Harlem Free WiFi is here! Sponsored by The Fuhrman Family Foundation, the network is now complete and covers a total of 95 blocks, from 110th to 138th Streets, between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Madison Avenue, helping bridge the digital divide for nearly 80,000 Harlem residents…
Fortune Magazine named HCZ President and CEO Geoffrey Canada #12 on the list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, declaring that, while he plans to step down as CEO later this year, his vision for Harlem youth and his leadership “will no doubt endure.” We…
Read the New York Times coverage of Geoff Canada’s announcement that he will be handing the chief executive reins to Anne Williams-Isom. Over the last 20 years, HCZ has become a national model for tackling poverty and improving children’s outcomes. As Anne says of HCZ’s…
On February 10th, Geoffrey Canada announced that after 30 years with HCZ, he would pass the CEO reins to Anne Williams-Isom, current COO and lifelong child advocate, effective July 1st, 2014. He will retain the title of President. Watch them talk about their evolving partnership,…
At a White House press conference attended by HCZ Promise Academy students, staff and President/CEO Geoffrey Canada, President Obama announced the country’s first five Promise Zones, which will be based on the HCZ model. Promise Academy ninth grader Kiara Molina introduced President Obama at the…
On December 10th, Mayor Bloomberg announced the launch of Harlem Free WiFi—the largest continuous free outdoor public WiFi network in the country. By the time of its completion in the spring of 2014, the network will cover 95 blocks, from 110th to 138th Streets between…
Time Magazine followed up on their naming of Geoffrey Canada to the TIME 100 list two years ago with a short video about our new school building in a public housing development. Watch it here.
Geoffrey Canada received the prestigious National Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, for his commitment to improving education and fighting poverty: “We’ve allowed failure to become the norm in schools across this country and nothing changes . . . We’ve…
Read the NY Daily News article on our exciting new partnership with Bard College to help our Promise Academy High School students better prepare for college and even college credits.
Geoffrey Canada wrote an article for the Huffington Post on encouraging children to engage in public service and HCZ’s extensive work with AmeriCorps workers, whom we call Peacemakers. Read it here.