In the News

July 27, 2010

• 600 Digitas NY Employees Give East Harlem an '8 Hour Makeover' The Daily Tell: Good news in trying times

July 21, 2010 

• Digitas Takes Day Out to Help Others  Good Works/Advertising Age  
  - More than 600 volunteers work to fix up 10 community centers.

July 20, 2010

• Community Effort  New York Daily News
  -Community Service Day at Digitas, a digital marketing firm, brought 600 volunteers to Union Settlement to provide an '8 Hour Makeover' to ten facilities.   

July 14, 2010 

• Company Takes Day Off to Makeover East Harlem  NBC New York News
  -With every stroke, behind every scoop, stood a volunteer in East Harlem with one goal in mind: To make a difference in the lives of others

June 14th, 2010

• Puerto Rico Scraps Birth Record  USA Today
  -In an effort to end what it describes as a brisk black market in Puerto Rican birth certificates, which confer U.S. citizenship, the Puerto Rican government decided in December to invalidate all existing birth certificates.

April 2nd, 2010

• Senior Center Cuts Are No Joke  New York Nonprofit Press
  -Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies held a press conference at our Corsi Senior Center to protest the State's proposed budget cuts to Title XX funding for seniors.
   

February 26th, 2010

• Lighthouse International brightens Harlem seniors' lives with vision care  New York Daily News
  - Participants at our Corsi Senior Center receive vision care from the non-profit organization Lighthouse International

February 18th, 2010

• Narain New CFO at Union Settlement New York Nonprofit Press
  - In addition to overseeing the finance office, Deochand Narain will be part of Union Settlement’s senior leadership team and serve as a strategic partner in planning and implementing the vision of the agency.

February 13th, 2010

• New Yorkers of the Week: Father-son basketball coaches in Harlem teach kids life lessons NY1
  - A profile of Hoops by the River, and East Harlem youth organization that utilizes the gym at Union Settlement.

   

       January 31st, 2010

       Maria Alejandro discusses food stamps outreach for seniors
       Tiempo- WABC-TV Channel 7
       - Maria Alejandro of Senior Services and Mario E. Tapia of the Latino
       Center on Aging discuss the availability of food stamp assistance to
       needy elderly and announce several upcoming workshops for
       helping Spanish-speaking elderly apply.

November 30th, 2009

• Cutbacks in city fingerprinting agency cause monthlong delays in hiring day care workers  New York Daily News

November 27th, 2009

• Kathleen Turner, daughter Rachel Weiss, help feed seniors on Thanksgiving  New York Daily News
  - Kathleen Turner helps to deliver meals to seniors in Union Settlement's Meals-on-Wheels program.
   

October, 2009

• Stretch Your Technology Budget – With Pro-Bono Labor! Tech News
  - Director of Technology, Khalid West, is interviewed about making use of volunteers for large tech projects.

October 30th, 2009

• Immigration Debates Set Assessment Standards, Not Practical Needs The Guardian (UK)
  - This feature article includes a profile of a Union Settlement student in a citizenship class.
   

October 23rd, 2009

• Students Receive Lesson in 'Green' Eating NY1
  - Local first graders visit Union Settlement's Greenmarket and learn about healthy foods.

 




       July 22nd, 2009

        From the Spanish Steps to Spanish Harlem  The City Room - New York Times Blog
        - Gianni Alemanno, the mayor of Rome, visits Union Settlement.

July 15th, 2009

• ACS's Cuts Will Affect NYC's After-School Programs WCBS - Channel 2
  - Stephanie Irby, Director of Early Childhood Education at Union Settlement, comments on the effect of cuts on kindergarten children.