Groove With Me, Inc.
Groove With Me, Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Groove With Me, Inc. is a community-based organization that provides girls in East Harlem, Manhattan with access to girls-only after school and summer programming. As a youth development program, Groove With Me seeks to meet the developmental needs of our youth while building up their competencies. Our dance program is guided by the recognition that all youth need safety and structure, a sense of belonging, opportunities for contribution and leadership, and ways to develop positive character. At Groove With Me, girls develop positive peer relationships, participate in creative activities, feel a sense of purpose and personal power, and meet their own high expectations. Only one quarter of youth programming in New York City is targeted at girls. While programming for boys and men exceeds that for girls and women in NYC, the increased risk for girls continues. A study by the New York Women's Foundation states that youth who are best able to negotiate the trials of growing up even in the harshest of circumstances often have an adult in their lives who provides sustained support, caring, and guidance. It is not poverty, as many believe, that is the greatest cause of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence in women. It is lack of validation and knowledge of options. At Groove With Me, girls find the support they need from adults who are role models and mentors. Girls' access to after school activities is impeded by safety, household responsibilities, lack of programming targeting girls, lack of outreach by women role models, and peer pressure. Groove With Me addresses these obstacles by offering a large selection of class times and styles of dance that are separated into various age groups. Groove With Me, Inc. offers more than 36 dance classes for girls aged 4-18, six days a week, given by 40 volunteer dance instructors.
About
We offer 35 free dance classes per week to over 280 girls and young women. The programs and performance opportunities we provide instill leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline in the girls and help them confront adversity and find paths of positive development. The organization received in-kind services of $75,515 for the year.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing documents outline the non-profit's mission as “Groove with me, inc. is a youth development organization using freedance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill inyoung women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity,joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. the program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.”.
When outlining the tasks it performs, they were referred to as: “Groove with me, inc. is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. the program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.”.
- The non-profit's reported state of operation is NY as per legal requirements.
- The filing reveals that the address of the non-profit in 2020 is 186 E 123RD ST 2ND FL, NEW YORK, NY, 10035.
- As of 2020, the non-profit has 5 employees reported on their 990 form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $250,000 and $500,000.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is $202,641.
- The organization has 9 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1996.
- The organization pays $273,606 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $71,519 in fundraising expenses.
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