The Coalition’s Grand Central Food Program provides 1,000 warm, nutritious meals each night to homeless and hungry people on the streets of New York City.
The Grand Central Food Program (GCFP) was founded in 1985 the day after a homeless woman died of starvation in Grand Central Terminal. Since then, the program has grown to become the largest mobile soup kitchen in New York. Read more…
The Coalition’s Crisis Services provide immediate, lifesaving help to homeless and at-risk men, women and children at our headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
The best way to reduce homelessness is to prevent it in the first place. The Coalition’s Eviction Prevention Program rescues those who have been pushed to the brink of homelessness by unforeseen hardships and limited resources. Read more…
The Coalition’s Keys Program, which evolved from our Client Advocacy Program, supports single adults with mental illness and other disabilities who too often overlooked or ignored. This results in significant time spent living on the streets or in shelters without their health, medical, or social service needs being met. Read more…
For more than 40 years, the Coalition’s Crisis Intervention Program has been a singular refuge, where anyone in New York who is homeless, on the brink of homelessness or struggling to survive can receive immediate help from our experienced staff. Read more…
The Emergency Mail Program provides homeless New Yorkers with a secure, reliable and discrete mailing address where they can receive private mail as well as important documents from government agencies and social service organizations. Read more…
The Coalition’s three housing programs provide the dignity and stability of a permanent home – as well as supportive services – to individuals and families throughout the city.
For many homeless men and women, a sense of home no longer seems possible after living on the streets or in shelters for years. The isolation and rejection they face on a daily basis often damages their ability to trust. Read more…
Opened on Christmas Eve 1991, the Bridge Building was created to provide safe and affordable one- and two-bedroom apartments for homeless mothers and their children. Read more…
The catastrophe of homelessness is devastating for anyone, but for those living with HIV/AIDS, the lack of stable housing — and with it the ability to follow a complex health care regimen to decrease the risk of other illnesses — can be life-threatening. Read more…
The Coalition’s First Step Job Training Program gives homeless and low-income women the tools they need to find living-wage jobs so they can support themselves and their families.
The vast majority of those living in NYC homeless shelters are families — mostly single mothers and their children. These women face a tremendous array of obstacles to stability, including a lack of full-time employment, low educational attainment, and self-esteem shattered by domestic abuse. Read more…
The Coalition’s youth programs help homeless kids overcome the tremendous obstacles they have endured so they can build brighter futures for themselves.
Homelessness takes a terrible toll on children. Many experience problems in their health, social development and education later in life as a result of the traumas they’ve endured. To help homeless girls and boys overcome… Read more…
Bound for Success (BFS) provides one-one-one tutoring, as well as sports and recreation, to 30 homeless children at a time — upwards of 100 girls and boys over the course of the year. Every day after school… Read more…
The Coalition’s Advocacy advances sensible long-term solutions to the crisis of homelessness and defends the rights of homeless New Yorkers.
Since 1981, Coalition for the Homeless has fought to defend the rights of homeless New Yorkers and to protect vulnerable adults, children, and families from harm. Through litigation, organizing, research and analysis, campaigns, and public education our renowned advocacy program tirelessly fights for investments in proven, cost-effective housing solutions to solve mass homelessness. Read more…
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