WIDE RAINBOW COMMUNITY PARTNERS

The schools, shelters, and community centers we serve.

LOWER MANHATTAN

PS/MS 188 The Island School

PS/MS 188 has embraced the families in this corner of the Lower East Side for over 15 years and through three administrations. We hold a heartfelt and unwavering commitment to providing the resources and services our children need to succeed academically and to helping our families thrive. There is no lottery; there are no turn-aways.

Girls Prep Middle School

An all-girls school of Public Prep, the nation’s first non-profit network that exclusively develops exceptional, tuition free public schools. With a 100% graduation rate, Girl’s Prep places equal emphasis on character development, college knowledge, and academic excellence through an integrated curriculum.

The Lower East Side Girls Club

A community center and safe haven for girls. Provides programs in the arts, sciences, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness to help members overcome adversity, perceive opportunity, develop self-confidence, make ethical decisions and healthy life choices, thrive academically, embrace leadership, and enter college or the workforce as fully prepared and connected adults.

Sixth Street Community Center

Founded in 1978 by a group of single mothers, the Sixth Street Community Center is committed to empowering the community and celebrating diversity, offering a variety of after school youth programs focused on sustainable agriculture, health and nutrition, life skills and career development.

Safe Horizon/Streetwork

A drop-in shelter and safe haven for homeless youth to help them seek stability by providing daily necessities, medical care, legal assistance, mental and sexual health services, linkages to emergency shelters and housing advocacy.

P.S. 15 The Roberto Clemente School

PS 15 is a small school in the East Village. We have a committed and caring staff that works together to provide a rich education for our students. Our students are known well by staff members and enjoy personalized attention.

Women’s Prison Association

WPA works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement. They promote alternatives to incarceration for women living in the community to avoid arrest or incarceration. Inside prison and jail, they are a source of support to women as they plan for release. After incarceration, women come to WPA for help to build the lives they want for themselves and their families in the community.

Avenues for Justice in Lower Eastside

Established in 1979 with the mission to keep youth out of prison in a supervised program that provides court advocacy, tutoring and mentorship, and gets participants the drug, alcohol and mental health treatment, and job training they need to succeed. More than 90% of their graduates never commit another crime.

PS 34 - Franklin D Roosevelt

PS/MS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt School’s mission to transform our community by developing culturally responsive and sustaining practices that center students over standards. We will build partnerships with students so we can find creative solutions to local, national, and global community challenges. Our school environment will have student work in every space so we can celebrate our learning.

BROOKLYN

The Young Women’s Leadership School of Brooklyn

Established in 2008, TYWLS is part of the Young Women’s Leadership Network at PS-147 whose mission is to nurture the intellectual curiosity and creativity of young women by supporting the “whole girl” in order to maximize academic achievement, social-emotional well-being, and postsecondary success.

Sanctuary for Families

In love there is no violence. Sanctuary for Families is dedicated to the safety, healing and self-determination of victims of domestic violence and related forms of gender violence.

Brighter Choice Community School in Brooklyn

At Brighter Choice Community School, our mission is student learning. We pursue this objective within a safe, fun yet, rigorous learning environment that nurtures and promotes critical thinking skills.

Red Hook Recreation Center

Originally built for the families of dockworkers, the Red Hook Houses opened in 1938 as the first high-rise public housing complex constructed in the city. During the same era, the Redhook Recreation Area officially opened. The Redhook Recreation Center serves the community through afterschool programs and summer camps.

PS 147 Bushwick

The mission of Public School 147 is to provide authentic learning experiences. We aspire to ensure that each individual achieves his/her fullest potential.

QUEENS

Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement

Founded in 1889, Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement is a community-based non-profit providing social, cultural, educational and health programs to youth, families, immigrants and seniors in the western Queens community.

Urban Upbound

Urban Upbound serves public housing residents and other low-income New Yorkers to break cycles of poverty. They provide clients with employment services, financial counseling, income support services, financial inclusion, and community revitalization.

PS171Q/Peter Van Alst

The mission at Peter G. Van Alst is to promote excellence and provide their students with a quality education and rich academic experiences in cooperation with parents and community, so that they can move forward with knowledge, self-confidence and joy to take their rightful places in the world.

P.S. 76Q The William Hallet School

Administrators, teachers and paraprofessionals are committed to professional development to ensure that high-impact teaching pushes students to reach their fullest potential. They work to offer students an individually tailored, Common Core-aligned educational experience in the least restrictive environment that will meet their physical, social, emotional and academic needs.

P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School

Our mission at Community School 111Q Jacob Blackwell is to create a culturally responsive environment that is equitable in which our scholars are prepared for rigor and independent learning through equity and access to the curriculum.

HARLEM

Avenues for Justice in East Harlem

Safe Horizon

Safe Horizon, formerly the Victim Services Agency, is the largest victim services nonprofit organization in the United States, providing social services for victims of abuse and violent crime in 57 locations throughout the five boroughs of New York.

Mosaic Preparatory Academy

Mosaic Preparatory Academy’s vision is to develop scholarly leaders who are respectful of themselves and their community by providing all scholars with leadership tools gained from a rigorous instructional program that promotes equity, justice and the joy of learning and leading social change.

PS/MS 007 Samuel Stern School

Our vision is to create, develop and nurture an academic and emotionally supportive campus environment that prepares all students from 3-K to eighth grade for the highest level of achievement in high school, college, and careers aligned to their own personal and professional goals.

P.S. 75 Emily Dickinson

Provide students with the necessary skills, knowledge and tools to be creative problem solvers, independent thinkers and caring and empathetic global citizens.

THE BRONX

Urban Scholars Community School

The Urban Scholars Community School, (PS 463) is one of 21 schools designated as a Rise School and transitioning out of the Renewal Schools Program. With a focus on social-emotional needs and the development of a "one-stop shop" for families, the school community has seen incredible gains over the last three years.

Sanctuary for Families

In love there is no violence. Sanctuary for Families is dedicated to the safety, healing and self-determination of victims of domestic violence and related forms of gender violence.

The Bronx Academy for Multi-Media (Hunts Point Middle School)

Hunts Point Middle School, also called The Bronx Academy for Multi-Media, has long struggled with poor attendance and low levels of academic achievement. A popular principal, David Vazquez, the fourth school leader in eight years, and his staff are working hard to turn things around.

P.S. 138 Samuel Randall School

P.S. 138 Samuel Randall in Castle Hill is a neighborhood school serving grades 3-K through 5.

PS 109 The Sedgwick School

PS 109 sets out to meet and exceed the learning needs of the students. We are dedicated to working together with the community to ensure that each student reaches their potential.

PS 311 Lucero Elementary School

We Practice PEACE.

LONG ISLAND

Ma’s House

A Space For BIPOC Artists located on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, NY. The health disparities and economic injustice within minority communities that have become clear during the COVID-19 pandemic and rise of social justice activism against police brutality, bigotry, and systemic racism show a deep urgency for artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color (BIPOC) to have safe spaces for free creativity and healing.

LOS ANGELES

Century Park Elementary School

Century Park will provide an equitable, inclusive, academically rigorous, and culturally relevant environment where all students can succeed. Stakeholders will collaborate to promote joy in academic excellence, integrating restorative practices to ensure the social emotional well-being of our scholars. Students will graduate as empowered community members who are ready for the world.

Diego Rivera Learning Complex

Provides specialized public education for youth in the Los Angeles Unified School District through four network high schools, including the Public Service Community School (PSCS), Communication and Technology School (CATS), Green Design STEAM Academy (GDSA), and Performing Arts Community School (PACS).

Castelar Street Elementary School

Founded with the vision to provide all students equal access to the curriculum and instruction in the development of life-long learners who will be career and college ready. Castelar Elementary educates the largest number of Indochinese refugees of any school in the district.

Southeast Asian Community Center Alliance (SEACA LA)

Established in 2002, SEACA LA began as a youth leadership program and now includes youth organizing, creative arts and self-expression, health and community building through food and gardening. SEACA supports community members in creating new and culturally relevant solutions to deep-rooted social, economic, and racial justice issues impacting the Southeast Asian community.

Downtown Women’s Center

Founded in 1978, The Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) is the only organization in Los Angeles focused exclusively on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness and formerly homeless women. DWC provides permanent supportive housing and programs in health and wellness, workforce development, and advocacy for change.

Project Access

Envisions that all residents of affordable housing communities have the opportunity to achieve self-sufficiency and maximize their full potential. To be the leading provider of vital on-site health, education, and employment services to families, children, and seniors living in affordable housing communities.

DETROIT

Thirkell Elementary School

A journey based on a deep commitment to attaining student success, both academically and socially, with continuous improvement and an attitude to strive to be the best. Students Rise. We all Rise.