For the past several weeks, many of the city's social service organizations (including some on the LES) have been campaigning to save New York's after school programs. Our friends at the Educational Alliance let us know about their next...
As we reported back in March, many of the city's non-profit organizations have banded together to save dozens of after school programs slashed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Since that time, they've launched a Facebook Page and are churning out...
Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles (and former NY Times columnist), will be speaking at The Educational Alliance on Wednesday evening at 7:00pm. Lee traveled the world in a quest to answer such questions as "Who...
In conjunction with "National Older Americans Month," the Educational Alliance is hosting a very special opening in their Whittaker Gallery this afternoon: An exhibit of Drawings by Nathan Hilu.
The Educational Alliance writes: Nathan Hilu is an 83 year old...
There was a nice feature in yesterday's Times on the Halloween party at the Educational Alliance's Sirovich Senior Center on 12th Street. Reporter Susan Dominus begins by marveling that the East Village,the "youth capitol of the island,"...
Chris Bors and Ketta
Ioannidou, Cuz Opposites Attract, 2009,
oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, 43” x 68”
The Educational Alliance Art Gallery will open their show, The Better Half: Artist Couples on Display this evening at 6pm. The show represents...
photos courtesy of Grand St. SettlementFive hundred community youth and their families will turn out for Grand Street Settlement's 3rd Annual Lower East Side Youth Day at P.S.142 on the corner of Delancey and Attorney Streets. The Youth...
Three students from the Educational Alliance's Teen Center are recipients of the 2009 Allan Morrow College Scholarship Awards. Pictured from top to bottom are Augustine Gnalian, Sherice Goodwine and Karen Lee. Also pictured are Educational Alliance Trustees...
We've been following the campaign, led by the Educational Alliance, to restore funding for 88 community-based after school programs cut by the Bloomberg administration. Late last night, they got some good news. 80-percent of the funding for the "OST-2"...
