2003-2004 Keystone Partnership for Youth Programs:

New York City

St. Martha’s, Bronx, Bronx Youth Ministry at Youth Leadership & Development - $4,000
The goal of the weekend education and enrichment program is to develop the leadership abilities, life skills, self-esteem, and self-confidence of 165 minority youths through role-playing and theater arts. Along with field trips and cultural events, the program offers other activities and lunch.

Christ Church, Bronxville, The MARC After-School Program, Bronx - $10,000
MARC (Math, Arts, Reading, Computers & Culture), sponsored by Christ Church, Bronxville, serves 175 children in the Burnside and Mt. Hope sections of the South Bronx. Funds support professional staff, local college student aides, high school student mentors, and program development.

Christ Church-New Brighton, Staten Island, Community Youth Outreach Program - $9,000*
This program features a newly-renovated and professionally staffed youth center and gymnasium on church property for 250 neighborhood youth.

Church of the Mediator, Bronx, Summer Youth Program - $6,000
Founded in 2001, this day camp program enhances self-esteem and teaches communication skills for 100 children at-risk who may be unemployed or school drop-outs and vulnerable to gangs and drugs.

Grace Church, West Farms, Bronx, After School Program - $9,000
This program serves 40 children from the South Bronx every day during the school year. The program combines academic support with cultural and recreational activities and provides a hot meal for the children.

Haitian Congregation of the Good Samaritan, Bronx, Summer Youth Camp - $3,500
A residential camp program for 75 Haitian children and teenagers from New York City. The program, open to the community-at-large, focuses on building self-esteem through educational workshops and recreation.

Holy Trinity-Inwood, Manhattan, Helping Hands Community Center - $11,000
The center houses a variety of programs including the Helping Hands Food Pantry, a meal delivery program for shut-ins, and Kid’s Café — an after-school snack and literacy program. These programs are operated in conjunction with Fresh Youth Initiatives, a local community service organization. More than 25 young people participate in providing food staples and companionship to 30 shut-in elderly citizens in Washington Heights.

Holy Trinity-Inwood, Manhattan, Pied Piper Children’s Theater - $9,000
The theater’s mission is “to explore, to create, to communicate” by providing performing arts education for 260 children. These funds will be used to hire a Production Coordinator to oversee assistant student directors and stage managers in addition to offering artistic supervision on costumes and sets.

Holy Trinity, Manhattan, Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center, After School Program - $3,000*
This after-school program offers, homework help, educational enrichment and recreational activities for 25 children.

Holy Trinity, Manhattan, Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center, Summer Day Camp - $7,770*
This camp offers low-cost, fun-filled and age-appropriate summer educational and recreational activities for 100 children. Breakfast and lunch served daily.

Holyrood Church, Washington Heights-Manhattan, MNIPC Summer Program - $9,000
This camp offers bilingual instruction for 50 children ages 6-13 and includes academic, social and recreational activities. The six week program places an emphasis on cultural and educational events and is staffed by certified teachers and by well-trained and experienced high school students.

Manhattan North IPC, Harlem-Manhattan, MNIPC Summer Educational Project - $6,500
The project helps children who are identified by their schools as needing to repeat a grade. It also offers pre-session and post-session testing with academic enrichment to bring students up to grade level. The program is operated by certified teachers, and serves 45 children.

St. Ambrose, East Harlem-Manhattan, St. Ambrose MNIPC Summer Program - $9,000
Directed by a New York City assistant principal and staffed by college students, this day camp serves 50 children, ages 6-12, for six weeks each summer. It provides structured academic enrichment, recreational activities and field trips.

St. Andrew’s-Castle Hill, Bronx, After School Program - $5,250
This program offers children assistance with school work, an outlet for positive recreational activities and a hot dinner meal. A skilled and experienced staff strives to build self-esteem, encourage positive self-awareness and broaden the academic potential of these 50 students through diverse activities such as academics, computer proficiency, trips and sports.

St. Andrew’s-Castle Hill, Bronx, Summer Day Camp - $5,000
This day camp serves 120 children, ages 6-12, for six weeks in the summer. It offers structured educational, recreational and field activities and provides employment for mature young adults.

St. Bartholomew’s, Manhattan, The Choristers - $2,500
Now in its sixth year, the Choristers program is a city-wide choir for 50 boys and girls from 40 different schools, ages 6-18. The choir provides high-quality musical education, training and performance experience in the context of a comprehensive program of weekend athletics and arts activities.

St. Clement’s, Manhattan, After School and Summer Camp - $5,000
During the school year children are escorted to this academic enrichment program from their public schools. This program also provides daily summer tutoring and recreation for children 6-12 years of age, and 60% Mexican-American, 30% African-American, and 10% Asian and Caucasian. Half are from homes where English is not the primary language.

St. David’s, South Bronx, After School Program - $5,500
In a newly refurbished facility, this program offers structured recreational activities and academic tutoring for 30 African-American and Latino children. The students are escorted by program staff to the program from five area public schools and are provided with homework assistance and a hot dinner.

St. David’s, South Bronx, Summer Day Camp - $7,000
The camp serves 60 children from the South Bronx neighborhood for seven weeks. The camp combines academic support, recreational activities and field trips as well as providing a snack and daily hot meal for the children.

St. Luke in the Fields, Manhattan, Gay & Lesbian Street Youth Workshop - $15,000
In its second year of operation, this weekly drop-in arts workshop seeks to serve at-risk teenagers with unstable housing situations and compromised health who are spending much of their time on the streets and who may self-identify as gay or lesbian. Social services and a hot meal are also provided.

St. Luke in the Fields, Manhattan, GO St. Luke’s Project - $5,000
This program serves 98 capable but underachieving children in grades 1 to 4 from both public and parochial school. The program was founded in 2000 in response to the remedial studies and educational enrichment needs of lower-income children in Lower Manhattan. Each student receives one-on-one tutoring.

St. Margaret’s, Longwood, Bronx, After School Program - $8,000
For over 27 years this program has operated each weekday until 6 pm to accommodate the needs of working parents while offering 55 children academic and art enrichment, recreation and a nutritious evening meal.

St. Margaret’s, Longwood, Bronx, Summer Day Camp - $3,890
For 23 years this day camp has operated each summer from 9 am until 6 pm to accommodate the needs of working parents while offering 65 children daily summer recreation, cultural activities, tutoring, writing, arts and crafts, sports and field trips. Daily lunch and snacks are provided to the campers.

St. Mark’s in the Bowery, Manhattan, Making Marks Program - $5,000*
Founded in 2003 this program is designed to offer high school students not thriving in the conventional academic setting a creative arts and life-skills enrichment program that builds self-esteem and leadership skills.

St. Mary’s-Manhattanville, Manhattan, Hip Hope Program - $6,500*
Open six days a week, this program targets at-risk youth who are primarily African American and Latino and living in the Dorothy Day Apartments in Harlem. The program offers 35 teenagers life-skills enrichment, computer skills tutoring, recreation and job readiness training to learn self-reliance.

St. Mary’s-Manhattanville, Manhattan, MNIPC Summer Camp - $6,000
The camp offers 40 children enrichment activities in math and reading along with recreational and cultural activities, field trips and one overnight trip.

St. Matthew and St. Timothy, Manhattan, Star Learning Center - $10,000
This 31-year-old educational enrichment program helps children and youth at-risk to succeed in school. A staff of two reading-disability specialists, a teacher’s aide and a computer teacher use individual testing and a prescriptive learning plan for 180 volunteers who tutor 275 students twice weekly.

St. Matthew and St. Timothy, Manhattan, Youth Peer Leadership Project (YPLP) - $4,750
The YPLP program targets 75, primarily low-income, Hispanic middle school students from single parent homes. The program provides supportive intervention on both academic skills and personal development.

St. Paul’s, Morrisania, Bronx, Weekend Outreach Program - $4,800
Since 1957, this program has continued to offer year-round weekend field trips to over 200 low-income neighborhood youth living in the Claremont Village public housing development. The program provides opportunities for travel to places that they would normally not experience.

St. Philip’s, Harlem, Manhattan, MNIPC - Edwards Camp Program, Fresh Air Fund Registration - $7,450
This program serves the Harlem community by sending over 600 Harlem children to Fresh Air Fund camps and home sites each summer.

Trinity Church, Morrisania, Bronx, The Children’s Center - $4,400*
Founded in 2003, this program has enjoyed significant growth in its initial months of operation. The program offers neighborhood youth a “safe-space” on a monthly basis to host recreational programs, dances and cultural events under the supervision of clergy and volunteers.

Region Two (Westchester, Rockland & Putnam Counties)

Grace Church, Nyack, The Nyack Center, Summer Day Camp - $4,570*
The camp serves 25 children for six weeks. The camp combines academic support, recreational activities and field trips and provides a daily snack and lunch.

Grace Church, White Plains, Grace Church Daycare - $7,200
The program is offered to children from economically disadvantaged families waiting to qualify for Title XX day care assistance. The children are from working families with minimal income.

Grace Church, White Plains, Summer Day Camp - $7,500*
The camp offers 150 children enrichment activities in math and reading along with recreational and cultural activities, field trips and one overnight trip.

San Andres, Southwest Yonkers, After School Program - $8,070
The after school program serves 45 children, providing a daily snack followed by bi-lingual homework assistance and offers parents bi-lingual assistance for communicating with their children’s school.

San Andres, Southwest Yonkers, Summer Day Camp – $4,900
The summer program serves 30 area children in grades 1-9 and is structured to meet the needs of the largely Hispanic population in Yonkers. It provides academic enrichment, recreational activities and lunch.

St. Peter’s, Peekskill, Community Outreach Center-Voices of Outreach Program - $5,000
This three-day per week after school program is currently serving 30 children free of charge. Students are instructed in voice, keyboard, dance, African drumming and choir.

St. Peter’s, Port Chester, Amigos Program - $5,100
This Saturday program gives primarily Hispanic boys, ages 7-12, a safe place to learn about friendship, values and ethics, healthy competition and cooperation as they approach adolescence.

Sts. John, Paul, and Clement, Mt. Vernon, The Community Vacation School - $6,500
For 26 years, this day camp has been serving 50 African-American children and providing academic and recreational activities each summer.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Garnerville, Myths, Music and More - $1,500
A Tuesday morning summer reading and multi-cultural enrichment program.

Mid-Hudson Region (Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan & Orange Counties)

Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, Climb the Beanstalk – $5,000
Four days a week, this after school program provides an opportunity for 40 children in 1st grade to work one-on-one with a mentor. The students increase literacy skills through storytelling, reading aloud and other activities.

Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, Summer Day Camp - $10,000
This program serves 60 Poughkeepsie-area youth with recreational activities for six weeks each summer.

Rural and Migrant Ministry, Inc., Youth Empowerment Program - $9,000
Rural and Migrant Ministry offers a summer camp program for 175 migrant youth living in rural areas, offering various activities such as photography workshops, field trips, and one week at a sleep-away camp.

St. Andrew’s, Beacon, Martin Luther King Cultural Center, After School and Camp Programs - $7,000
Since 1978, the Martin Luther King Center at St. Andrew’s supports both an after school and summer day camp program, offering year-round educational, cultural and recreational activities to over 65 minority youth aged 6-18.

Martin Luther King Cultural Center, New Directions Program - $5,000
A program for 40 young parents, ages 12-18, and their children, considered to be at-risk. The program promotes schooling and is designed to enhance parenting skills through play, story telling and activities to promote self-confidence in the parenting role.

St. George’s, Newburgh, Open Space Program - $9,000
This program offers parenting skill development and self-esteem enrichment for 20 teenage parents. The program uses group discussion/support and other activities to promote self-confidence in the parenting role.

St. Gregory’s, Woodstock, Youth Arts Project - $1,000
St. Gregory’s pastoral campus houses the Youth Arts Project that provides a summer day camp focusing on the arts, cooking, poetry, dance and creative activities for 18 youth ages 11-14.

*New program this year

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