Riverside Immigrant Services & Empowerment (R.I.S.E)
For over thirty years the Riverside Immigrant Services & Empowerment has offered free intensive classes in English for Speakers of Other Languages. Students are recently-arrived immigrant adults who are now living in New York City. Six-week classes encourage newcomers to learn English quickly so they can begin to pursue their dreams – dreams like becoming re-certified in the professions they pursued in their home countries, getting higher education and/or helping their children with schoolwork. Riverside’s stellar reputation in the immigrant community allows them to spend no money or energy on recruiting. This is all done for them by former students through word of mouth.
- Year
- 2024
- Purpose
- The renewed CCS grant will be used to address the economic mobility and social inclusion of newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in New York City.
- Award
- $10,000
- Year
- 2023
- Purpose
- The CCS grant is used to support a small, but critical, emergency fund that helps Riverside participants in dire financial need: Project Ellis.
- Award
- $5,000
- Year
- 2022
- Purpose
- The CCS grant is used to support a small but critical emergency fund, called Project Ellis, that helps Riverside participants in dire financial need.
- Award
- $5,000
- Year
- 2021
- Purpose
- The grant will support the Project Ellis, a small but critical emergency fund that helps Riverside students who are in dire financial need.
- Award
- $5,000
- Year
- 2020
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will support Project Ellis, which will provide basic necessities such as MTA passes for transportation to and from the program, and $10 per day for emergency food supplies.
- Award
- $4,800
- Year
- 2019
- Purpose
- The CCS grant will help 11 neediest students from the Riverside Language Program. They will receive Metro-cards so that they could attend class for the full cycle of the six week program. The program also includes meetings with immigration legal teams, mental and physical healthcare services, and asylee and refugee support group meetings.
- Award
- $5,000