BRONX WORKS INC
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Mission Statement
BronxWorks helps individuals and families improve their economic and social well-being. From toddlers to seniors, we feed, shelter, teach, and support our neighbors to build a stronger community. In all aspects of our work, BronxWorks strives for the highest ethical and performance standards and is guided by the belief that people are to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their present situation or past experiences.
About This Cause
Every year, BronxWorks (formerly Citizens Advice Bureau) changes the lives of over 35,000 people – one child, one family at a time in 30 locations throughout the borough – impressive numbers, to be sure, but each case represents one person and one special story. There is the teen mother struggling with two children, no care-giving experience, and scant income. There is the family facing eviction and the nightmare of homelessness. There is the immigrant struggling with language and cultural barriers. There is the young man looking for work and career guidance. There is the elderly couple facing health and nutritional issues. There is the middle-aged resident with a chronic disease and few resources. And there is the child of working parents who needs a safe space for after-school and summer activities. BronxWorks knows that a tough reality does not mean a future lacking hope. The Bronx is a vibrant mixture of diversity, culture, and history juxtaposed with the hard reality of inner city life. It’s a place to which so many New Yorkers can trace their own roots. And it continues to welcome waves of newcomers on their path toward the American dream. Today, the Bronx continues to draw new residents hoping to better their lives. Immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Mexico and elsewhere in the Caribbean and Latin America, West Africa, and South Asia join long-time residents, all of whom look to BronxWorks to help them adapt, learn, find jobs, and secure housing that will give them the opportunity for self-sufficiency. Numbers do matter and having the scale to combat systemic poverty is important. At BronxWorks we: FEED 1,750 households (approx. 5,250 individuals) by helping them get food stamps, enabling them to purchase millions of dollars worth of food and avoid hunger, while also providing over 350,000 meals to children, young adults, seniors, street homeless adults, and people impacted by HIV/AIDS. SHELTER over 3,000 families (including over 5,000 children) at risk of eviction from entering into the shelter system and 276 homeless families in one of our private rooms which include individual bathrooms and kitchenettes. BronxWorks efforts have decreased the number of street homeless people in the Bronx by over 70% since 2005. TEACH English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), citizenship, and computer classes to over 900 working-age adults and seniors, and enroll over 1,900 youth in early learning, after-school, summer camp, and GED preparation programs. SUPPORT over 1,500 Bronxites with job readiness or skills training, placing over 650 adults into permanent jobs, and helping over 500 youth obtain summer jobs or internships. We also support over 500 immigrants by lending legal assistance and over 650 people impacted by HIV/AIDS by providing comprehensive support services.