Repair the World Harlem mobilizes people to volunteer, supporting long-time Harlem neighbors through partnership with local organizations.
Since 2017, we have been hosting events, showing up for our community, and creating ways for Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world. Join us!
Sign up below to attend one of our volunteering events
ONGOING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Community Kitchen and Pantry of West Harlem
The Community Kitchen and Pantry of West Harlem has a mission of helping low-income New Yorkers overcome their circumstances and achieve greater independence. Support with serving breakfast, dinner, or in the pantry on all days of the week. Reach out to get involved! (Ages 15+)
Join us at Mandala Cafe on Wednesday evenings to support serving a community meal to people experiencing food insecurity. Volunteers can serve in either shift one (3:30-5:30 PM) or shift two (5:45-8 PM). Maximum 10 people per shift. Reach out Jeremy Nicholson for more details! (Ages 5+)
Reading Partners is committed to helping children become lifelong readers by providing individualized instruction with measurable results. We’re always looking for volunteers to sign up to tutor a student for the year. Reach out if you’re interested in learning more! (Minimum requirement: 1 hour per week, ages 14+)
Hunger Free America is a national nonprofit committed ensuring that all Americans have sufficient access to nutritious food. Volunteers are always needed to canvass their neighborhoods with information about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Reach out if you’re interested in getting involved! (Ages 15+)
Volunteer with tenants' rights membership organization, Metropolitan Council on Housing, to spread the word about tenants’ rights in NYC. Support is always needed for phone banking, canvassing, and postcard-writing. Reach out if you’re interested in getting involved! (Age minimum varies)
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PARTNERS
DOROT's goal is to alleviate social isolation and provide concrete services to older adults.
East Harlem Tutorial Program seeks to prepare students with academic skills, strength of character, and emotional well-being
Harlem Grown inspires youth to lead healthy, ambitious lives through mentorship and education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition.
Hunger Free America is the voice for 1,100 nonprofit food pantries in NYC and 1.4 million low-income New Yorkers who can’t afford enough food.
Jenny's Garden has a goal of promoting, creating, and maintaining access to community gardening, open space, and sustainability education.
Mandala Cafe is committed to providing access, dignity, and mutuality around issues of food & employment.
The Police Athletic League supports and inspires youth to realize their full individual potential as productive members of society.
Reading Partners is a national nonprofit dedicated to transforming struggling young readers into confident readers excited about learning.
CKP of West Harlem works to end hunger by organizing food, information and support for community survival, empowerment, and dignity.
The Metropolitan Council on Housing is New York City's oldest and most well established tenants union.
OUR TEAM
Juliana Bearse
Operations Associate, Repair the World NYC
Juliana is a director, actor and producer with a passion for building and supporting community. She holds a B.F.A from University of Connecticut.
Kate Thomas
Family & Education Program Manager, Repair the World NYC
Kate’s in education, counseling, community organizing, and Jewish social justice efforts. A licensed social worker, Kate earned her MSW from NYU and BASW from Rutgers University.
Liza Freed
Program Manager, Repair the World Harlem
Liza Freed is passionate about mentoring, coaching, and investing in young leaders, and working to create programming that uses Judaism as a lens to examine injustice and inequity.
Rachel Figurasmith
Executive Director, Repair the World NYC
Rachel has worked in education and non-profits for her entire career. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she is passionate about increasing access to quality education for young people.
Azania Lane-Majestic
Fellow, Repair the World Harlem
Azania majored in Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies and Anthropology at American University. Azania interned at Becky’s Fund, a non-profit dedicated to ending domestic violence based in Washington, DC and New Voices for Reproductive Justice, a Black women and girls focused reproductive justice non-profit in Pittsburgh. Azania is excited to learn more sustainable and equitable organizing strategies in order to do her part in improvin
Haley Schusterman
Fellow, Repair the World Harlem
Haley is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California where she studied International Relations and Nonprofits, Philanthropy and Volunteerism. During college, Haley taught a weekly class in local high schools near campus through the Teaching International Relations Program. She helped students to critically engage with a variety of topics ranging from climate change and its impacts on food security to human rights to foreign poli
Ilana Ascher
Fellow, Repair the World Harlem
Ilana is a recent graduate of Oberlin College, where she studied psychology and was a Site Leader and Tutor for AmericaCounts, a federally funded program designed to bring resources to schools and education programs to ensure all students are achieving at grade level in reading and math. Ilana is excited to spend a year with Harlem Repair and wants to dedicate her year of service to learning about the possibility of dedicating her life to soci
Jeremy Nicholson
Senior Fellow, Repair the World NYC
Jeremy graduated from the University of Vermont, where he majored in Environmental Studies and founded Green Mountain Manna, a Jewish outdoors club. He also wrote his senior thesis on founding Green Mountain Manna on campus. Jeremy is passionate about food justice because after all, people cannot survive or function without access to food.
