Dave Hughes

Debbie Madden (Founder and Chairwoman, Stride Consulting) has been elected to University Settlement’s Board of Directors, the nation’s first settlement house announced today. Born on the Lower East Side, Madden is an award-winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, and advisor with a 25-year track record of scaling profitable technology startups. She is the author of

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

  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.