Robin Hood finds, funds and partners with the most effective schools and programs to change the fates of those who battle educational failure, joblessness, teen pregnancy, abuse, AIDS, hunger and homelessness. Robin Hood provides management assistance and support services to make these organizations even stronger. Robin Hood’s board of directors pays all administrative, fundraising and evaluation costs. That means 100 percent of donations goes directly to organizations serving families who struggle against poverty.
Find out more about Robin Hood. SIRIUS has teamed with Robin Hood and Perri Peltz of WNBC News to present Robin Hood Stories. They highlight a few of the over 200 Robin Hood-supported organizations working to make a difference in the lives of impoverished New Yorkers. Below are the most recent Robin Hood stories featured on SIRIUS. |
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The men helped by The Doe Fund struggle with homelessness, drug addiction and other barriers to employment such as histories of incarceration. The organization's Ready, Willing & Able program includes transitional housing, counseling, supported work and job placement. Dressed in their distinctive blue uniforms, these program participants clean 160 miles of New York City's streets daily.
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NEW trains 400 women a year for jobs in the construction trades, where a union position with benefits pays nearly five times the women's pre-training salaries. Training includes math, safety and weight lifting as well as tools, electrics, pipe fitting and drywall.
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Nurse Family Partnership provides low-income families with at least two years of home visitation — from pregnancy through the first two years of the child's life — aimed at decreasing risky parental behavior and improving school readiness and later-life outcomes for the children involved.
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Red Hook on the Road (RHOR) trains bus and truck drivers. Their trainees are low-income, having been homeless, incarcerated or unemployed for a year or more. RHOR places 93 percent of these trainees in driving jobs that pay over $25,000 a year, not including benefits.
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Single Stop sites provides in one location free one-on-one counseling regarding government-subsidized benefits, financial problems, tax refunds, legal issues, family services and employment training.
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Abraham House runs a residential alternative-to-incarceration program for offenders and works with the families of inmates and ex-inmates to break the cycle of criminal activity.
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KIPP Academy is part of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) charter school network that runs four middle schools in high- poverty neighborhoods in New York City and is dedicated to the principle that all children—regardless of race or economic status—can excel in school and go to college.
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Manhattan Comprehensive is a public high school for students ages 17 to 21 who have few, if any, other educational options. Some of the 800 “last chance” students have failed out of other schools; others are recent immigrants, hailing from over 40 different countries.
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The death rate among injection drug users is nearly double that of others with H.I.V./AIDS. Citiwide Harm Reduction offers injection drug users a syringe exchange program that is proven to reduce the spread of H.I.V./AIDS and a comprehensive set of social and health services.
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In New York City, over 50,000 cases of abuse and neglect are reported each year, 17,000 in Brooklyn alone. The Jane Barker Brooklyn Child Advocacy Center co-locates police, prosecutorial, medical, foster care and counseling functions at one child-friendly and efficient headquarters to streamline the investigative process, make it less traumatic for child victims and provide uncontaminated evidence that can lead to swifter prosecution.
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