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Grand Street
Settlement's Bushwick Child & Family Center Remains Open!
On August 18th, 2010, the families, staff, board, friends and
supporters of the
Grand Street Settlement's Child & Family Center scored a victory
when the NYC Agency for Children's Services rescinded the closeout of
the Center.
After months of persistence, creativity, effective networking,
community organizing, political savvy,
and constant vigilance, we prevailed! The families and staff in
Bushwick were amazing in helping make sure our
Center did not close. They advocated, organized, delivered petitions,
spoke at rallies, wrote letters, sent faxes
and emails and carried out the day-to-day work of operating the Child
& Family Center despite the upheavals.
We are all incredibly relieved that 160 childcare slots and 40 staff
positions remain intact!
We are happy to announce
that enrollment for pre-Kindergarten day care is open at our
783
Knickerbocker Avenue location in
Bushwick, Brooklyn!
Please call 718-418-1723 for more information.
Check out the 4th Annual L.E.S.
Official Youth Day 2010
Congratulations to
Executive Director Margarita Rosa on being
presented the Celebrating Women Award
from the New York
Women's Foundation on May 13th, 2010.
From left to right: Margarita Rosa, Executive
Director of Grand Street Settlement; Eileen Fisher, Fashion designer
and Philanthropist;
Mary J. Blige, Singer and Producer; Ana L. Oliveira, President and
C.E.O. of the New York Women's Foundation.
Thanks to all of our
guests, supporters and restaurants involved in the past decade of
Taste of the Lower East Side!
With your help, this year's event raised more than $360,000 that
directly supports
Grand Street Settlement's children, youth and families pursue
self-sufficiency and self-determination.
click here for photos from the April 29th
event:
YOUR SOURCE FOR ALL
THAT IS NEW AT GSS
Grand Street Settlement 2.0
February 9th, 2009.
We
are very excited to announce our presence on facebook.com and
change.org! Our new online communities are a great way for you to find
out about upcoming events, network with other members of the Grand
Street Family,
and more!
Join us on the web today!
Join us on Facebook!
Grand Street
Settlment's 11th Annual Martin Luther King Day March
January 23, 2009.
Grand
Street Settlement celebrated
the end of an historic week by hosting its 11th Annual
Martin Luther
King March just days after the inauguration of President Barak Obama.
Starting at 4:30PM at 80 Pitt Street,
a crowd of roughly 150 children and youth marched down Rivington Street
to Grand Street Settlement's Beacon Center. Permits were issued by
NYPD’s 7th Precinct to close off traffic on Rivington Street between the blocks of Pitt and Norfolk for the march.
   
NYCares
Donates 500 Coats to Grand Street Settlement
January 13th,
2009. Volunteer
organization, New
York Cares, is in its twentieth year of donating holiday gifts and coats to
needy New Yorkers. Among the 80,000 coats that were collected and
distributed
by New York Cares all around the city, Grand Street Settlement received
500 in
mid-January. “This donation could not have come at a better time,” said Diane
Camacho, Director of the Grand Coalition of Seniors, in anticipation of
temperatures in the low-teens just days after the donation arrived.
“This year
is predicted to be the coldest winter in four years. And as the cost of
food
and utilities keep going up, these seniors are really appreciative of the
donation of a warm winter coat. It’s one less thing they have to worry
about.”
  
It's the year of
the RAT!
February 2008. In
China, the Rat - and those of us born in the Year of the Rat - are
appreciated and considered a
courageous, innovative person. It is an honor to be born in the Year of
the Rat - and in honor of the Rat, Grand Street Settlement's Senior
Center hosted a grand
celebration!
At Grand Street Settlement the Chinese New Year celebration
features an especially colorful and diverse display of talent to mark
the
occasion. Dancers tango, cha-cha, and flamenco in shimmering red,
maroon, pink,
black, and gold costumes. Men and women, Chinese, Hispanic, black,
silver-haired and young in spirit, sing and move in unison, rattling
tambourines and waving red and pink scarves.
The Grand Street Settlement tai chi instructor says, “We are different
races, but we all do tai chi together.”
Grand Street Settlement is thrilled to
recognize the energy
and creativity that makes this celebration so special and fun, year
after year.
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