Outreach Ministries

Local Grants

Booker T. Washington Learning Center – Their grant is used to support the Center's preschool, after-school program, teen program and summer day camp for children in the neighborhood. The Center is also where the LEAP program is held every Saturday morning during the school year. Many of the students that attend the preschool continue their relationship with the center through the other programs as they grow older. Consequently, many at-risk children are well supported throughout their youth.

Church of Gethsemane – MAPC helped found this church in Brooklyn that ministers to families dealing with current or previous incarceration.

Church of St. Luke in the Fields – Serves Saturday evening dinners to people with HIV/AIDS and weekend teas at St. Vincent’s Hospital to AIDS patients.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) – Works primarily through volunteers, to move foster care children (whether placed voluntarily or because of a charge of abuse and neglect) quickly and safely into permanent homes, either with parents or in adoptive homes.

Health Advocates for Older People (HAFOP) – Sponsors a Healthy Aging Program, based at Carnegie East House, located at 95th Street and Second Avenue. This is a healthcare and wellness program, begun in April 2003, providing a wide range of activities, including a subsidized meal program for over 200 seniors. Most participants live between 65th And 116th Streets. The only cost for participation in the Healthy Aging Program is for the meals, which some seniors cannot afford. Although the Senior Centers in the area provide lunch, many participants desire a hot evening meal. Our meal program promotes involvement in the other services available, thus decreasing isolation by providing an opportunity for socialization. The MAPC grant will give more seniors the privilege of receiving subsidized, hot evening meals.

Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness & Housing (IAHH) – Is a coalition of religious organizations and individuals working with and on behalf of homeless, poorly housed, and at-risk individuals. Interfaith Assembly was founded on the idea that decent and affordable housing is a basic human right, and is committed to confronting the unconscionable and unacceptable reality of homelessness in New York City. The organization works to mobilize communities of faith around this issue, to advocate public policies that will help eliminate homelessness, and to strive for the transformation of society. Interfaith Assembly programs include education outreach, a homeless speakers' bureau, a work-site internship program, life-skills classes, and public policy advocacy. They recently organized Building the Blessed City Together—an advocacy event that included an interfaith worship service and an overnight vigil in City Hall Park—which several MAPC members attended.

Inwood House – Helps disadvantaged teens make responsible decisions about sexual involvement, avoid too-early parenthood and lead independent, productive lives. The program provides a maternity residence for homeless pregnant teenagers, adolescent parents-in-training activities, and affordable day care, so that new mothers can stay in school.

The Jan Hus Homeless Outreach Program – Actively works to support, counsel and empower homeless and low-income individuals in our community. The program provides hot meals, non-religious counseling, referrals and other support services to the homeless and to marginally-housed individuals. Acting as part of the East Side Homeless Network, Jan Hus gives homeless individuals access to voice-mail and e-mail, provides them with a mailing address, offers them lockers to store their belongings, and distributes clothing, toiletries and Metrocards. Through their work, they help struggling people find jobs, obtain mental health treatment, receive food, find housing, and stay in their homes. The program serves about 700 people each year and is offered in the belief that a holistic approach is needed to facilitate the recovery from drugs and alcohol, promote mental health and fight hunger and homelessness.

Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter (NCS) – Helps move women and men on the Upper East Side from homelessness toward housing, employment, and independence through direct services, community education and advocacy.

New Amsterdam Boys Choir – Seeks to enrich the lives of boys in East Harlem through choral singing, with available tutoring, academic enrichment and community service opportunities.

New Life of New York City – Offers a Christian-illuminated, nonaffiliated outreach program for primarily inner-city, at-risk teenagers in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. To help them resist the temptations of drugs, violence, alcohol and gangs, New Life works with both male and female participants, ages 12-22, attracting their attention and trust with one-on-one street outreach, then making available to them a number of programs for spiritual enrichment and learning accomplishment. Programs include mentoring, the New Life Learning Center (GED/PSAT/SAT preparation and college entrance assistance), the New Life Studio (film and television skills training program), sports, bible-study, one-on-one counseling, an Arts and Theater program, social activities, an automotive workshop, a summer camp program and Step Team Shows that attract, teach and inspire the community, as well as provide a vehicle of expression for the participants that promotes self-discipline, cooperation and a positive identity.

Osborne Association – Helping people involved in the criminal justice system achieve self-sufficiency, adopt healthy lifestyles, enter the workforce, rebuild their families and rejoin their communities.

Presbyterian Senior Services (PSS) – Seeks to create an expanding community which values, cares and advocates for senior citizens, through church-based senior programs, multi-service senior centers, and a grandparent support program (for those raising grandchildren due to parental neglect, abandonment or death).

Search & Care – Helps the homebound elderly obtain the services they need to live independently in the community. The program includes homecare, medical and mental health services, legal services and entitlements, as well as provides volunteer services for daily needs.

Women's Mosaic – An inspiring organization that brings together women from many different countries to listen to speakers share aspects of their culture and discuss issues with a wide variety of perspectives.

Yorkville Common Pantry (YCP) – A 24-hour, emergency food distribution program for low-income people who have had their public assistance grants reduced or eliminated, with some on-site shelter, health care and counseling.

See also the International Mission Grants