Black Leaders of Tomorrow Luncheon

June 16, 2009
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Metropolitan Club
One East 60th Street
New York, New York, 10022 

Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies Early Care & Education Working Group is sponsoring the Young Black Leaders of Tomorrow Luncheon on June 16, 2009. The keynote speaker is Deborah C. Wright, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Carver Federal Savings Bank and the honorees are H. Rodgin Cohen, Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law Harvard Law School and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Gregory K. Palm, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Goldman Sachs.

Open Society Institute Baltimore Initiative

In 1998, the Open Society Institute, an international foundation founded by philanthropist George Soros, decided to open a field office in the United States. OSI-Baltimore was launched as a five-year initiative which was extended for three years because of the progress of its work. Over the course of an eight year period from 1998 – 2005, the foundation directed over $50 million toward targeted grants and technical assistance to achieve lasting change in Baltimore’s neighborhoods, schools, prisons, workplaces and government agencies.