Sentences with phrase «settlement houses»

She received her teaching certificate in 1913 after which she taught for four years at Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington Delaware.

On behalf of the residents of Rochester, I would like to thank Governor Cuomo, New York State Homes and Community Renewal, Rochester's Cornerstone Group and Charles Settlement House for their investments in our city.»

BYNC's first conflict was with a prestigious University of Chicago settlement house.

A year after the 1909 Plan of Chicago, Jane Addams published «Twenty Years at Hull - House,» a memoir of her initial years running America's first settlement house.

He taught at Hartley Settlement House for four years in the early 1950s, and at the progressive Black Mountain College, where he met Clement Greenberg and had Kenneth Noland as one of his students.

• No Beginner classes for new students in 3rd through 5th Grades There will no longer be classes for beginner level students (grades 3 — 5) at the Grand Street location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn nor at Jacob Riis Settlement House in LIC.

Two years later, in 1916, she started teaching kindergarten at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington, Delaware, staying there until 1923.

Patterned after English examples, American colleges founded settlement houses in the midst of blighted areas in order that college students might go into the area and, through service experiences, learn at first hand the needs of these peoples.

Roger W. Brandt, Jr, President, Rochester's Cornerstone Group said, «Cornerstone is excited to partner again with Charles Settlement House on the second phase of Stadium Estates.

The supportive housing component will be managed by BronxWorks, a human service and settlement house based in the Bronx.

The community school is the contemporary version of the 19th - century settlement houses founded by the progressive activist and sociologist Jane Addams on the theory that social ills are interconnected and must be approached holistically.

Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House 10 - 25 41st Avenue, Long Island City Beginning, MS and HS Studios: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The Israeli government, meanwhile, has authorised the building of hundreds of thousands of new settlement houses in the West Bank and the so - called «barrier», which is in part a 26 ft tall (8metres) concrete wall, will soon reach completion.

Charles Settlement House President and CEO Scott Benjamin said, «Stadium Estates is making a significant impact on the JOSANA neighborhood.

Scott C. Benjamin, President and CEO, Charles Settlement House said, «Phase II of Stadium Estates continues the transformation of a severely distressed neighborhood.

The new talent center operates under the umbrella of Hire East Harlem, an initiative guided by a number of area institutions, including STRIVE, Mount Sinai Health System and Union Settlement Association, one of the largest settlement houses in New York.

In some cases — such as $ 53,000 in re-appropriations for Bronx settlement house programs — funds were fully expended.

There are six major settlement houses on the Lower East Side.

She also recently retired from 23 years as chief development officer at the Henry Street Settlement House.

Susan Stamler, executive director for United Neighborhood Houses, an organization which operates several settlement houses that provide a range of services including senior and child care, said the governor's proposal will take away the city's funding flexibility.

Co-sponsors include Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh and local settlement houses.

I also led a group of housing - project boys in various activities one afternoon a week at an old - line settlement house in East Cambridge led by the charismatic Elsa Baldwin, a chain - smoking, tireless, compassionate socialist, community organizer, and unbending poverty warrior.

As part of a formal Americanization push beginning at the turn of the last century, the schools provided English classes after school and on Saturdays, while settlement houses, private charity groups and city - based chambers of commerce helped adults learn the language.

In December of 1967, I watched a group of 13 - year - olds from a London settlement house perform an improvised Christmas play as part of a therapeutic theatre program run by the International Theatre Club.

Van Dalen first presented the project at University Settlement House in 1995 and has held performances at institutions and spaces such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center, and Exit Art.

A painter, illustrator, and educator, Lawrence received his early art training at the Utopia Settlement House in Philadelphia.

Congreso de Latinos Unidos A Woman's Place (Bucks County) Domestic Violence Center of Chester County Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Women's Resource Center of Scranton Berks County Women in Crisis Women Against Abuse Legal Services Lutheran Settlement House, Domestic Violence Program

Ross Medical Education Center in Morgantown recently held a food drive benefiting the local food pantry at Scott's Run Settlement House.

Bronx, NY - New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been, Settlement Housing Fund President Alexa Sewell celebrated the start of construction of a mixed - income 11 - story complex at 1561 Walton Avenue in the Mt. Eden neighborhood of the Bronx.

He led and participated in advanced student projects including: Apartment interiors of the Mies van der Rohe Lake Shore Drive Skyscrapers, A Chicago Settlement House, The Chicago Housing Authority, The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan (also called the Louis Sullivan project), Details of the Human Body, The Park System of Chicago, and The Series Form.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

Their roots lie also in the caring practices of the social reformer Jane Addams, whose 19th - and early 20th - century settlement houses were designed to help immigrants and the poor gain solid footing so they could contribute to the country's prosperity.

SENIOR CITIZEN ART PILOT PROGRAM This spring the Joan Mitchell Foundation partnered with Elders Share the Arts (an organization that advocates for equal arts access on behalf of older adults and the artists who challenge traditional notions about how people experience aging ESTA) Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement House (JRS) to pilot a Friday morning art class with senior citizens from the Queenbridge community in Long Island City, Queens.

He serves on the boards of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, the Jacob Riis Settlement House, and the Victorian Society of New York and works on advisory committees for the Center for Educational Innovation and the Varsity Boys and Girls Club of Queens.

Then she accepted a position at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House, a hybrid community center and social service agency, in Wilmington, Del., where she stayed for six years.

Stadium Estates Developer Roger Brandt said, «We are impressed with the community involvement in the neighborhood, plus the leadership by Charles Settlement House, as we have been working with the neighborhood leaders for a few years.»

What the churches and YMCA's and settlement houses have already been doing for disadvantaged teen - agers ought not to be overlooked; but there can be more of it, better planning, wider coverage, and new methods.

Another response of the Churches and people of wealth to the needs of the immigrant and poor laborer was the settlement house.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

Her model for applying the animating ethos of mothering to civic life is Addams (1860 - 1935), founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago.

In a 1989 study of 40 parks, the citizens group called Friends of the Parks reported that «field house staff was uninformed about other programs being offered by the Board of Education, Chicago Housing Authority, YMCAs and settlement houses.

In the Weeksville Cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beachwood Organization will develop one building with 44 units on three vacant lots.

In the Melrose - Concourse cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beechwood Organization will develop two buildings with 36 units on two vacant lots.

Finally, Niou is asking legislative leaders to fund settlement houses, which are currently not included in the budget.

Niou added, ``... I spearheaded efforts in the Assembly to restore funding to our neighborhood NORCs, NNORCs and settlement houses, which provide all - encompassing social services to our most vulnerable, and I am glad that our budget did not leave our seniors behind.

The installation was handled by the New York City Housing Authority, which oversees the settlement house's building at 80 Pitt St.

A press release from Council member Chin and Borough President Brewer renewed criticism of Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Settlement Housing Fund for, «attempting to reach a secret agreement with HUD to displace seniors (at 80 Rutgers Slip) to clear the way for luxury development.»