Partnership with Children 6th – 8th grade students from JHS 265 in Fort Greene teamed up recently one-to-one with volunteers from New York Life to participate in a school beautification project.

During the event, an initiative of New York Life’s Global Month of Service, the pairs planted a garden around the school grounds. The project marks the culmination of a seven-month long job readiness/financial literacy pilot program between New York Life’s African American Employee Network Group and a group of Partnership with Children students from its Job Readiness & Environmental Groups.

Partnership with Children is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing social and emotional support to at-risk children so that they can succeed in school, in society and in their lives. Founded as Big Sisters, Inc. in 1908, it is currently celebrating 101 years of opening hearts and inspiring minds. Today, Partnership with Children offers individual, small group, crisis and family counseling to over 12,000 at-risk children in 26 schools in all the boroughs of New York City.

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