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:

CAMBA Beacon Center at P.S. 269
A school-based community center partnering with community-based organizations to provide educational, recreational and cultural initiatives, youth leadership, and social services to low-income Flatbush neighborhood residents.

Children's Aid Society
A non-profit organization that offers health and educational social services and programming for children in various locations throughout New York City.

Community Roots Charter School
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. Our presence in the school will be a way to invite the parents into the school’s community.

Dream Charter School
Dream is the charter school of the esteemed East Harlem non-profit organization, Harlem RBI. The school’s mission is to educate East Harlem children through a comprehensive K-8 program that builds a community of passionate lifelong learners and promotes physical, social, emotional and moral growth in a nurturing environment with high expectations.

Edwin Gould Services
STEPS to End Family Violence
A clinic for formerly incarcerated women and their families and/or families (including the non-offending parent) who have been victims of domestic violence.

Excellence Charter School
Located in the Bedford Stuyvesant part of Brooklyn, this all-boys school primarily works with the African American community in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. The school's mission is to prepare young boys to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding college preparatory high schools and colleges.

The Family Center
Founded in 1994 to give children the peace of mind that they will be taken care of in the event of parent illness or death. The mission of TFC is to provide comprehensive legal and social services under one umbrella to stabilize families and help them cope with the implications and gravity of their health situation.

Good Shepherd Services
Barbara Blum Residence, Euphrasian Hall, Neighborhood Family Empowerment Center, Red Hook Family Counseling Center
A social service organization providing support to young people growing up in high-poverty New York City communities. Good Shepherd works to break the cycles of negative outcomes, helping vulnerable young people and their families make a safe passage to self sufficiency. Barbara Blum Residence serves as a temporary residence for eleven teen boys. Funded by the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice, it provides counseling, supervision, and recreational activities for participants as they await Family Court outcomes. Neighborhood Family Empowerment Center provides family counseling program that provides case management, advocacy and referral services to avert the need for foster care.

Graham Windham
Graham Windham Beacon Center at P.S. 123
A youth development organization, the Beacon program seeks to promote the positive, healthy development of young people. Their mission is to provide challenges, experience, support, and help for young people, so that they can obtain a higher level of education and improve their academic performance. Most of its clients are experiencing high rates of family stress, illiteracy, truancy, drug abuse, domestic violence, crime and teen pregnancy.

Grand Street Settlement Beacon Center
A community center that services residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Their mission is to provide community-based, family-focused services that empower young people and adults to develop their strengths and skills to become economically and socially self-sufficient.

I Have A Dream Foundation, Dehostos-Wise Program
A community center that helps children from low-income areas reach their education and career goals by providing a long-term program of mentoring, tutoring, and enrichment with an assured opportunity for higher education.

Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
A Manhattan-based community center that aims to meet the social, educational, recreational and cultural needs of west side residents (especially those living in the Amsterdam Houses).

Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services
An East Harlem community based organization whose mission is to improve the physical, social and spiritual health of impoverished children and families. LSA serves a Hispanic neighborhood community consisting primarily of Mexican immigrants.

New York Presbyterian Hospital, Family PEACE Program
The Family PEACE Program (Promoting, Education, Advocacy, Collaboration, and Empowerment) is dedicated to improving the safety and well-being of mothers and children who have been exposed to violence in their homes; fostering stronger parent child bonds, offering coping strategies, educational guidance, and healthier conflict resolution skills while preventing the perpetuation of family violence.

Palladia, Inc.
Dreitzer House, Stratford House
Stratford House provides permanent housing and on-site social services for formerly homeless families with disabilities such as mental illness and substance abuse, as well as a warm, supportive environment to promote the health and well-being of these tenants. Dreitzer House is an East Harlem supported living facility with one to three-bedroom apartments that serve as permanent homes for 36 families. Residents receive case management support services.

PS5 - The Ellen Lurie School
This Children’s Aid Society School creates a family-like culture that nurtures and educates new immigrant children and their families. Academic innovation and enrichment activities conducted by faculty and outside partner organizations are also a part of the program at PS 5.

Ross Global Academy
Ross Global Academy Charter School, developed in collaboration with NYU and The Ross School, is an innovative New York City Public Charter School which serves students in grades K-8. RGA is committed to providing a holistic education to enable students to develop a global worldview and the skills necessary for success in the 21st century. RGA prepares students to think critically and creatively, understand and respect different cultures, become leaders, use technology, live healthy lives and develop a passion for learning.

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.

University Settlement Beacon Center
As the first settlement house in the United States, founded in 1886, University Settlement embodies the settlement ideal — working from within the community to buoy the lives of individuals, families and the collective whole. University Settlement’s Beacon Center offers a complete after-school program for elementary school children, including tutoring, homework help, and art therapy, as well as, a comprehensive teen program which provides college preparation and counseling, leadership development, creative arts classes and workshops, organized athletics, English classes, and special events and workshops.

Department of Homeless Services
Belt Family Residence, Crotona Inn, HELP Bronx Crotona, Jamaica Family Center, Junius Family Center, Project Hospitality, Theresa's Haven, Urban Family Center, Urban Transitional Residence, St. John's Place
A network of several homeless shelters throughout New York City. The work of DHS and its nonprofit partners focuses on providing safe shelter, outreach services and, over the last few years, helping individuals and families transition to permanent housing.