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The following links will take you to the efforts of other organizations who share our concerns about the pipeline crisis and our efforts in creating winning strategies for young black men.
1. National 2. Local 3. Philanthropic
1. National
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Community Service Society *
The mission of the Community Service Society is to identify problems which create a permanent poverty class in New York City, and to advocate the systemic changes required to eliminate such problems. CSS focuses on enabling, empowering, and promoting opportunities for poor families and individuals to develop their full potential.
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STRIVE *
240 East 123rd St., New York, NY 10035
(212) 360-1100
info@striveinternational.org
STRIVE (Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees) was created in East Harlem in 1985 to help people who face significant barriers to employment achieve economic independence through work. STRIVE’s innovative model, which ran counter to the conventional wisdom in employment and training at that time, combined a short, intense period of training in attitude - the “soft” skills needed to survive and excel in any workplace - and job search techniques with rapid placement and long term follow-up. By embedding the program within independent, community-based organizations, STRIVE expanded within New York, then replicated into a national network across the continental United States and in London. STRIVE’s services have been driven by the needs of its target population and the realities of the employment market. The STRIVE network has had a demonstrable impact, placing more than 22,000 hard-to-employ individuals in jobs. STRIVE programs have consistently placed 75% of their graduates, with an average of 70% remaining employed after two years.
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2. Local
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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.
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Campaign for Tomorrow's Workforce
Campaign for Tomorrow's Workforce is an advocacy effort in collaboration between the United Neighborhood Houses, Neighborhood Family Coalition and the Community Service Society. The campaign seeks to advance public policy, legislative and programmatic solutions, transform existing policies, and urge for the increased investment needed to build and sustain a coordinated, high-quality, at-scale system of programs and services to prepare “disconnected” young adults ages 16-24, to succeed in the future workforce.
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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.
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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.
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3. Philanthropic
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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.
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The Twenty-First Century Foundation
The Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF)’s mission is to facilitate strategic giving for black community change. Specifically, 21CF works with donors to invest in institutions and leaders that solve problems within black communities nationally. 21CF has played a leadership role, in partnership with the Ford Foundation to prepare the report: Why We Can’t Wait: Opportunities for Improving Life Outcomes for African-American Males. This seminal report details the research and best practices and offers strategic solutions based on the actions of the philanthropic community.
2025 Black Men and Boys Initiative (2025BMB)
In 2005 the Twenty-First Century Foundation launched the Black Men and Boys Initiative, which sought to raise the visibility of the crisis facing Black men and boys nationally. To learn more about the 2025 Campaign for Black Men and Boys, click here.
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