The anti-recidivism organization Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) celebrated an evening focused on the organization’s success. Emmy Award winning reporter/anchor Dan Mannarino, a recent
SOCIAL WORK MONTH: Shaquala Fields
GOSO is staffed by a dedicated team of licensed social workers. In honor of Social Work Month, we asked our team members to discuss their passions for their profession and reflect on their experiences at GOSO. In the third Q&A of this series, Shaquala Fields discusses family and comedy at GOSO.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Gala to Honor Civic Activists and Toast to Success
Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) Gets Ready to Toast Success at Fifth Annual Gala on April 19th Organization to Honor Civic Activist and Entrepreneur
SOCIAL WORK MONTH: Julia Friedman
GOSO is staffed by a dedicated team of licensed social workers. In honor of Social Work Month, we asked our team members to discuss their passions for their profession and reflect on their experiences at GOSO. In the second part of this series, Julia Friedman discusses GOSO’s support systems.
Getting Out and Staying Out Featured on Pix 11!
For the past few weeks, PIX11 has been focused on reform inside Riker’s Island, looking at the violence and corruption plaguing the jail. Caught in the middle are inmates, many of whom want to turn their lives around once they get out. Yet, in so many cases, they simply do not know how and many end up back on a path of crime, back inside Rikers.
SOCIAL WORK MONTH: Sarah Blanco
GOSO is staffed by a dedicated team of licensed social workers. In honor of Social Work Month, we asked our team members to discuss their passions for their profession and reflect on their experiences at GOSO. In the first part of this series, Sarah Blanco speaks about how she chose her career and the transformative potential of social work.
GOSO is now on Facebook and Twitter
New York – Getting Out and Staying Out—New York City’s Most Innovative social service agency, focused on assisting justice-involved young men—has recently joined Twitter and Facebook to increase awareness of the tremendous work it is doing and to assist in fundraising efforts to continue providing solution-focused services to program participants.
GS People in the Community: VPs Help Previously Incarcerated Youth Prepare for the Future
Reginald Andre and Daniel Goldberg, vice presidents in the Investment Management and Merchant Banking divisions, respectively, have more than 20 years of combined experience at the firm – but they met for the first time at a nonprofit event in 2014 that was organized by Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO).
Forging Ahead with our 3-Year Plan
Early last spring, GOSO made an appeal to supporters to help with our recovery from the East Harlem explosion and jump-start a 3-year to dramatically increase capacity and improve program services. We are deeply grateful for the wonderful response we received and are pleased to announce that we have signed a lease on a highly visible street-level space a few doors down from our East Harlem office. Renovations are virtually completed and we expect to be moved into the new space by the second week of January.
GOSO Visits the White House: Promoting Innovation in Civic Engagement Convening
Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO) attended a convening in Washington, D.C. dedicated to “Promoting Innovation in Civic Engagement” to talk abotu GOSO’s participation in the participatory budgeting (PB) process in New York City. PB is a democratic Process where community residents decide hwo to spend at least $1,000,000 of discretionary fundign set aside by City Council memberos on physical improvements in their communities.