Sample of Past Placement Agencies
 

Added Value and Herban Solutions
Promotes the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of youth leaders through the operation of a socially responsible market gardening micro-enterprise.
 

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is one of the nation's foremost defenders of civil liberties and civil rights. Their mission is to defend and promote the fundamental principles and values embodied in the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, and the New York Constitution, including freedom of speech and religion, and the right to privacy, equality, and due process of law for all New Yorkers.
 

Audubon Partnership for Economic Development LDC
A non-profit local development corporation serving the Washington Heights and Inwood communities of New York City. Their mission is to increase opportunities for economic growth and development of disadvantaged residents and small businesses.
 

Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
A non-profit design, research, and educational organization that creates exhibits, programs, tours, websites, and publications that teach people about the built environment and politics.
 

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
CAAAV organizes poor and working-class Asian immigrants in New York City for racial and economic justice by building power among Asian immigrants who labor in the expanding sweatshop industry.
 

Covenant House
Covenant House New York, the first and largest center of the nation's foremost agency serving homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth, opens its doors 24 hours a day for teens in need. Each year over 9,000 youngsters living on New York streets seek out its Crisis and Community Centers for safety, shelter, and food.
 

The Enterprise Foundation
Creating fit, affordable housing is The Enterprise Foundation's main mission. Enterprise has helped low-income families either rent or buy 160,000 affordable apartments and homes. Understanding that housing is the first step to exiting poverty and entering the mainstream of American life, Enterprise also supports local efforts to increase the supply of quality child care, access to employment, and safer streets in many of the communities in which they are active.
 

Facing History and Ourselves
For more than 27 years, Facing History has engaged teachers and students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejuidice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of collective violence, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.
 

Global Youth Action Network
The Global Youth Action Network is a not-for-profit organization that acts as an incubator of global partnerships among youth organizations. Their Mission is to facilitate youth participation and intergenerational partnership in global decision-making; to support collaboration among diverse youth organizations; and to provide tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action.
 

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.
 

Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University
The Institute of Human Nutrition serves to conduct, coordinate, and lead nutrition research and education activities throughout Columbia University and its affiliated institutions. These activities include basic research, clinical research, public health-preventive medicine programs, and education and training at many levels.
 

Marga Incorporated
Marga advises non-profit orgamizations, institutions, and universities. Marga's interventions maximize partnerships between communities and non-profits through assistance with partnership creation, strategic planning, leadership development, and fundraising.
 

Municipal Art Society of New York
The Municipal Art Society is a non-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote a more livable city. The Society protects the best of New York's existing landscape - from landmarks and historic districts to public open space - and encourages visionary design, planning, and architecture to enhance the city's future, including promoting proactive community-based planning in New York City's low- and moderate-income communities.
 

New York City Administration of Children's Services
ACS and its network of social service agencies provide a variety of neighborhood-based child welfare services to help ensure that children grow up in safe, nurturing, and permanent homes.
 

New York City Office of the Public Advocate
The Public Advocate is an independently elected citywide official, next in line to the Mayor, who is the ombudswoman to cut through government red tape. As Ombudswoman, the Public Advocate answers complaints about people's problems with city government, investigates ineffective agencies and programs, proposes solutions that make government more efficient, and helps communities gain better access to government.
 

Office of Councilwoman Gale Brewer
Council Member Brewer is a tireless advocate for her district and issues involving access to education and technology. In addition to her work for her district, Brewer manages the Committee on Technology in Government, the City Council Committee that focuses on technology issues in city agencies, from technology in schools to enabling better public access to city data.
 

Prison Moratorium Project
PMP's mission is to build a future beyond prisons. It's staff is composed of young activist/community members and formerly incarcerated people, who are calling for an end to prison expansion and mass incarceration and for the restoration of communities devastated by the criminal in-justice system. They are committed to bringing the voices of directly affected people into the center of the criminal justice debate, through grassroots organizing, training, and technical assistance.
 

Project Reach
Project Reach asserts the rights of young people to identify those barriers/problems/institutions that disempower them and to organize actions, campaigns, and projects that concretely confront and change those conditions and institutions. Project Reach's youth and adult staff conduct workshops, trainings, retreats, and technical assistance around issues of discrimination, community-building, and youth/community organizing.
 

Randall's Island Sports Foundation
The Randall's Island Sports Foundation (RISF) was founded in 1922 to act as stewards of Randall's Island Park, in public-private partnership with the City of New York Parks and Recreation. The non-profit Foundation, in conjunction with City leadership, works to realize the Island's unique potential by developing sports and recreational facilities, restoring its vast natural environment, reclaiming and maintaining parkland, and sponsoring community-linked programs for the children of New York City.
 

Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology: Weill Cornell Medical College
The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology is an ambitious, coordinated research effort in the field of human brain development. The Institute conducts studies designed to further our understanding of brain mechanisms involved in the acquisition of cognitive emotional skills. These studies of infants, toddlers, and children also explore the influence of experience and learning on the development of these brain systems.
 

United Nations Association of the United States of America
UNA-USA supports the work of the United Nations and encourages active civic participation in the most important social and economic issues facing the world today. UNA-USA educates Americans about the work of the UN and encourages public support for strong US leadership in the UN.
 

West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT)
WE ACT's mission is to inform, educate, train, and mobilize the predominately African-American and Latino residents of Northern Manhattan on issues that impact their quality of life -- air, water and indoor pollution, toxins, land use and open space, waterfront development and usage, sanitation, transportation, historic preservation, regulatory enforcement, and citizen participation in public policy making.
 

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