The Hunts Point Alliance for Children is a Bronx-based nonprofit organization focused on building community, empowering parents, and ensuring all children have the resources, skills, and confidence to believe in their limitless potential.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to expand the hopes and potential of Hunts Point children—nurturing our young scholars along their path to college or career by unifying our diverse collective of community organizations to connect every family with the resources they deserve.
Our Values:
Collaborative: We build long-term relationships that are honest, inclusive and authentic with our participants, families, partners and staff.
Tenacious: We believe in the limitless potential of Hunts Point children and families and work to ensure our community has the skills and support to live a healthy, productive life.
Holistic: We focus on ensuring all Hunts Point children and families have access to the necessary academic, social, mental, and physical health tools and opportunities they deserve.
Empowering: We inspire hope, instill confidence, and build community through creative, evidence-informed programs designed for children, youth, and families.
Purposeful: We pursue our goals boldly, adapting and aligning our efforts continuously to meet the evolving needs of our community.
We develop transformative relationships and design multigenerational programs that inspire hope and provide families access to the opportunities they deserve.
Our History:
In the fall of 2006, Maryann Hedaa and Griselle Baret convened a group of 16 community leaders with the goal of improving academic outcomes and creating a pathway out of poverty by increasing educational opportunities for Hunts Point youth with the support of the Charles Hayden Foundation and Fordham University. After a year of research and community assessments with partners, the Hunts Point Alliance for Children (HPAC) was formed in 2007 to address programmatic and service gaps not then fulfilled by members of the Hunts Point community. The goals were raising the educational achievement and opportunities of children in the Hunts Point peninsula and increasing the resources available to community families.
Over a decade later, HPAC has grown significantly in both direct service work with Hunts Point children from birth to age 24 and their families, as well as bringing community partners together to break organizational silos. Each year, HPAC continues to impact over 2,000 children and families, ensuring that all members of the Hunts Point community have the skills, resources, and support to live healthy and productive lives.
