HPAC Funding Highlights
This foundation has funded HPAC the longest, since 2007.
What is the Charles Hayden Foundation?
The name of HPAC's Annual June End of Year celebration.
What is Celebrate Success?
The first day of winter is called this?
Winter Solstice
This Liberal Arts College in Ohio has hosted over 50 HPAC High School students in their Summer Writing Program.
What is Kenyon College?
This young man attended Camp Sankaty for three years and now attends Miami Ohio on Scholarship.
Who is Michael Amoah?
This is the year HPAC received our first government grant. Hint - Discretionary Grant through Councilman Salamana.
What is 2017?
This HPAC program, an all boys choir and history program, ran from 2013-2016
What is SongCorps?
The city where the world's largest Menorah is located.
New York City
This new early childhood program was piloted in Summer 2020 and replaced Readers to Leaders in the 2020-2021 school year.
What is Literacy through Science?
This young woman is a Posse Scholar at Lafayette College and was a lead tutor during COVID quarantine this spring.
Who is Angelique Taveras?
These two family foundations support the Family Project.
What are Breaking the Cycle & The Balzereit Family Foundation?
This program, known by the acronym HPCP, is HPAC's first major City Contract through ACS.
What is the Hunts Point Community Partnership?
This popular Christmas song became the first song ever broadcast in space.
Jingle Bells
These are two of the metrics HPAC tracks across all direct programs.
What are (any two):
Attendance, retention, social-emotional growth, literacy grades, school attendance, program specific.
This high school scholar attends Regis High School on a full scholarship and dreams of being an architect.
Who is Geo Benitez?
Which HPAC program receives the highest number of grant awards (not highest dollar amount)?
What is Family School Skills?
In the 2013-2014 school year, The Hunts Point Children's Shakespeare Ensemble performed this Shakespeare show, which includes the famous words "to be or not to be...."
What is Hamlet?
Which country started the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree?
Germany
These two program teams are known as HPAC's Community Services.
What are the Family Project and the Hunts Point Community Partnership?
This young man recently graduated from Loyola Maryland and is pursuing his masters degree in psychology.
Who is Tony Muentes?
This is the year of HPAC's highest grossing Cocktail Benefit.
What is 2018?
These are three examples of COVID-19 Relief Distributions that HPAC and the Community Partnership have completed since March (not including food support and purchases).
What are (any three) Education kits, Chrome Books, Internet Hotspots, essential household boxes , ABC Mouse subscriptions?
The year the Kwanzaa holiday was created.
1966
This is the total number of HPAC programs and services.
What is 11?
Family Project (1), Community Partnership (1), Early Childhood (3), Community to Career (6).
This young woman is a senior at Mercy college, and has worked with HPAC Early Childhood team for the past two years.
Who is Jazmin Juarez?