2025-05-19T13:21:05-05:00 2024-08-31 WithumSmithBrown PC ONE TOWER CENTER BLVD 14TH FL EAST BRUNSWICK NJ 08816 990 2023-09-01 133280364 Riverside Language Program Inc % BERTA COLON RIVE 2126623200 270 West 89th Street New York NY 10024 Berta Colon Executive Director 2126623200 2024-12-05 true true James Mulroy P00024514 7328281614 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Berta Colon 270 West 89th Street New York NY 10024 1936944 false X www.riversidelanguage.org X 1984 NY TO HELP NEW IMMIGRANTS SUCCESSFULLY INTEGRATE INTO LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES. 10 10 22 10 0 1322142 1932718 0 0 1942 3484 389 0 1324473 1936202 7778 14670 0 0 921666 979166 37518 4000 18650 285142 344737 1252104 1342573 72369 593629 515750 1151610 223474 265704 292276 885906 X see schedule O false false 1143389 14670 Our mission is to help newly arrived immigrants and refugees successfully integrate into life in the U.S. by rapidly improving their English language skills, offering wrap-around case management and counseling, and providing workforce development skills, digital literacy, and civics training. These supports and skills ensure that Riverside students are better positioned to access job training, employment, and higher education. Our unique integration model serves as a 'one-stop-shop' that helps new immigrants access these services directly or through coordinated referrals at no cost. The model focuses on four strategic pathways that leverage immigrants' human capital and unlock access to economic mobility, social inclusion, and civic engagement: English Language Instruction: Free, full-time intensive English language classes that provide participants with 150 hours of English language instruction in each six-week cycle. Classes are taught by experienced instructors with Master's degrees. Workforce Development and Digital Literacy Instruction: Training on job readiness, the American workforce and norms, industry-specific terms, resume and cover letter writing, and soft skills such as etiquette, communication and listening, and interpersonal skills. Riverside also offers training on computer programs and online platforms and their applicability in classroom and workplace settings. Personalized Integration Planning and Access to Social Services through Case Management/Counseling: Working with case management/counseling staff, participants will develop a personalized roadmap to achieve social, economic, and civic engagement goals. They will also receive direct services and referrals for early resettlement needs such as housing, legal aid, health insurance, and child care. Community and Civic Engagement: Training and resources that promote and build the capacity of program participants to actively engage in civic life as individuals and community members. Training can include a range of topics such as know-your-rights, financial literacy, and becoming a citizen, accessing resources such as the IDNYC and library cards. Our centralized model also serves to build community and establish a network among distinct immigrant communities in all five boroughs of New York City. Accomplishments in FY 24 included: Rebranded Riverside Language Program as Riverside Immigrant Services & Empowerment. Successfully bid on a three-year Department of Youth and Community Development grant. Secured a $300k grant from Carnegie Corporation. Riverside's largest private foundation grant to date. Increased non-government revenue from previous fiscal year by 48%. Maintained our top-level ranking at both the State and City levels. Served 438 new participants and filled 762 seats during the fiscal year. By way of comparison, in FY22, we served 250 new participants and filled 537 seats. Increases of 43% and 30%, respectively in two years. Continued to respond to emergency community needs by: .Holding two clothing drives for participants .Expanding lunch program to serve participants five days a week .Held two Community Resource Fairs - one focused on social services and one on employment and job training opportunities. Twenty-five community partners participated in the two events. Appointed to the City Council Speaker's Special Task Force on Language Access. Selected as a Columbia University Non-Profit Board Leadership Partner. 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FORM 990, PART III, LINE 1 - ORGANIZATION'S MISSION Our mission is to help new immigrants successfully integrate into life in the U.S. by rapidly improving their English language skills, providing wrap-around case management and counseling, and incorporating workforce development skills, digital literacy, and civics into daily instruction. These supports and skills ensure that Riverside students are better positioned to access job training, employment, and higher education. Successfully bid for and secured a five-year, $2.5 million Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title II (WIOA) contract. Secured a $100,000 expansion grant from the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD). Secured Riverside's largest private foundation grant to date - $75,000. Increased End of Year contributions by 34%. Successful transition back to in-person services and then back again to remote services. Enhanced resources for Digital Literacy Clinic with the donation of twenty new laptops. Held Riverside's first Film Fest which engaged 110 participants and received corporate sponsorship.