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21 MIGRANTS—OUR NEWEST NEW YORKERS
Challenge
Response
Emigrants are, and have always been, integral to the fabric of NYC. Over the last two and half years, incoming migrants and asylum seekers placed fresh demands on the City’s fragile social service delivery network. Their arrival came as nonprofit service providers, and especially City shelter services, were still reeling from the COVID pandemic.
NYC is a place of dreams and opportunity, and our response to the migrant crisis is focused on helping stabilize the newest New Yorkers so they are in a position to seize future opportunities that will make the aspirations of new arrivals a reality. Guided by the simple principle that your starting place in life should not define where you end up, your support of Robin Hood enabled our grantees to respond to a humanitarian crisis in real time, accelerating pathways for migrants to become eligible to work and connect them to job training and placement services.
Here’s What You Made Possible Secured legal assistance for 2,829 PEOPLE including pro se support, advice, and counsel, or full representation.
IN 2024
GRANTS TOTALED $3.7 MILLION
The Funds for the Newest New Yorkers Working with The New York Community Trust we jointly established a $5.6 million, two-year initiative called The Funds for the Newest New Yorkers . This effort will help nine Robin Hood grantees to provide case management, legal aid, English language instruction, job training, health care, and resettlement support in the form of temporary and permanent housing and access to eligible public benefits for new arrivals, potentially serving as many as 10,592 people.
Since the Spring of 2022, nearly 250,000 migrants and asylum seekers have made New York City home.
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