Lenox Hill Neighborhood House has been educating preschool children since our founding in 1894; we created New York’s first tenants' rights group and first "Meals on Wheels" program; we have been instrumental in helping to improve the City’s homelessness crisis since the early 1980s; and our use of integrated civil legal services to help solve diverse human services problems is unique.

We use our settlement house model to strengthen 20,000 individuals and families in need annually. We define need to include economic, social, emotional and physical need and give priority to people in economic need.

Clients range in age from 3 to 103, represent dozens of races, ethnicities and countries of origin and "live, work, go to school or access services" on the East Side from 14th Street to 143rd Street and on Roosevelt Island. Our clients include indigent families and the working-poor who live in the East Side's housing projects and tenements or who travel to the Upper East Side to work in low-wage jobs such as cashiers, housekeepers, nannies and laborers; 10,000 seniors; and hundreds of mentally ill homeless and formerly homeless adults. We have five locations between 54th and 102nd Streets, offer programs at dozens of East Side locations and deliver services to thousands of homebound clients in their own homes.