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The Children's Zone's innovative and comprehensive approach to improving the lives of children and families has been the subject of many reports in the media, including:
President Bill Clinton discussing Harlem Children's Zone on "Late Night with David Letterman" - 9/4/07 - [view with Windows Media Player]
Cleveland Plain Dealer profile of HCZ - 12/13/07 - [view Adobe PDF copy]
Geoffrey Canada talks about HCZ on National Public Radio station in Cleveland, Ohio - 12/14/07 [link]
Geoffrey Canada on "60 Minutes" discussing "no snitching" culture - 4/22/07 [go to webpage]
Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall visit HCZ - Associated Press [view article]
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. of the Miami Herald on the Harlem Children's Zone [view article]
N.Y. Daily News Martin Luther King Jr. Day Op-ed by HCZ CEO and President Geoffrey Canada - 1/15/07 - [click to view article]
Crain's on HCZ receiving $25 million grant from The Starr Foundation to expand Zone Project [click to view article]
New York Times profile of Geoffrey Canada - 6/7/06 [click to view article]
New York Times website profile of Geoffrey Canada [click here for link]
Geoffrey Canada on PBS special "Raising Cain" 1/12/06
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The Harlem Children's Zone on "The Today Show"
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Geoffrey Canada on "The Charlie Rose Show"
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Geoffrey Canada on "The Tavis Smiley Show
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Major articles about the Harlem Children's Zone and Geoffrey Canada
- U.S. News and World Report selects Geoffrey Canada as one of "America's Best Leaders" - October 31, 2005 [View full article]
- On the Harlem Children's Zone....
The New York Times Magazine called the Harlem Children's Zone Project "One of the most ambitious social-policy experiments of our time" in a cover story on the agency. [ View Full Article]
"What Rheedlen has done, working in schools, offices and storefronts, is offer several programs to create the kind of support people get in middle-class communities." (Felicia Lee, The New York Times) [View full article]
"It was a rainy day in New York when Canada took me on a tour of his projects (in the HCZ). It was like going from one healing outpost to another – from The Baby College to the Technology Center to the Employment Center to The Rheedlen University for Community Education (TRUCE) – a building teeming with teenagers bursting with creativity. (Arianna Huffington, New York Post) [View full article]
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In September 2002, Philanthropy News Digest spoke to Geoffrey Canada about the barriers to success faced by low-income kids, the things his organization is doing to remove those barriers in Central Harlem, and the lessons he has learned during his career dedicated to improving outcomes for children and youth. [View full article]
An ambitious program to treat childhood asthma in central Harlem has been successful in significantly reducing the need for emergency room visits and virtually eliminating overnight hospital stays for sick children...." The New York Times, January 14, 2005)
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"A study has found that one of every four children in central Harlem has asthma, which is double the rate researchers expected to find and, experts say, is one of the highest rates ever documented for an American neighborhood." (The New York Times, April 19, 2003) [View full article]
- On the Beacon Schools...
"The work (at Countee Cullen Beacon) is difficult. No one ever sees a finish line. But every good report card, every newly learned skills, every fight that never happens is a step toward wholeness and away from self-destruction." (Bob Herbert. Take the A Train, New York Times) [View full article]
"Mr. Canada and others like him are trying to undo the damage of many lost years. They are trying to change attitudes and draw as many men as possible back into the family fold...One of the striking things at Countee Cullen is the variety of ways in which young black men are involved in the care of the children in the program. Perhaps it shouldn't be striking, but it is." (Bob Herbert. Men and Jobs, New York Times.) [View full article]
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On TRUCE...
NY1's New Yorker of the Week: "As the deadlines for college applications approach, NY1’s latest New Yorker of the Week is helping young people
in Harlem make the cut." - Feb. 10th, 2006 [View full article]
- On Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO...
"For nearly all of his career in urban reform, Geoffrey Canada tried not to lose. He tried not to lose more children to drugs, prisons and illiteracy. The Harlem Children's Zone, the project that vaulted him into the national spotlight, is about trying to win." (Delaware News Journal - 2/24/2006) [View full article]
"In his passionate concern for children, his selfless determination to make their lives safer and saner, and his belief that he can and must make a difference in their lives, Geoffrey Canada epitomizes the traits that these awards (Heinz Awards) were created to honor,' says Teresa Heinz..." (Vince Stehle, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
"For over 20 years, Mr. Canada has been a kind of catcher in the rye in his role at the nonprofit community-based organization for poor children and their families." (Felicia Lee, New York Times) [View full article]
- On the HCZ food program...
"As educators around the country struggle to provide healthful school lunches -- and to get junk-food-happy children to eat them -- Promise Academy is taking an unusually aggressive stance. It not only bans sugary snacks, but offers healthy cooking classes for parents and sponsors a monthly farmer's market where a voucher buys a big bag of Hudson Valley carrots or winter squash." (Karen Matthews, Associated Press, 1/16/05) [View full article]
"The first step in transforming
the students’ diet was to get
them to understand the connection
between respecting their
food and dining area and
respecting themselves." (Ruthie Ackerman, The Amsterdam News, 4/20/06 [View full article]
- On Harlem Overheard...
"This paper seems to be giving that voice to young people - giving them an opportunity to say what's important to them, that they notice the arts and what's happening politically in their community. That's empowering.'" Fern Gillespie in "Harlem Youths Getting It Write". (Chrisena Coleman, Daily News)
Articles of Interest
Geoffrey Canada. December 17, 1992. Monsters. The New York Times, Op-Ed. [Click to view article in PDF format]
Geoffrey Canada . July 23, 1996. Curfews Are for Parents to Set. The New York Times, Op-Ed. [View article in PDF format]
Geoffrey Canada. February 13, 1995. Cherries for My Grandma. The New York Times, Op-Ed. [View article in PDF format]
Chrisena Coleman. November 1996. Harlem youths getting it write. Daily News.
Felicia Lee. January 9, 2000. For Harlem's Children, a Catcher in the Rye. The New York Times, The City Weekly Desk [View full article]
Felicia Lee. June 18, 1995. Being a Man and a Father is Being There. The New York Times. [View full article]
Bob Herbert. September. 27, 1996. Take the A Train. The New York Times, Op-Ed Page. [View full article]
Bob Herbert, September 30, 19960. Men and Jobs. The New York Times, Op-Ed Page. [View full article]
Arianna
Huffington. May 9, 2000. Real Cures for Teen Problems. New York Post, p. 57.
Vince Stehle. February 9, 1995. An Unyielding General in the War on Poverty. Giving: The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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