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Queens Community House (QCH) is a non-profit human services agency in Queens, New York that operates programs for children, young adults, families, and older adults. [1] [3] [5] Like other settlement houses, QCH combines many community services under one roof. It is one of the largest human services organizations based in Queens, serving 25,000 ...
Breaking Ground (formerly Common Ground) Founded: 1990: Founder: Rosanne Haggerty: Type: social services organization: Purpose: Breaking Ground’s mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional supportive and affordable housing as well as programs for homeless and other vulnerable New Yorkers.
The Queens branch of the Chinese-American Planning Council was established in 1979 in response to the rapidly growing Chinese American population in Queens, especially in Community Districts 7, 4, and 3. The branch serves over 500 individuals daily and is Queens's biggest Chinese American social service agency.
OBT's service model is unique among youth programs due to its comprehensive scope of training and its emphasis on personal discipline. The youth training model is an intensive 20-week program that includes high school equivalency classes (if needed), business math, business English, office procedures, computer classes (MS Office), public speaking and communications, and a world-of-work module.
The Barber Shop Quartet in New York City's Harlem neighborhood was founded in 2007 as an outreach program of the Men's Ministry at Abyssinian Baptist Church.The Barber Shop Quartet provides free men's health screenings for hypertension, diabetes, prostate cancer and colon cancer.
YAI launched as a pilot program at a small school in Brooklyn, New York, in February 1957. [1] The pilot program was run by co-founders Bert MacLeech and Pearl Maze and served seven people with I/DD. [2] Today, YAI has expanded to a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community.
OCA has more than 50 chapters across the United States. Each chapter develops its own outreach programs, ranging from educational seminars and Chinese language schools to voter registration drives. OCA chapters address a number of issues including inaccurate media portrayals of AAPIs, failed employment practices, hate crimes, and educational ...
Outreachy (previously the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women) is a program that organizes three-month paid internships with free and open-source software projects for people who are typically underrepresented in those projects.