MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving recently announced the results of its open call for grant applications, which began last year. Originally, Scott designated $1 million in unrestricted funding for 250 nonprofits. The open call itself was unprecedented for Scott, whose team typically researches organizations and quietly gives the funds to the nonprofits it chooses.
Sharon Content was uncontent with life on Wall Street. She felt destined for more, so she made a high-risk investment ditching her cushy gig for the unknown throes of nonprofit work. Fast forward to today, her organization Children of Promise, NYC, is celebrating more than 15 years serving children with incarcerated parents.
Several Brooklyn organizations received $1 million and more from Yield Giving, the charity foundation run by MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos.
New funding will expand critical care and resources for children of incarcerated parents in New York City
BROOKLYN, N.Y. , March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Last week, Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC), the only nonprofit in New York City with an afterschool program serving children of incarcerated parents, received a $2 million grant from MacKenzie Scott's Yield Giving Open Call.
Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC), a nonprofit dedicated to supporting children with incarcerated parents, has been awarded a $2 million grant from Mackenzie Scott’s Yield Giving Open Call.
NEW YORK (WABC) -- In this edition of "Here and Now," Sandra Bookman looks at how Children of Promise, NYC is creating opportunities for young people whose parents are behind bars.
Brooklyn, NY, March 19, 2024 – Today, Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC), the only nonprofit in New York City with an afterschool program serving children of incarcerated parents, is announcing its receipt of a $2 million grant from MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving Open Call. CPNYC was selected for the award from 6,353 applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico after multiple levels of review from the selection committee.
An organization has been helping children cope with hardships due to having a family member being incarcerated.
News 12's Brittany Cadet sat down with Sharon Content, the president of Children of Promise NYC, to discuss the mission behind the program to erase the stigma.
(WIB) – The holiday season can be a time of healing and hope as family members come together in celebration. It can also be a time of grief and loss as you mourn a loved one who isn’t there in the flesh to enjoy the festivities. And it could also be a time of emptiness, especially for youth, who are partaking in the holidays with one or both of their parents absent due to being incarcerated.
The Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation host an annual coat drive for Children of Promise NYC.
Children of Promise NYC (CPNYC) received a donation of 100 laptop computers that were later distributed to students in need in both Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The laptops were given to teen scholars at CPNYC on April 29, who have shown a great need for personal computers, with the goal to help students bridge the digital divide that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
For NBA FIT Week, the Brooklyn Nets partnered with Children of Promise and The Campaign Against Hunger to create an urban farm experience. They gave local kids a hands-on experience around a program whose goal is to provide local communities with the resources to make healthy choice for the mind, body and spirit.
TREMONT, Bronx -- There was a lot of screaming and laughing in the Bronx on Tuesday night as kids in the community received free winter jackets.
Children of Promise is a full service organization focused on the children of incarcerated parents or relatives.
"We are able to provide after school services, co-located with a mental health clinic so our scholars are able to deal with the issues, challenges, and for so many the secret of having a parent in prison," said Children of Promise founder Sharon Content.
Participants in Children of Promise, youths whose parents are incarcerated, will receive meals thanks to the Food Bank for New York City. Today, December 9, the Food Bank for New York City will deliver boxes of dried goods, fresh produce, and frozen protein to Children of Promise, NYC’s children and families who have an incarcerated parent. Following the delivery, CPNYC Youth Action members will package the food in order to distribute to 150 families and children whom the organization serves.
Over the last week, rappers have been doing some serious giving back in the spirit of Thanksgiving.
On Monday (Nov. 23), Quavo hosted an Atlanta turkey drive alongside Gopuff and Feeding America.
Fivio Foreign and DreamDoll, who collaborated on Dream’s 2020 single “Ah Ah Ah,” took up a cause similar to Dogg’s, teaming up with Million Dollar Drive By in a partnership with Children of Promise to serve up Thanksgiving meals for children affected by mass incarceration. This event unfolded on Tuesday.
Around the holidays, most artists are in the mood of giving and the week of Thanksgiving, Million Dollar Drive-By, a charity organization which is overseen by Hot 97’s Melissa Gabriel and Foreignside Foundation are partnering once again for another charity drive to give back to underprivileged kids who have incarcerated parents.
Several food sponsors have locked in to help give these kids a Thanksgiving dinner. Also, Daniel’s Leather will be donating 100 jackets to the kids. There will be an estimated 100-200 kids scheduled to attend the event, which is slated for Monday, November 22. Additionally, Fivio Foreign is confirmed to attend the event and spend time with the kids.
The charity that will be receiving the goods and bringing the kids out is Children of Promise.
Advocates and elected officials joined Children of Promise NYC founder and CEO, Sharon Content, to engage in a thought provoking conversation, entitled “Breaking the Chains of Incarceration,” on the racial disparities and trauma inflicted on Black and Brown communities with an outdated criminal justice system.
Content works daily with what she calls “the unseen victims of incarceration,” which are family members who often feel unheard and have a lack of voice regarding criminal justice policies. The open conversation delved into the history behind issues such as economic insecurity, school-to-prison pipeline, and more with Senator Jessica Ramos, CEO and Executive Director of FPWA Jennifer Jones Austin, Founder of Pure Legacee Naquasia Pollard, and CEO and Executive Director of JCCA Ron Richter.
This collaboration is the start of a 16-month partnership between Awake NY and Foot Locker and they plan to release two more Vans projects. In addition to this launch, Awake NY and Foot Locker will make donations to Washington Heights-based Fresh Youth Initiatives supporting low-income immigrant and first-generation children in Northern Manhattan and Children of Promise, NYC.
“It’s not the first time I’m working with Children of Promise,” Baque said. The designer teamed with Nike and Timberland through his community-driven platform Social Studies established with photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis and Something Special Studios, and donated extra shoes from the collaborations to children with Children of Promise.
“School and summer break was hard enough on kids during the coronavirus pandemic, and it was even harder for kids with family members in prison or jail. Children of Promise is an organization that provides free programs to these kids with relatives behind bars.
In previous years, they focused the summer program on fun activities like being outdoors and arts and crafts. But this year because of COVID-19, they really wanted to implement classes like math and reading and hired Department of Education teachers to teach these classes.”
On Wednesday, the Mississippi beauty queen stopped in at Bed-Stuy’s Children of Promise organization to surprise other children with incarcerated parents and share her story.
Children of Promise is a not-for-profit that supports families of imprisoned parents. Since winning Miss USA 2020, Branch has used her platform to raise awareness about the impact mass incarceration has had on young people like herself.
Miss USA 2020 Asya Branch, 23, visited Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn yesterday, July 14, to share her story with children of incarcerated parents and their families about her years growing up with a father incarcerated in prison.
“I wish I had an organization like Children of Promise during my childhood to deal with the trauma of having my father incarcerated for ten years of my life,” said Brand. “I now use my voice and platform to make a difference in the lives of these children and their parents.”
“More than 105,000 children in New York state have a parent in prison.
Nationwide, that number is about 2.7 million, according to Children of Promise, an organization on a mission to support these children.
Children of Promise founder Sharon Content and Miss USA Asya Branch spoke with PIX11 News about how people can make a difference and help children around the country.”
“More than 2.7 million kids in the United States have a parent behind bars. And parental incarceration can be a powerful adverse childhood experience (or ACE), an event in childhood that is potentially traumatic, leading to long-term physical and emotional impacts….’It’s not that the child [of an incarcerated parent] is more likely to commit a crime,’ Content said. ‘It’s the systems in which this child is being raised.’”
