campus partner(s)

Queens Community House; City University of New York

state(s)

NY

amount

$25,000

initiative

Knowledge for Freedom

award date

11.2020

project director

Ivonne Torres

Grant Summary

$25,000 over 12 months to Queens Community House to partner with the City University of New York to lay the groundwork for a credit-bearing Knowledge for Freedom course and follow-up program about the historical role of the settlement house in American civic life for students in its alternative high school, which serves youth who have dropped out of or are at risk of dropping out of high school.