On May 6, the Community Improvement Project (CIP) and Union Settlement Association held the unveiling of the Washington Youth Center’s Education Center. It was an evening full of gratitude and celebration as children from Union Settlement’s Youth Programs performed songs, skits, and a dance number. Union Settlement received a $50,000 community partnership grant from the […]

Last year members volunteered over 261,000 hours. That is the equivalent of almost 30 years! We served over 75,000 unique clients. That is more people than the populations of Wilmington, DE; Utica, NY; Portland, ME; Greenwich, CT, or Burlington, VT, to name just a few cities. We worked with over 16,000 repeat clients this year. […]

With April here, we can finally celebrate spring. It is also a month to celebrate how the New York Junior League works to raise awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence against both men and women. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, NYJL Crisis Intervention volunteer Kelsey Bishop has shared a firsthand account of […]