8th Annual Aces for Apex Casino Night
8th Annual Aces for Apex Casino Night The Apex for Youth Associate Board invites you to our 8th Annual Aces for Apex Casino Night: A Night at the Museum. Get decked out and join us for our largest event yet! Try your luck at exhilarating casino games or our High Roller Poker Tournament with a […]
Summer League 2016 Recap
In conjunction with the Dynasty Project, we successfully hosted another season of our annual summer basketball league, We Run as One! From July 8 to August 13, we held games on Saturdays for 4th – 8th graders to play with their peers, culminating in a final tournament. Participants this year included students from our regular […]
Apex is Hiring!
We’re growing and looking for dedicated new members to join the Apex family! Please spread the word. Operations Assistant Part-Time (25 hours per week, Mon-Fri) Apex for Youth is hiring a part-time Operations Assistant in its New York office. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Operations Assistant is responsible for all general and administrative support […]
Career Day at Pentagram
On Friday August 12, 2016, Apex for Youth mentees attended a morning Career Day session at Pentagram, located in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. Pentagram is a company that designs and produces some of the world’s most well known brand logos (view their iconic projects here), and the company also created Apex for Youth’s new logo two […]
Alumni Career Panel at Refinery 29
On June 30, 2016, Apex for Youth hosted a career panel for former mentees with speakers from a wide range of industries including finance, journalism/fashion, technology, hotel/restaurant management and healthcare at Refinery29, located on 225 Broadway. Jian Dong, MD (Mt. Sinai Residence Physician and Graduate of NYU Medical School), John Zhang (Software Engineer – Google), […]
Feature: 2016 Gala Student Speaker
Meet our 2016 Inspiration Awards Gala student speaker! Apex mentee Ken Bamba, a current senior at Brooklyn Tech, shared his experiences at the gala about Apex and how Apex has impacted his life. For example, Apex has strengthened ties between Ken and his two brothers, also participants in the mentoring program. With their different school […]
2016 First Quarterly Report
Dear Friends, To keep the entire community informed about Apex, I am proud to present to you the first quarterly report for the organization. In these reports, I will share with you program highlights and organizational strategies with hopes that you’ll all feel closer to the Apex family. The most exciting news to report is […]
Photos of the 24th Anniversary Inspiration Awards Gala by BFA
View photos from our gala on the BFA Website!
Apex for Youth Establishes Norman C.T. Liu Apex Scholarship Fund to Help Asian and Immigrant Students Attend College
NEW YORK – April 14, 2016 – Apex for Youth, Inc. today announced the establishment of the Norman C.T. Liu Apex Scholarship Fund at its annual Inspiration Awards Gala. Founded in 1992, Apex for Youth is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City that offers educational and mentorship programs to underserved Asian and immigrant youth in grades 1 […]
Lunar New Year Festival 2016 a Huge Success!
Thank you to everyone who came out for Lunar New Year Festival presented by Xi’an Famous Foods on Saturday, Feb. 20 at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, and supporting Apex and our programs. Nearly 1,000 people attended the festival, which included performances by Kimberley Chen, Softlipa, Kina Grannis and Far East Movement. It was amazing to […]
Holiday Party
Check out the photos from our latest holiday party for our youth!
Opening Day 2015
We started off another school year with Opening Day, a group event where we take our mentors and mentees out of the city for a day of outdoor bonding and fun. Many of our new mentors and mentees met for the first time! This year we took them to Bear Mountain, where mentors and mentees […]
Program Highlight: Middle School Summer Programs
For the first time this summer, we hosted the Apex Summer Program at our after school sites during the month of July — at P.S. 184 in the Chinatown area and the Corpus Christi School on the Upper West Side. Our middle school students got to choose from a slate of classes, including photography, yoga, […]
Inaugural Apex Field Day
Dizzy bat, relays and tug of war aren’t just for the kids! This past Sunday, on July 12th, the Apex Associate Board hosted the inaugural Apex Field Day for our volunteers. We mixed our volunteers across programs–so mentors got to bond with teammates who were tutors and basketball coaches–and enjoyed a day of friendly competition […]
Mott Optical x Apex
As some of you may have heard, Mott Optical is now donating 5% of sales from their Mott & Bayard eyewear line to Apex for Youth! Mott Optical is a longstanding fixture in the Chinatown community where we have our roots (and where many of our kids reside), and we are truly appreciative of the support. […]
Feature: 2015 Gala Student Speaker
Learn more about our 2015 Inspiration Awards Gala student speaker! Shu Min He just graduated from high school and our Apex for Youth mentoring program after completing three years with her mentor, Anne. She was born and raised in a small village in China, and when she first moved to the U.S., she had a […]
2015 Inspiration Award Gala Honorees
Please join us in congratulating our 2015 Inspiration Award Gala Honorees; Apex is honored to host them at our upcoming gala. Ronnie C. Chan Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. He co-founded the Morningside group; helped found the Calgary, Canada based Morningside Music Bridge […]
Give $10 & Win $10K for Apex!
With your help, Apex can win $10,000 for our youth! We’re competing in the Crowdrise Holiday Challenge, which means that if we collect the most number of individual donations by next Tuesday, December 23rd at noon, we could win $10,000! Make a holiday gift to support our kids – and spread the word! […]
Give Back to Our Youth!
“As a mentee, it’s nice to have someone who can guide me through my teenage years. I would go to my parents, but they don’t speak that much English and they also didn’t go to college. Having a mentor who’s already gone through it and can understand my struggles right now is very helpful. […]
Fall Kickoff Volunteer Social
Returning and new volunteers joined us last Thursday at the Empire Hotel rooftop to launch another exciting year at Apex. Volunteers mingled over drinks and learned more about each other through a fun icebreaker, like finding out who can ride a unicycle, who was picked last in kickball and who has been with Apex for at […]