FPWA Distributes $120,000 in Program Grants to Local Nonprofit Organizations

 

(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