(New York, NY) – This morning FPWA
awarded six of its member agencies with a $20,000 grant at its annual Program
Grants Breakfast at its office in Lower Manhattan. The grants support
programs that are aligned with the FPWA mission and help to enhance the lives
of New York’s most vulnerable.
Grants were awarded to fund programs
from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 that align with at least one of FPWA’s
three strategic pillars – reducing poverty, advancing upward mobility, and
creating shared prosperity. FPWA awards program grants on an annual basis to
its member agencies to support new direct service projects that are linked to
FPWA’s advocacy agenda. Grants must address emerging social service issues or
needs that the agency has identified.
This year’s awardees are the Asian
Americans for Equality, Edwin Gould, Exodus Transitional Community, Inc., New
Alternatives for Children, Inc., New York Asian Women’s Center, Inc. and New
York Therapeutic Communities, Inc. Programs funded by the awards included an
integrated job referral and placement platform for Flushing, Queens; a
faith-based program to support formerly incarcerated fathers; and an
entrepreneurship program to increase the vocational prospects of women in
substance abuse treatment. This year’s grants include:
Asian Americans for Equality – Flushing
Employment Network – Flushing, Queens
Edwin Gould – College Success – Brooklyn
Heights, Brooklyn
Exodus Transitional Community, Inc. – Faith
in Fatherhood – East Harlem
New Alternatives for Children, Inc. – Career
Initiative
New York Asian Women’s Center, Inc. – Economic
Empowerment Workshop
New York Therapeutic Communities, Inc. –
Recovery Through Entrepreneurship for Women – Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
At the ceremony, Jacob Riis Neighborhood
Settlement House, one of last year’s program grant awardees, also returned to discuss
their 2015 project, helping immigrants establish worker cooperative businesses.
“One of the many ways that we address
the needs of New York’s most vulnerable is through FPWA's annual program grant
awards,” said CEO and Executive Director of FPWA Jennifer Jones Austin. “These
grants provide community-based organizations with an opportunity to address
specific needs in their respective communities—things to improve economic
well-being, workforce readiness and social services that will ultimately lead
to poverty reduction. We are especially thrilled to be able to double the
amount of money in grants this year, which means that more individuals and
communities will be served. "
“We are grateful to FPWA for the
opportunity to receive this grant,” said Julio Medina, Founder and Executive
Director of Exodus Transitional Community. “Made possible with this
funding, Exodus is thrilled to provide a faith-based fatherhood program to our
participants that support family restoration after incarceration. The Faith
in Fatherhood program strives to increase a father’s emotional, physical and
financial presence in the lives of their children to increase individual
earning power and household income, as well as impact the economic and
emotional health of generations to come. Everyone who walks through our
doors is part of the Exodus family, and we are excited to bring this value out
into the community. ”
Source: Mercury
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