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Children of Promise, NYC is a non-for-profit 501C(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible.
Donations collected are directly allocated to program activites and support services.
Expenses Breakdown:

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Mail check payable to the Fund for the City of New York to 600 Lafayette Avenue, 6th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Wish List
- Lunch and a trip for one mentor - mentee match @ $50
- Provide our CPNYC teens with an eight week in-house internship $500 stipend intern month.
- Build a CPNYC Girls Scout or Boy Scout troop @ $1,000
Enhance our Mentoring Program!
- Play basketball with us: Ten new basketballs @ $25 each
- Will you shoot for the stars? A new portable basketball hoop @ $250
- There is no I in TEAM: Help build the first ever CPNYC basketball team
Physical Education:
- Software from Classroom Inc. “Simulations that place students in virtual workplaces in managerial positions” @ $1,000
- Create a Parent Resource Center: Where parents learn Microsoft Office Suite @ $100 per parent for 8 week workshop, Staff @ $25/hr
Computer Lab
- CPNYC t-shirts, back packs, and ponchos @ $25 per child
- Send our children to: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, The Museum of African American Art, The Intrepid @ $25 per child per trip
- Be a part of our Summer and Spring Productions: Costumes @ $20 per child
- Lighting for the stage @ $1,000, Sound system complete with microphones @ $2,000
After School & Summer Programs
- With Therapeutic tools and resources for children and adolescents: Therapeutic Games, Doll house and multi-culture doll set, Therapeutic art supplies @ $250
Therapeutic Program
- Hiring of an additional social worker @ $50,000/year
- Parent support group awards ceremony and dinner @ $50 (after 12 sessions parents participate in Awards ceremony)
Expand our mental health staff
- Shelf of books @ $100 from Scholastics Inc.
- Make us multi-media: A projector @ $300
- A white board: An audio booth @ $500
- Library software (BOOTHCAT) to create scan able CPNYC library cards @ $1,000
Library
- Expand the Backpack Magic: Props needed
- Flashing lights @ $5 each
- Binoculars @ $15 each
- Magnifying Lenses @ $5 each
- Expand out costumes collection: Princess dresses @ $20 each
- Knights in Shining Armor @ $20 each
- A hat collection @ $100
- Let’s Dance: An ipod and speakers @ $400
Creative Movement
- Three wall mounted drying racks @ $100 each
- One weekly project for each child @ $5 per child = $300
- Add ceramics to the mix! One pottery wheel and kiln @ $3,500 each
Art
- Send direct services staff to a workshop: Creating a socially & emotionally responsive environment at PASE (Partnership for After School Education) @ 350 per staff member
- Help our Art Instructor become a certified Art Therapist at The New School @ $1,000 a semester
- Send our Mental Health Director to National Conferences @ $1,000/trip