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The back patio at our West 140th Street residence could pass for a funky café space. Colorful chairs surround sturdy tables, with a large telescoping umbrella to provide shade. Elegant benches are nestled among planters full of flowers. The pavers are neat and even. But it wasn’t always that way.  “They fixed the pavement! You […]

Want to help? Support human services workers in their fight for #JustPay by going to JustPay.com!  Education funding, tenants’ rights and older adult services are just a few of the issues Goddard Riverside and our colleagues at the Isaacs Center are fighting for this spring—in partnership with the people who use our programs.  Goddard’s Law […]

Watch our online Book Chat with John Woodrow Cox Ava was a first grader when her best friend Jacob was shot on their playground at school. “Ava adored Jacob. She envisioned marrying him when they got older,” said author John Woodrow Cox in a recent online book chat with Goddard Riverside’s Chad Franklin. “She was […]

Goddard, Isaacs Center Thought Leaders Shape Their Fields Through Writing  Writing for publication is a great way to share your ideas and influence your field—but it’s also the deepest form of learning, according to two of our recently published senior leaders.  “It was good for me as a teacher, as a clinician, as a supervisor, […]

Goddard Riverside has been chosen for the Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge—the financial giant’s flagship pro bono program.  Now in its thirteenth year, the Strategy Challenge matches high performing Associates and Vice Presidents with nonprofits to solve complex problems. In our case, it’s the intricate job of streamlining and coordinating food distribution across three neighborhood centers and dozens of programs.  Khristel Simmons, Senior […]

Back by popular demand, the awards recognize volunteers who make a difference in their community Submit your nomination here.  The Good Neighbor Awards are back!—along with their festive award night, the Neighbor to Neighbor Dinner.  The awards honor individuals and organizations who are making “outstanding efforts to help improve the community.” Anyone can nominate anyone else. “Members of the community ask us […]

Watch our Book Chat with Annette Bay Pimentel A hundred years ago, when Pura Belpré took a job at the New York Public Library, there was a rule: the stories told to children at Story Hour could only come from books. The books were all in English, so the stories were too. Belpré, the first […]

Helping young people beat the odds is not enough: It’s time to change the odds. That’s the message of a new report released by #DegreesNYC, a collective impact movement to open doors to education co-founded by Goddard Riverside. The Changing the Odds report springs from a single question Degrees posed in 2016, the year it […]

After Kevin got his GED at the Isaacs Center, he realized he was just getting started  Kevin Sampayo wasn’t a big fan of high school. He felt lost in the crowd and never graduated. Then, sometime last year, he signed up to get his equivalency degree at the Isaacs Center.  “At first that’s all I […]