Media Room

As this year's Operation Backpack® campaign comes to an end, Paige Davis and Angela Ciminello talk about the impact VOA-GNY makes in the lives of students experiencing homelessness.

An article in the Bronx Times features one of the first tenants to move into East Clarke Place Senior Residence—68-year-old Demetrio Rivera—and outlines how VOA-Greater New York is working to eradicate homelessness in the Greater New York area by 2050 through affordable housing projects like this one.

Myung Lee discusses how Volunteers of America-Greater New York, like other New York City nonprofits, are trying to educate their staff and clients about the COVID-19 vaccine. Read the full article.

More than 70 golfers attended the second annual event benefiting VOA-GNY, organized by Reginald Goins, VOA-GNY Board Member and President & COO of The Honickman Companies (which includes Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of NY). The funds are a significant contribution toward our $1 million gala fundraising goal.

The funds, which were raised in part during a recent charity golf event, have already helped children at one of our domestic violence shelters connect to remote learning during the pandemic, and will soon provide computer access to families at our transitional shelter in Brooklyn.

At a NYC Council hearing held jointly by the Committees for Health, Aging and Technology, Myung Lee, VOA-GNY President & CEO, emphasized the need for on-site COVID vaccine access for our older adults in supportive housing, many of whom are, essentially, homebound.

Thanks to your support, all 15,000 children living in NYC homeless shelters received grade-specific school supplies in time for their first day of school.

The impact of the Bronx Early Learning Center—our special education preschool—is life changing for the children who attend and their families.

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, VOA-Greater New York and all essential human services providers continue to provide round-the-clock care for seniors, veterans, children, families and others in need.

How does being homeless affect a child's education? Noelle Withers, VOA-Greater New York Vice President of Quality and Program Services, shares her thoughts.

We care for young men and women who are aging out of the foster care system during this crucial period in their lives. This is our approach.

Each day, 10,000 Americans turn 65 years old. New York City’s senior population is growing larger, living longer, and getting poorer. Several factors are causing older adults to age into poverty and oftentimes homelessness.