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Bash Celebrates Older Adults and a Housing Leader
A sellout crowd packed the Bryant Park Grill on October 7 to celebrate our Older Adult programs and honor the mayor’s right-hand woman on housing. “A society is judged on how they treat their children and older adults. So I really have just one question: what do you believe…
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A Lesson In Truth And Reconciliation
“Truth and Reconciliation. There is a meaning to the order of those words,” said J’aime to a large group of Settlement House workers from Canada and the United States. We were sitting in a circle with a space left for the spirits of ancestors to join us. Before she began the…
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Goddard Book Prizes go to TALKING BOOKS and THE PRICE OF MERCY
An insider’s searing takedown of the criminal justice system and a children’s biography of a man who flung open the doors of reading have been honored with Goddard Riverside’s 2026 social justice book prizes. The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public…
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It’s Not Just A Backpack; It’s MY Backpack
With the help of a generous supporter, we doubled our backpack giveaways this year—and added a twist “I love, love, love, love drawing and I love Marvel!” said Alex, stenciling the Deadpool logo on his new backpack. Next to him, his older brother Andrew was adding Marvel…
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Where Two Can Eat, So Can Three
“Isaacs UN” Brings Members, Staff Together to Share Cultures “Donde comen dos, comen tres,” is a popular saying in Mexico that translates to: “Where two can eat, so can three.” Mexico Day, this month’s installment of the “Isaacs UN” series, began with that sentiment as staff…
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Cooling Centers Open Saturday Through Sunday
High temperatures expected to reach around 100 degrees for the weekend of August 8th and 9th With dangerous summer temperatures expected for the August 8th to 9th weekend, our centers are staying open to provide a cooling refuge. High temperatures can cause serious illness and…
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A Generation “At Promise”
When Goddard President Rod Jones stood at the podium at our Scholarship Ceremony, he did not see the “anxious generation” or the “social media generation,” or even the “generation lost to AI.” He saw hope. “This is not the generation that is at risk. This is the generation that…
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“The Isaacs Center Believed in Me”
When we first profiled Jessica Leon on the Isaacs Center blog in 2022, she was working for a big real estate company in downtown Manhattan. It was the culmination of a journey she’d begun years ago when she enrolled in a job readiness program at Isaacs. She was was 17 back then…
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“I don’t ever want to be complacent”: An Update from Jason Rice
When Jason Rice was featured on this blog in December 2023, he’d been through a lot of big changes. He went from living on the streets to nearly dying in a hospital. After months of care he moved into transitional housing, and then into supportive housing at our West 140th…
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Jewelry-Makers are Passionate about their Craft
At a long table in front of the stage in Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center’s big multipurpose room, older adults sit around a long, narrow table with their heads bent. They’re not praying; they’re looking intently at trays filled with beads and stones. They line pieces up in…