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Hostelling International USA (HI USA), also known as American Youth Hostels, Inc. (AYH), is a nonprofit organization that operates youth hostels and runs programs around those hostels. It is the official United States affiliate of Hostelling International (HI), also known as the International Youth Hostel Federation.
Covenant House is a large, 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization [1] in the Americas, whose goal is to provide safe housing and holistic care to youth ages 16–21 experiencing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking.
In 1919, he founded the German Youth Hostel Association. By 1932, Germany had more than 2,000 hostels recording more than 4.5 million overnights annually. The International Youth Hostel Federation (now Hostelling International) was founded in October 1932. It is now an organization composed of more than 90 hostel associations representing over ...
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Despite a fire during the New York City blackout of 1977 the preservationists prevailed and by the late 1970s, the building was acquired by the City of New York, and declared a New York City Landmark in 1983. During the 1980s the building was unoccupied as American Youth Hostels arranged neighborhood and government support for rehabilitating ...
By 1977, the international hostel network had reached a total of 500 million overnight stays, and by 1997, it counted one billion stays. [7] IYHF began using the name Hostelling International in 2006. [7] Youth hostels originally differed in setup from modern hostels, although the growing popularity of backpacking culture forced them to evolve ...
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) is the department of the government of New York City [3] that supports youth and their families through a range of youth and community development programs, and administers city, state and federal funds to community-based organizations. [4]
By 1938, American Youth Hostels grew to include 204 locations and 34,782 stays in just that year. Due to conflicts with the newly appointed president of American Youth Hostels, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Monroe and Isabel resigned from American Youth Hostels in 1949. The organization's headquarters were moved to Rockefeller Center in New York City.