$30,000 / 2010, 2011
Bronx, NY
Jack Doyle, Executive Director
New Settlement Apartments is a housing and community-building organization that works toward education reform in public schools. The Parent Action Committee (PAC) is a parent and community organizing project of NSA, begun by a small group of parents in 1997 concerned with the poor quality of education in the Southwest Bronx. Now more than 1600 members strong, the PAC guides campaigns in underperforming schools in Community School District 9 as well as the six small high schools that have been opened on the campus of Taft High School. NSA is also a founding member of Community Collaboration to improve Bronx schools (CCB) and the Coalition of Education Justice (CEJ). Hazen’s 2010 and 2011 grants of $30,000 will enable NSA to maintain its strong local organizing and continue to play a leadership role in citywide organizing.