The following is a list of some of our past and current clients. Click on the links to read
project summaries and testimonials. Click here to see a list of public school partners.
NYC Public School Partners
The following is a list of some of the New York City public schools we’ve worked with directly or through our non-profit and corporate clients:
ACCESS
Center School
Food and Finance High School
Flushing High
PS 323 Frederick Douglass High School
Heritage School
High School for Hospitality Management
High School for Law, Government, and Justice
John Jay High School
Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School
McKee High School
Metropolitan Corporate Academy
New Dorp High
IS 117 BBMS Middle
PS 22 Elementary
PS 327 Teachers Preparatory High School
WATCH High School
Asian Professional Extension
Asian Professional Extension, Inc. (APEX) is dedicated to promoting the
development of inner-city Asian American youth by providing them with adult role
models, educational programs, social services, and career guidance. APEX hired
Owen Consulting to provide outcome evaluation services for their Mentoring and
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Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston
The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston is to help boys and girls, generally
from disadvantaged circumstances, develop the qualities needed to become responsible
citizens and leaders. When the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club installed a climbing
wall in their facility, they turned to Owen Consulting for technical assistance. Our
program development and staff training enabled the club to provide quality adventure
programming to hundreds of youth from the local community.
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Broadway Housing Communities
Broadway Housing Communities (BHC) is a New York City non-profit housing developer committed to providing innovative permanent housing and programs for individuals and families in the greatest need. BHC hired Owen Consulting to provide mentor training and technical assistance to their youth mentoring program.
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Carter Burden Center
The Carter Burden Center for the Aging, Inc.
promotes the well-being of elderly residents of the Upper East Side of Manhattan
through a broad array of direct social services and volunteer programs oriented
to individual, family and community needs. The Center hired Owen Consulting to
assist with their ongoing fundraising efforts. Our services include prospect
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Central Park Conservancy
Owen Consulting helped the Conservancy (CPC) strengthen two of its innovative youth programs,
The Ascent Program and Central Park Scholars by providing technical assistance and evaluation services.
Owen Consulting was instrumental in helping CPC re-design and expand Ascent, an after school rock climbing and experiential education program for youth at risk. When CPC received a three-year grant from the Luce foundation to grow the program, they hired Owen Consulting to help them realize their goals. Our technical assistance, training, development of school partnerships, and evaluation services enabled the Conservancy to turn a six-day course into a comprehensive nine-month program serving forty youth from the TIME and Heritage schools in East Harlem. Outcome evaluation of the pilot program suggests that participants made significant gains in targeted areas. Findings included the following:
Students' grades in core academic subjects improved more than a letter grade on average.
Students were more likely to seek adult support and guidance when dealing with a problem.
Students were more likely to believe in themselves and to improve social skills and their ability to relate with others.
Owen Consulting is also providing technical assistance and evaluation services for CPC’s
Central Park Scholars program over the 2007-2008 academic year. “Scholars” uses Central Park as a classroom to provide urban youth with innovative educational experiences to help them succeed. In addition to assisting CPC with redesign of program goals and content, we’re helping them measure participant outcomes in targeted educational and developmental areas.
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Chelsea Piers
Every summer, Chelsea Piers in New York City, Manhattan's premier destination for youth sports, is home to almost 2,000 campers from ages 3 to 17. The Sports Center hired Owen Consulting to lead guided, off-site adventure education programming for their Urban Adventures Camp.
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Children’s Aid Society
From adoption and foster care to health services and education, The Children's Aid Society (CAS) is on the front lines of services to New York City's underserved children and families, providing cutting-edge programs in community centers, camps, public schools, family courts and even in children's own homes. Owen Consulting provided strategic planning, professional development, and outcome evaluation services to the CAS Bronx Next Generation Teen Center.
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Comprehensive Development Inc.
The non-profit Comprehensive Development Inc. (CDI) partners with Manhattan
Comprehensive Night and Day School to give older, at-risk students access to
critically-needed social services free of charge that include counseling,
tutoring, college and career training, health care services and more. Owen
Consulting is helping CDI evaluate academic, social, and process outcomes for
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Educating Communities for Parenting
Based in Philadelphia, Educating Communities for Parenting (ECP) is dedicated to helping youngsters understand the need to be caring compassionate individuals now and nurturing responsible adults in the future. ECP hired Owen Consulting to design and implement a comprehensive outcome evaluation for its adjudicated youth programming. Back to Top
Educational Development Center (ALMA)
The Educational Development Center (EDC) is an international, non-profit organization with more than 335 projects dedicated to enhancing learning, promoting health, and fostering a deeper understanding of the world. One such project is ALMA, the Adult Literacy Media Alliance, a national provider of innovative technology-based literacy materials for adult learners. ALMA brought in Owen Consulting to evaluate the impact of its multi-media educational materials on adult learners who read at a 4th-8th grade (pre-GED) level.
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Educators for Children, Youth, and Families
ECYF is a not-for-profit, community-based organization which provides a broad range of academic, artistic, athletic, cultural, vocational, and supportive social services to public school students and their families. ECYF has brought in Owen Consulting to conduct program and outcome evaluation of its Adolescent Family Life Project, a federally-funded “healthy lifestyles” program serving middle and high school students living in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
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Federation Employment Guidance Service (F•E•G•S)
Based in New York City, F•E•G•S is the largest and most diversified private, not-for-profit health related and human service organization in the United States. F•E•G•S Education and Youth Services programs, which reach thousands of young people each year, offer creative and innovative solutions to address a diverse range of educational, family, personal and employment needs throughout the Greater Metropolitan NYC area. F•E•G•S hired Owen Consulting to provide strategic planning, technical assistance, and comprehensive outcome evaluation for Bronx-based youth development and work-force development initiatives. The site-based programs support out-of-school youth and youth aging out of foster care through a range of services and opportunities.
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Harlem Educational Activities Fund
The Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) is a comprehensive college preparatory program that helps motivated students develop the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to ensure success in school, career and life. The HEAF Continuum identifies scholars in middle schools and supports and develops those scholars academically and socially until they graduate from college through a variety of after-school, Saturday and summer educational and youth development programs. The Fund brought in Owen Consulting to provide professional development for administrative and direct service staff to address organizational challenges and develop strategies for working together effectively.
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The HOPE Program
HOPE serves New Yorkers whose lives have been shattered by poverty. They
provide job readiness instruction, work internships, computer training, GED
classes, breakfast, lunch, clothing, and emergency grants. HOPE brought in Owen
Consulting to assist with curriculum design for a workforce development program
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Institute for Student Achievement
The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) is a not-for-profit organization that works in partnership with high schools to enable at-risk students to stay in school, graduate, and go on to college and the world of work. Since 1998, a major Wall Street Investment bank has been working with ISA to provide Metropolitan Corporate Academy high school (a Brooklyn-based NYC public school) with financial support and a work-based mentoring program. ISA hired Owen Consulting in 1999 to help strengthen the mentoring program that matches MCA students with employees from the firm. Since then our team has been providing technical assistance, training, support, and evaluation services to the partnership on an ongoing basis. The award-winning mentoring program now demonstrates the following:
Higher match retention
Higher percentage of long-term matches
Increased participant satisfaction
Improved mentoring relationships
Positive mentor and mentee outcomes
"Owen Consulting was not only the right organization at the right time (the school, ISA, and the Major Wall Street Investment Bank were in the process of revamping the mentoring program) but they possessed an expert arsenal of tools to go along with the necessary flexibility and adaptability we required. From the beginning, Dave sought to fashion a program that fit with and around our prevailing constraints and requirements. He and his colleagues are so well grounded in youth development theory and Mentoring practice that it gave me, the administrator, permission to not be the expert on the best approaches. Owen Consulting new how to actually build the program and how to make it work. There is no overestimating how valuable a skill that is to a busy manager.
Furthermore, Dave and his consultants moved easily between the various "spheres" required to form an effective mentoring program, working with staff at the highest levels of the Firm, our at-risk students, teachers at the school, and the mentee's parents. They are expert at speaking the different "languages" necessary to run the program (corporate, education, youth development, etc.), and always keep in mind the chief goal: Assisting young people to succeed.
As a direct result of Owen Consulting's involvement with the MCA Corporate Mentoring Program, it is stronger than it has ever been and, more importantly, many more young people's lives are being positively impacted than would otherwise be the case."
- Terry Bowman, Director, MCA Corporate Mentoring Program
Liberty Partnership Program at Bank Street College
The Liberty Partnership Program (LPP) at Bank Street College provides an alternative
learning environment in which adolescents can experience success as learners and increase
their motivation to complete high school, enter college, and gain meaningful
employment. LPP chose Owen Consulting to design and lead adventure-based teambuilding
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MAGI Educational Services
MAGI is a comprehensive consulting firm that provides high quality professional services to a diversified range of clients including all levels of public and private education, health, social service agencies, and businesses. MAGI is currently conducting an evaluation of New York State’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) policies statewide. To support their evaluation efforts, MAGI brought in Owen Consulting to conduct site visits, constituent interviews, focus groups, and reporting on select CTE programs (BOCES and school districts) in the greater Rochester and Buffalo areas.
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Mentoring Partnership of New York
An affiliate of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, Inc. the Mentoring Partnership of New York (MPNY) helps individuals and groups from different sectors to become involved in mentoring opportunities for youth. MPNY works with over 170 community-based and faith-based mentoring programs that mentor young boys & girls throughout New York City.
The Partnership has hired Owen Consulting to help them achieve their goals in several capacities:
Corporate Youth Mentoring Programs: Technical Assistance and Training Owen Consulting is assisting with the design, implementation, and evaluation of work-based mentoring programs for several of MPNY’s corporate partners:
Bank of America
Credit Suisse Asset Management
Royal Bank of Scotland
Time Warner
Turner Broadcasting
Evaluation We helped MPNY with data analysis and reporting for
their "State of Mentoring, New York City" report, which provides an
in-depth overview of mentoring programs operating in NYC. The report
examines the number and type of mentoring programs in NYC,
demographics of the youth population being served, the financial costs
of mentoring, operational challenges, and assesses effective practices
being implemented citywide.
"Owen Consulting has been a tremendous help to all of the Mentors here at Credit Suisse Asset Management. As the program coordinator and a Mentor, I truly appreciate all the help provided to our group by Dave Owen & Owen Consulting. They have helped us work with the staff at the school as well as connect with the students in ways we would not have thought of. They are inventive, resourceful and possess a deep understanding and enthusiasm for mentoring. Hats off to Owen Consulting!!"
-- Kenneth M. Wallace, Vice President, Information Technology, Credit Suisse Asset Management
"Never having been a part of a mentoring program, I was definitely in need of assistance. Dave Owen became my life preserver. His patience and expertise allowed me to feel comfortable in getting the program started. His skills showed quickly at the trainings. He was as comfortable with the kids as he was with the adults. When it came time to match up the participants, Dave’s instincts were right on target. The pairs he helped establish in October have flourished since the beginning. Dave continues to be my most valuable resource whenever I need support. He has been an invaluable asset to our program and I’m sure will be to all others with whom he works."
-- Ted Schechter, Program Coordinator, Royal Bank of Scotland/First Tee Mentoring Program
"Dave Owen is a captivating presenter. He had all of CSAM's participating employees and managers engaged and interested from the start of the mentor training to the very end. His direct experiences with NYC's youth and his mentoring tips are extremely invaluable to our mentors!"
-- Rosangela Perna, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources, Credit Suisse Asset Management Back to Top
Mentoring USA
Mentoring USA (MUSA) provides structured, one-to-one mentoring to particularly "at risk" populations: young children who are at risk of educational failure, children in foster care, children who have been involved with the juvenile justice system, and children who have been homeless or have recently immigrated to this country. MUSA hired Owen Consulting to support their programming in several capacities:
Mentor / Mentee Workshops
Owen Consulting provided outcome evaluation, violence prevention, diversity training, and music and arts programming for its B.R.A.V.E. Juliana (Bias Related Anti-Violence Education) initiative. Our consultants facilitated workshops for mentors and mentees at eighteen sites throughout the five boroughs of New York City aimed at fostering effective relationships and increasing cultural understanding between pairs.
Outcome Evaluation
MUSA retained Owen Consulting to provide a three-year outcome evaluation for four of their school-based mentoring programs funded by a grant from the US Department of Education. Our services for the project include:
Evaluation design based on program needs and Mentoring Best Practices
Survey development
Assistance with survey administration
Creation of evaluation data base
Analysis and reporting on survey and qualitative data
Mentoring USA fortunately collaborated with Owen Consulting and hired their team to provide outcome evaluation and lead workshops for our mentor/mentee pairs related to our BRAVE (Bias Related Anti-Violence Education) Juliana component. Their workshops on Conflict Resolution and Diversity Through Songwriting were not only engaging, but also informative and fun for all! We also appreciated the evaluation they conducted for the BRAVE Juliana component.
-- Matilda Raffa Cuomo, Founder and Chairperson, Mentoring USA Back to Top
New York City Administration for Children Services (ACS) Central Mentoring
Office
The Central Mentoring Office at the NYC Administration for Children Services
(ACS) is committed to creating and sustaining meaningful and potentially
long-lasting relationships between caring adults and youth in foster care. ACS
hired Owen Consulting Inc. to help evaluate the impact and efficacy of mentor
and coordinator training-workshops offered through its Mentoring Institute and
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New York City Department of Education
Owen Consulting provides technical assistance, training, evaluation, and professional development services to various offices within the City’s Department of Education (DOE).
Academic Intervention Services
In partnership with the Literacy Assistance Center of New York, Owen Consulting
is an
approved vendor to provide Academic Intervention Services system-wide
throughout the NYCDOE. We can provide a range of professional development
workshops and services including effective educational approaches, teambuilding,
and experiential learning techniques. Our team is
available to
provide coaching at the regional, school, and classroom levels on strategies for
implementation of reading instruction and differentiated learning theory and
methods. Coaching can include leadership development for school administrators
on ways they can encourage and support the introduction of these new approaches
to learning. Please
contact us if your school or district is interested in learning more about
how we can provide Academic Intervention Services.
Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation (Young Adult Borough Centers)
In partnership with the Literacy Assistance Center, Owen Consulting is facilitating collaborative leadership development for site-based staff at a Young Adult Borough Centers (YABC). YABC’s are evening programs designed specifically to meet the needs of high school students 17 years or older who have some of the credits they need to graduate but might be considering dropping out because they are behind or they have adult responsibilities that make attending school in the daytime difficult. Students earn a high school diploma from their sending high school once they have earned all of their credits and passed exams required for graduation at the YABC.
Office of Strategic Partnerships
The Department of Education's Office of Strategic Partnerships' New York City Mentoring Program (NYCMP) oversees and provides technical assistance to more than 50 business/school partnership mentoring programs within the New York City public school system. The NYCMP hired Owen Consulting to perform a comprehensive evaluation of their program. Our data collection, analysis, and reporting helped the NYCMP measure program impact, identify participant outcomes, highlight effective practices, and target areas for improvement.
Queens Office of Youth Development
Under our System Wide Evaluation Contract with the DOE, The Queens Office of Youth Development hired Owen Consulting to perform an evaluation of the State-funded
Extended School day and Violence Prevention Programs (ESD/SVP) in District 27. The purpose of the evaluation was to identify program/partnership challenges and “best practices” in order to strengthen overall design and implementation.
System-wide Evaluation Services
In the fall of 2005 Owen Consulting was selected by the DOE office of Purchasing and Management as an
approved vendor to provide system-wide program evaluation services to schools and school-partnership programs operating City-wide. While we provide general assessment services, our evaluation expertise includes Mentoring, Youth Development, Early Childhood, Literacy, and Professional Development. Please contact us if you are interested in learning more about the evaluation services we can provide to your public school-based program.
Owen Consulting provides valuable assessment and training services
that meets the needs of our program. In addition, the professionalism
and flexibility by which the company conducts business is an
appreciated strength.
-- Lori Mastromauro, Program Manager, New York City Mentoring Program, New York City Department of Education Back to Top
New York Citywide School to Work Alliance
The New York Citywide School to Work Alliance provides information, resources,
training, and opportunities for employers to develop high quality school to work
activities by facilitating partnership with schools and community organizations.
Owen Consulting assisted the Alliance with design and implementation of "The
Leadership Training Institute for Workplace Success in the 21st Century," a
three-day professional development seminar for out-of-school youth program directors
and service providers. The Alliance also contracted with us to design and lead
teambuilding programming for students and faculty of McKee high school in Staten
Island as part of their "High Schools that Work" initiative.
The New York Citywide School to Work Alliance has collaborated with Owen Consulting on numerous projects and we have seen firsthand how successfully their team works with a range of individuals; from urban youth to adult public employees and private sector business professionals. Dave Owen and his team have demonstrated a deep knowledge of youth development and education that ranges from hands-on to theoretical. We’ve been impressed with their skill at program planning, design, and development and were very pleased with their thorough and detail-oriented implementation, as well as the overall quality of their work. Their expertise is only matched by their level of enthusiasm for what they do.
- Tom Pendleton, Executive Director, the New York Citywide School to Work Alliance. Back to Top
Prospect Park YMCA
The YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization which promotes
positive values through programs that build spirit, mind and body, welcoming all
people with a focus on youth. The Prospect Park YMCA in Brooklyn
retained Owen Consulting to provide professional development to program
staff and technical assistance for their after-school programming.
Through a combination of hands-on team-building activities and
program development workshops, Owen Consulting helped us to build
stronger working relationships and address key organizational
problems. The workshop was a catalyst for effective communication and
created a positive framework for planning new community programs. I
highly recommend Owen Consulting as a unique resource for youth
serving organizations to engage in strategic planning, consider key
organizational issues and build trust and communication among staff.
-- Sean Andrews, Director, Prospect Park YMCA Back to Top
Red Hook Community Justice Center
A project of the New York State Unified Court System, the Brooklyn-based Red Hook Community Justice Center is the nations’ first multi-jurisdictional community court and houses a range of services on-site, available free of charge to members of the community. The Center has hired Owen Consulting to help develop curricula and design evaluation instruments for its T.E.A.C.H. program, a federally-funded peer education HIV and substance abuse prevention program.
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Reelworks Teen Filmmaking Lab
Reel Works Teen Filmmaking puts the power of filmmaking into the hands of inner city teens. Armed with cameras and a need to be heard, students learn that their stories count. The Young Filmmakers Lab at the Prospect Park YMCA is a free after-school program where Brooklyn high school students create short documentary films about their lives. Working one-on-one with professional filmmaker-mentors, students write, shoot and edit their own films. Owen Consulting is helping the Lab strengthen its mentoring program by providing technical assistance, training, and evaluation services.
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South Brooklyn Health Center
The South Brooklyn Health Center is a not-for-profit ambulatory health care facility that has served the Red Hook Community and surrounding neighborhoods since 1968. Owen Consulting is providing the center with training and professional development in cultural competence, group dynamics, and psychodynamic counseling to their HIV Prevention and Primary Care teams on an ongoing basis.
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Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) is a nonprofit organization that was
founded in 1963 as one of New York City's first mentoring programs for high
school students of color. Over the past four decades SEO has expanded its
programs to benefit more than 5,000 young people, helping them develop
throughout high school, college, and their careers. SEO hired Owen Consulting
to provide technical assistance and training for its mentoring program.
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Staten Island Economic Development Corporation
The mission of the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation (SIEDC) is to create a
thriving Staten Island economy by promoting public and private investment, encouraging the
development of industrial and commercial property and providing broad and diverse employment
opportunities. Owen Consulting was selected by the SIEDC to help create and launch their
Institute for Job Training and Customer Service, a workforce development initiative for
local high school seniors and out-of-school youth.
Owen Consulting took our good idea and showed us how to make it into a great program. They
brought together diverse leaders from the business and education worlds, synthesized their
expectations, and provided a road map to success. Our Job Training Institute would not exist
had we not worked with Owen Consulting.
-- Vin Lenza, Associate Director, Staten Island Economic Development Corporation
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Stoked Mentoring
Stoked is an action sports mentoring organization with the mission of developing “Successful Teens with Opportunity, Knowledge, Experience and Determination" through action sports, mentoring, and coaching. Bringing together “at-risk” youth and successful professional adults to learn a new non-traditional sport, (Such as Skate Boarding, Snow Boarding and Surfing) Stoked’s programs serve as the groundwork and means for enhancing mentoring relationships and introduces coaching skills and tools that elicit the best from both parties. Owen Consulting is helping Stoked with strategic planning, program development, evaluation, and fund raising.
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United Nations Task Force on Adolescents & Youth
The interagency Task Force was comprised of representatives from multiple UN agencies including UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and WHO. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The Task Force selected Owen Consulting to help create a youth-driven National Human Development Report to examine the challenges and opportunities facing young people in the Maldives. Our Principal assisted UN staff and Maldivian youth with participatory research design, implementation, and reporting. The collaboratively produced report, entitled “Youth Voices,” was released in 2006. Back to Top
Urban Assembly The Urban Assembly
The Urban Assembly is a non-profit organization
dedicated to creating small, public, college-preparatory high schools that
provide high quality education to students who would otherwise attend large,
factory style, under-performing schools. Owen Consulting provided technical
assistance and mentor and mentee trainings to corporate youth mentoring programs
based at several UA schools. Corporate partners included the following:
WATCH High School (Brownsville Multi-Service Center)
The WATCH school is a New Century public high school partnered with the Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Since 2003, WATCH has retained Owen Consulting to design and lead adventure-based teambuilding courses for its incoming and returning classes each fall. We have also led Professional Development workshop for teachers and assisted school leadership with evaluation. Back to Top
YMCA of Greater New York
The YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that build spirit, mind and body, welcoming all people with a focus on youth since 1852. Over the years the Y has hired Owen Consulting to provide evaluation and grant writing services for multiple projects:
Evaluation
The YMCA selected Owen Consulting to design and implement comprehensive outcome
evaluations for programming at sites funded through the federal 21st Century
Community Learning Center initiative. The US Department of Education-funded
program provides expanded academic enrichment and youth development
opportunities for children attending low performing schools.
Grant Writing Our team of expert grant writers has helped the
YMCA of Greater New York win millions of dollars in federal, state, and city
government grants to support single and multi-year initiatives serving youth and
families in
New York City.
