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NYC Kids RISE

Providing families, schools & communities with a way to save together for their kids’ futures through the scholarship & savings program.

NYC Kids RISE is a nonprofit organization working to expand economic opportunity and equity for all NYC public school students.

08/25/2026

In Mott Haven in the Bronx, the NYCHA Mill Brook Houses Resident Association, Mercy Center, Qualitas of Life Foundation, neighbors, local businesses, and community partners teamed up to host Mill Brook Houses Family Day with food, games, music, and community connections, including activities to encourage kids and families to engage with the money growing in each child’s NYC Scholarship Account for their college and career futures. Today, 169 NYC public school students living in Mill Brook Houses already have more than $43,000 invested for college and career training, and Mercy Center and Qualitas of Life Foundation are meeting with families 1:1 to support them to build on a “capital stack” of assets for their children. Families are saving in the ways and amounts that make sense for them, adding to the initial seed scholarship, Community Scholarships, and earnings. Thank you to Mercy Center, Qualitas of Life, and Mill Brook tenant leaders for helping all the kids at Family Day see and feel the support they have from their families, their school, and their neighborhood!

08/20/2026

NYC schools will welcome students back next month, so New York Cares volunteers in Harlem have rolled up their sleeves to pack 12,200 backpacks with school supplies for NYC public school students across the five boroughs. Each book bag gets the essentials to set students up for success in the new school year — notebooks, folders, crayons, markers, and pencil cases, and the QR code to activate and view the money in each student’s NYC Scholarship Account.

This school year, every student attending an NYC public elementary school, including participating charter schools, will have an Account with money already invested for their college and career training through the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program. Kindergarteners can activate in the new year, while first through fifth graders can activate and view today. As students get ready for reconnecting with friends and learning new things, they’re also logging in with their families to see how their money has grown, and having planning conversations about their educational futures.

Thank you to New York Cares for leading the initiative — relieving the immediate burden of school supply costs while connecting families to long-term resources for their children’s futures. Check out our stories for where to pick up your free backpacks and school supplies! 🎒📓✏️

08/17/2026

Community Organizations across the city are working to use the NYC Kids RISE Program as a tool to support their kids to dream big and reach important educational milestones. Educational Alliance in the Lower East Side came up with an art show as a way to connect with kids and families in their neighborhood. While tapping into kids’ creativity, they helped students use art as an outlet to visualize their college and career dreams and make real-time connections to the community of support and tangible assets they have to pursue their goals. The art show has become a way for Educational Alliance to boost their kids’ belief in their own high potential and confidence in their college-bound identities.

Thank you to Bernadette Ortiz, Elementary School Program Director, and the Educational Alliance team for showcasing creative ways to reinforce kids’ emerging aspirations for the future, during afterschool, at home, and in the community.

08/13/2026

Spend a day with NYC Public School Alumna Kristine Albano Garlisi, Chief Operating Officer of the The Nicotra Group, LLC. and Executive Director of the Lois & Richard , and you’ll understand the power and brilliance of NYC Public School grads. 🌱Community roots take on a literal meaning as she looks out at her community from the that both supports Staten Island climate resiliency and grows thousands of pounds of organic, sustainable food for Lois and Richard Nicotras’ Staten Island social enterprise restaurants, and . The restaurants offer internships, job development, and second chance employment, and the profits from the restaurants go right back into investing in the Staten Island community where Kristine got her start attending P.S. 32 and I.S. 24 and growing up as the daughter of an NYC public school teacher.

Children and grandchildren of Nicotra Group employees and local students from high schools across the borough receive scholarships for their higher education, and whenever kids encounter a team member of one of the Nicotras’ Staten Island businesses, grantees, or the foundation, they see them wearing a pin that says, “LOVE Staten Island.” The borough pride reinforces for each child that everyone from the cook at their local cafe to their neighbor who graduated from their same public school believes in their potential.

Thank you to Kristine, the inspiring Lois & Richard Nicotra, and their Staten Island-based teams for welcoming NYC Kids RISE Founding Executive Director Debra-Ellen Glickstein to see a community in action.

08/11/2026

At Mott Haven Houses Family Day on Saturday, NYCHA tenant association leaders and East Side House Settlement welcomed their neighbors, kids, families, and community partners to a joyful celebration, fostering the kinds of connections that make their community a springboard of opportunity for their children.

Through the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program, more than 140 children living in Mott Haven houses already have more than $30,000 invested for their future college and career training! Thank you to Resident Association President Ms. Deborah Aviles and Department Director of Elementary Programs at East Side House Settlement Ms. Ra-Daya Almeyda for encouraging Mott Haven kids and families to see and celebrate the money growing in their accounts for their futures, and sending them a clear message: your whole neighborhood has your back as you pursue your dreams!

08/04/2026

“As an educator of 20+ years, I believe that our public schools are among the most powerful engines of opportunity and social mobility that exist in our city. That is what makes the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program so important. I’ve seen firsthand how you have woven the Program into the very fabric of your school communities—from teachers using to introduce financial literacy, to schools incorporating the program into graduation ceremonies, and so much more. Because every child in New York City deserves not only the opportunity to dream about their future—but the support, resources, and belief to pursue it.” – NYC Public Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels Kamar Samuels

More than 450 NYC Public Schools leaders came together last week for the annual NYC Kids RISE Convening, celebrating remarkable momentum from the last school year and looking ahead to even greater strides for students’ futures in the school year to come. Throughout a meaningful day of reflection, learning, and planning, schools in every borough explored creative ways to incorporate the Program as a tool for college and career readiness, financial education, and school-to-community ties.

Hear more about it from Convening speakers: NYC Public Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, NYC Public Schools Office of Student Pathways Senior Executive Director Melanie Mac, NYC Kids RISE Founding Executive Director Debra-Ellen Glickstein, NYC Kids RISE Managing Director of School Networks Courtney Winkfield, PTA President and Lighting the Way For Our Leaders of Tomorrow Grandparent Eloise Bennett, Community School District 1 Community Education Council Member and Chair of the Title 1 Parent Advisory Councils at PS 20 Anna Silver and Quest to Learn in NYC Schools District 2 Goddezz Figueroa, Elijiah G. Stroud Elementary (Community School District.17) PTA Secretary and Parent Alicia Riques, and PS 257 Magnet School of Performing Arts (Community School District 14) Parent Diana Tavarez.

Thank you teachers, administrators, parent coordinators, and school communities for weaving this program into the very fabric of your schools and setting students on a path to achieving their biggest college and career dreams. And thank you to the NYC Kids RISE team for leading a spectacular Schools Convening.

07/28/2026

“When parents can see something they can actually take a hold of, it’s everything to them. It’s part of our own genetic makeup to provide that.” – Timothy Davis, Henry Street Settlement

For more than 130 years, Lower East Side families have turned to Henry Street Settlement as a partner in building for their futures, through housing, education, enrichment, health, and more. And families have never had to look far. In 1893, Henry Street’s founder Lillian Wald moved into the Lower East Side tenement where she provided nursing and coordinated schooling for her immigrant and refugee neighbors and their children, alleviating families’ need to take time off work and seek expensive opportunities outside their neighborhood. “Listening to and learning from neighbors” is still fundamental to Henry Street’s DNA.

Through the NYC Kids RISE Program, more than 3,000 NYC Public Schools students in the Lower East Side Community School District 1 already have nearly $700,000 invested for their futures, including a Community Scholarship from Trinity Church NYC and The Lower East Side Employment Network, the longstanding network of workforce development organizations — LESEN LES Employment Network. It’s a tool Henry Street is using to make sure kids and families know they have an ownership stake in their futures and the chance to plan for higher education and prosperous careers, starting in kindergarten.

Henry Street is reinforcing for children that their dreams matter, they have assets for their futures, and they have a whole community of support — at school, during their after school program, at their houses of worship, in their community centers, and at home.

07/24/2026

Matthew is proudly showcasing a moment in NYC history! On his wall at home is a certificate celebrating that he is part of the founding class of NYC Public Schools NYC District 30 students graduating 8th grade and heading to high school with money already set aside for college and career training through the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program. Matthew’s family shares that the certificate serves as a reminder to keep logging in and viewing the money growing in his NYC Scholarship Account and to keep planning for the future, knowing that there is a whole community of support for his college and career dreams.

07/23/2026

At the annual Partnership for After School Education PASE convening, Speaker Julie Menin (Speaker Julie Menin) joined PASE CEO Alison Overseth to kick off the day, “Activating the Power of Afterschool,” with hundreds of leaders who work every day to support young people throughout the five boroughs. P.S. 152 Alum and Brooklyn Org CEO Dr. Jocelynne Rainey provided a keynote address sharing the story of the afterschool teacher who changed her life, helping her see herself as smart, capable, and destined for big things. NYC Youth & Comm. Commissioner Sandra Escamilla-Davies, and NYC Kids RISE Founding Executive Director Debra-Ellen Glickstein, and more speakers echoed her message: afterschool programs are anchors in communities and launchpads for kids to explore their identities and shape their dreams for the future.

PASE plays a critical role in advocating for excellent afterschool programs for all children and families, and supporting afterschool educators to “hone their craft,” developing high-quality, content-rich programmatic experiences for our youth. Afterschool programs across the city are incorporating the NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program as a tool for reinforcing college and career expectations and strengthening community ties, parent engagement, and financial education and empowerment. From hosting family & community dinners like Riis Settlement to leading a 1st grade career day like Educational Alliance, we celebrate the creative ways PASE practitioners are strengthening social capital and building a powerful foundation for kids to pursue their passions.

07/17/2026

At Queensbridge Family Day, a joyous neighborhood celebration, rising third grader and Queensbridge Houses resident Matthew helped share a special announcement — starting this school year, every kindergartener in Queensbridge Houses attending an NYC public school will receive an initial $1,000 scholarship in their NYC Scholarship Account for college and career training, alongside every public school kindergartener across the City!

The NYC Kids RISE Save for College Program was born in Queensbridge. kindergarteners — now heading to high school — were among the first students in the City to receive NYC Scholarship Accounts with money already invested for the future when the Program launched in NYC District 30. The seeds were planted for a universal community-driven wealth-building platform — with a community coming together to demonstrate how every part of a child’s neighborhood could play a role in setting children up for success.

The historic investment celebrated at Queensbridge Family Day builds on the money already set aside for Queensbridge children’s dreams through the Program and through the Queensbridge community working together to support their children — from families, to schools, to businesses, houses of worship, neighbors, and civic and community leaders. More than 600 children living in the largest public housing community in the country already have more than $350,000 for their futures, and a neighborhood of supporters cheering them on.

Thank you to Mathew and his mom Norby, Center of Hope International , Urban Upbound , Riis Settlement, Mitchell Gordon Taylor , , Council Member Julie Won, Diana Moreno, NYCHA Queensbridge Resident Association President Corinne Haynes and tenant association leaders, NYC District 30 , local businesses, philanthropy, families, and neighbors for demonstrating what it looks like to show up for all our kids.

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 8pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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