Media Coverage

A common sense approach to social services

Progress Through Purpose, December 22, 2022

7 Ways to Socialize in a Frigid New York City

The New York Times, January 1, 2021

Weighing Risk and Mission, Some Nonprofits Start to Reopen

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 4, 2020

A Federal Thumbs Up for CO-Parenting in Foster Care

The Chronicle of Social Change, May 5, 2020

FRC Coat Giveaway

1010 WINS, February 8, 2020

FRC Coat Giveaway

Bronx 12 News, February 8, 2020

Co-Parenting Pilot Builds Teamwork Between Parents and Foster Parents

The Chronicle of Social Change, February 2, 2020

Rising Ground welcomes Board member David Theobald

NYN Media First Read, January 10, 2020

The 2019 Nonprofit Power 100

City & State New York, November 10, 2019

How a foster parent changed the lives of 50 teens

Good Morning America, October 4, 2019

Milwaukee youth justice group seeks changes to incarceration

Minneapolis Star-Tribune, September 28, 2019

A tale of two cities: How NY and Milwaukee approach juvenile justice

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, September 9, 2019

Teens Learn Life Skills Training Therapy Dogs

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, August 30, 2019

Troubled teens help train therapy dogs in Yonkers

News 12 Bronx/Westchester, August 23, 2019

Goldens Bridge Man Is a Champion for Charity

TAP into Katonah/Lewisboro, August 15, 2019

Backpack Drive

Steve Harvey Morning Radio Show on WBLS-FM, July 31, 2019

Biondi Robotics Program

News 12 Bronx, July 19, 2019

College Survival Guide

NYN Media Buzz, July 19, 2019

Father Up: Teaching Men to Be Better Dads

NPR Podcasts/Cityscape, June 12, 2019

Father Up: Teaching Men to Be Better Dads

WFUV Cityscape, June 12, 2019

Love is (almost) all you need

Brooklyn Reader, June 7, 2019

Rising Ground and Fair Futures

NYN Media, May 17, 2019

The lessons of denim day

Chelsea News, April 16, 2019

Burlington Coat Drive at the Family Resource Center

Good Morning America, January 21, 2019

CEO Rebrands Former Orphanage into Children’s Welfare Nonprofit

Crain's New York Business, December 5, 2018

Two human-services nonprofits join forces

Crain's New York Business, August 20, 2018

Today’s Bell Ringer: NYSE

CNBC, June 22, 2018

Angela White: What schools can do to prevent bullying

Westchester County Business Journal, June 15, 2018

This is Why Leake and Watts Has Become Rising Ground

New York Nonprofit Media, April 24, 2018

Beyond Pro Bono

NYN Media, August 16, 2017

Operation Backpack

Bronx Free Press, August 8, 2017

Leake & Watts Soundview Wellness Carnival

The Bronx Chronicle, June 4, 2017

4 Yonkers Residents Receive Employee Awards from Leake & Watts

Eastchester-Bronxville Patch, May 19, 2017

Ernst & Young Provides Gifts To Leake & Watts Kids

The Bronx Times, December 21, 2016

Leake & Watts’ Annual Awards Gala Raises $550,000

The Yonkers Daily Voice, November 14, 2016

Bronx Teen Moms Receive $10K of New Furniture

Bronx 12 News, November 1, 2016

At the Board Table with Jose Jara of Leake & Watts

New York Nonprofit Media Insights, September 18, 2016

Family Preventive Services with Paul Martin of Leake & Watts

Westchester on the Level, July 29, 2016

NYN Media Podcast - Jose Jara of Leake & Watts

New York Nonprofit News, July 8, 2016

Best of the Bronx: Counselor Phillip Foster

News 12 Bronx, April 28, 2016

Leake & Watts Raises Funds With Fashion Show In White Plains

White Plains Daily Voice, April 8, 2016

Leader Shares Message of Hope and Racial Equality

News 12 Westchester, February 26, 2016

A New Phase in Juvenile Justice Reform

New York Nonprofit Media, January 8, 2016

Leake and Watts, Yonkers Police Plant Seeds for the Future

Bronxville-Eastchester Patch, May 26, 2015

Treating dual-diagnosed youths in a healthy setting

Westchester County Business Journal, April 15, 2015

Leake and Watts Gets $250K Community Resiliency Fund Grant

New York Non-Profit Press, February 13, 2015

What Makes an Organization's Management Practices Excellent?

New York Community Trust, January 14, 2015

Leake and Watts Raises $550K at Gala

New York Non-Profit Press, November 3, 2014

Elected Officials 'Get Caught Reading' at Leake & Watts

New York Non-Profit Press, May 15, 2014

Yonkers Mayor & Council Honor Leake & Watts Youth Gardeners

New York Non-Profit Press, October 9, 2013

Food Bank of Westchester Honors Community Group

Yonkers Daily Voice, June 17, 2013

Biondi's Ron Garcia is Yonker's Athlete of the Month

Yonkers Daily Voice, March 3, 2013