Word: harlem
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...Gates or Rockefeller or serving in the Peace Corps. It means founding a nonprofit, like Project HEALTH, started by Rebecca Onie ’97 as an undergraduate and continuing today as a model of effectiveness in helping low-income patients overcome socioeconomic barriers to health care, or the Harlem Children’s Zone, established by Geoffrey Canada, whom we will honor this week with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” award. This organization has transformed the lives of thousands of children in New York through after-school activities, mentoring, and family support...
Canada, a 1975 graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, serves as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a non-profit that combats poverty and works to close the achievement gap in a 100-block area in Harlem. The organization employs a comprehensive approach including parenting classes, charter schools, and summer programs...
...What the Harlem Children’s Zone is doing is on the forefront of the national conversation on child poverty and achievement gap issues,” said PBHA executive director Gene A. Corbin...
Cruising home from Harlem on Saturday, the Harvard women’s volleyball team must have had Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” playing over the team bus’ speakers...
Copney was arrested in Harlem on May 21 and later indicted by a Middlesex Superior Court grand jury on charges including murder, accessory after the fact of murder, and possession of a firearm. He is being held without bail...