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Rising Ground
Rising Ground is a large human services organization in New York City, with approximately 1,600 employees supporting more than 25,000 children, adults, and family members annually. Founded in 1831 as the Leake and Watts Orphan House, Rising Ground focused on providing child welfare services for much of its existence. Currently, Rising Ground services include child welfare, juvenile justice services, services for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, special education school programs, services for survivors of gender-based violence, early childhood services, and services for unaccompanied minor children, among others. The organization has approximately 50 programs located at about three dozen sites in New York City and Westchester County, New York. In April 2018, the organization changed its name from Leake and Watts to Rising Ground. Rising Ground won Gold in the New York Community Trust Non-Profit Excellence Awards 2014, and is the recipient of the Strategy Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leake And Watts' Orphan House And School, New York City
The homonym leak may refer to a container or covering) accidentally losing or admitting content, especially liquid or gas, through a hole or crack. Places *Old Leake and New Leake, Lincolnshire, UK *West Leake and East Leake, Nottinghamshire, UK * Leake, North Yorkshire, UK *Leake County, Mississippi, United States * Leake Township, Nevada County, Arkansas, United States *Lake Leake, Tasmania, Australia People * Arthur Martin-Leake (1874–1953), awarded two Victoria Crosses * Bernard Elgey Leake (b. 1932), British geologist *George Leake (1856–1902), Australian politician *Hugh Martin-Leake (1878–1977), British economic botanist *Javon Leake (born 1998), American football player *John Leake (other) several people *John Leake (1656–1720), British Admiral *John George Leake (1752–1827), lawyer who founded the Leake and Watts Children's Home *Joseph Bloomfield Leake (1828–1918), American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General and U.S. District Attorney for the Norther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leake And Watts Orphan Home In Yonkers, New York
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Ground Brownell Preschool
Rising may refer to: * Rising, a stage in baking - see Proofing (baking technique) *Elevation * Short for Uprising, a rebellion Film and TV * "Rising" (''Stargate Atlantis''), the series premiere of the science fiction television program ''Stargate Atlantis'' * "Rising" (''Dark Angel''), an episode of the television series ''Dark Angel'' * ''Rising'' (news show), a news show hosted by Ryan Grim and Robby Soave of ''The Hill'' Books * ''Rising'' (novel), the last novel of R. C. Hutchinson Places * Rising, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Rising City, Nebraska, United States, a village * Rising River, a river in California * Rising, the flow of water to the surface from underground - see spring (hydrosphere) Surname * Melbourne Rising, an Australian rugby union team * John Rising (1756–1815), English portrait and subject painter * Linda Rising, American author, lecturer and consultant * Nelson Rising, American businessman * Pop Rising (1877-1938), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoom (software)
Zoom, stylized as zoom or Zoom Meetings is a proprietary videotelephony software program developed by Zoom Video Communications. The free plan allows up to 100 concurrent participants, with a 40-minute time restriction. Users have the option to upgrade by subscribing to a paid plan. The highest plan supports up to 1,000 concurrent participants for meetings lasting up to 30 hours. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a major increase in the use of Zoom for remote work, distance education, and online social relations. The increase led to Zoom being one of the most downloaded mobile apps worldwide in 2020 with over 500 million downloads and over 300 million daily meeting participants. History Zoom was originally founded in 2011. Its headquarters are located in San Jose, California. Zoom also has offices in the USA, China, India as well as Oceania, Europe and other parts of Eastern Asia. A beta version of Zoom—that could host conferences with only up to 15 video partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 Establishments In New York (state)
Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto established. * February–March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops. * February 2 – Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope. * February 5 – Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk blows up his own gunboat in Antwerp rather than strike his colours on the demand of supporters of the Belgian Revolution. * February 7 – The Belgian Constitution of 1831 is approved by the National Congress. *February 8 - Aimé Bonpland leaves Paraguay. * February 14 – Battle of Debre Abbay: Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray, and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis. * February 25 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (Grochów): Polish rebel forces divide a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Work Organizations
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from the Latin word ''socii'' ("allies"). It is particularly derived from the Italian ''Socii'' states, historical allies of the Roman Republic (although they rebelled against Rome in the Social War of 91–87 BC). Social theorists In the view of Karl MarxMorrison, Ken. ''Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of modern social thought'', human beings are intrinsically, necessarily and by definition social beings who, beyond being "gregarious creatures", cannot survive and meet their needs other than through social co-operation and association. Their social characteristics are therefore to a large extent an objectively given fact, stamped on them from birth and affirmed by socialization processes; and, according to Marx, in producing and reproduci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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