This year, CBA students can work with any agency they choose, provided the work meets the requirements of our Service Learning program. Check with Professor Combellick to make sure the work you'll be doing fits within our guidelines.
We have included a list of agencies from Fordham's Community Service Program which would be appropriate to serve in. Check with the Community Service Office for more information on these organizations.
Remember the goal of our program is to incorporate your academic experiences with community service. Consider ways in which you can use your business skills (accounting, finance, marketing, communications...) to benefit a local organization:
Bronx AIDS Services (BAS)
Bronx AIDS Services (BAS) is an AIDS service organization that helps more than 25,000 Bronx residents each year with an array of free services, including extensive outreach, education and prevention services directed toward people at high risk for HIV transmission. Volunteers help BAS deliver services by assisting with peer education, food pantry preparation and performing administrative support. CBA students are especially needed to conduct several business research projects in the surrounding community.
Hemansu Mangal hmangal@basnyc.org 718-295-5605 x213
God's Love We Deliver
This agency's mission is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-altering illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition. They prepare and deliver nutritious, high-quality meals to people who, because of their illness are unable to provide or prepare meals for themselves. They also provide illness-specific nutrition education and counseling to our clients and families, care providers and other service organizations. All of their services are provided free of charge. They also provide volunteer opportunities in our kitchen, with delivering meals and in our offices for those who wish to help people living with serious illnesses.
volunteer@glwd.org (212) 294-8104
Incarnation Children's Center
ICC is New York's only pediatric skilled nursing facility for HIV-infected children. ICC provides a home-like setting for children who are too sick to be at home, or whose medical needs are too complex to be provided adequately in a home setting. Volunteers offer children help with homework and serve as mentors and companions during recreation time.
LIFEbeat
This is a AIDS and HIV awareness group that spreads their message through music. They set up and attend concerts in New York to hand out information and condoms, as well as talk to people about AIDS, HIV, and STDs.
Partners In Family Health: Northern Manhattan HIV Initiative
The Afterschool Progam of the Partnership for Family Health: Northern Manhattan HIV Consortium (PFFH) provides academic tutoring, mentoring and music and art experiences after school as a part of a respite program for HIV-infected children and youth, their siblings and families. The term “respite services” refers to short term care and services provided on a temporary basis to individuals afflicted with HIV/AIDS in order to temporarily relieve the stress that their family members experience while providing the extra care that is required in parenting sons and daughters with special needs. The after school program is primarily for ages 4-18 receiving health care at the clinics in the Bronx. Volunteers are trained and matched to work one-on-one with children in the program.
Animals
Stray From the Heart
Stray from the Heart is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of homeless dogs. They provide shelter, veterinary care and new homes for abandoned, lost, neglected, and abused animals. They also provide training and education regarding the protection and care of animals, as well as ongoing support to the individuals and families who adopt from them.
212-726-DOGS (3647)
Yonkers Animal Shelter
This non-profit organization needs assistance with walking dogs, cleaning cages, providing water, and helping with cats and other small animals. Also see http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/yonkers.html
Community Development
Concourse House
Concourse House is a place where homeless women can go with their children for a year. They can stay until they are able to provide a permanent home for their children.
Dress For Success
The mission of Dress for Success is to advance low-income women's economic and social development and to encourage self-sufficiency through career development and employment retention. Dress for Success responds to the needs of our communities by providing programs that help economically disadvantaged women acquire jobs, retain their new positions and succeed in the mainstream workplace. Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that offers services to help our clients enter the workforce and stay employed. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and a week's worth of separates when she gets the job. The Dress for Success Professional Women's Group program then provides ongoing support to help the client build a successful career. Women are referred to Dress for Success by a continually expanding array of not-for-profit and government agencies including homeless shelters, immigration services, job training programs and domestic violence shelters.
Megan Rose megan@dressforsuccess.org 212-684-3611
Enterprise Foundation
Overcoming the struggle over poverty starts with a decent home in a safe, thriving community and is strengthened by access to steady employment, a good education, and quality child care. For over two decades, Enterprise has been working in neglected communities nationwide to provide those opportunities that all Americans deserve. So far, we’ve improved the lives of close to half a million people.
James Himes jhimestemp@enterprisefoundation.org
Habitat for Humanity
This agency helps to build low-cost housing.
Highbridge Advisory Council
The mission of the Highbridge Advisory Council is to find ways to renovate, rehabilitate, stabilize, and make changes in our deteriorating neighborhoods by evolving community developments, improvement projects, and social programs. This organization develops improvements that will provide integrated community-based supportive services to the unserved, under served, and transient population of the surrounding communities (Highbridge, Concourse, Mount Hope, Morris Heights, and University Heights)
Hope Line
The Hope Line is a community resource center in the South Bronx that offers a variety of programs including, English as a second language, citizenship classes, drug counseling, employment classes and a food and clothing bank to residents in the neighborhood. Most volunteers teach English as a second language classes to predominantly Spanish speaking immigrants.
National Student Partnerships (NSP.)
NSP is an organization that uses the unique talents of college students as researchers, problem solvers, and creative strategists to provide a cost-free employee search service for businesses and to help individuals in the local community navigate the job training and employment system. Student volunteers act as client service representatives, counseling community members one-on-one.
People Are Not Satisfied (P.A.N.S.)
Sponsored by Part Of The Solution Soup Kitchen, P.A.N.S. is an empowerment and advocacy project uniting people from the P.O.T.S. community and other interested individuals. P.A.N.S. works to educate the community and elected officials on issues that most directly affect the quality of life: welfare reform, voter rights, neighborhood safety, and affordable housing. Volunteers are currently monitoring human rights abuses at local Welfare Centers.
Polish Student Organization
The two statutory goals of the PSO are: to integrate the Polish-American academic community in the greater New York area, and to provide information about higher education opportunities in the USA to the Polish-American community.
Publicolor
This organization goes to various underprivileged schools and community centers in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Manhattan and helps them revive the facility. Volunteers and kids paint the inside with bright colors.
Wall Street Rising
This nonprofit organization are trying to rebuild the downtown district of Manhattan. They are an information center where people can go to receive information about downtown and to find different maps and learn about different events going on downtown.
Environmental
Bissel Garden
Located in the Northeast Bronx, Bissel Garden consists of a community garden, a vegetable garden where food is harvested for local soup kitchens and food pantries, a children's garden and a farmers market. Students participate in planting and clean up projects in the garden, light construction and harvesting vegetables.
Bronx River Alliance
Continuing in the 27 year tradition of Bronx River Restoration, the Alliance works to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor and greenway so that they can be healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resources for the communities through which the river flows.
Crotona Park Nature Center
Crotona Park hosts a number of environmental education days and workshops to people living around the park. Workshops include canoeing, creating compost boxes, making natural beauty products, and watching hawks and other birds. Volunteers assist Parks Dept. staff in running these workshops, as well as planting and clean up projects throughout the park.
New York Botanical Garden
The Everett Childrens Adventure Garden offers more than 40 hands-on activities and interactive exhibits that allow children to explore plant science, both indoors and out, and to discover nature in different habitats.
Health
Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center is a large hospital in the Bronx.
New York Blood Center
New York Blood Service is a community-based, non-profit, independent blood center serving the Greater New York/New Jersey area. They provide life-saving high quality transfusion products and services to serve the 250 hospitals in the tri-state area. If you like traveling, being a Blood Mobile volunteer is for you! You may find yourself in a plush corporate lounge one week and in the busy cafeteria of a high school the next. Blood drives are held in most places you can think of and many you’ve never thought of! As a Blood Mobile Volunteer, you will rarely be in the same location twice.
Ms. Gadsden JGadsden@NYBloodCenter.org 646-812-9111
Relay For Life
Relay for Life helps raise money for the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society works to help those who are fighting cancer and touched by the disease. During Relay for Life, teams will walk around the track and participate in events throughout the twelve hours.
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital
This hospital is located in Manhattan at 1275 York Ave. between 67th and 68th street.
St. Barnabas Reach Out and Read
The Reach Out and Read program seeks to provide parents/guardians and children with the knowledge, support, and materials necessary to make books a part of their lives. Each time a child visits the St. Barnabas Pediatric Center they receive a new book. Volunteers read stories aloud to children in the waiting area.
Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation
Hunger
Epiphany Lutheran Church
For the last 15 years, Epiphany Lutheran Church has been serving a lunchtime meal Monday thru Friday to hungry members of the Norwood community. Epiphany Lutheran also organizes clothing donations for guests of the church. Volunteers prepare and serve meals, as well as help to organize donated clothes.
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen has been a symbol of hope and compassion in the Chelsea section of Manhattan for the past 23 years. Housed in the landmark Church of the Holy Apostles, the Soup Kitchen serves over 1,100 hot nutritious meals each and every weekday, including holidays. Anyone who comes to our door is welcome – without question or qualification. Since the Soup Kitchen first began in 1982, it has served over 5.5 million meals.
Rev. William A. Greenlaw, Ph.D. wagreenlaw@holyapostlesnyc.org 212-924-0167
Part of the Solution
Part of the Solution is a local soup kitchen across from Fordham University. They serve lunch and dinner every weekday and lunch on the weekends to hungry people in need.
serve@potsbronx.org
St. Francis Xavier Soup Kitchen
This is a soup kitchen that provides meals weekly and a food pantry once monthy at St. Francis Xavier Church on 16th Street in Manhattan.
Ruth Mills RuthJMills@MSN.com 212-932-8969
Village Temple Soup Kitchen
Help prepare food for soup kitchen (No food Service, just food preparation).
Mentoring
Boy Scouts of America
The troop is located in the Flushing/Bayside area of Queens. The troop meets on Friday evenings for approximately 4 to 4 and a half hours.
Jack Baer jack_baer@msn.com
Einstein Youth Violence Prevention
Volunteers in EYVP meet with 3rd graders at P.S. 205 and run workshops and discussions about issues surrounding violence. EYVP volunteers work from a curriculum developed by medical students from Albert Einstein College.
Fresh Air Fund
The Fresh Air Fund is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to helping inner city kids experience opportuinites outside of the city by sending them to summer camps and holding various other event for them.
Julie Greilsheimer volunteer@freshair.org 212-897-8986
Girls Incorporated
For 140 years, the organization has followed the changing roles of women who are constantly breaking down barriers. The organization has many programs that encourage young girls to pursue interesting work and strive to be a part of science and math careers which they have throughout history been socialized to shy away from.
Girls on the Run Manhattan
Girls on the Run Manhattan provides an interactive life-skills program which uses running with health education and a wellness program to improve health and self-esteem in girls from 8-12 years old. The program enforces values, team building, and community.
info@gotrm.org
IRC/Global Outreach
Mentoring U.S.A.
Mentoring USA is a school or site-based mentoring program that matches volunteers on a one-to-one basis with children in grades K-8. The trained mentor helps the child to broaden his or her vision of opportunities and to achieve academic and personal goals.
Syosset Soccer Club
The Syosset Soccer Club is in charge of all the intramural and travel soccer teams in the town. They take care of organizing the tournaments, games schedules, referees, finances, etc. in Syosset.
Gary Grossman ggrossman@edxecu-search.com
Mentoring/Tutoring
After-School Corporation
The After-School Corporation set up a program called RAMP Up which will match the CBA Student (a mentor) with a student at a public middle school in the Bronx.
Angelie Martinez angiemar25@aol.com 718-584-4598
Eastchester Child Development Center
The Eastchester Child Development Center is a non-profit daycare center located in Tuckahoe, New York, committed to achieving high standards in daycare, as well as providing a nurturing environment of education and enjoyment for young toddlers and children.
Marlene Lawrence ECDCdirector@optonline.net 914-337-4492
Fordham Bedford Children's Services
Fordham Bedford Children's Services is an afterschool program for kids where they can be tutored in their daily homework. They also provide activities such as arts and crafts and physical activities and games. The organization has many weekend activities and field trips
Roxanna Chowdhry rchowdhry@fbcsnet.org 718-733-2557
Fordham University RETC - Professional Development Center
The mission of the Fordham University RETC – Center for Professional Development is to empower the community to close the digital divide by making professional development, technology training, learning opportunities, capacity–building resources, and employment skills accessible to educators, parents, students, professionals, and community–based organizations through hands-on instruction, innovative technology, evaluation services, and collaborative partnerships.
Theresa Lupo Tlupo@fordham.edu 718-817-2539
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement utilizes hands-on learning experiences to help young people understand the economics of life and bring the real world to students through the classroom. JA reaches out to students in grades K-12 and encourages opportunity, success, and big dreams for the future.
Chris Ellis cellis@jany.org 212-907-0023
Liberty Partnership Program
The Liberty Partnership Program provides students enrolled in grades 5-12 with services designed to improve thier ability to graduate from high school and enter post-secondary education and the workforce.
Montclair Cooperative School
We are an independent, non-profit, progressive, co-educational school located in Montclair, New Jersey. The school enrolls approximately 200 children from nursery through eighth grade. Founded in 1963, it is one of a handful of cooperative schools nationwide. The school is accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
Prita pritam@montclaircoop.org 973-783-4955
PAL New South Bronx Center
The PAL New South Bronx Center has an after-school program for second and third graders. The program is a tutoring and mentoring program; you meet with the students for three "periods" in the afternoon, one period being set for academics and the other two periods are set for other activities such as arts and crafts, gym, dance, etc.
SBEF/Crotona Center
The organization consists mainly of volunteers who help boys ages 8 to 18 with school work, encourage them to learn and motivate them.
John Riccobono jriccobono@sbef.org 917-561-8493
St. Aloysius School
St. Aloysius School is an elementary school for pre-kindergarten to 8th grade.
Upward Bound Program
The Upward Bound Program is an academic after school program that helps high school students prepare for college. The program offers academic support to students by providing tutors for their studies. Further, this program provides students with the opportunity to be prepared for college through college tours and college administrators coming to the program to a wide range of information to the students.
Crystal Floyd cfloyd@theharbor.org 212-427-2244 Ext.455
Multi-Category Agency
Aisling Irish Community Center
Established in 1996, the Aisling Center's main principle is to assist Irish immigrants in their transition to life in the USA. They do this by offering a number of services including legal, social, psychological and educational. The Aisling Center is one of the largest Irish immigrant resource centers in the tri-state area.
Orla Kelleher orla@aislingcenter.org (914) 237 5121
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.
American Red Cross
The mission of the American Red Cross in Greater New York is to help people avoid, prepare for, and cope with emergencies; to enhance self-reliance and concern for others; and to improve the quality of human life.
Gabriela Garcia carciag@nyredcross.org 212-875-2424
Castle Hill Little League (CHLL)
This organization is a non-profit community little league that has been serving the community for over 50 years. It offers supervised baseball programs for youngsters ages 3-18, which includes not only the regular spring baseball season but opportunities to participate in baseball clinics and regional All-Star tournaments.
Henry Pelayo Jr.-President henry.pelayo@chlittleleague.net 718-824-5555
Chinese American Planning Council (CPC)
Initiated as a grass roots community effort in 1965 in response to the growing number of Asian immigrants in New York City following the liberalization of the immigration law, the Chinese-American Planning Council, Inc. (CPC) has since become one of the largest providers of social services for Asian Americans in the United States. In pursuing our mission, CPC has developed, and continues to administer, a wide range of services for Chinese-American children, youth, adults, and senior citizens.
volunteer@cpc-nyc.org 212-400-2090
Clinton Foundation
Through the William J. Clinton Foundation, President Clinton promotes the values of fairness and opportunity for all. His vision is the Foundation's mission: to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Together with the generosity of citizens and volunteers, President Clinton and the Foundation are vigorously working to advance those principles that move us beyond differences to a common future of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared values.
Clinton Global Initiative
The Clinton Global Initiative is a brand new initiative started by Former President Clinton set out to actually make changes discussed at its annual summit Meeting. It focusses primarily on ending poverty in the USA and Abroad, Religious Conflict, Governance, and Global Warming.
Ed Hughes ed.hughes@clintonglobalinitiative.org
Cornelia Connelly Center for Education
The Cornelia Connelly Center was founded in 1993 in response to the crisis
in education facing girls from low-income families on Manhattan’s Lower East
Side. Named for a progressive 19th-century educator, the Center enables
girls to develop the aspirations, confidence, skills and values to fulfill
their own potential and prepare for responsible roles in society. Intentionally small, the middle school serves approximately 64 girls in grades five through eight. The Center also runs a summer camp attended by all its students and provides comprehensive financial, academic and counseling support to graduates through high school.To finance its mission, the Center relies largely on the generosity of individuals, foundations, businesses and other benefactors, who provide 80% of operating revenue. Income also is earned from rental of the historic Connelly Theater and other space on the Center’s premises.
Ms. Connie Bush cbush@connellycenter.org 212-982-2287
Cross-Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural Solutions is a not-for-profit organization that operates international volunteer programs that last from one week to three months.
Family & Community Services, Inc. (FCS)
This is a program of Family & Community Services. This day care center provides a full day program for its young children, aged 18-month through 5 years. Family & Community Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit social service agency, and ECDC is just one of the various services offered.
Fordham Bedford Little League
The organization works with the surrounding community to help create a good environment for children to play baseball and flag football. The organization needs people to get involved in doing office work, fundraising, finding sponsors, ground work, photography, tutoring, mentoring, and coaching.
Foundation for Child Development
Foundation in charge of finding and helping new developing programs design to help children's education and life.
Ms. Mannie Chau mannie@fcd-us.org 212-213-8337 x 207
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds is a volunteer organization where we could get involved in our choice of hands-on work. Gain valuable experience in areas such as marketing and communications, nonprofit and business management, public service, volunteer recruitment, grassroots organizing and advocacy, research, accounting, finance, law, computer science, Internet, graphic design, website design and development, art, arts management, photography, publicity, fundraising, creative writing, journalism, editing and more.
Bill Blackman mail@change.net 212-280-0333
Herbert G. Birch Family Services
This organization seeks to improve the lives of those affected by hardships, which come in many different forms through the eyes of this innovative charity. Chiefly, the organization has autism services, educational services for autistic children, and engages in many efforts to assist children affected by AIDS (whether they be children with AIDS, or children of parents who have AIDS).
Debra Wolf dwolf@draftnet.com 212-546-8712
Leary Firefighters Foundation
The Leary Firefighters Foundation is a non-profit organization started by the actor Dennis Leary after the tragic death of his cousin. The foundation was set up to raise money to provide funding for firefighting training equipment in New York and Boston.
Legal Information for Families Today
Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) operates Education & Information Sites inside the Family Courts of all 5 boroughs, and in the Brooklyn Criminal Court. LIFT is a non-profit organization that provides legal advice, referrals, and directions to victims, defendants, and family members.
Jasmin Redhead JRedHead@liftonline.org 646-613-9633 x 211
MADRE
MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women's organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education, and other human rights. MADRE provides resources, training, and support to enable sister organizations to meet concrete needs in their communities while working to shift the balance of power to promote long-term development and social justice.
Marylu Espinosa admin@madre.org 212-627-0444
Make-A-Wish Foundation
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children who have a life-threatening illness.
Manhasset-Lakeville Volunteer Fire Department
Local Volunteer Fire Department. Truck Company 2. The organization consists of men and women who volunteer their time to serve the community in a variety of areas: spreading good will, showing a professional caring presence, and assisting in disaster scenes.
1Lt. Dan Arce Darce@gmail.com 516-690-0891
New York Cares
Each year, New York Cares brings vital volunteer support to over 850 diverse nonprofit agencies, public schools and other deserving organizations throughout the five boroughs. Our program staff work with each organization to identify their most pressing needs, create projects where volunteers can make meaningful contributions, and then recruit and deploy teams of volunteers to help meet their needs.
Park Avenue Thorpe
Park Avenue Thorpe houses families who were once homeless. They also provide food for residents of the Bronx and second hand clothing and household articles. As a volunteer I would help taking care of the children in the mornings. If I volunteer after school hours, I will help those children in school with homework and then play with them once their homework is complete.
People's Voice Café
The performers represent many different cultures and political approaches. They express their concerns and hopes about a wide variety of humanitarian issues, but also sing about love and the lighter side of life -- typically with lots of audience participation. The Cafe is a not-for-profit collective that is not affiliated with any political or religious organization.
scampfriend@earthlink.net 212-787-3903
Save A Life from Substance Abuse
This program promotes personal and social responsibility, providing general guidance to the youth and their families, increase academic performance and discourage illegal use of drugs, firearms and or participation in illegal activities.
SoBRO - South Bronx Overall Development Organization
SoBRO improves the quality of life in the South Bronx by generating business growth and creating effective economic, housing, educational and career programs for youth and adults. One program for business students is the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise which help minorities and women establish entrepreneurial enterprises in the area.
info@sobro.org 718-292-3113
Stand Up For Kids
Stand Up For Kids is a national non profit organization aimed at providing homeless children a place to retreat in order to get food, clean up, or just take a break from the street. Depending on the location of the center volunteers partake in outreach on the streets or at the center, or helping with different fundraisers.
Rick Koca NewYork@standupforkids.org 281-220-3006
Third World Newsreel
Non-profit media production company that focuses on promoting social change in countries all over the world.
Martha Diaz volunteer@twn.org 212-947-9277
Thorpe Family Residence Inc.
There are two section of Thorpe Family residence: One that caters to homeless single mothers and kids, and one that caters to mothers who have transitioned from homeless mothers to securing a job. These moms are no longer homeless but have a very low income. Thorpe Family Residents seeks grants from sponsors to provide security for them. They try to secure as much as $100,000 per year.
United Service Organization
The United Service Organization is a private, non-profit organization that provides recreation, morale, and welfare to soldiers around the world. The USO reaches out through airport centers, family and community centers, and mobile USOs, and has various other programs and events to help raise money to provide for and improve the lives of soldiers.
Colin Balfe cbalfe@usonyc.org 212-695-5590
USO of Metropolitan New York
The USO is a non-profit organization that organizes events and gives support to all military members and their families. I will be working at the Metropolitan office located near Times Square. Men and Women of the military and their families are welcome to use any and all of the resources that are available to them. These include discounted event tickets, maps, and other tourist information. The USO is there to help and support these men and women to the best of their ability.
Staci Wells swells@usonyc.org 212-695-5590
World Federation United Nations Association (WFUNA)
Inspired by the opening words of the United Nations Charter "We the Peoples", the World Federation of United Nations Associations was established in 1946 as a peoples’ movement for the United Nations.
Today the World Federation is a global network of hundreds of thousands of people linked together through United Nations Associations (UNAs) in over 100 nation states. They have many and diverse programs, such as Adopt-a-Minefield, the Millennium Development Goals, Model UN conferences, human rights education and as well they provide regular media and parliamentary briefings on UN matters. As testimony to their valuable role, UNAs are the only national level organizations entitled to use the UN emblem.
wfunany@wfuna.org (212) 963-5610
Youth Adult Group
A small non profit organization where we come together to think of new ideas to bring awareness to the people all over of tragedies that are happening in the world.
Religious Education
St. Margaret Mary Parish
Volunteers at St. Margaret Mary's teach children who are preparing for the Sacrament of Baptism and teach children catechism.
Shelter
Icahn House
Icahn House is a Tier II transitional temporary housing facility for families of single mothers with children up to 12 years old. Volunteers work with children ages 5 to 12 in the after school program tutoring, helping with homework and improving literacy.
Special Needs
Murray-Weigel Hall
New York Institute for Special Ed.
This school of special education has programs for children with a variety of disabilities including blindness, learning disabilities and emotional difficulties. Volunteers work as assistants in classrooms during the day or in the afternoon/evening hours as tutors in the dormitories.
P4 School
This organization has an after-school program. It is a school for emotionally disturbed and autistic children.
Sprout
This not-for-profit organization is dedicated to helping people with special needs grow through safe, challenging, creative and fun experiences that enhance mobility, self-confidence and socialization. Volunteer leaders accompany participants on daily, weekend and weeklong outings.
St. Josephs Christian Brothers Hospital and Retirement Home
The Christian Brothers originated in Ireland and operate high schools and colleges internationally. There are opportunities to perform service as an operational assistant to the director of the hospital. Duties include shopping for food for the kitchen, picking up drug prescriptions for the residents, taking residents to outside medical appointments, and helping the director with operational duties.
Suicide Prevention/Awareness
Out of the Darkness
Net proceeds from the Annual Out of the Darkness Community Walks will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) to fund research, education, survivor and awareness programs -- both to prevent suicide and to assist those affected by suicide.
mpeak@afsp.org (212) 363-3500 x13
Tutoring
Adult Learning Center
Offers Beginning and Intermediate ESOL instruction, emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing to adults 18 and over. Advanced ESOL students are referred to other programs. Offers citizenship preparation classes and job skills training, including computer instruction (keyboarding, introduction, Word, Windows).
Sr. Mary Burke srmarh226b@hotmail.com 914-633-7393
Children's Aid Society
Children's Aid Society runs community schools that combine academics with full child and family services. These schools are open 16 hours a day, six days a week and combine education with needed human services. Fordham students volunteer as tutors and mentors in after school programs at one of these schools located in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
City Squash
CitySquash provides motivated middle school students from low income families in the Bronx with academic tutoring and squash instruction. The goal is to help young people fulfill their academic, athletic and personal potential. CitySquash participants are on campus two days a week. Volunteers provide one-on-one or small group tutoring. No squash experience is necessary!
Becky Cohen becky@citysquash.org 718-220-7400
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
IRC focuses on giving refugee children the tools and support they need to thrive in their new environment. The Ascent program strives to provide immigrants with a community that supports their academic excellence, social responsibility, emotional health and development of leadership skills. Volunteers work with high school-aged students in an after school program.
Jumpstart
Jumpstart is a nonprofit organization that pairs college students with preschoolers struggling in Head Start and other early learning programs. Volunteers work one-to-one with preschool children to teach school readiness skills. Love Gospel Assembly ChurchLove Gospel Church organizes an after school program to improve the literacy of grammar school children. Volunteers read stories with children and offer assistance with homework.
Mary Mitchell Community Center
They run an after school program for kids.
Our Lady of Refuge Catholic School
This school has an after school program where students require tutoring and assistance with their homework.
Phipps Head Start
Phipps Head Start is a program to prepare preschoolers for positive interaction in a classroom setting. Activities are designed to enhance each child's strengths by building their trust, fostering their independence, and teaching them to respect the feelings and rights of others. Volunteers assist teachers in the classroom.
Rosedale Center
SBEF works with families, businesses and community leaders to help youth grow intellectually, culturally and morally. Formed in 1988, the Foundation supports the Crotona Center for boys and men and the Rosedale Center for girls and women. All programs focus on developing personal character in small group or one-on-one settings.
Vicky Ticzon mvticzon@sbef.org 718-328-4090
St. James Community Center
St. James Community Center houses an after school program for children ages 6-12. Volunteers work one-on-one with school children doing homework help and math and English tutoring.
St. Raymond's Community Outreach
St. Raymond's runs a literacy program for children in the Parkchester community. Volunteers work one-on-one with first through third grade students to increase the number of fourth graders that pass the New York State Language Arts exam.
