Ascension Outreach, Inc.

Description

Ascension Outreach, Inc. is a separate 501c3 housed on the campus of The Church of the Ascension at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in lower Manhattan NYC. The program has long offered hunger relief services in the form of a pantry program - currently operating as a client choice model that serves an end-user population that self identifies as mono-lingual in Chinese at the 98th percentile. We have also offered an on-site tutoring program (sunset in 2018 due to lack of funding and participation) as well as a robust documentary film and discussion program (Resistance Cinema) which screened short documentary films with social justice content, ran for six years, and developed hands-on volunteer activities for positive change. (This program feature continued briefly in 2020 during Covid, but we have been unable to resume for several reasons.)
It is our current goal to add literacy volunteering to our program offerings.