B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

Nzingha Prescod, the founder and Executive Director of our grantee Prescod Institute for Sport, Teamwork, and Education (PISTE) and Fencing in the Park, was the graduation speaker at her alma mater, the prestigious, Stuyvesant High School.

So proud that our grantee was featured in the latest addition of Nonprofit New York

May Member Feature: New Life of NYC - New York City, Long Island, Westchester | Nonprofit New York For over the last 50 years, New Life of NYC has been the premier provider for holistic youth development in New York City.

Our grantee Harlem Grown continues to reach children wherever they are to teach healthy eating - including their schools. The teaching truck allowed them to do their classroom teaching during COVID outside

Thanks Lia Taylor Schwartz. Connections is one of our newest grantees matching deserving young people with a mentor in life.

B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation The B. Robert Williamson, Jr. Foundation was established in 2012 in memory of Robert Williamson - \"RW\" - to honor his vitality, insatiable curiosity, and passion for life.

The 9th Annual RW Classic was a success! Thanks to all of our supporters who helped us raise over $300,000 for under resourced youth. See you next September for our 10th!

More good news from our grantee

More amazing news from our grantee Harlem Grown

Welcome Nicole - the B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation congratulates Harlem Grown on 10 years and looks forward to helping you bring urban farming and healthy food teaching to Harlem

Harlem Grown FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 26, 2021 Contact: Celia Alicata, [email protected] HARLEM GROWN ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP ROLES AS IT CELEBRATES 10 YEARS Harlem food justice organization looks to accelerate its growth and impact. (May 26, 2021 — New York, NY) — Harlem Grown, the n

So proud to support this great program

At yesterday’s virtual Adaptive Leadership Fellowship Colloquium, the 25 MSW students in our sixth cohort of fellows celebrated their accomplishments and shared the Adaptive Leadership concepts that resonated most strongly as they tackled adaptive challenges in their field placements and communities.

Co-Directed by Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant and Adjunct Lecturer Mark Manashil with funding from the B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation, Katherine and Howard Aibel Foundation, and The New York Community Trust, the fellowship features intensive weekend seminars on Adaptive Leadership as well as coaching and guidance to help the fellows directly apply what they have learned to prompt their organizations to confront challenges they have been unable to face and bring stakeholders together to achieve progress.

Among the adaptive leadership concepts cited by the 15 fellows from NYU Silver and 10 from CUNY College of Staten Island were the fact that anyone can embody leadership regardless of whether they hold a position of authority; one must view the organization from both the dance floor and the balcony ‒ that is from within the midst of the work and from a higher-level system perspective; it is important to diagnose the system rather than simply patching obvious problems; naming elephants in the room and challenging the status quo should be the norm; change is not something that one makes happen by themselves ‒ it requires building relationships and partnering with confidants and allies; it is essential to identify stakeholder values and loyalties as well as losses that will come with change; one should ‘give the work back,’ to the wider group of stakeholders to solve instead of directing the solution; and one should see themselves as a system as well, and apply constant self-reflection on skills, strengths, and areas for growth.

“What really stood out to me,” said Dr. Lausell Bryant after the fellows shared their reflections “is that you all captured the connection between the ‘me’ and the ‘we.’ As any one of us individually goes, so go all of us, and as we all go, it affects each of us individually as well. The times we are living in particularly showcase how damaging it can be if we miss that connection." She concluded, “I am heartened by how that has exploded inside each and every one of you and I’m encouraged for what you are going to do and what we’re going to do collectively.”

https://www.today.com/video/how-sail-academy-teaches-kids-science-and-math-on-the-open-water-95646789523?fbclid=IwAR1vgV9N0XyxUjQkM6Kue4enyTNMMv01GyBVwUYJmjrApGHf87NdDrfAKCE

How Sail Academy teaches kids science and math on the open water Student Sadia Zaman and youth sailing director Alexe Taylor talk about how the Sail Academy in New York City is teaching public school students math, science and leadership skills using the sport of sailing.

Williamson Scholar Alexandra Tamvakis featured in the lates Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine

Sleuths in the Archives Fifteen students in historian James Leloudis’ Honors undergraduate research seminar spent last semester in the University Archives, probing letters, financial ledgers and other records, to understand how the institution survived financially, in part, from the sale of enslaved people.

So proud of our grantee Children’s Village for their dedication to the foster kids they serve who can’t work from home. Bravo!