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The Heinz Awards :: Geoffrey Canada is interviewed for New York's City Limits magazine
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The Heinz Awards

16th

February 9, 2011

City Limits

'There Is No Science': Geoffrey Canada's Philosophy
A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.
By Helen Zelon

A native of the South Bronx who went on to Bowdoin College and Harvard University, Geoffrey Canada launched the Harlem Children's Zone in 1994 as a comprehensive network of services for neighborhood youth and their families, aimed at saving children from drugs, violence and poverty and getting them through college. His program is being used by the Obama administration as a model for Promise Neighborhoods, a set of 20 poverty reduction campaigns in areas around the country....

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Geoffrey Canada is interviewed for New York's City Limits magazine