The Redemption Center
This faith-based, social service agency in Brooklyn provides safe, affordable, and drug-free transitional housing to formerly incarcerated men and women being discharged from institutional settings such as correctional facilities, substance abuse treatment programs, and the shelter system. The Redemption Center helps residents reintegrate into society and work toward an independent life with the aid of supportive transitional services, skills training, educational and support groups, and referral services.

Girls Quest
For seventy years, Girls Quest has provided out-of-school enrichment programming for over 300 disadvantaged girls, ages 8 to 17, from the greater New York and Catskills regions. Girls Quest’s mission is to nurture girls from low-income families to help them achieve their full potential and become active members of their communities by building academic and social competence. This is done through outdoor experiential education, year-round mentoring and leadership training programs that promote literacy, ecological awareness, teamwork, peer support and role-modeling, creative expression, and problem solving.

Hudson Guild
By providing proactive services for older adults in the Chelsea Community, Hudson Guild has helped them live with independence and dignity as contributing members of the community for the past 60 years. Hudson Guild responds to the ever-changing needs of a broad spectrum of senior adults, from recent retirees to the frail homebound, by creating effective and engaging programs. These include nutrition programs, the social services unit, senior wellness and mental health access programs, enrichment activities, community participation and volunteer projects.

Seeds of Peace
This not-for-profit foundation was established to help future generations from regions of conflict learn peace-making skills at a camp in Maine. Focusing primarily on the Middle East, it encourages direct experiences between Israeli and Palestinian teenagers before fear, mistrust and prejudice blind them to the human face of those they have been taught to hate. It trains these youth in effective conflict-resolution techniques and helps them become the seeds from which an enduring peace will grow.

Recipients of Marble’s 2007 Easter Offering

• Albert G. Oliver Program
• Bailey House
• Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps
• Broadway Community, Inc.
• Children’s Aid Society Chorus
• Children’s Hope Foundation
• Church of the Living Hope
• Contemporary Ballet Theater
• Exodus Transitional Community
• Faith@Work
• Grand Street Settlement
• Habitat for Humanity
• Health Care Chaplaincy
• Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
• LeGeros Philippine Street Children Project
• MADRE
• Mt. Sinai SAVI
• New Amsterdam Boy’s Choir
• Owsley County Food Place
• A Partnership of Faith
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
• Rural & Migrant Ministry Inc.
• Search and Care
• Search for Common Ground
• South Africa Partnership
• Susie Riezod Foundation