Year: 2021

May Wong practices the self-defense techniques she’s learning every Tuesday at 11 am at 189 Allen Street on the Lower East Side. Our instructors Kip (in the protective equipment) and Sammy are helping seniors learn the skills they need to protect themselves from rising violence against #AAPI communities, thanks to support from the Alicia and

University Settlement announced today a grant totaling $148,500 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Following New York State’s $105 million in the arts for FY2022, NYSCA has awarded more than $80 million since June 2021. NYSCA funding will be used

Join The Performance Project @ University Settlement on Monday, December 13, at 7pm EST for an Artist Conversation with Performance Project Artist in Residence Cyrus Aaron. Cyrus and his collaborator Laurent Chevalier will be in conversation with Performance Project Artistic Director Baba Israel, where they’ll discuss Cyrus’ project, “Still in Motion”. To join the event.

  Our CEO Melissa Aase writes:  At University Settlement, we do a lot of different things, and I’m acutely aware that this can make us hard to understand. We have programs for expecting mothers, and newborns, and children under five. We work with young people in after-school, and summer camp, and college prep. Every year

  Why do I work in this field? As a first-generation college student, I struggled in navigating the college process. My parents do not know the American education system, and the experience gave me an understanding of how it feels to be helpless. After graduating college in 2017, I landed my first college advising job.

University Settlement received nearly $850,000 through the New York City Council’s discretionary awards process for the 2022 Fiscal Year, including significant expanded support for integrated mental health offerings within its Early Childhood Education and Older Adults programs, the social justice agency announced today. The additional awards include $300,000 for University Settlement’s Butterflies program, which provides

University Settlement has hired Laura McGinley as its new Chief External Relations Officer, the NYC social justice agency announced today. Reporting to CEO Melissa Aase, McGinley will lead the Settlement’s Development teams focused on Institutional and Individual Giving, as well as its Marketing and Communications efforts. Her first day with the agency will be November