We support 20 local nonprofits which provide services to our city's most vulnerable, including: families living in poverty, single-family households, homeless families and youth, previously incarcerated, adults living with developmental disabilities, and court involved youth. The individuals and families that we help support already struggle with daily challenges - now, resources are drastically more scarce, household providers are losing jobs at exponential rates, children are not in school and/or do not have the materials to continue school from home, and the fear of uncertainty is overwhelming. Our nonprofit partners are counting on JAR to make sure their clients are still being serviced despite the public health and financial emergency.

Our grantees’ COVID-19 needs include:

• Cleaning supplies: Sanitizing wipes, clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, gloves, masks, and Lysol spray for staff and clients 
• Technology: Laptops, wifi infrastructure 
• Food: Non-perishables, meal delivery
• Recreational materials: educational games, toys, and art materials, writing supplies 
• Financial support around staffing: temporary staff, continued pay for employees

Here are just a few examples of our partners recent, pressing needs:

• Win (Women in Need), which provides safe, clean and private transitional housing for families and long term supportive housing to break the cycle of homelessness for NYC women and their children:
  "We have already spent approximately $87,000 on urgent basic needs, including emergency cleaning supplies for clients and staff, along with nonperishable food items for families across all Win sites….We estimate supplies at these levels will support families for up to three months, and the needs are immediate…”
• The POINT CDC, which is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx: 
  "Because we are not sure how long and drastic things will become we have been tapping into unemployment resources. If there is any support that could go into salaries that is definitely a priority."
• America SCORES, which is a combined soccer, literacy, and service-learning program for children ages 5-18 in under resourced NYC communities:
  "The call to action at this time is for financial support so that we can continue to support families, just in a different way, and so we don't have to let staff go - we must uphold our most important organizational value which is equity. We are school-based; thus the families are severely impacted by the school closings. They are also majority low-income and face lay-offs and reduced work hours.”
• Jeremiah Program New York works in Brownsville, Brooklyn to end the cycle of poverty for low-income single mothers and their children, two generations at a time:
  "We have cancelled all in-person programming and are working with our families via phone conferencing. We are trying to put together nonperishable kits with essentials we can find to distribute to our families.  One of the biggest issues we are finding is supporting our families through the transition to online learning as many do not have internet access, laptops or the ability to pay for the added increase to their cell phone provider for extra data.”