Our Mission: Building community, changing lives, creating hope, opening up doors. Our programs are designed to meet the basic needs of the participants and simultaneously inject new learning, stimulate curiosity and motivate participants to become more aware of the world around them and take action to better and enrich their lives.
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THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI - HOW WE CAN HELP
All of us have been shocked and saddened by the events in Haiti. Many in our community – staff as well as program members – have loved ones there. We, as a community, need to band together and support those who are living with so much uncertainty and fear. Click here for a NY Times list of how you can help. To read the message to the Goddard Riverside community from Executive Director Stephan Russo, click here.

GODDARD RIVERSIDE:A NEW VIDEO
"The Center has given me a lot.  It gives me a reason to get up in the morning and to come here and try to be of service to people and to enjoy my friends." This is an excerpt from Wade, a member of our Senior Center. Click here to see our video about the people who make up our community.

OUR STORIES
• Twelve years ago Betty Dickstein walked into Goddard Riverside’s Senior Center and had no idea what she was getting into. MORE
• When Nat Suares lost his apartment he started living on the street until outreach workers brought him inside. MORE

Goddard Riverside Community Center has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of charities.

 

NEWS
• How to help the homeless in the cold, CNN.com, with quotes by Stephan Russo MORE
• Goddard Riverside and Whole Foods Market Join Forces to Fight Hunger on the Upper West Side
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• Goddard Riverside Homeless Outreach Workers Featured in NYT MORE
• Goddard Riverside on the Today Show: A football throw for charity MORE
• Summer 09 Newsletter MORE

We are pleased to be recognized as an accredited charity by the Better Business Bureau.

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