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Download a copy of this testimony Chairs Lee and Schulman and committee members, thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony. My name is Barbara DiGangi, and I am the Director of Community Wellness Initiatives at University Settlement.[1] As the first settlement house in the country, University Settlement has partnered with New Yorkers to build …
University Settlement also submitted Angel’s testimony before the New York City Council’s Committee on Youth Services. Download a copy of Angel’s testimony.
University Settlement is pleased to announce that it will honor the Viking Global Foundation, the charitable arm of Viking Global Investors, at its annual gala City Stories: A Place to Grow, taking place at Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side on Wednesday May 3, 2023. The Viking Global Foundation will receive University Settlement’s …
University Settlement and the Cooper Square Committee (CSC) will host a screening of the film Rabble Rousers and a panel discussion about the past and future of community activism on the Lower East Side, as part of LES History Month. Date: Wednesday May 31, 2023 Doors Open: 6:30 PM Panel: 6:45 PM Screening: 7:20 PM …
Jewell Campbell, University Settlement’s Director of Youth & Community Programs in Manhattan, spoke at the Rally for #JustPay at the New York state capitol in Albany. Her complete remarks: “My name is Jewell Campbell, and I am University Settlement’s Program Director, Youth & Community Programs in Manhattan. Across 30 locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan, University …
The Creative Center at University Settlement will host a live works-in-progress performance of Heather Woodbury’s latest work Periodic Fable. Date: March 11, 2023 Time: 6 – 7 pm Location: Speyer Hall, in University Settlement’s historic headquarters at 184 Eldridge St The performance is free and open to the public. In Periodic Fable, Woodbury weaves together …
University Settlement has been selected as a host partner for the 2023 American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellowship program, the nation’s first Settlement House announced today. Twenty-two nonprofit organizations were selected as hosts for these two-year fellowships, which pair recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with social justice organizations to …
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Steven Green (Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) has been elected to University Settlement’s Board of Directors, the nation’s first settlement house announced today. Steven is an associate in Wachtell Lipton’s corporate department, where he advises clients on a wide range of transactions. Steven received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was …
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Virginia Dotson, University Settlement’s Senior Director of Data, Business, and Information Technology, has been selected to participate in Okta for Good’s Nonprofit Technology Fellowship for 2023. Okta’s Nonprofit Technology Fellowship aims to empower a diverse collection of rising nonprofit technology leaders to enrich the sector with their experience and become more effective strategic leaders within …
The Performance Project @ University Settlement, in partnership with BRIC, is pleased to announce Pia Monique Murray as the artist-in-residence for the third cycle of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC). The ICAC is a multigenerational team of residents developing joyous, values-driven arts programming by, for, and with members of the Atlantic Terminal, Farragut, Ingersoll, …