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Adopt a Child - Information on foster care, adoption, and child welfare services in New York City including hotline numbers.
Advocates for Adoption - New York State approved agency. Description of services offered, mission statement, and information for birthmothers and adoptive parents.
Americans for the Arts - National organization that supports the arts and culture through private and public resource development.
Armenian Network of America - Provides events and services to help the community advance professionally. The Network currently operates in 5 regions - Boston, Chicago, New York, Southern California and Washington.
ASPCA - Promotes humane principles, prevents cruelty, and alleviates pain, fear and suffering of animals through nationwide information, awareness and advocacy programs.
Fresh Youth Initiatives - Support and encourage the efforts of young people in Washington Heights to design and carry out community service projects, develop leadership skills and fulfill their maximum potential.
Grand Street Settlement - Provides a vast array of services and programs including child care, Head Start, troubled and pregnant teenagers, employment training, and senior citizen outreach. Information includes details of programs and volunteer opportunities.
Help USA - Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged - A non profit organization whose mission is to help those who are homeless and others in need become and remain self-reliant. Information covers services, events, and success stories.
Hudson River Park Trust - A joint NY State and City organization whose mission is to design, build and operate a five-mile park from Battery Park to 59th Street. Includes project overview, virtual park, and contact information.
Karmic Relief - Renowned astrologer, Shelley Ackerman provides information on class schedules, special events, commentaries, and readings.
North American Federation of Temple Youth - The representatives of the Reform Jewish youth groups, in order to provide unified projects in the area of Jewish endeavor, to broaden the scope of and enrich the activities in the realms of Jewish learning service and culture.
The Richport East Villager - A collection of essays and short stories about aspects of Puerto Rican culture from a New York perspective.
The Shadow - An anarchist counterculture zine from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The Vermeer Homeowners Web Site - For the residents of the Vermeer apartments located at 77 Seventh Avenue in New York City.
YMCA of Greater New York - Descriptions of their facilities and programs at their five Manhattan branches.

Brooklyn Executive Business Women's Association - Profile, membership, sponsors, calendar, newsletter, contact information.
Coalition for Hispanic Family Services - Community-based comprehensive family service agency based in North Brooklyn. Services include bilingual (English/Spanish) community based foster care, housing advocacy, education and training, and HIV/AIDS services.
Darcy Woodall - Elemental Astrology - Fort Greene. Astrology services. Includes class information and schedule.
The Evergreens Cemetery - Offers family lots, single graves, an urn garden, community and private mausoleums. Located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. Lists famous people buried here and provides schedule for walking tours.
Ukrainian American Veterans Post 27 - Post history, and contact details.

Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation - Provides housing, job training, childcare, youth programs, and supportive services to low-income women and their families. Features history, programs, initiatives, awards, and press.
The Achelis Foundation - Awards grants to nonprofit organizations in NYC for a wide range of charitable purposes.
Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (ART) - A not-for-profit organization, founded in 1979, representing a diverse group of more than 330 archivists, librarians, and records managers. Aims to educate the public about the legal, historical and cultural value of public and private archives and manuscript collections through such events as archives week and family history fair, and to provide monthly meetings on issues of concern, and continuing education workshops and professional education opportunities for members.
Asian Americans For Equality, Inc. - Aims to improve the quality of life for ethnic and immigrant communities in NYC. Housing development, homeownership, comprehensive social services, civil rights, and technical assistance.
Brennan Center for Justice - Uses scholarship, public education, and legal action to find solutions to problems in the areas of democracy, poverty, and criminal justice. Includes a calendar of events and donation information.
Cab Watch - Non-profit organization provides taxi drivers with free 911 only wireless phones, police training, and highly visible signage create the world's largest blockwatch on wheels.
Camp Minisink Alumni - Former campers, cadets, feathermen, taps, warriors meet on the 'net. Message board, chat room, current events.
CEC International Partners - Works with artists, art managers and museums in the US, Russia, the NIS and former Eastern Bloc; helps individuals and organizations to combine their efforts and address issues of mutual concern.
Chi Delta Mu of Tri Ess - A support group open to all heterosexual crossdressers and spouses. Meetings are held monthly on the second Saturday of the month.
Chinatown Community Young Lions - Founded in order to create a cultural program that would enable kids between the ages of 6 to 17 to participate and learn the traditions of Asian culture without having to join the so-called associations. It performs the Lion Dance at weddings, events and during the Chinese New Year holiday. Includes photo gallery, chinese New Year dates and contact information.
The CityKids Foundation Online - Youth outreach programs, training and counseling for inner city kids. Includes profile, news, directions, and programs.
Citymeals - Provides home-delivered nutritious meals for homebound elderly New Yorkers on weekends, holidays, and times of emergency, when these vulnerable seniors would otherwise go without food.
Classroom, Inc. - A not-for-profit corporation that helps students in their transition from school to the external world. Providers of software to school children simulating a real workplace environment.
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families - Has various resources on health and social service needs for residents of the New York City area.
Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City - Serving New York City senior service providers and senior citizens with advocacy, programs, special events, technical assistance and access to benefits.
The CUNY Catch Program - Established in 1991 to provide transitional services for inmates returning from Rikers Island to their home Communities.
Delta Chapter of Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Incorporated - Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc. is a greek letter organization established at Cornell in 1988. The Delta chapter is located at New York University in NYC.
DirectFund Foundation - A non profit organization that raises critically needed funds for Bugando Medical Center, an 800-bed hospital in Tanzania that serves as a lifeline for 8 million impoverished people - half of them children.
DSNY Columbia Association - Fraternal association of Italian-American sanitation workers of the New York City Department of Sanitation (Department of Sanitation New York). Provides meetings, events and employment resources.
Earth Celebrations - Non-profit organization preserving the community gardens in New York City through art projects, performance, and theatrical pageants.
Emerald Society - Preserves ethnic heritage, promotes career development and provides enjoyable social activities, while encouraging education.
Episcopal Social Services - Services for children in foster care, including counseling in an after-school program and in-home counseling for children with developmental delays and other mental health problems.
The Family Center - Provides services for children whose parents have life-threatening illnesses. Includes publications, job bank.
First Continental Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution - Membership and event information for local chapter of organization of descendents of Revolutionary War participants.
Food Bank For New York City - Warehouses and distributes free food. Includes donation instructions, how to help, corporate opportunities, research reports and agency directory.
For the Love of Animals - Rescues unwanted animals from streets of New York City. Press coverage, mission, donation form, out-reach activities.
Goddard Riverside Community Center - Services for all ages from pre-school to the elderly, including youth programs, housing programs, arts, and outreach to and services for the homeless.
Goddesses BBW Parties - NYC parties and evets for big beautiful women and admirers since 1984.
Good Shepherds - A not-for-profit, social service and youth development agency that serves over 10,000 New York City children and families annually.
Graham-Windham Services - A non-profit, non-sectarian agency in New York City providing child care, foster care, mental health and early childhood services.
HELP USA - Provider of jobs, homes and services for the homeless.
Housing First - A coalition of civic, community, business, religious and labor leaders committed to addressing the challenge of the city's affordable housing crisis. Provides information and resources on the need for affordable housing and solutions that work.
ICL - The Institute for Community Living - Assists people with mental and developmental disabilities by providing services and support.
The Institute for Urban Family Health - Offers health professional education and family-centered health care to New York City's diverse population. Includes organizational development, family practice residency program and health related projects.
Joel S. Pollack Foundation - Mission is to provide funds to underprivileged children.
Kiwi Club of New York City - Promotes cultural, educational and business contacts between New York and New Zealand. Event announcements, photos from past events, membership information.
Korean American Family Services Center - Helps Korean American families prevent domestic violence; includes news and number for 24-hour hotline.
Literacy Assistance Center, New York City, NY (LACNYC) - A not-for-profit organization that provides essential referral, training, information and technical assistance services to hundreds of adult and youth literacy programs in New York.
MTS (Mobilizing Talents and Skills) - A nonprofit agency that helps people living with HIV / AIDS find employment. Learn how your benefits are affected by returning to work.
New York Caledonian Club, Inc. - Promotes Scotland and its heritage through ceilidhs, Highland games, and the Scottish Studies Program.
New York City CLASH - A non-profit grassroots organization of private citizens involved in fighting for the rights of smokers.
The New York Criminal Bar Association - Private on-line list of contacts for members of The New York Criminal Bar Association.
NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS) - New York City's first agency devoted solely to serving children and their families. Includes directory, profile, statistics, news, and family fund.
Order of The Feather - Organization has been developing character and leadership in young men since 1946.
Partnership for After School Education (PASE) - A local network of youth practitioners, funders and technical assistance providers to youth programs. Its goals are to strengthen the identity and visibility of the after school profession; articulate concepts to guide programming; provide staff development, program exchange and networking opportunities and advocate for funds and resources.
Per Scholas - Collects, refurbishes, redistributes, or recycles, computers in the metro New York City area.
Polish-American Freedom Foundation - The foundation's purpose is to consolidate a civil society, democracy and a market economy and create equal development opportunities for individuals and communities in Poland and, ultimately, in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Robert Bowne Foundation - provides grants related to youth literacy for special, advocacy, and research projects; for general operating expenses of relevant programs; for technical assistance in program design and reform; and for evaluation studies, in NYC only.
Salvation Army of Greater New York - A non profit charitable organization with numerous worship centers, social services and community programs. Find out more, volunteer, or make a charitable donation. Clothing and furniture needed for seniors, children, homeless and disaster victims.
Social Circles - An activity and social club for successful New Yorkers. Includes information about activities, membership, experiences, press, partners and history.
Surdna - A private, grantmaking foundation located in New York City which is interested in fostering catalytic, entrepreneurial programs which offer viable solutions to difficult systemic problems.
The Tribune Society - Fraternal organization of African Americans and other minority judicial and non-judicial personnel in the New York City courts.
United Way of New York City - News and information from the largest private funder of health and human services in New York City. Includes CARES database, Tech News, descriptions of special initiatives, list of research publications, and examples of funded programs.
Variety Foundation of New York - Raising essential funds for the care and support of disadvantaged, physically challenged, sick and needy children around the world.
Who Does What? - An online resource for New York City-area nonprofits. It is a searchable database of nonprofits that offer technical assistance, including management, financial, legal and other such resources, to other nonprofit organizations.

Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) - Helps New York's neediest communities identify needs, goals, strengths and opportunities, while connecting communities to sources of power.
Community Service Society of New York - Services, research, policy analysis, and news from 150-year-old organization that helps lower-income families get back on their feet.
East Midtown Coalition for Sensible Development - A community-based organization of concerned individuals established to insure that all development in the severely congested area of East Midtown Manhattan will only serve to improve and enhance the neighborhood's quality of life.
Educational Alliance - Offers services for education, cultural enrichment, eldercare, childcare, parenting, fitness and recreation, drug abuse, mental health treatment, and homelessness.
Greenwich House - Non-profit community organization provides cultural, educational, health, social, medical and recreational services at eight locations.
Ground Zero Honors Paintings - Through digital pictures we honor the New York Fire Department, our Ground Zero Heroes.
Ground Zero Memorial Spire - American democracy memorials the courage of the 365 brave police officers and firefighters.
Harlem Children's Zone - Contributing to the regeneration of some of New York City's most devastated communities.
Harlem Week - Ongoing summer events calendar and date specific Harlem Jazz and Music Festival events.
Helen Keller International - Helps blindness-related organizations and institutions in countries where the need is great. Includes resources, programs and general information.
Home Sewing Association - Trade organization which encourages all facets of home sewing.
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization - Ecumenical agency delivering humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes membership information, a list of projects, and a forum.
Japanese Students Organization NYU - Includes information on the organization, how to join and related links. contact information provided.
The JSP Foundation, Inc. - Established to honor the memory of Joel Stephen Pollack, a man who dreamed of a better world for children. Its mission is to provide funds for underpriveleged children.
Landmark West - A non-profit community group working to preserve the best of the upper west side's architectural heritage from 59th to 110th streets between Central Park West and Riverside Drive.
Learning Leaders - A nonprofit organization that recruits and trains volunteers to provide public school children with educational instructional support. Includes information on how to donate and volunteer.
Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center - An all-volunteer, community based effort of activists, religious leaders, neighborhood residents, and service providers provide the diverse communities of the Lower East Side with the tools and resources necessary to meet the challenges posed by the AIDS crisis. Because the Lower East Side is a nexus of drug dealing and drug use, the intertwining issues of HIV prevention and drug use are among the primary concern of the center.
Manhattan Institute - A nonpartisan, independent research and educational organization, whose goal is to develop and encourage public policies at all levels of government.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Organization responsible for administering the Public Access cable television services to ensure the ability of residents to exercise their First Amendment rights and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, and artistic expression.
Manhattan Plaza Tenants Association - A means for the MPTA and residents to communicate and to further enhance the MPTA's goals of developing goodwill between residents and management.
Mercer-Houston Dog Run Association - Member supported dog run located on the Northwest corner of Mercer at Houston. Information includes by-laws, rules and membership.
The Mood Disorders Support Group - A non profit, self-help organization serving both individuals with depression and manic-depression (bipolar disorder), as well as, families and friends.
The Municipal Art Society of New York - Non-profit organization for excellence in urban design and planning. Offers public programs, including panel discussions, lectures and courses, at the Urban Center, and exhibitions on issues affecting the city.
Nancy Graves Foundation - Established in 1996 through a provision of the artist's Last Will and Testament to give grants to individual artists.
The 92nd Street Y - Cultural and community center with programs for all ages including concerts, lectures, literary readings, dance performances, health club, art classes, parenting classes, continuing education, and singles events.
New York Academy of Medicine - An independent, non-profit organization founded in 1847, dedicated to enhancing the health of the public, and in particular to addressing the needs of urban populations.
The New York Philosophy Corporation - Courses in philosophy and related subjects for adults. Registration information and schedule included.
The Partnership for the Homeless - Features program descriptions, calendar, advocacy links, news and information on how to help.
Project Renewal - Providing everything homeless New Yorkers need to move from the streets to health, homes and jobs, including outreach, health care, treatment, employment and housing.
Quadrille Ball - Fundraiser Ball held for the Germanistic Society Of America and Institute Of International Education. Includes photos, videos, Ball and Charity information and details on how to become a Ball dancer.
The Ronald McDonald House of NYC - Temporary home to families from all over the world, who have traveled to the city primarily for pediatric cancer treatment available only in New York's hospitals.
The Rotary Club of New York - comprised of 200 leading international business and professional men and women who meet weekly at a luncheon to advance the interests of New York City, to keep informed on key world, political, economic, and social issues, and to serve the community. Includes history, officers, events, and bulletin board.
SocialZone - A membership organization, plan recreational activities and dating services for New York professionals. Free event, job, and personal profile posting.
Soroptimist International New York City - A worldwide organisation for women in management and professions working through service projects to advance human rights and the status of women. Includes list of officers, club activities, awards and projects including Sanctuary for Families.
St. George's Society Of New York - America's leading British charity, founded 1770, provides support and assistance to distressed, elderly and sick persons of British and Commonwealth descent who reside within the New York metropolitan area.
Stray from the Heart - A New York City rescue that rescues, rehabilitates and places homeless dogs with loving new families without the benefit of paid employees or a shelter.
University Settlement - America's first social settlement, founded in 1886: adult literacy classes, mental health counseling, group and family day care, case management for the formerly homeless, recreational and educational activities for school children, a summer day camp, a senior center, an arts program, and a credit union.

Bedford Stuyvesant Arts and Culture Coalition - Not-for-profit organization fostering a sense of community and family through education, tourism, and presentations. Profile, photographs, programs, contact information.
Belizian-American Parkfest - Mission statement, program, contact information.
Brighton Neighborhood Association - Community based organization offering youth and housing services. Profile, photographs, programs, contact information.
Brooklyn Community Housing and Services - Provides housing and support services to families and individuals suffering from multiple disabilities. Profile, photograph, programs, contact information.
Brooklyn Parents for Peace - Non-profit network of parents, neighbors, and educators working against growing militarism and its effect on children in society. Events, flyers and petitions, and suggestions for activism.
Church Avenue Merchants Block Association - Flatbush. Not-for-profit organization provides employment, education, health, legal, social, business development, and youth services. Profile, mission statement, programs, contact information.
Committee for the Restoration of Fort Greene Park - Not-for-profit community preservation organization. Profile, photographs, historical essays, projects, events, contact information.
Fifth Avenue Committee - Nonprofit organization fostering economic and social justice in Red Hook, Sunset Park, Gowanus, and lower Park Slope. Profile, mission statement, community, contact information.
The HOPE Program - Career development program for homeless and welfare-dependent adults. Profile, photographs, mission statement, curriculum, contact information.
Independence Community Foundation - Supports neighborhood renewal; education, culture and the arts; and community quality of life initiatives. Grant categories, application and contact information.
The Junior League of Brooklyn - Women's group focused on addressing the health and educational development of families at risk. Profile, photographs, mission statement, history, contact information.
Order of the Eastern Star - Brooklyn District Chapters - Locations, meeting days, contact information.
Project Reach Youth - Park Slope, Sunset Park, Red Hook, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Flatbush. Community-based organization serving low-income children and youth. Profile, photographs, programs, news, contact information.
Project Teen Aid Family Services - Helps pregnant teens with schooling, employment, shelter, day care, and health care. Mission statement, photographs, contact information.
Saint Cono American Society - Williamsburg. Religious society devoted to Saint Cono of Teggiano. Profile, photographs, leadership, hagiography.
Saint Francis Xavier's Action Youth Center - Profile, photograph, programs, contact information.
Zeredatha Lodge - Midwood. Lodge 483 of the Free and Accepted Masons. Officers, history, events, member demographics, contact information.