2020 Toasting Awardee

…contributor of Union Settlement’s Buy Local East Harlem Initiative, which helps local businesses increase their sales with a particular focus on the neighborhood’s “anchor” institutions, such as hospitals, schools, and…

Winter 2018 Newsletter – Business Development Center

…meetings, to business workshops to networking events. “We also have a Buy Local East Harlem Initiative funded by Citi Community Development, where we connect East Harlem’s anchor institutions—like Mount Sinai…

January 30, 2020

January 30, 2020

Buy Local East Harlem works to make sure neighborhood firms have a seat at the table Crain’s New York…

November 16, 2015

November 16, 2015

…to $250,000, and will expand Union Settlement’s Career Academy, which provides soft-skills job training, employment placement, and job retention services. The first two years of Robin Hood funding allowed Union…

September 14, 2015

September 14, 2015

…funding commitment that will be increase the number of art classes at Union Settlement from three to five days per week. The ceremony also featured the first look at a…

Remembering Gina Rusch

…in the early 1960s, Gina joined the Peace Corps, serving in the Philippines, and in around 1965 got a job with UNH. She was assigned to work with a number

2022 Benefit Honoree

…important work of a variety of nonprofit organizations. He has been honored to receive a number of recognitions for his work. In 2021 he was invested as Archon Grand Orator…

Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter – Executive Director Note

…able to attract a sufficient number of certified teachers and other educators to meet staffing requirements. This situation creates tremendous hardship for the low-income families that we serve in the…

September 14, 2015

September 14, 2015

…will be increase the number of art classes at Union Settlement from three to five days per week. The ceremony also featured the first look at a mural created by…

April 14, 2014

April 14, 2014

…attempt at answering some of those plaguing questions. What are the odds of getting a seat? The numbers are daunting. The city has just 20,000 pre-K spaces at the moment;…