Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Through longstanding local partnerships, we support women and children in shelters, veterans, people with disabilities, formerly homeless residents, and homebound or frail elderly neighbors.
Who we help
Our community outreach brings together neighbors, residential buildings, and local congregations to provide hot meals, food-pantry staples, household essentials, children’s books, backpacks, school supplies, clothing, and holiday gifts for vulnerable New Yorkers living in and around our neighborhood.
Helping children take part
Through Project LIFT, we have supported arts education and academic enrichment for children in temporary housing and under-resourced schools—providing mentoring, backpacks filled with school supplies, clothing, laptops for remote learning, tickets to cultural performances, and tuition assistance, including a full scholarship for a young student’s first year at the New York Theatre Ballet School in 2023.
To help build classroom libraries across the city, we have also partnered with the Brotherhood Synagogue’s Social Action Committee to rally neighbors behind Project Cicero’s annual children’s book drives.
Food and household essentials
Working alongside established neighborhood outreach programs, we help stock the pantries and dining halls that serve our wider community every week. Neighbors’ contributions have supplied food-pantry staples to the Common Table at St. George’s Chapel and provided pantry goods, household essentials, holiday meals, and a November 2024 Veterans’ Luncheon at Kenmore Hall.
Holiday giving
Each winter, our holiday collections provide toys, warm clothing, and personal gifts for children and families through local shelters and community partners.
Explore the community-service recordHomebound neighbors
Year-round, our work for homebound and frail elderly neighbors provides meals, clothing, holiday gifts, and connections to local support services—from our 2008 neighborhood house tour that raised funds for homebound seniors and 2017 meal partnerships with Daily Provisions to our 2020 pandemic relief effort, when volunteers delivered groceries, masks, and essentials to older residents sheltering at home.
Read about helping homebound neighbors