Sample of Past Placement Agencies
 

Bronx PRYDE
Bronx PRYDE provides space, resources, and training to youth in the South Bronx to promote their personal transformation, political development, and collective consciousness so they can use their strengths and talents in creating justice with their lives, families, and community.
 

Child Development Support Corporation
Child Development Support Corporation (CDSC) is a not-for-profit, community-based, multi-service organization located in Central Brooklyn. Its mission is to provide programs and services that empower children, youth, and families by helping them to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for successful living in today's society.
 

Cornell Cooperative Extension
The Cornell Cooperative Extension system enables people to improve their lives and communities through partnerships that put experience and research knowledge to work. As part of this mission, it is the goal of Cornell University Cooperative Extension - New York City (CUCE-NYC) to provide learning opportunities for New Yorkers in the following areas: community and economic cevelopment, family and youth development, urban environment, lifelong learning, nutrition and health, and urban food systems.
 

Fifth Avenue Committee
The mission of the Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc. (FAC) is to advance social and economic justice, principally by developing and managing affordable housing, creating employment opportunities, organizing residents and workers, providing adult-centered education opportunities, and combating displacement caused by gentrification.
 

Green Guerillas
Green Guerrilas has helped thousands of people realize their dreams of turning vacant rubble-strewn lots into vibrant community gardens. Each year, they work with hundreds of grassroots groups throughout New York City to strengthen underserved neighborhoods through community gardening.
 

Harlem Children's Zone - TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center
TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center is part of the Harlem Children's Zone which was founded in 1970 to rebuild a community in Harlem that was previously underserved by social services. TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center reaches out to middle and high school students to promote health and fitness in an area plagued with an above-average number of people with diabetes, asthma, obesity, and other such health problems.
 

Latin American Integration Center
The mission of the Latin American Integration Center is to strengthen Latin American immigrant communities in New York City by promoting the exercise and protection of human and civil rights of immigrants. LAIC works to advance social and economic justice for immigrant families in New York City, by (1) providing educational programs and support services; and (2) engaging in strategic grassroots advocacy and community organizing campaigns that address systemic barriers to equality and increase the opportunity of our communities to determine their future.
 

Mothers on the Move
Mothers on the Move is a social justice community organization organizing to build a just society where there is equal economic, social, and political opportunity for all. Its current priority areas are: educational equity, environmental justice, safe streets, and affordable housing.
 

Neighborhood Housing Services
Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City is a not-for-profit citywide organization working to increase and protect investment in underserved low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, help people through education to help themselves, build communities that encourage and support neighborhood self-reliance, and create, preserve, and promote affordable housing in New York City neighborhoods.
 

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