Arts programming is often considered a luxury many social service agencies simply can’t afford to offer. To fill that void, Free Arts NYC partners with several agencies throughout New York City to provide quality arts programs on-site to their various communities, always at no cost.

Our programs are in high demand. Each year, 100% of the agencies we work with ask Free Arts NYC to return, and there is presently a waiting list of new organizations that would like to work with us.

The following agencies currently partner with Free Arts NYC:

Association to Benefit Children Echo Park
A therapeutic after-school program serving at-risk youth in East Harlem.

Children’s Aid Society
An organization that offers health, educational and social services for children in various locations throughout New York City.

Coalition for Hispanic Family Services
Northern Brooklyn family health center providing arts and literacy programs, mental health clinic and foster boarding home program.

Community Roots Charter School
Community Roots Charter School is a rigorous K-5 learning community where learning is embedded in meaningful real world context, where children are deliberately taught to see the connections between school and the world.

Department of Homeless Services
Since its inception, the work of DHS and its nonprofit partners has primarily focused on providing safe shelter, outreach services and, over the last few years, helping individuals and families transition to permanent housing.

Edwin Gould Services
A comprehensive social service agency offering a variety of services to children.

Excellence Charter School
Located in the Bedford Stuyvesant part of Brooklyn, this all-boys school primarily works with the African American community. This school’s mission is to “prepare young boys to enter, succeed in and graduate from outstanding college preparatory high schools and colleges.” Currently, the school has kindergarten and first grade classes, with the goal of adding a new kindergarten class each year to ultimately become a K-8 school.

The Family Center
Assists seriously ill parents (with HIV/AIDS or cancer) to create a better future for their children by providing comprehensive legal and social services, education and research.

Future Leaders Institute Charter School
FLI’s mission is to expand opportunities for students who historically have had limited access to rigorous academic instruction, and to empower them to make informed, deliberate decisions so that they may lead socially responsible, productive lives.

Good Shepherd Services
A community service organization providing support to various agencies throughout the city at the following locations: Barbara Blum Residence (residential treatment home); Euphrasian and Marian Hall Residences (diagnostic group homes for children in crisis); St. Germaines Residence (interim residence for teenage boys awaiting sentencing in court).

GO Project
The “Grace Opportunity Project” is located at the Grace Church School. GO is an academic assistance program for Lower Manhattan’s underprivileged public school students (grades 1-5) in need of reading, writing and math remediation outside of the school hours. A year-round social worker offers GO families the opportunity to receive counseling, referrals, parent discussion groups and workshops.

Grand Street Settlement House
A community center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Harlem Link Charter School
Harlem Link Charter School, a K-4 public school, links academics, values and community to graduate articulate scholars who meet or exceed New York State Performance Standards and active citizens who learn and serve in their communities. Families, staff and community join together to provide a safe, supportive learning environment that empowers students to take an active role in learning and demonstrate good character.

Icahn House
A homeless and domestic violence shelter serving 90 families of women and children.

I Have A Dream Foundation
A community center that motivates and empowers children from low-income communities to reach their education and career goals by providing long-term mentoring, tutoring and enrichment.

Incarnation Children’s Center
A residential home in Washington Heights for children infected with HIV/AIDS.

Lincoln Square Neighborhood Services
A Manhattan-based community center.

Little Sisters of the Assumption (LSA)
A community-based program offering a broad range of social services, education and advocacy to a group of East Harlem families.

Mt. Sinai Hospital
The Child/Adolescent psychiatric unit.

New York City Department of Homeless Services
A network of several homeless shelters throughout New York City.

New York City Public Schools – Parent Support Program

New York Foundling Hospital
Programs include: Blaine Hall, the Crisis Nursery and the outpatient sexual abuse clinic for children.

Palladia, Inc.
A substance-abuse treatment agency with permanent supported housing facilities for formerly-homeless families. Includes the Dreitzer House in East Harlem and Stratford House in the Bronx.

P.S. 241 The Family Academy
P.S. 241 is a K-8 Public School in New York City.

STEPS to End Family Violence
A clinic serving families dealing with issues of incarceration and abuse.

Union Settlement Association
Through education programs and human services, the agency promotes leadership development and fosters economic self-sufficiency to help individuals and families build a stronger community.