The Office of Head Start has awarded Grand Street Settlement over $18.4 million in funding to provide Head Start programming for 583 children and their families, bringing the agency’s total preschool programs to over 1,400. Grand Street will open 6 new center-based programs in the…
Read More »Executive Director Robert Cordero was interviewed by Nasdaq about the importance of quality after school programs and volunteerism in September 2017.
Read More »Middle school students from each of Grand St. Settlement’s six Manhattan afterschool sites will send their champions to the agency’s first-ever debate tournament on Tuesday, March 15, World Speech Day. The students have been preparing arguments about the issue of gentrification in their neighborhoods and will…
Read More »NEW YORK, NY On January 14, 2016, Grand St. Settlement announced its selection as a host organization for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program, a career-building fellowship initiative designed to expand the reach of doctoral education in the humanities. A recent PhD…
Read More »NEW YORK, NY On Saturday, November 21st, Grand St. Settlement will join Disney Friends for Change and generationOn to engage families in acts of service in celebration of Family Volunteer Day. For 25 years, Family Volunteer Day has been held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving to “kick-off” the holiday…
Read More »NEW YORK, NY On Saturday, September 26th, 100 days before its 100th year, Grand St. Settlement will throw a celebration to bring together hundreds of New Yorkers in the name of jump-starting the changes they want to see in communities across New York City. Beginning at…
Read More »NEW YORK, NY The Grand St. Settlement Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Robert Cordero as executive director of the historic human services nonprofit. Prior to joining Grand St. Settlement, Cordero was President and Chief Program Officer of BOOM!Health, the product of…
Read More »NEW YORK, NY Margarita Rosa, Executive Director of Grand St. Settlement since May 15, 1995, has announced that she will step down from that position to continue her work in the field of social justice advocacy. She will join the National Center for Law and Economic…
Read More »WASHINGTON, D.C. During the White House Summit on Early Education, held in December of 2014, President Obama named Grand St. Settlement a leader in the field of early education, honoring the historic agency with a multi-million dollar opportunity to share its expertise with other education and…
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