Our Approach

Our cradle-to-career pathway of comprehensive programs — all offered at no cost — empowers our scholars, families, and communities with the opportunities needed to achieve life-changing social and economic mobility.

What We Do

Poverty is often the result of a series of interconnected, systemic failures. This is why Harlem Children’s Zone roots out poverty on every front, block by block, and need for need to strengthen the foundations and potential of neighborhoods.

Our cradle-to-career pathway of comprehensive services empowers our scholars, families, and communities with the opportunities needed to achieve life-changing social and economic mobility.

How We Do It

We offer responsive services and supports for everyone—from expectant parents, to children of all ages, to young professionals, and all the way to senior citizens.

Why We Do It

We believe every child deserves equity, justice, opportunity, and a promising future. We do whatever it takes to ensure this reality for all children of Central Harlem.

Our approach directly reflects our community—we listen and respond. Our work requires constant change and adaptation in order to remain of greatest relevance and service to our community. By successfully and systematically closing opportunity gaps in Harlem, we have also widened pathways to mobility and are transforming the way practitioners and policymakers address poverty nationwide and across the globe. We’re onto something—and we won’t stop.