Hunts Point Facts
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What is the Hunts Point zip code?
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?
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 expressway separates Hunts Point from the rest of the Bronx.
What is the Bruckner Expressway?
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?
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?
Two district, two charter, 1 independent Catholic and 1 Head Start.
What are the schools in the Hunts Point peninsula?
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?
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?
These two parks were created in the 2000s, thanks to local Hunts Point advocates at the POINT and Sustainable South Bronx.
What are Riverside Park and Baretto Point Park?
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?
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?
54.1%
What is the rate of childhood poverty in Hunts Point?
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?
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?