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In this recorded webinar, HCZ CEO Anne Williams-Isom and incoming CEO Kwame Owusu-Kesse discuss the challenges that our families and community are facing due to the COVID-19 crisis. Watch highlights of the compelling conversation to learn about some of the work that HCZ is doing…
On MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle, Harlem Children’s Zone Founder and President Geoffrey Canada discusses education inequality amid the COVID-19 virus, and how disparities in communities’ relief are reminiscent of Brown vs. Board of Education. Watch here.
On MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, HCZ Founder and President Geoffrey Canada discusses equity, how the COVID-19 pandemic creates economic hardships for our most vulnerable communities and how HCZ is stepping up to help. Watch the segment here.
Geoffrey Canada, HCZ founder and president, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting children in under-served communities across the country on the Tamron Hall Show. See the segment here.
The Open Hearts Foundation has created an Emergency Relief Fund to provide grants to non-profits on the frontlines who are serving women and children during the COVID-19 pandemic including Harlem Children’s Zone. Read more here.
HCZ president and founder Geoffrey Canada is featured in the documentary “Broken Places” – which will broadcast on April 6th, 2020 on PBS. See more about the movie here.
In the last several days, HCZ staffers prepared 4,000 packages of food supplies for our families. Then, on four different days, dozens of our HCZ staffers woke up early to donate their time and distribute two weeks’ worth of non-perishable food supplies to members of the community.
“We need to spend time talking with parents and helping them figure out how to protect and nurture children under these dramatic and difficult circumstances.” On MSNBC with Ali Velshi, HCZ President and founder Geoffrey Canada discusses the impact of COVID-19 on our children’s educations,…
$150 million to health organizations across New York State in its first round of grant making. Among the inaugural grantees is Harlem Children’s Zone, which has received $1 million to expand a program to reduce and prevent childhood obesity in Harlem. See more in the Chronicle of…
Promise Academy I appeared in a live segment on NBC’s Today Show and were gifted hundreds of books thanks to co-host Jenna Bush Hager. As part of a partnership with the nonprofit Room to Read and the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Kappa undergrads visited Promise…