On June 7th, SAVE hosted our third annual Gun Violence Awareness Day event to raise awareness about gun violence and pay tribute to those who lost their lives to it. Nearly 15 community partners, including RISE, Art in the Park, Giant Thinking, and Not Another Child, joined us as we welcomed community residents to participate in this year’s gathering.
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Milestone Ceremony Celebrates the Achievements of 70 Participants
On June 13th over 40 people joined us at GOSO’s headquarters for our GOSO’s annual Milestone ceremony where we celebrated our participants who have taken significant steps in their academic and personal development through our program.
We are Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO)
In this video, you can meet some of GOSO’s participants and learn about our “Three E’s.“
Photos: GOSO Celebrates 20 Years of Impact in NYC
A heartfelt thank you to everyone in GOSO’s community who joined us last Thursday at the New-York Historical Society to celebrate 20 years of GOSO’s transformative impact in Harlem and across New York City.
2024 GOSO Gala Emcee: Cheryl Wills
Cheryl Wills is an Emmy award-winning journalist based in New York City. She is the author of a series of books about her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills – an enslaved Tennessee man who fought for his freedom during The American Civil War.
2024 GOSO Gala Spotlight Award Honorees: John, Anton, Maliki and Carlos
GOSO is proud to present the 2024 Spotlight Award to GOSO’s participants, both past and present, who will receive honoree recognition for their remarkable resiliency and for their constant inspiration, innovation, and motivation within the organization.
2024 GOSO Gala Pinnacle Award Honoree: Andrea Armstrong
GOSO is proud to present the 2024 Pinnacle Award to Professor Andrea Armstrong for her unwavering commitment to bringing much-needed transparency to incarceration practices in the United States.
2024 GOSO Gala Visionary Award Honoree: Mark L. Goldsmith
GOSO is proud to present our 2024 Visionary Award to founder and CEO Emeritus, Mark “MG ” Goldsmith, for his unwavering pledge to legal system-involved New Yorkers and his commitment to GOSO’s participants and mission.
SAVE Goes to Washington: Nicole Myers Graduates from the University of Chicago Violence Intervention Academy
Nicole Myers graduated from the inaugural cohort of the University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy (CVILA) on Friday, February 9th. Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention hosted the historic graduation ceremony.
Interview Skills with Goldman Sachs and Debevoise & Plimpton
On December 8th, volunteers from Goldman Sachs and Debevoise & Plimpton, a New York based law firm, joined the GOSO team for a workshop to