A Week of Adventure
What a Difference a Week Can Make! More than 100 under-served middle schoolers. One amazing six-day summer adventure. A lifetime of benefits. Each summer, Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) partners with public schools in NYC to provide under-served middle school students with the opportunity to get away from the sweltering city. For those whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing; SGHY ensures they have Continue reading
Thank You for Summer Camp 2022
You Made It Happen! Six days of summer camp can be a big deal for any kid. For children whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing: swimming in a lake, holding a frog, or seeing a nighttime sky filled with stars. Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) coordinates and funds two yearly summer camps – Camp Zeke sleepaway the Kids of Summer day camp. This Continue reading
Young People’s Town Hall
SGHY and Friends Produce a Young People’s Town Hall Virtually Presented on Monday, June 22nd from 4-5:30pm NYC’s youth have been through a lot recently, with so many troubling and confusing events and challenges: COVID- 19, remote learning, the murder of George Floyd, stores vandalized. But they have also witnessed many good people coming together peacefully to proclaim that Black lives matter, demand justice and build a better future. SGHY and Friends want your City Continue reading
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A Year of Dedication, Collaboration, and Expansion …And a chance to double your contribution In fiscal 2022 SGHY expanded services by 150%, increasing the number of school partnerships from two to five as well as greatly expanding the curriculums we can offer. Thanks to generous contributions from our individual, corporate, and union supporters we have, so far, been able to provide a wide variety of programs in 1,180 sessions in fiscal 2023(Fall 2022); but there Continue reading
A Week of Adventure
What a Difference a Week Can Make! More than 100 under-served middle schoolers. One amazing six-day summer adventure. A lifetime of benefits. Each summer, Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) partners with public schools in NYC to provide under-served middle school students with the opportunity to get away from the sweltering city. For those whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing; SGHY ensures they have Continue reading
Thank You for Summer Camp 2022
You Made It Happen! Six days of summer camp can be a big deal for any kid. For children whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing: swimming in a lake, holding a frog, or seeing a nighttime sky filled with stars. Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) coordinates and funds two yearly summer camps – Camp Zeke sleepaway the Kids of Summer day camp. This Continue reading
Young People’s Town Hall
SGHY and Friends Produce a Young People’s Town Hall Virtually Presented on Monday, June 22nd from 4-5:30pm NYC’s youth have been through a lot recently, with so many troubling and confusing events and challenges: COVID- 19, remote learning, the murder of George Floyd, stores vandalized. But they have also witnessed many good people coming together peacefully to proclaim that Black lives matter, demand justice and build a better future. SGHY and Friends want your City Continue reading
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A Year of Dedication, Collaboration, and Expansion …And a chance to double your contribution In fiscal 2022 SGHY expanded services by 150%, increasing the number of school partnerships from two to five as well as greatly expanding the curriculums we can offer. Thanks to generous contributions from our individual, corporate, and union supporters we have, so far, been able to provide a wide variety of programs in 1,180 sessions in fiscal 2023(Fall 2022); but there Continue reading
A Week of Adventure
What a Difference a Week Can Make! More than 100 under-served middle schoolers. One amazing six-day summer adventure. A lifetime of benefits. Each summer, Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) partners with public schools in NYC to provide under-served middle school students with the opportunity to get away from the sweltering city. For those whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing; SGHY ensures they have Continue reading
Thank You for Summer Camp 2022
You Made It Happen! Six days of summer camp can be a big deal for any kid. For children whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing: swimming in a lake, holding a frog, or seeing a nighttime sky filled with stars. Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) coordinates and funds two yearly summer camps – Camp Zeke sleepaway the Kids of Summer day camp. This Continue reading
Young People’s Town Hall
SGHY and Friends Produce a Young People’s Town Hall Virtually Presented on Monday, June 22nd from 4-5:30pm NYC’s youth have been through a lot recently, with so many troubling and confusing events and challenges: COVID- 19, remote learning, the murder of George Floyd, stores vandalized. But they have also witnessed many good people coming together peacefully to proclaim that Black lives matter, demand justice and build a better future. SGHY and Friends want your City Continue reading
This Was Summer Camp 2019
SGHY is so grateful to recognize the record breaking contributions to our Summer Camp program from our 2019 sponsors, the Dr. David M. Milch Foundation, the Fr. Louis Gigante Foundation, the David Richenthal Foundation, George Olsen, Esq., Henry Bulh, the United Federation of Teachers, and the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators , and hundreds of individual donors for 2019. Their support gave over 100 middle school students from our school-year programs in under-served districts Continue reading
Here Come the Summer Camps !
Summer Camps Rule for SGHY Middle School Students. Sophie Gerson long advocated a holistic approach to education. This includes summer camps. With scholarships for our middle school students whose families cannot afford camp we have observed truly amazing positive impact. You can see for yourself A week at camp can last them a lifetime, with the new experiences, friendships, skills, healthy fun, self-confidence, and dreams. Our schools’ general program sleepaway camp choice has become Camp Zeke, Continue reading
We’ve Added More Enrichment
This year…and next, SGHY has added more enrichment Implementing Sophie Gerson’s vision, SGHY’s unique, effective program model is identifying more enrichment with the best program providers and camps to our schools. This effort brings teachers from the schools alongside the coaches and instructors to assure complete for each student’s needs. Over the past two years SGHY has supported or brought to our schools sports programs in the form of tennis, badminton, volleyball, basketball, running, field Continue reading
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A Year of Dedication, Collaboration, and Expansion …And a chance to double your contribution In fiscal 2022 SGHY expanded services by 150%, increasing the number of school partnerships from two to five as well as greatly expanding the curriculums we can offer. Thanks to generous contributions from our individual, corporate, and union supporters we have, so far, been able to provide a wide variety of programs in 1,180 sessions in fiscal 2023(Fall 2022); but there Continue reading
A Week of Adventure
What a Difference a Week Can Make! More than 100 under-served middle schoolers. One amazing six-day summer adventure. A lifetime of benefits. Each summer, Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) partners with public schools in NYC to provide under-served middle school students with the opportunity to get away from the sweltering city. For those whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing; SGHY ensures they have Continue reading
Thank You for Summer Camp 2022
You Made It Happen! Six days of summer camp can be a big deal for any kid. For children whose families can’t afford activities like camps or vacation, experiencing a week full of firsts can be life-changing: swimming in a lake, holding a frog, or seeing a nighttime sky filled with stars. Sophie Gerson Healthy Youth (SGHY) coordinates and funds two yearly summer camps – Camp Zeke sleepaway the Kids of Summer day camp. This Continue reading
Young People’s Town Hall
SGHY and Friends Produce a Young People’s Town Hall Virtually Presented on Monday, June 22nd from 4-5:30pm NYC’s youth have been through a lot recently, with so many troubling and confusing events and challenges: COVID- 19, remote learning, the murder of George Floyd, stores vandalized. But they have also witnessed many good people coming together peacefully to proclaim that Black lives matter, demand justice and build a better future. SGHY and Friends want your City Continue reading
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Third Annual Tennis Tournament – UPDATE
The Third Annual Tennis Tournament for the Sophie Gerson Cup was held June 3rd, 2016… at Columbia University’s Dick Savitt Tennis Center, (Map). We never tire of the energy and enthusiasm our Middle School students bring to this tournament every year. With the continued hospitality of Columbia University’s Varsity Tennis Coach Howie Edelman and Varsity Team Champs, Richard Pham, Burt Vancour and Shawn Hadavi with the steady and experienced guidance of NY Junior Tennis and Learning NYJTL , and Continue reading
Sophie’s Stars
They didn’t win the playoffs in March, but Sophie’s Stars gave the Greenwich House-Malakoff Girls Basketball League lots of heart and a ton of enthusiasm. This year’s team was possibly the youngest in the league, though it would be hard to say they weren’t familiar with the game or lacked enthusiasm to master all the right plays. What was most remarkable, however, is how well they understood the concept of team play. Their offense was Continue reading
February 25th Benefit
Thursday, February 25th Benefit at 6:00 PM 102 Prince St., 5th Floor Our dear friend Henry Buhl again provided his magnificent art-filled loft for our February 25th Benefit event. The proceeds support Spring and Summer Programs . Shown above: Jessica Kruskamp, Chief Education Officer, New York Junior Tennis & Learning with Ty Grant, Founder, Team First welcoming guests. Photo: Zella Jones. Honorary Co-Chairs: Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz HONORING 2016 YOUTH Continue reading
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