Meet Our Partners

Building a Self-Sustaining Community

Family Beehive is proud to have many community partners!

We work alongside community-based organizations and individuals to help uplift and support our Members.

We aim to expand the capacity of our partners by bringing them together to share information and resources with one another.

Click on the logo of each community partner below to learn more about them.

To join our community as a Partner, visit the “Become a Partner” page.

Our mission is to empower female-identifying individuals in NYC who are entering the workforce. We assist with professional attire, resume assistance, interview coaching and offer a variety of workshops that promote personal enrichment, financial management, and professional development.

Bottomless Closet

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

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

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

It really is as simple as “Kids Choose. We Deliver.” Cozy Coats for Kids^® is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that gives brand-new winter coats to children in their favorite color and style.

We are driven by the home inspection industry. As the official charity of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI^®), our Annual Coat Delivery Program is made possible with the support of home inspectors across the nation. The program partners with schools, social service agencies, and other nonprofit organizations to identify families who need our help and coordinates the delivery of handpicked brand-new winter coats directly to them.

Cozy Coats for Kids

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

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.

Galina Kloesel – Editing and Translation Support

Grace Outreach

Founded in 2004, Grace Outreach serves low-income women 18 and older who seek to enhance their academic skills, pursue higher education, and find employment. We began primarily as a high school equivalency education center, but Grace Outreach has grown into a successful organization with a wider mission that centers the specific goals and challenges of the women we serve. By offering classes, training, and academics for the equivalency test, a college program that works directly with students to start and graduate from college, and a full array of career services and events, we are helping to improve opportunities for women to change the trajectory of their economic and professional lives. We offer hope, encouragement and achievement and individualized attention in our welcoming South Bronx center. Through our unique hybrid model of classes and ongoing support, thousands of women have earned their equivalency diplomas and moved on to higher educational goals, better career opportunities, and financial independence.

Grace Outreach

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

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.

Matchlighters Scholars Program

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

Our model reimagines in-kind giving by turning what is normally a one-time, blind donation into a long-standing relationship between families.

By partnering with a newly arrived family to contribute ongoing hand-me-down kids clothes, you can help a family feel welcomed and supported in their new life here.

New Neighbors Partnership

Since 1992, One Warm Coat has facilitated 49,000 coat drives across the country, collecting 8 million coats that have been distributed through more than 1,500 nonprofit partners.

One Warm Coat partners with non-profit agencies and schools in communities across all 50 states to distribute coats for free to children and adults in need. One Warm Coat believes in each person’s right to shelter from the elements and is committed to sharing warmth, without discrimination, one coat at a time.

One Warm Coat

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

Safe Horizon’s mission is to provide support, prevent violence and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities.

Established in 1978, Safe Horizon is the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. We touch the lives of more than 250,000 children, adults, and families affected by crime and abuse throughout New York City each year.

We provide compassionate and expert support for people who have experienced:

Domestic and intimate partner violence
Child physical and sexual abuse
Rape and sexual assault
Human trafficking
Stalking
Youth homelessness
Violent crimes committed against a family member and within communities

Safe Horizon partners with governmental and other community agencies and also advocates for policies on a local, state, and national level on behalf of those affected by violence and abuse.

Safe Horizon

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

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

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.

The Brave House

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.

Meet Our Partners

Building a Self-Sustaining Community

Bottomless Closet

Cashel Educational Consulting

Citywide Doula Initiative & Healthy Start Brooklyn

Crownsville Media

Cozy Coats for Kids

Exhale Pro-Voice

Galina Kloesel – Editing and Translation Support

Grace Outreach

Her Justice

Matchlighters Scholars Program

Morrow Financial Planning

New Neighbors Partnership

One Warm Coat

Room to Grow

Safe Horizon

Suffering the Silence

Service Learning Project

The Brave House

Wendy Hagen Community Yoga Project

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