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LISC Greater Newark

For almost a decade, LISC Greater Newark has been providing leadership development and support to Newark residents. Their collaboration with Victoria Foundation has centered on the neighborhoods of Upper Clinton Hill, Fairmount Heights, and Lower Broadway. In 2023, Greater Newark LISC partnered with Hester Street (HST) to build their internal capacity to more effectively and […]


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Ford Foundation Just Cities and Regions Archive

In 2021, Hester Street was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to create an archive of the history of Ford’s work supporting housing development and equitable disaster recovery in order to disseminate field-wide learnings from the Foundation’s efforts to center race, place, and power in housing justice, following the closure of their Just Cities & Regions […]


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Bridget Boyle

As a Project Manager, Bridget supports community development and capital projects at Hester Street with a background in government budgeting and nonprofit relationship management. Most recently, Bridget worked as a Senior Partnerships Manager at Partners In Health United States, collaborating with community-based organizations to identify funding for public health initiatives. She previously supported underwriting review […]


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NYPD Out of Mental Health

In 2021, with funding from the van Ameringen Foundation, Hester Street (HST) partnered with the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) and Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) to lead the NYPD Out of Mental Health initiative, aimed at establishing a community-first blueprint for addressing mental health issues and crises in Central Brooklyn.  In collaboration with BMC […]


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Emma Bowen Community Service Center

Since 1969, the Emma Bowen Community Service Center (EBCSC) has been an anchor institution in Harlem, offering mental health and supportive services to residents at 1727 Amsterdam Avenue.  In 2021, Hester Street partnered with EBCSC, NYC Health and Hospitals (H+H), the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC), and Think! Architecture and Design to assist with the organization’s […]


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Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice: The Soundview Economic Hub

Since 2014, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) has worked with the communities of Soundview, Bronx River, and Hunts Point to reimagine and reclaim 30,000 square feet of underutilized space under the Bruckner Expressway at Bronx River Avenue.  YMPJ is partnering with Hester Street (HST) to transform this large, vacant space into The Soundview […]