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West Harlem Development Corporation

2019 Community Benefits Grant - Summary of Awards by Category

Approved by Board on June 12, 2019

Counts

Amounts

MCD9 Counts

Amounts

Affordable Housing

1 $18,000

1

$18,000

Community Facilities 11 $227,000 8 $182,000

Education & Youth Development 15 $330,000 7 $160,000

Workforce & Economic Development 5 $108,268 2 $39,872

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32 $683,268 18 $339,872

*All grantees are based in West Harlem MCD9 and/or funded activities are substantially based in MCD9.

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Affordable Housing

$18,000 for 1 projects

Project Description Award

Amount Contact Person Email/Phone Address

St. Mary's Episcopal Church

To support RDJ Homeless Shelter for Immigrants, a resource hub for immigrants in MCD9, with the intake and resettlement of at least 31 guests. Capacity Building: Fund Development.

$18,000 Edafe Okporo, Director of RDJ Refugee Shelter

admin@rdjrefugeeshelter.org

521 W126th St. NY, NY 10027

Community Facilities

$227,000 for 11 projects

Project Description Award

Amount Contact Person Email/Phone Address

Uptown Inner City League, Inc.

To support the UICL sports program, which promotes the value and importance of sports and activities towards the physical, social and educational development of MCD9 youth.

$17,000 Kelvin McAlister,

President and Founder

uptowninnercityleague@gmail.com

3333 Broadway Tower E,13K, NY, NY 10031

Maysles Institute To support a screening & discussion series at several West Harlem institutions for the 3rd iteration of Maysles’ MADE IN HARLEM program, REMEMBERING THE RENAISSANCE, in honor of the Harlem Renaissance’s 100th anniversary.

$25,000 Dale Dobson,

Executive Director dale@maysles.org

(212)537-6843

259 Covent Av. Shepard Hall,

NY 10031

The Harlem

Chamber Players

To support capacity building activities and the Harlem Chamber Players’ 2019-20 season, which includes 6 live concert events for the West Harlem community.

$25,000 Elizabeth Player,

Executive Director lizplayer@gmail.com

(917)744-6948

191 Claremont Avenue #25, NY, NY 10027

NoMAA (Northern Manhattan Arts

Alliance)

To support program and partnership expansions of the Uptown arts Stroll in West Harlem.

$10,000 Joanna Castro,

Executive Director jecastro@nomaany

c.org

5030 Broadway Suite 723

NY, NY 10034

Morningside Retirement and Health Services

To support the Cluster Care Project that enables elderly residents at Morningside Gardens to remain living safely and comfortably at home by providing access to home care.

$25,000 Ronald Bruno,

Executive Director ronb@mrhsny.org

212-666-4000

100 LaSalle St. #MC

NY, NY 10027

While We Are Still Here

To support “The Sugar Hill Music Festival;” a retrospective photo exhibition of the Black, Harlem-based photography collective, Kamoigne; and “The Official Oral History of St. Nick’s Pub”.

$15,000 Karen Taylor,

Executive Director

karendtaylor@whilewearestillhere.org (929)266-3952

412 W. 154th St. NY, NY 10031

The Cathedral of St. John the

Divine

To support Advancing the Community Tomorrow (ACT): PlayStation, which provides childcare in a fun and supportive environment, and ACT’s after-school activities.

$25,000 Jen Gowers,

Executive Director, ACT

act@stjohndivine.org (212)316-7530

1047 Amsterdam Ave @112tt St. NY, NY 10025

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NYC Kidsfest

To support efforts to increase participation of MCD9 performing artists, schoolchildren and residents for the 2020 edition of the NYC Kidsfest in West Harlem.

$10,000 Jessica

Chornesky, Director

jessica@nyckidsfest.org

(646)683-2454

61 Lenox Av #5A NY, NY 10026

Dances for a Variable

Population

To support Dance Connects Seniors, which will involve over 850 West Harlem residents, especially seniors, in free movement-based activities, from year-round classes to public performances.

$25,000 Naomi Goldberg

Hass, Executive Director

noami@dvpnyc.org (347)683-2691

560 Riverside Dr. #9K

NY, NY 10027

Every Voice Choirs

To support concerts in MCD9 and increased accessibility, including specifically to children with special needs, to EVC’s choir afterschool programs.

$25,000 Nicole Becker,

Executive Director

nbecker@everyvoicechoirs.org

(212)662-0280

465 W143rd St., NY, NY 10031

The Classical Theatre of Harlem

To provide MCD9 residents access to free performances of CTH’s annual winter production of “A Christmas Carol in Harlem” at City College.

$25,000 Ty Jones,

Producing Artistic Director

info@cthnyc.org

8 W.126th St. 5G NY, NY 10027

Education $330,000 for 15

projects Project Description

Award Amount

Contact Person Email/Phone Address

Police Athletic

League

To support PAL’s STEM activities at the Harlem Center serving students who attend various MCD9 schools.

$25,000

Frederick Watts, executive Director

(212) 665 8699

34 ½ E. 12th St. NY, NY 10003

Behind the Book

To support West Harlem in-school Literacy program at two MCD9 schools serving approximately 240 students during the 2019-20 academic year.

$25,000

Jo Umans, Executive Director

zach@behindthebook.org

(212)222-3627

216 W. 135th St. Ground Fl. NY, NY 10030

Impact Repertory Theatre/ New

Heritage Theatre Group

Funded activities will provide Harlem youths with character development, STEM training, civic projects, academic enrichment, and career development.

$25,000 Jamal Joseph,

Executive Director

impactdietrice@gmail.com

(212)926-4516

337 W138th St. NY, NY 10030

Artistic Dreams

International

To support 500 hours of free in-school, after-school and Saturday arts instruction to children during the 2019-2020 school year.

$25,000

Lillian Alonzo-Marin,

Executive Director

lillian@artisticdreams.org

(212) 380-8441

2585 Broadway #167

NY, NY 10027

Doing Arts Together

To support in-school, after-school, summer art residencies and parent/child workshops activities at P.S.36, P.S.161 and P.S.125.

$25,000 Electra Friedman,

Founder

Electra.Friedman@doingarttogether.org

(212)245-8132

127 W 127 St., Suite 304,

NY, NY 10027

New York Math Academy and

Coaching Services

To support quality academic enrichment activities for academic instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).for MCD9 students in grades 1-12.

$ 25,000 Francois Nzi,

Executive Director

support@nymacs.org

(212)281-6770

2326 ACP Jr. Boulevard,

NY, NY 10030

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Red Balloon To support The Red Balloon Scholarship Fund initiative to provide financial aid to

MCD9 students for high quality early childhood education at Red Balloon.

$25,000 Norma Brockman,

Executive Director

rbdcc@aol.com (212)663-9006

560 Riverside Drive #A NY, NY

Harlem School of

the Arts To support capacity building - technology upgrades and operational activities for HSA’s media classes.

$10,000

Eric Pryor, Executive Director

communications@hsa

nyc.org (212) 926-4100

645 Saint Nicholas Ave. NY, NY 10030

Harlem Renaissance

Education Pipeline

To support HREP efforts toward increasing academic achievement in math for all students at New Design Middle School.

$25,000

Ocynthia Williams, Co-Executive

Director

owilliams@hrepinc.org (646)442-6565 ext.502

50 W. 131 St. L. Level Ste-1, NY, NY 10037

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

To support Gospel for Pre-Teens, a 10 weeks in-school gospel, jazz, and related African-American- focused musical instruction at P.S. 125, M.S 209 and M.S 369.

$25,000 Vy Higginsen,

Executive Director

mamaofc@aol.com

(212)280-1045

149 W. 126th St. NY, NY 10027

Bank Street College of Education

To support Liberty LEADS family engagement work, which dovetail with academic, social-emotional, and recreational programs to ensure online the terms and post-secondary success for our students.

$25,000

Ana Lisa Tiburcio Director, Liberty LEADS Program

atiburcio@bankstreet.edu

212-875-4506

610 W. 112th St. NY, NY 10025

New York City

H2O To support Water Ecology & Engineering Field Trips for 350 MCD9 students.

$10,000 Matt Malina,

Director/Founder

matt@nych2o.org (917) 656-2984

410 E. 6th St., NY, NY 10009

The Brotherhood Sister Sol, Inc.

To support services and programming for young people in MCD9, including after school tutoring and services, college/career guidance, summer programming and access to arts and cultural experiences.

$25,000

Khary Lazarre-White, Executive

Director

info@brotherhood-

sistersol.org (212)283-7044

140 Hamilton

Place, NY. NY 10031

Community

Impact To support, America Reads and Counts, a literary program serving grades K-5, and Café Prep, that promotes economic viability through employment opportunities.

$25,000

Sonia Reese,

Executive Director

ciexecs@columbia.edu

(212) 854-1492

2980 Broadway NY, NY 100027

Girls on the Run

NYC

Funded activities include coaching, curriculum, and community engagement for twenty sessions of “Girls on the Run NYC” after-school programming, including facilitated community impact project and celebratory 5k at a MCD9 school.

$10,000

Allison Hauser, Executive Director

INFO@GOTRNYC.ORG

(212)401.6380

81 Prospect St. NY, NY 11201

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Workforce & Economic

Development $108,268 for 5

projects

Project Description Award

Amount Contact Person Email/Phone Address

Harlem Park to

Park

To support The Harlem Local Vendor Program, a proven business “accelerator” servicing Harlem, and to increase the representation of MCD9 vendors.

$25,000 Nikoa Evans-

Hendricks, Executive Director

info@harlemparktopark.org

(212)381-7488

134 W. 118th St. NY, NY 10026

SoHarlem To support the Apprenticeship Program, which provides participants with access

and credentials to become gainfully employed in the garment industry. $25,000

Janet Rodriguez, Founder & CEO

janet@soharlem.org (212)222-2792

1361 Amsterdam Ave., Suite 340 NY, NY 10027

Broadway Community To support the Food and Nutrition Training Awareness Project. $14,872

Rev. Chris Shelton

chris@bpcnyc.org

601 W 114th St., NY, NY 100025

NMIC

To support NMIC’s Education & Career Services programming in providing MCD9 residents with foundational education that prepares them for the workforce.

$25,000 Maria Lizardo,

Executive Director info@nmic.org (212)822-8300

45 Wadsworth

Avenue NY, NY 10033

Pathways To

Apprenticeship

To support post Direct Entry Pre-Apprenticeship Training activities, including; resume and interview preparation, math, measurement and reading skills, alcohol and drug awareness, and general workforce readiness.

$18,396 Lavon Chambers, Interim Executive

Director

info@p2atrades.org (646)734-5391

887 Union St., NY, NY 11215