Community Service Society of New York
 United States  / New York  |  Community/Family

The mission of the Community Service Society is to identify problems which create a permanent poverty class in New York City, and to advocate the systemic changes required to eliminate such problems.

The Community Service Society (CSS) is a leading, independent, nonprofit organization that provides innovative solutions to the most urgent problems facing low-income New Yorkers. For more than 160 years, we have worked to strengthen community life by conducting research, policy analysis, advocacy, and service initiatives. We speak for the more than 3 million New Yorkers living at or near the poverty line. Our legacy includes establishing the prototype for the free school lunch program, serving as the catalyst behind the city's first tenement housing laws, aiding victims of the Titanic maritime disaster and World Trade Center employees impacted by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, creating the nation's largest senior volunteer program and the curriculum that spawned the Columbia University School of Social Work.

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