Meet Our Partners

The Family Beehive works alongside the organizations and individuals listed below to help uplift and support our community.

The Brave House is a nonprofit supporting young immigrant women and gender-expansive youth, ages 16-24, in New York City. From our hub in Brooklyn, we provide free legal aid, mentorship, leadership training, career & education help, English school, support for new & expecting mothers, housing advocacy, a mobile app, and community events with a focus on fun and wellness – from art therapy, to bowling, to rock-climbing, to attending a Yankees game together.

Our members collectively come from over 18 countries and span the 5 boroughs of NYC and Long Island. Many are fleeing gender-based violence and seeking protection in the United States. At our core, we provide advocacy to fight for the rights and happiness of each of our members.

Brave House

The Citywide Doula Initiative provides professional, no-cost doula services to residents of neighborhoods that have been especially affected by COVID-19.

Healthy Start Brooklyn provides a variety of support programs and classes for expectant and new parents who live in Brooklyn. You can get education and support about pregnancy, childbirth, parenting, breastfeeding, fatherhood and healthy living.

Citywide Doula Initiative & Healthy Start Brooklyn

For more than 20 years, Room to Grow’s three-year program has provided critical support to families raising babies born into low-income circumstances. We provide parents and caregivers with essential baby and toddler items, strategies and support to promote their children’s development, and connections to community resources that can meaningfully expand their support network.

Our dynamic, wrap-around approach addresses the multitude of needs facing parents raising children in these earliest years, and provides the surest opportunity for establishing a strong foundation in life.

Room to Grow

Her Justice partner image on FamilyBeehiv.org

Her Justice stands with women living in poverty in New York City by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers to provide free legal help to address individual and systemic legal barriers. Each year, Her Justice mentors an average of 1,800 volunteer lawyers, reaching over 7,500 women and children with support for their critical legal needs.

This work represents a total of over 70,000 hours of legal services donated which is valued at over $40 million. Paired with these direct services, Her Justice also works to advance a robust policy agenda that advocates for a more equitable civil justice system free of racial, gender, and economic barriers.

For more information about Her Justice, please visit their website.

Her Justice

Exhale Pro-Voice, Partner image on the Family Beehive Partner page.

Exhale Pro-Voice is the premier organization supporting the emotional health and well-being of people after abortions and their loved ones. Founded in 2000 by and for people who have had abortions, we provide – and train others in providing – abortion-positive, nonjudgmental, after-abortion support.

Through this Pro-Voice approach, we view you as a whole person, welcome your full range of emotions, and respect and work within your belief systems (religious, spiritual, cultural, social, and political) to support your needs. We primarily offer this support through a free, peer text line available in the U.S. and Canada at 617-749-2948 (Weekdays 3-9pm PST, Saturdays 1-9pm PST, and Sundays 3-7pm PST).

Exhale Pro-Voice also offers training upon request for mental and medical health professionals, abortion providers, young people, and others who want training in our Pro-Voice approach.

Please visit our website here.

Exhale Pro-Voice

Morrow Financial Planning - partner Family Beehive

At Morrow, we believe everyone deserves access to unbiased personalized financial guidance. We pair individuals & families with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS® to help you set and meet your unique financial goals. Whether you’re looking to build a budget, buy a house, or plan for retirement, Morrow has got you covered. If it has to do with money, we can help!

For more information about Morrow, please visit our website.

Morrow Financial Planning

Suffering the Silence - partner Family Beehive

Suffering the Silence (STS) is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to leveraging the power of art, media, and storytelling to raise awareness and break the stigma surrounding chronic illnesses and disability. We work to build impactful relationships within those communities, and to empower patients, friends, and family members to speak out and share their stories.

Together, we believe this act of sharing can and will transform the medical and social perception of life with chronic illness.

For more information about Suffering the Silence, please visit our website.

Suffering the Silence

Matchlighters Scholars Program - partner Family Beehive

The Matchlighters Scholars Program pairs high-achieving students from low-income households with experienced college counselors – for free. Counselors spend 10 hours of virtual meetings with their students, guiding them through the college search and application process.

Visit www.collegeessayguy.com/matchlighters to learn more.

The Matchlighters Scholars Program

Cashel Educational Consulting - partner Family Beehive

Cashel Educational Consulting is a full service independent educational consulting firm that helps students and families navigate the independent school and college admission processes. CEC’s mission is to help students discover, apply, and transition to schools and universities at which they will thrive and be successful. Our top priority is identifying the best educational fit for each student while decreasing the stress of the application process.

We provide hours of individual guidance to our students – significantly more than the average 38 minutes provided over four years to most high school students in public schools. CEC also understands that financial fit is important and will also assist families in crafting lists that meet each family’s financial needs. Cashel Educational Consulting also offers Student Success Advising for students while in college to assess and encourage students’ strengths, and helping build skills: such as executive management, time management, stress reduction, academic achievement and reaching personal goals.

For more information about Cashel Educational Consulting, please visit our website.

Cashel Educational Consulting

Service Learning Project partner Family Beehive

The Service Learning Project (SLP) is an NYC-based action civics program for youth in grades K-12. We believe children and teens have powerful solutions to complex problems facing our country and we partner with schools and community organizations, like the Family Beehive, to help provide opportunities for young people to make their voices heard.

We are passionate about helping students of all ages become active citizens in their schools and neighborhoods by organizing youth-driven projects that culminate in a real impact on a pressing, at times urgent, social issue. Through our school-day and after-school programs, SLP students tackle issues ranging from bullying to child nutrition to homelessness to gun violence to climate change. Their chosen solutions are varied and include direct action, changes to school policies, awareness-raising campaigns, fundraising, coalition building, and petitioning local and national legislators. We are thrilled to provide these leadership and advocacy opportunities to children and teens in the Family Beehive.

For more information about SLP programs, visit our website.

Service Learning Project

Crownsville Media - SEO partner Family Beehive

Crownsville Media is a Maryland SEO company founded by Melanie Gorman, specializing in helping and healing businesses. We work on mission-driven projects that aim to improve the quality of lives by leveraging the Internet to find new leads, clients, and people to serve. Healing the world happens one relationship at a time and there is no shortage of work to do. The collective approach of Family Beehive aligns 100% with the values of CM and we’re thrilled to be a part of this extraordinary mission.

If your business is in need of an SEO provider, website update, content creation or local SEO anywhere in the US, please reach out for SEO support .

Crownsville Media

Wendy Hagen is a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher, with 30 years of experience teaching Yoga and Meditation classes around the country. Some of the benefits of her safety-focused, alignment-based classes include the improvement of flexibility, stress relief, strength building, and overall help with quality of life and health.

After a successful 30 year career training yoga instructors, and teaching yoga and meditation, Wendy has chosen to offer Yoga and Meditation classes/workshops to the Family Beehive community, so that others can feel restored to continue to do their own wonderful work.

Wendy Hagen, ERYT 500, M.Ed. received her first Yoga Teaching Certification from the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA in 1994. After completing several advanced trainings with master teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Rodney Yee and Judith Lasater, she developed a 200 hour registered Yoga Teacher Training Program that has graduated many successful instructors. She has a Masters Degree in Education from Boston University and a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She was an Instructor in the Education Department of Wheelock College, teaching Parent-Teacher Communication courses, and successfully directed a corporate back-up day care center in Boston. She has been with her partner, Thom, since 1986, and together, they have raised their two adult children.

WENDY HAGEN COMMUNITY YOGA PROJECT

Galina Kloesel was born and raised in Russia, where she attended the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages and graduated with an English degree in 1984. While abroad, Galina worked with American corporations and students as Western interest in Russia developed. Therefore, when Galina moved to the United States 25 years ago to raise a family, she had one clear advantage: she spoke fluent English. This opened many doors for her: she forged friendships with other moms, volunteered at her kids’ schools, and pursued job opportunities.

In 2007, Galina landed a translation job with Fluor-Daniel on an international oil and gas project due to the high demand of her acute bilingual and English grammar skills. While she has stepped away from translation, she is currently working as a freelance proofreader and copy editor open to any and all work.

Galina recognizes that not all immigrant moms have the same luxury she did when moving to the U.S. 25 years ago. While language became a great connector for Galina, she understands more than ever that it can be a barrier for many. Therefore, as a Family Beehive individual partner, Galina is happy to offer her language skills to those who are trying to master English and her proofreading skills to anyone who needs an extra set of eyes to look at their work or just time to talk.