Organization Name: Child Development Support Corporation
Long Organization Description: The mission of CDSC is to provide programs that empower families by helping them to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for successful living in today’s society. CDSC carries out this mission by: Developing a community action plan that is based upon strategic planning; Coordinating and collaborating with other community-based efforts to develop partnerships, maximize resources, and enhance existing service delivery systems; Identifying service gaps; Advocating for the needs of families, youth, individuals, and low income persons; Developing services that are relevant and needed; Leveraging funds for needed community services; Encouraging services that are accessible, culturally sensitive, family-friendly, and responsive.
How do customers and clients contact your organization?: Email, Telephone, Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
Interesting Fact About the Organization: We help more than 3,000 individuals annually to become self-employed by establishing home-based early childhood programs through training, technical assistance and resources. Provide organic and fresh food for over 10,000 individuals annually through our weekly food pantry distribution.
Major Funders: City Harvest Jack and Jill Club of America’s Brooklyn Chapter Just Foods New York Cares WIC Brooklyn Hospital Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Food Bank for New York City New York City’s Human Resources Administration Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP) United Way of New York City Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) United Way of New York City Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (HPNAP) Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) Department of Education (DOE)
About the Organization: We are a community-based, not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1975. CDSC began as a self-help group headed by parents to provide child care for families in the Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant sections of Brooklyn, New York. From our modest beginnings of providing the single service of on-site childcare, we have evolved into a multi-service organization that provides a wide range of services to children, youth, and families.
Areas Served: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island
Major Issues: Food Pantry, Healthy Food Access, Increase Food Access, Local Food, affordable childcare
We have and or use Social Media?: Yes, we do have social media (twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc…)