Resources and Links

This is a list of links to faith-based and other social service providers who can assist you in your ministry. Click on the services you desire and a list of organizations will appear along with descriptions and a link to their web site. We hope to build better networks and strengthen relationships through the use of these resources. Please contact us if you wish to add your program to this web page.

CATEGORIES:

• Advocacy/Community Organizing
  
• Immigrant Services
  
• Emergency Food Services
  
• Homelessness, Shelters and Affordable Housing
  
• Incarceration/Post-Incarceration
  
• Legal Services
  
• Living Wages
  
• Multi-Service Organizations
  
• Volunteers
  
• Youth Services

• Cathedral Community Cares helps improve the lives of those impacted by addiction, hunger, poverty, homelessness, and poor health. Through the dedicated efforts of trained professionals and those qualified by their life experience, those who struggle are helped. As a part of the Living Cathedral, Cathedral Community Cares expands its services based on the need of the community. By working with the community in a safe environment, the seeds of change are planted, nurtured, and developed through advocacy, intervention, and empowerment.
  
• New York State Labor-Religion Coalition supports campaigns addressing corporate accountability, living wages, and recognition of the inalienable worth of all human beings.
  
• Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition is a 32-year old, broad-based, membership driven social justice community organization. They offer affiliate membership to any congregation, community development corporation, neighborhood association, immigrant services agency, or school that endorses their social justice mission and commits to organizing with them as a strategy for change.
  
• Picture the Homeless was founded on the principle that homeless people have civil and human rights regardless of race, creed, color or economic status. Picture the Homeless was founded and is led by homeless people. “We refuse to accept being neglected, and we demand that our voices and experiences are heard at all levels of decision-making that impact us.”

• Cabrini Immigrant Services provides services to assist immigrants, refugees, asylees and all others with citizenship or non-citizenship status. The organization is run by newcomers or descendents of newcomers, and they understand the needs of new arrivals. They want all newcomers to enjoy the benefits and opportunities offered in the United States and can help with naturalization and immigration issues. They also assist in the procurement of benefits, including food stamps, SSI, and Medicaid; provide educational programs such as ESL, computer classes, and citizenship classes; and coordinate health care screenings and health care referrals. All of their services are confidential.
  
• Centro Altagracia De Fe Y Justicia is dedicated to putting faith into action, prompting social justice through dynamic collaborations and needs-based initiatives in service to the communities of Washington Heights and Inwood.
  
• Latino Pastoral Action Center
  
• Tepeyac Association of New York is a network of 40 community-based organizations whose mission is to promote the social welfare and human rights of Latino immigrants, specifically undocumented immigrants in New York City. The Association Tepeyac is also dedicated to informing, organizing, and educating Mexican immigrants and their families about rights, resources, and processes, with a goal of developing leaders, organizations, and communities, and to building a great Mexican community, integrated to all races and cultures in New York. Founded in September, 1997 by Mexican community leaders, the Association is the only public resource dedicated to organizing Mexican immigrants in New York City. Through its grassroots structure and leadership, the Association serves and influences over 10,000 members.

• Broadway Community, Inc. provides emergency food, clothing and shelter to those in need, as well as long-term support aimed at healing the body, mind and spirit. Broadway Community, Inc. (BCI) is a faith and community-based social service organization that strives to make a difference in the lives of the people who walk through its doors.
  
• Church of the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen is committed to feeding the hungry, comforting the afflicted, seeking justice for the homeless, and counseling and providing a sense of hope and opportunity to those in need.
  
• Part of the Solution's mission is to be a loving community in the Bronx that nourishes the basic needs and hunger of all who come to their door. POTS is challenged to respond to the individual and collective crisis in the lives of its guests and neighborhood. It attempts to foster personal development by providing a supportive environment where people can assess their strengths and weaknesses to move toward stability in income, housing and nutrition. POTS recognizes that a myriad of issues affects individual’s lives, and responds to these issues through three programs:
  The Basic Program
  The Homeless Prevention Program
  The Transitional Residence Program
  
• Saint Francis Xavier Church's parishioners took the initiative to start their St. Francis Xavier Mission’s Welcome Table soup kitchen in 1982. This evolved as a response to the needs of the homeless population in their Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. Since then, nearly 1 million meals have been served by their volunteers. Every Sunday, a day when most other soup kitchens in NYC are closed, approximately 700 meals are served to whoever comes and is hungry. The Welcome Table aims to be more than just another “soup kitchen.” By providing a welcoming and supportive atmosphere for their guests, they hope to impart a sense of dignity to those accorded scant respect by society. The Welcome Table also provides guidance and assistance in obtaining entitlement benefits though the help of the homeless advocacy group REACH, a program run by N.Y.U. Law School student volunteers.
  
• St. John’s Bread and Life’s mission is to bring food to the poor and accompany them on their journey to wholeness by providing necessary services. They advocate for them, always mindful of the words of St. Vincent “to serve others as we would serve Christ”
  
• West Side Campaign Against Hunger-Through a supermarket style food pantry, this organization is dedicated to alleviating hunger and creating a culture that promotes self-reliance and works for change. WSCAH changes perceptions of hungry people by working in partnership with them, providing food with dignity and empowering customers to find solutions.
  
• Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP) is dedicated to reducing hunger and promoting dignity and self-sufficiency. Their services are provided in the Upper East Side and East Harlem communities. As the largest nonsectarian, neighborhood-based provider of emergency food in New York City, YCP provides 1,250,000 meals annually to all who come seeking relief from hunger. The pantry was founded in 1981 by a coalition of East Side churches and synagogues and receives strong support from its forty-five member Board of Directors.
  
• Catholic Charities USA has launched the Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America. Poverty in America is a moral and social crisis. It threatens the health and economic well-being of families and the nation as a whole. The goal of the Campaign is to cut the U.S. poverty rate in half by 2020 by addressing the issues that impact the most vulnerable, and acting to reduce poverty in the United States.
  
• Hope for New York is a Christian ministry that helps ordinary people make an extraordinary difference. They mobilize and equip people to contribute their resources to the causes of mercy and justice in our city.
  
• Latino Pastoral Action Center

• Beyond Shelter Coalition of West Side Synagogues for Permanent Housing for Low Income and Homeless New Yorkers' objective is to increase the amount of housing and related services available to homeless persons in their community.
  
• Bowery Mission’s purpose is to minister in New York City to men, women, and children caught in the cycles of poverty, hopelessness and dependencies of many kinds, and to see their lives transformed to hope, joy, lasting productivity and eternal life through the power of Jesus Christ.
  
• Broadway Community, Inc. provides emergency food, clothing and shelter to those in need, as well as long term support aimed at healing the body, mind and spirit. Broadway Community Inc. (BCI) is a faith and community-based social service organization that strives to make a difference in the lives of the people who walk through their doors.
  
• Cathedral Community Cares' goal is to be a catalyst to help improve the lives of those impacted by addiction, hunger, poverty, homelessness, and poor health. Through the dedicated efforts of trained professionals and those qualified by their life experiences, those who struggle are helped. As a part of the Living Cathedral, Cathedral Community Cares expands its services based on the needs of the community. By working with the community in a safe environment, the seeds of change are planted, nurtured, and developed through advocacy, intervention, and empowerment.
  
• Concord Baptist Church of Christ partners with Habitat for Humanity and operates the Concord House, which provides affordable housing for Brooklyn families in need.
  
• Franciscan Friars of Renewal’s mission is to serve the materially poor, most especially the destitute and homeless. All services provided are completely free of charge.
  
• Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI) is committed to the holistic revitalization of Harlem. They provide economic development and empowerment opportunities to help Harlem residents rebuild and sustain their community.
  
• Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing addresses the crisis of homelessness and the shortage of affordable housing. Their empowerment programs help those who have been homeless to recover from the trauma associated with their homelessness. With their advocacy partners they work to ‘Build the Blessed City Together” and promote income and employment.
  
• Part of the Solution's mission is to be a loving community in the Bronx that nourishes the basic needs and hunger of all who come to their door. POTS is challenged to respond to the individual and collective crisis in the lives of our guests and neighborhood. POTS attempts to foster personal development by providing a supportive environment so individuals can assess their strengths and weaknesses to move toward stability in income, housing and nutrition. POTS recognizes that a myriad of issues affect crisis in individual’s lives. POTS responds to these issues through three programs:
  The Basic Program
  The Homeless Prevention Program
  The Transitional Residence Program
  
• St. Paul the Apostle Church has several programs for those in need including: the Simon Society which provides various forms of assistance to seniors and physically challenged parishioners. St. Paul’s Homeless Shelter Program provides overnight accommodations and meals for 12 individuals in St. Paul’s auditorium, four nights a week from October through April. Maria’s Kitchen is held on Tuesdays in the Church auditorium, providing a hot lunch and a bag of sandwiches to neighbors in need.

• Abraham House offers the incarcerated and their relatives a place of hope and community, where lives can be rebuilt, families mended, lessons learned, and men, women and children deeply marked by crime can receive the spiritual, social and practical tools to become productive citizens.
  
• Exodus Transitional Community is a fellowship of formerly incarcerated individuals that helps people coming out of prison build stable lives and fully integrate into society.
  
• The Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Reentry and Employment (ICARE) was founded in October 2004 to organize a religious response to the crisis of recidivism in New York State. In the restorative justice tradition, people of faith affirm the intellectual and spiritual capacity of persons with criminal convictions, believing in the potential for rehabilitation and reconciliation. ICARE is advocating for the removal of barriers encountered by people reentering the community after prison. The ICARE coalition consists of communities of faith, direct service providers, and policy organizations.
  
• Prison Fellowship partners with local churches across the country to minister to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. The focus of their ministry includes fellowship, visiting prisoners, and welcoming children of prisoners.

• Lawyers Alliance for New York is the leading provider of business and transactional legal services for nonprofit organizations that are improving the quality of life in New York City neighborhoods. By connecting lawyers, nonprofits and communities, they help nonprofits develop affordable housing, stimulate economic development, and operate vital programs for children and young people, the elderly, recent immigrants, and other low-income New Yorkers.

• New York State Labor-Religion Coalition supports campaigns addressing corporate accountability, living wages, and recognition of the inalienable worth of all human beings.

• Episcopal Social Services (ESS), founded in 1831 as the Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society, has a long history of non-sectarian service in New York. Although the specific needs of the disadvantaged have changed over the years, ESS has responded with an unchanging mission to build community and help their most vulnerable neighbors achieve self-sufficiency and independence so that they can fulfill all their potential.

• Volunteers of America-Greater New York is at the forefront of social service, helping adults and children with special needs reach their full potential, and helping troubled individuals leave homelessness, addiction, untreated mental illness and intergenerational poverty behind for good. Their award-winning programs, skilled and dedicated staff, and caring volunteers bring relief to tens of thousands of people each year in desperate need of help.

• Covenant House of NY is the nation's largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at-risk youth. Their doors are open 24 hours a day for youth in need. Each year nearly 7,000 youth seek out their crisis and community centers for safety, shelter, food, and counseling.