The Poughkeepsie Children’s Cabinet (PCC) exists to create and coordinate a cradle-to-career continuum of services, supports, and opportunities that ensures every child can thrive in Poughkeepsie regardless of race, ethnicity, poverty, or circumstance. The Cabinet believes that a child’s zip code should not limit their success. The PCC seeks to cultivate a critical mass of…
North East Community Center offers a wide range of educational, recreational, and supportive services to northeastern Dutchess County and surrounding communities. Its service area is largely rural, making it a key provider in this underserved area of the county. Key Programs: Dyson Foundation grant in 2024:
Community Family Development (CFD) is one of the oldest nonprofit childcare centers in Dutchess County, located in the heart of the City of Poughkeepsie since 1971. With a focus on access and equity, its mission is to provide high-quality care and education in a safe and nurturing environment so children can thrive. CFD helps meet…
Empire State University is the State University of New York’s leading online institution. SUNY Empire offers a high-quality education that is flexible and affordable and takes into account work and life experiences that can often translate into college credit. Most SUNY Empire students work full-time while pursuing their degrees. This is especially true for students…
Hudson Hall is a multi-arts community center and performing arts venue in the City of Hudson. A civic and economic anchor in downtown Hudson, it offers a year-round schedule of cultural and educational programs in its historic building, which houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater. The vibrant site of wide-ranging activities from the mid-1800s…
Skidmore College is a private liberal arts college with a diverse student body of 2,665 from 46 states and 62 countries, with a faculty of 327 teacher-scholars, an average class size of 16, and a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1. Skidmore offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as…
In 2021, Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress launched The Board Institute to advance greater diversity of board composition across the Hudson Valley. In the region and beyond, nonprofit and community boards of directors often lack racial and ethnic representation that reflects the communities they serve. Recognizing the benefit, importance, and power of having diverse governance…
The Warwick Area Farmworker Organization serves farmworkers and their families living in Orange County. It focuses on social determinants of health and access to healthcare and human services through partnerships with healthcare providers and other community organizations. From a community center in Goshen that it shares with Sun River Health, it coordinates a community health…
Lead for Poughkeepsie* (LFPK) is a local affiliate of Lead for America (LFA), a national service organization advancing place-based movements across the US that cultivate the next generation of civic leaders. Since its launch in August 2021, LFPK’s signature initiative has been its Hometown Fellowship program. The program recruits young professionals with ties to the…
The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood (GHPN) works to help children and families reach their full potential through cradle-to-career programming. Based on the highly successful Harlem Children’s Zone model, Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood improves outcomes for students by identifying unmet needs in the community and working to meet them through direct service, collaboration, community building, and/or…